1,927 Comments for Pilgrim State Hospital

Do any of these buldings have basements

had a friend growing up who was one of the dr's there and his family lived in one of these houses- we used to go in the tunnels at night under the hospital

This pic should be a wallpaper. Seriously. I'd use it.

I am a '74 grad of Pilgrim. I hated those uniforms, too. I kept feeling like a waitress rather than a nurse. We did get a very good education. It's wonderful to have a BS degree (which I did get), but I still think it is 'BS'. The diploma schools gave a much better education, all in all.
I think about those days fondly. I am sorry to see Pilgrim go down the way it has. It did a lot of good for a lot of people. Ah well, such is life....

The photo of the student nurses was the Class of 1972, my class.

I was in the class of 1973 at Pilgrim. We got the best education, better than degree schools. Our hands on training at Nassau hospital in Mineola, St Charles and other places gave us the best all round education. Dorm 69 was our home and it was like family.
I rode thru it with Colleen and Terry today ,12/2018, and was saddened by all the changes. I had never been back and now the place is flattened. The “nurses circle” still remains but there is a garage door through the front of dorm 69. Depressing but it is 38 years later.

Actually, that bunker connected to an underground conveyor system that went straight/flat to under the power plant, and then did a 90° turn to a bucket system that went directly upwards to the feed chutes.

At some point, perhaps it stopped working, or they decided they needed to feed even more coal in, and the outside conveyor was added.

The inside, underground conveyor is still there, as is the bucket system that goes vertical to the top of the power plant. You can even look out of the conveyor system and peek into part of the coal bunker.

Mortui Vivis Praecipant...

Your site is sublime

I went to high school in Dee Park the early 70's and the fraternities would use this building for their Hell NIght!! We all though it was so scary

Wow that's very similar to my signature too!

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Not to put too fine a point on it, but the base symptom of organic brain disease (schizophrenia) is delusions; common delusions include what's called "delusions of clarity" and "delusions of persecution". It is EXTREMELY common for paranoid schizophrenics to believe they are entirely sane and their doctors are viciously and unfairly imprisoning them simply to torture them for their own amusement. They often believe this to such a degree that it's quite sad to see, and it generally means refusal of treatment and (critically) refusal to take their medication, which their delusions tell them is poison prescribed by assassins (doctors).

I was a '74 grad at Pilgrim's School of Nursing. I also worked there for a short while. We go the best all around training. Far better than the current schools. It really bothers me when people make comments about lobotomies and ect(shock therapy) when the have no clue about these procedures. People were not "tied down like animals". Some restraint was needed to protect the patients. Ect is still used today.

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Always thought it funny coming back from guitar center to Sag.Pkwy.South.