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Merry Christmas and happy new year to all and especially to Pookie and boiler1220, and I hope all is as well as could be hoped for...

I lived in the neighborhood abutting the Gaebler Childrens Unit. At least once a week maybe more there would be this very loud foghorn like sound that would blast over a loud speaker into our neighborhood. Do any of you know what this was?

Reminds me of the boys and girls club i used to go too (but destroyed)

I liked Sesame Street as a kid :)

woah :0

Motts
You mentioned that this seclusion room was different then the others. This room was on ward B if I recall correctly. "3rd floor right side" this room made it so a child could be seen from the door window from any spot they were in the room. There were no corners to hide in and no windowsill to climb on. Also the rooms we're not to wide but wide enough that one could not climb the walls and hide above the door. One room on ward A "the ward most of the pictures came from" was narrow enough to climb above the door.

Lisa
What year were you there?

was there custody of me was given to the state and no one wanted a sick (diabetic) child spent 4 years there some of the peoples names were jeff, Darryl, beth, Maureen, sherry and several others been have a lot of nightmares and some of the abuse rituals were horrifying I need to find out what happened to me there and why I do remember one night I didn't eat my dinner and was beaten after being put in lock down room.

Yes pookie she was tall and she acted like a queen. That was the ward i was on. I was also thr one who painted spider man on the wall in the younger kids room.

Some weird good news, I was recently diagnosed and treated for a sleep disorder, which seems to have improved my mental and emotional condition....

My spouse says I am a different person lately and she has been freaked out by the positive improvement....

I try not to focus on all the years of misery that we had been attributing to my mental/emotional problems, but look on the bright side at how much more energy and zest for living I have been given thanks to the treatment...

I continue to remember you and yours in my prayers Pookie

best regards

Jan

Sorry a mistake there, when I type so fast I can make little errors, I was in my early twenties at those jobs.

I was lucky to get out of that line of work and go back to school in my late twenties and early thirties....

Never met any Gaebler alums anywhere else, so yeah, that was a fluke with you and the little cafeteria lady....

I seem to remember I thought she was an African American lady, but can clearly recall she also had a hispanic first name...so yep must have been your kindly boyfriends mom I knew...Peace friend

best regards

Jan

Hello again Pookie,

I never had such an unlikely reunion with any Gaebler "alumni."

I do remember two young men who I knew a bit at Gaebler and met later out in the wider society,

One was just a casher at McDonald's restaurant a few years later; while the other sadly appeared to be a street hooker.

I had a graveyard shift job in downtown Boston for a few years and saw him late at night waiting to be accosted by passing cars near, St. James Avenue in downtown Boston.

He was out there at all hours and from my vantage point at work I could see him getting in different cars all night over the course of my shift.

It was pretty sad as it was the mid eighties and I thought f...ck!, that kid is gonna get infected with AIDS!

It was weird I had seen him in the early Eighties--in better days for hiim I think--on my way to work around ten thirty or so at night with a group of young people out partying on the weekend.

I worked the third shift for several years in my late twenties at different jobs, because it was easier to not have to deal with a lot of the usual stress from people and the world.

Anyhow, I am glad you had a better sort of experience in terms of seeing old Gaebler folks. And a question, was the Manuella you speak of a very short person?

Pedro,
OMG I sooooo remember Elaine, she was a tall big lady and she was mean to us kids, she thought she was the queen....and yes, Ward A was on the left side of the gym,Ward was on the right side of the gym and that is the ward I was on....

Boiler 1220
I don't know,I think he left a comment,but,now it's not here, maybe he took it off, was pretty sure it was a Marvin....

A William
You need to mind your own business. Worry about your own name. I don't know what your deal is. Maybe you are a attention seeker or something like that. If I want to post my name I will talk to Motts about leaving my name up. I respect this sight and think that if you don't like what you see you should leave the sight. Nothing breaking any laws is going on here so nice try. Go bother another sight.