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This seems like an incredibly sad place to me.

MAKES YOU WONDER WHY THEY WOULD CLOSE THE PLACE DOWN IF THERE IS ANEED FOR SUCH A WARD.

This place seem very old & sad!

I SEEN MANY SAD PLACES BEFORE NEVER THIS LIKE BEFORE! SO SO SO SAD!

Those slots look like those food ports that thy show in prisons. They can slide the food in or put hand cuffs on somebody? I'm not saying that is what these slots were... Honestly I don't know what those were, ducts for air? But to me that is what I first thought of.

This picture reminds me of something from Nightmare on Elm Street, lol

is there someone in that window?

Very creepy, and no i dont see anyone in the window i think that's just a board

that slash is kind of creepy but whatever.

(:

The scar on the door is chilling. It's indicative of all the scars -- physical and emotional -- that a stay at Gaebler left on the patients.

Can anybody read what's scribbled on the door? Probably just gibberish but not sure

Not sure but the place where i used to work had panels in the walls that had been filled in but you could still make out there shape and they were there to let more light in cause the room that it would have been was the old nursery and they didn't want big glass windows cause off the kids so my guess is light panels or ob windows or both?

Wow that door looks like a scarred piece of skin.. It's beauty behind the beast.

Whats the purpose of slashing the door like that? It almost looks like there's a chain on the door.

Hi Motts. I am a little,10 year old girl. Me and my aunt Debbie love your website. I love all of your cool pics.Thanks.

whatever's scribbled on the wall there looks like it's just someone's tag. nothing special.

If you want to find the Gaebler School Girl
coma and find me at
http://www.myspace.com/gaeblergirl and send me a friend request DOA Aug24,84
DOEscape Aug26,86
Dont be so critical not everybody was there because they were meant to be..My family worked for the met state,My father was an engineer for the state he had my heat and hot water going nicely..My nan she worked with retarded kids at furnald tarbell hall the most aggressive of clients,..point is my family wanted me at Gaebler ..even though they never visited me they were pleased knowing i was across the street even thopugh they were never getting me out ,...but the fight they got into each night never ended and my sister was taken out of our home becasue these two people who called thenselves our parents couldnt keep their hands off of us...Violent scum.! so whatever !
sorry

These slots in the walls was to look in on us when we was watching tv in the tv room.
If memory serves correct.

This looks like my room. I believe it was the little girls dorm on ward A. That was were I was. There was an exit door that could not be opened on the other side and a exit sign up above it. I remembered jumping up and grabbing it to pick myself up and kick Matt the staff guy off of me before he grabbed me to restrain me for talking in the corner. Brings back bad memories. Glad it is gone.

I was there from 1978-1980, on Ward D.
I remember the relief when I realized the big metal green door was locked behind me and my family were locked out. I was safe, they could no longer hurt me!
Sad to think that I actually felt safe there. Most of the time. There were staff who would provide smokes for just a little feel or a kiss. I learned to manage not to be alone with them.
It would be interesting to have a documentory done of Gaebler. I still have dreams (nightmares?) about running away through the O.T. doors, or hiding out under the basement stairs.
It's so sad to think that I actually prefered being there to living with my family. No wonder I'm still working through PTSD issues! But I would certainly be dead if I hadn't been at Gaebler -- either by my hand or my mother's.
Is DSS doing any better now?

Hey, Motts... Have I ever told you that Insame Asylums or Pychs for kids really really creep me out.

It almost appears someone used a plasma cutter on it for 'fun'. You can see light scorching on some of the edges. Prob a demolition team seeing how easy it would be to cut the doors.

I agree a documentary on this place would be eye opening for the general public...I wonder how many people I may know from this site....very interesting. I visited this place after it closed and wander through it's vacant halls and found a mural on the 4th floor where I stayed. LOL it said "we are going on a field trip and never coming back". I felt liberated to go there and realise that I survied this place, I made a good life for myself and got a college education and enjoy my success. My it rot in hell...PS, Motts did you have fun trying to get by the trampaline in the stairwell, LOL

WTF? why is there a giant gash on the door

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?

Everyone that stayed here.....I'd like to say congratulate you for being survivors. I am a teacher and I love children...I see my job as more than teaching a subject, I care about children and how they see their world and how it shapes them. Whatever you all went through during childhood, bravo for making a success of your lives.

See what happens when the wires go down. Happened once while I was there.

To: GaeblerSchool Girl...Based on the age given on your MySpace page, weren't you too old to be at Gaebler during the time you stated you were there? Just wondering...

This place is very sad. Ive lived there for several years of my life. back in around late 80s

Heres a story

http://www.madpride.or...eblerHellandBack.htm

Hey, I am personally starting a new group in yahoo for former patients to openly discuss their time at Gaebler. Please feel free to come by and visit.


Group name: GCC2010
Group home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GCC2010
Group email: GCC2010@yahoogroups.com

I came across an article called "Waltham demolition job closer to reality," and read that they've been eager to tear this place down for a long time, it's just been on the backburner over other projects. So abandoned enthusuasts, get your cameras and get this place before it finally comes down this year.

God bless you all!

I couldn't stay at a place like this. I would go mad.

Lakegirl
A lot of kids left there "crazy" I have seen so many kids come in and by the time they left they were so messed up. I don't want to say names but I always remember one kid from ward A that left so messed up. Its so sad.

This seems like a very sad place...I hope that all the people that were there are OK now, I pray for them. Were there any Art or Music Therapists employed there at the time? I know there was a Music Therapist at Met State-that seems like a very sad place too. I worked diagonally across the street at The Fernald State School as a Music Therapist. I worked with the non-ambulatory and non-verbal profound mentally retared clients. Even though they could not speak, they could still vocalize to the music and work on a variety of fine motor grasps and gross motor movements by manipulating muscial instruments. Music is a universal language, and they responded well to this medium. I love working with this population of clients.

Does anyone know shawna wood from ward A

They started taking the place down. Drive by if you want to see it before its gone

Motts
I hope that is worded better. I just want the people who want to see the place to see it before its gone. I don't say go in it. We r meeting on sunday to go on the old nature trails. Not go in the building
Thanks