1,384 Comments for Gaebler Children's Center

Class of 65
Does any of the stories sound like the time u were there? How was the place then?

This was an observation room. Looks just like the one on ward C but I suppose they all were alike. The seclusion rooms were much shorter. Any of you that were there will remember narrow doors in the halls that were never opened. Staff would sit in those spaces and observe the kids through the narrow slots. I was told that this practice was stopped before my time there.(1965) but then ... they told us a lot of things, right

I was at the C.U. in 1965 ... Yeah, that's right I'm an old guy. If anyone reading this forum was there at that time say hey. I've often wondered what happened to some of you guys.

I was up there just yesterday. The tennis courts have been torn up and there are bob cats inside tearing it up. I was lucky and no one was working when I was there. If you want to visit one last time I advise you go as soon as possible. It won't be around for long.

Rod is probably responsible for the strict juvenile muder laws in MA: All 14+ murder defendants are tried as adults by law. I remember reading that he told his victim while leading him into the woods to his death "You never know when you need a baseball bat!"

i was on ward d we use to pillow fight alot i fought with lenny all the time i remember playing backgammon with rod mattews does anyone remebere the staff keeping his story from us until we found out about from the shed in the back of the hospital

Was There...actually Christina Hill was aquitted upon appeal. You can't legally say she killed anyone. I wonder what became of her?

Is anyone planning on visiting gaebler one last time? I'm really interested in seeing it and hearing stories about it before it's too late.

I also remember Rod Matthews, Christina Hill, Clara Kelly, Aneke, Scott, Lenny, Eddie, Jennifer, Carl, Heather, Deborah, Tammy......

I remember you Eric

Crazy kid
The place is being demolished. U only have a couple weeks left to see it

The 4th floor is gone. The school is gone

Vik23
Its still up. I have some pics of it as of 3 weeks ago. I'll give them to u when I have all of them developed

Vik23
I heard about u. There was another attempt like that and they put huge screens over all the windows. We couldn't open the window withput the staff opening the screen

Pookie,it WAS in fact thorazine.Thats what they gave us.I remember one girl,whom they always gave the maximum dose of thorazine,and always had to give her benadryl on top of it because the thorazine wasn't "enough".They didnt seem happy unless we were pretty well zombified.