1,384 Comments for Gaebler Children's Center

Daron,
No problem, would love to see more pictures.
If I had the money I would be at Logan in a heart beat, just to see the place again.
I'm on the other side of the United States, in Colorado. A long way away. LOL

thank you so much john for replying, i bet it must have been pretty interesting in there. i've taken a lot of pictures of it, the place is pretty trashed now. it makes me really sad.

John, thanks for the layout! I really appreciate it.

You can still kind of see what the girl looked like before that guy came along and drew on it...

I did, I sent them an email.
We'll see what happens.
Maybe I can get a chance to be part of a doc on this place.
I think they should hurry though, I don't think that place will be standing for much longer.
I don't know why, but I'm getting the feeling that very soon, within a year the place will be torn down.

ohhh, and the light switch is not a light switch as we know it, it has 2 small holes that you needed a special key for, that was how they turned the lights on for the office, I remember this well because I used a paper clip to turn the office lights on.
I used to listen to the Monkeys on the record player that was in the office.

But turn right and go to B ward, the door to the rooms is on your left, I think just inside B ward, there should be a door on your left, when you enter it, you will see seclusion rooms that line the right hand side of the hallway.
There is a single door at the very end of the hallway, a metal box that has a light switch is on the right hand side of this door. From this office door, turn to your right, this was my room.
I hope this was detailed enough.

Chris,
When was you there?
What is 3 east??
Wards A, B, D and E was the only names that was used.
It was painted on the doors and I think on the wall as well.
Even when they needed help, they wouls shout "All available help on D as in David, all available help on D as in David". And then you had an army of eager bodies rushing at you to restrain you and strip you naked and place you in seclusion.
If they changed the names, that makes us old timers. LOL

Back in the 80's on D-ward we was allowed to smoke and they kept our smokes in that little room in back of the office that lead to the tv room.
We could only smoke in the tv room.
Anyone else remember that?

You all say this was the activities room?
The same room we had coffee shop in on the weekends?
When you come down to the first floor you turn right and go to the end of the hallway. That room?
I don't remember those pictures being on the wall. But if that's the room, I know it as the place we had Coffee Shop on the weekends.

The only reason I was there back in the 80's was because Gary Trent, my social worker, my friend, and the only family I had, needed a place for me stay until a bed opened up in Kolburne.
Considering that I was kicked out of Devereux
School for repeated run aways.
I was a ward of the state, Lived in Devereux, Wellington Hall, RFK, Kolburne, I was all over.

maman01,
But I don't think you was in the same room as us.
Was you in the room straight across from us?
OMG, if you were, you have to remember Danny, When he took his shoes off the paint would peel and hazmat workers would come to close the area!
No Bull, that kid HAD FEET!!!! LOL

maman01,
I'm doing good.
Living life and being free.
What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.
I remember Tony, and Mike I think his name was.
we lived in the same room. Both Tony and Mike had the beds straight ahead as you walk into the room, my bed was at the end of the room on the right hand side next to the tall closet/locker thing.

Chris, omg your right, it is seclusion!
I didn't recognize it at first because of the window, it's off center.
That could be because of the angle of the picture.
But you are right, it is seclusion.

Hi Allyssa,
Not a whole a lot of romance on D-ward, although I've heard E-Ward was getting lots of action in that department.
Have to find someone who was on E-ward for those stories.
I've only been to E-ward a couple of times, and those times was seclusion. LOL
When I was on D-ward back in the 80's I had a girl friend from E-ward who taught me some chinese.
After we broke up I ended up with a girl friend on D-ward by pure chance.
In fact it started out as a joke.
What I mean by that is, 4 of us was making jokes about seeing each other later that night, I said to Kim I'll see you later, and she said no, and I said something to the effect of what do you mean no, how about giving me a chance?
And she did, and it was cool.
She used to draw pictures of Pacman and Mrs. Pacman and give them to me. I used to hang them up on the wall by my bed.
I still remember her and her last name. But out of privacy for her I leave her last name off.
If she visits and wants to give more about it that is her call.