688 Comments for Western Center

Makes me think of the sehower scene from 'Psycho', Then again, ever since we watched it, I have never been able to look at showers the same way again.

666. The evil number.......... Then. BAM! BEAUTY SHOP!

I heard an SNL ref. SNL! i love that show! about time two of my favorite things collides: SNL and Abandoned places

interview the staff that worked there for some 30 years it was no day at the beach these challenged adults were trained taught and had beauitful grounds to live on where it was safe for them to live independantly with good people whom loved the job and not to be exposed and made fun of because they where different and they where different but western didn't close due to abuse it was closed due to the greed of money and land removed from the home they knew the way they and the staff and the parents was told of the closing was discussing i was there i worked it i have had 5 surgerys due to being hit by a challenged adults whom lived there to comment and knowing both sides of the 10 years i worked there i have the right read about the adults whom passed the frist year being placed look that up before u judge the staff whom was let go and brought back unfounded .......abuse ........

Motts: Thank you sooooo much for the update. if you need a copy of the article to substantiate this, please feel free to let me know. your rapid response in this matter is truely appriciated. I will look forward in the future to reviewing more of your works !!

Hi blackjack, unfortunately I do not have this newspaper clipping and so I can only glean whatever information I can get access to when researching the histories of these places. As we all know the newspapers don't always print the whole truth. I have updated the page in question, and hope it will suffice. Thank you.

And for the record......NO, I was not one of the ones fired. I worked there from 1982 until the closing in 2000. 18 years, for those who don't want to do the math !!

just a couple notations to you. For the most part I really enjoyed this. But I do have one pet peeve.......I worked there when people were getting fired. and yes there were 22 who were fired. But no one remembers that 21 of those same people were hired back, because the charges were unsubstantiated. I have the news paper clipping stating they were rehired. At the time the powers that be wanted that place closed so they could build south Pointe. They did not have the paients welfare in mind. It was a set up. The Observer Reporter finally noted the rehire of the staff. That is why the parents and staff fought so hard to keep it open. That dear sir is why to others it seemed like the parents did a sudden turn around. They found out the truth behind that whole ordeal. Forgive me if I sound a little snippy. that is not my intention. I just get offended and offensevive because all the people I worked with were caring people. we used our own time and took paitents out to dinner and shopping, to ballgames, and plays AND even to kennywood. some of whom had never had the opporitunity to go outside of that place before then. mostly because they were behavior problems. So if at all possible I would appriciate an update written about the rehiring of these individuals as the documentation exisits. Now all that aside, just a little explanation of the stainless picture. some of the patients were severly physically handicapped and we laid them on those to bath them properly. I hope that helps your readers to better understand that particular picture. Thank you in advance for at least taking the time to read this.

MamaToFiveInPA

Believe what you want. It's not uncommon for fire departments here to train in buildings that will soon be demolished. Same goes with police departments. This buildings WAS big and would serve as a better realistic training building than a "state-of-the-art" shooting range with automatic target placements on a rail.

they might of took them cause there were blood on them or remins

Yes, the administration building and 3 cottages still remain,

a bottle of clorox would help

Mark, where did you ever get the info stds run rampt in senior living facilities? what a stupid comment

And I would love to thank AD Nilson for her on-going pointless commentary throughout the photo set.

I look forward to your awesome thoughts at every location.

Defenestrated? Seriously?

Looks like a playground to me, there are lots of games that use circles. Heliport would most commonly have had an H not a target.