Jodi
Without knowing what?

I've never been able to talk to anyone from my childhood till I talked to gaebler88 about slapping some kid so hard. And it feels great to remember my childhood. Or should I say to have some that can remember it with me. That's never happened before and its great. So hopefully. I find more old friends here

Class of 65
For some reason we can't get over it. Not dwelling on it, but just the bond we all have from being there. I see the place just as a part of my past, Just a part of my life. It just different from everyone else's. All the "normal kids" talk about old times in school and the things they did in the past amongst themselves, and that's what we can't do till now. I love meeting, and talking to the people i meet now about then. It seams we all care about eachother, even though we may have never met before. I'm just lucky enough to have not let that place run me. Some people can't get over that time. They need, and search for a reason it had to happen to them. That's why I think some people dwell on that time. I just love meeting people in person and talking about our time there and how we all moved on and made it after. I really want to meet more people from there. I guess that's how I dwell on it. I keep looking for people that I can talk to about the times we were kids, and no "normal person" can understand that. I wish some of your friends from then would post on here. I love hearing that it was still semi the same then

Belmonster
Contact me at 617-733-8597 I will be going there very soon

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

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

Marie
After all the stuff there. I think it was a good life experience. A lot of us are so strong now.

Pookie
If u go there again let me know. I love going with people that were there. I'm not far and I'm the owner of my company so I can leave any time

Pookie
The best friends were there. I would love for a big group of us to go there at one time. Even people that don't know each other. Just to share stories and see the place one more time. Now that its coming down I go there a lot. I'm taking a lot of pics. And for some reason I feel weird when I'm in there now. Scared, happy, sad, mad, and even like I'm home. I know it sounds weird but that's how I feel when I'm there. I want to see it come down just to see how I'll feel. I think it will be a lot off my chest to know its gone. Since I was there twice the place really had an inpact on my life. I lived there for 5 1/2 years total and we all know how long that is to be there. About the staying in your room at the other place. I was just the opposite, once I got out I was never home. I even moved to california just to prove I could go anywhere I wanted and no one could keep me in my room. I finally moved back and settled down and started my company and family. But I wonder if the feeling of family for us is different? To me parents were just people that visited you every month and my family was all my friends that were there with me. Maybe that's why I have a feeling of home when I'm there. Because my our friends were the only people we could trust. Well enough sounding crazy. I have to get back to my wonderful kids. I'll look u up on facebook

That is 2 different pictures on ward A one is at the boys shower and the other is at the girls bathroom since the shower was in the bathroom. I got pics of both. If anyone wants more pics send me a message. Boiler1220@yahoo.com or dennisremoval@aol.com or text 617-733-8597

Marie
If you ever want to see the place let me know. But do it soon. I just took a old friend there last monday. It was the first time I have seen her since living there. We had a good time. We remembered so much. We both played the piano and looked at our old classrooms. It was nice to see someone else had a good life after there. She was just like she was there just happier

Marie
Yeah there gonna take it down. There is so much asbestos there. Its gonna take a while. When I was there I found some old papers. They were test papers for doctors or staff to fill out after giving us certain drugs. They were in the old records room. It was creepy

Shawn when were you there r u sean h or shawn b

Marie
I played that piano with a old friend from there last monday

I was right. I looked at this room on monday

Jonh
No DQ its gone

This is on ward A at the bend by the boys shower

John I have so many new pics I took today. No more DQ. The place is wide open for contractors. I am bidding the tower so I was let in. I'll post the pics on gcc2010.

Marie
I got so many pics today. I got all my old rooms and everything

Nick
I was in today. The place is wide open. The city ownes it and we had no problems with the police or anything. We talked to a city worker. He said the place is open to contractors

John
My wives sister is at the home for little wanderers. The living conditions are much better but the system is the same. They drug her up and keep asking the same stuff over and over again untill they get the answer they want. Still so sad

John
After being cleared normal in court by some sick court testing. And not a "danger to the public" I got out of the system when I was 19. I recently found some of my group therapists that still practice. I told him that at times like gaebler, instead of just drilling in our heads the problems we were labeled with, they should have listened to us. He admitted that back in those days that listening to the kids was a huge thing that they didn't do.
it was nice to hear him admit that. It makes me think that things in the system are different now than what they were for us. Idk but for all the kids in the system now, I really hope so. And I can't help but think that living the way we did then, might have changed the way that kids in the system are treated today. I really hope so.