1,476 Comments for Letchworth Village

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you sick mind.

Its disturbing to see the grafitti artists have desecrated the site. I honestly do not see their need to leave their scribbles everywhere. It is disgusting.

The blue tarp is to keep the toilet monster inside the toilet....look what happened the last time he escaped --- http :// www.opacity. us/image 1488_ poop.htm

R.I.P doors...I didn't get there in time to see the doors actually attached. Not only have they come off, but they're completely gone. They seem to have been stolen :(

It's not blood, it's actually pink paint from paintballs. These little colour explosions are everywhere; especially this building. I was just visiting today and have been there before, so I can tell you that the colour is a bit pinker in real life, and the floor is scattered with paintballs!!

straight up bullshit ..it would have eroded

Just saw a documentary on Sundance called "the Origin of AIDS".... seems that around 1950 some doctor working on a polio vaccine used his experimental vaccine on a group of human patients at Letchworth Village... a highly unethical if not illegal practice... and he was denounced because of it.
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Ummm..... regarding research

Yes, much research was done at Letchworth regarding the causes of Mental Retardation - in the interest of learning how to reduce and prevent the number of future cases, as well as to understand more about those who were afflicted. One of the most famous scientists in the field, Dr. George Jervis, conducted his work there.

Ummm ... regarding funding -

Letchworth Village WAS a state facility, operated under the auspices of the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. I worked there for 9 years and am still employed by OMRDD in a group home.

Few people in the general public wanted to increase their taxes for better services for these folks, so the state couldn't hire enough staff to work there at the low wages they paid. The place became overcrowded, and, because these folks require so much in the way of hour-to-hour support, there weren't enough staff to take care of most of these folks' basic needs so the majority of them received substandard care, substandard housing, substandard food, and substandard medical attention. Like everywhere you can point to, in institutions or in the public, there were some very bad people who did some pretty nasty things, but there were no planned torture programs, no experiments that didn't take place everywhere else (not saying they SHOULD have, mind you, just that it was the gestalt all across this country at that time, including in hospitals for "normal" people).

i don't know if this is true or not but weren't the patients here tourtured? i only know a little bit about this place from my friend and she mentioned something about that.

...would make a good mop'n'glo testimonial.

Looks like road maps on the walls...

i had one of those in my mouth! not nice... not nice at all.makes you gag lik hell.
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wow, um... wow
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