1,384 Comments for Gaebler Children's Center

I remember playing board games. I just can't picture you

I'm surprised that the boiler room wasn't flooded. Someone took the copper from the copper main and it was live. The place flooded out the basement windows. All the way up to the stairs of the first floor landing. Once it went down I took the water tank. Probably 3 years ago. Do you know the copper tank with the copper coil?

I own a boiler removal company now. I've taken out thousands of boilers. Even huge steel tube coal converted boilers. And a lot of cleaver brooks. What do u do now? I hope u can send me a picture of you from that time. I would like to know who you were. I'm sure I would remembet

They put those in back in 82. They put chemicals in to clean the boilers that were there and it ate through the metal and they had to put those new ones in.
I snuck in a couple of times years ago and went back to the boiler room. I grew up there. Was there from 78 to the closing.
Easy job I used to sleep down there, have a TV , nobody bothered me but I got bored a lot and often went up to activities. I would play board games or ping pong with the kids.
They called me Billy not Bill does that help.

I did take that copper lined water tank against the back wall up on the stands

I don't remember you. I do remember seeing the boiler room once. It must have been with you. You should send me a pick at my E-mail address. I think I was there when those new weiler mclein 94 boilers went in. What's when they hit the fence for the fenced in area I think

I'm Bill that worked in the boiler room. I don't know if you remember me. When I had nothing to do I would hang around activities.

This ones gonna take me a little while. I'm not giving up though

Did u sneak me extra Saturday swirls

Russel drove the bus and chuck drove the van lol

1. I didn't drive the bus. That was Chuck.
2. No but nothing Karen ever did surprised me.
3. No. I'm not the gym teacher. Mr. Rogers

HInt: My job had nothing to do with the kids but I got to know some of them just by working there.

Did u give me my swimming trophy which I still have? Did you have a beard

Do you remember Karen's broken hood?? Lol

I worked there
You know call the people I'm mentioning, you've got me thinking. You didn't answer if you drive the blue bus. Did u drive the van that brought the kids to the school across the street? I remember doing doughnuts in the grass with him

No. I didn't work with Karen (good guess huh) although I spent a lot of time in activities. And I'm not Dallas or Diane.
The worst of the worst were there by order of the court. That's where they sent them back then. It was the only place for them.
That certainly doesn't mean all you kids belonged in that category. Some kids were perfectly normal but had to be observed for a period of time and quite frankly for others there was simply no other place to put them at the time. Some were terribly abused. There's a million reasons why kids were there.
I just wanted to tell the staffs side of the story. I could never had done their job.