1,476 Comments for Letchworth Village

Hey Timmothy Jones! I worked there for many years and knew Bruno! He could also sing every Hank Williams song! The poor guy died a few years ago. He was one of the misfortunes whose parents just dumped him there because of how he looked. Bruno was not mentally retarded when he was put there but being there all his life had an impact on him. He sure knew all the dirt on all employees and even the higher ups there! Alot of people were dumped there if they were blind, deaf or had anything wrong with them by their parents.

I don't know what might have went on before the 70's but I worked there from 1975 to 1989 and it was one big family! The residents were treated well, went on trips to Jersey Shore, picnics, amusement parks, etc. Alot of employees even took the residents home for a visit. Letchworth got a bad rap due to things we really dont know about in years prior. It was a great place to work and for the years I worked there with more federal regulations and programs implemented these people were being taken care of. Alot of the footage you saw from Geraldo looked bad but even when I started working there there was more to know than just seeing the footage like when he showed one resident rocking back and forth naked. That resident was in my cottage and no one could keep clothes on her. She would strip everything and that was what she did, rock. Geraldo made it seem like he was so concerned for these residents but when he came later on when I worked there and came in my building I saw first hand what his whole purpose was, publicity for him! You should have seen how he reacted when one of the residents put her hand out to him! He had a total look of disgust on his face! Geraldos a media pig and took this story for all it was worth for himself! No one can speak on this place unless you actually worked there! Sad day when it closed for thousands of people who had gotten attached to the residents!

@Lynne:

Are those actually photoshopped pictures of Motts? o_o

Is that the origin of the nickname?

I lol'd at the "oh yea!"

For some reason my mind jumps to the Mechanical Animals album I was listening to earlier Darn kids and their music these days .. ;--P

"God is in the TV .."

EXTERMINATE

That makes a .. strikingly artist picture.

Perhaps for movie making? Ah, the college kid movie makers return!

I am doing research on the history of the grounds, stories, ect. If anyone has any info, it would be greatly apprciated!

Unfortunately Christine we may never know the truth as no one kept detailed journals back in the day nor any kind written record what so ever.All we have are suppositions and what we deduce ourselves.

I just looked at the picture blown up it could or couldn't be an apparition pic becomes to pixelated to tell.

I've been to letchworth 3 times now and I believe I found the morgue but I wasn't quite sure. I'm just wondering if one of the morgues is in the huge building in the very back of letchworth. I went towards that basement and there was water all over the floor and I was wearing flipflops so I didn't want to go in. So guy's are one of the morgues in the back huge building?

Amazing machinery, but no way in hell would I work on it unless I removed the breaker and put a false one in. Otherwise some idiot would replace the breaker and reset it at just the wrong moment and those gears would continue to churn with one of my limbs in it. Maybe I am a little paranoid, but incidents like those happen all too often.

This is one of the few buildings friends and I did not get a chance to visit. We were told the building that burnt down the night before we went was the morgue, but we were also told it was up more a ways, either way I really want to visit/and terrified to!

Anyone know the address to this place!?