Beam

Very eerie......

THIS ROOM LOOKS VERY SCARRED & DARK!

What a cool shot Motts.

Wow good shot! My first thought was one of the resident managers doing checks, like at night or something. Although I'm sure it wasn't pitch black like this when this place was functioning...

Solitary

You must've had quite the scare there :o

Great picture...simply great!

oh friggin CREEPY!!!!

Damn! Makes me think of all the POW's back in WWII.

Stunning shot.

BlueSkyes:
ya it is. talk about night terrors jeez

The slot almost looks menacing, inquisitive, questioning the dark void.

Yikes! That is beyond creepy.

ohgeez.

scary stuff.

Oooooooo

this would make a great album cover!

it's hard not to see glowering sentience in that window

How incredible! Theres just enough light to see the beam....do you wander around these places with flashlights Motts?

This is a really cool shot.

Yes Its Freaky,.
How do you think i felt!
No different than any other normal person in a place like that would..scared shit and I was left there for two years,..i cant even trust a lover because of what i went through here my life is devaststed by the abuse i was forced to withstand behind these bars...And i am still the most beautiful girl to ever walk through those doors..I am blessed..I dont use my Gaebler diploma can you blame me,..pls
http://www.myspace.com/gaeblergirl

Oh and yes they used it for observation and also to let air in to some of those rooms ,...if you take into account the time the buildings were built,..then think about all the piss calls that wont get answered and you got a kid emptying his bladder in the cell it stinks and the door cant be opened while a kid is in seclusion.

What a simple yet great pic!... I'm sorry to tell you Mr. Motts I'm not sure you're responsible for this pic... for sure was your camera and your finger shooting it, but this pic was taken by the little occupant that once had this as his only sight...
Guess it's unavoidable sometimes to feel in someone else's shoes. Brilliant angle Mr. Motts.

Yikes. That's scary. Caught my attention right away.

If anyone out there-who has spent time in gaebler's, email me? I would like to know more about the conditions and treatments used in this place when it was open.

Jewel64@roadrunner.com

I was there. A long, long time ago.
Back in the 1970's.
When I was on B-Ward I almost escaped once, I was allowed to go home for the weekend and I found some old skeleton keys in my dad's garage, so I took them back there with me.
Made it down to the first floor and almost out before I was caught.
If any one else was really there, let me know.
Tell me where the cafe and wood shop was at. Where did they have coffee hour on sats and sundays?
I remember, do you?
Out of the 4 wards, I was only on 2 of them, B-Ward and D-Ward. Although there was a few times I was in seclusion on E-Ward.

What was scratched into the wall?

Not sure, but this is either looking into the tv room from the office or looking from the tv room into the office.

Come to think of it, I was in seclusion on all 4 wards at one time or another.
Out of the 4 wards only 3 was used to house children back when I was there, 1973 or 1974 and then again in 1981 or 1982.
The wards that did house children was, pre-teen, was Ward B.
Teenagers was housed on Wards D and E.
The 4th ward, which was on the 2nd floor, was to the left as you come through the door from the stairs.
This ward was used for daycare.
No one lived on this ward.
I was placed in the seclusion rooms on this ward a few times as well.
Still, on the 2nd floor if you turn right from the stairs you will come to Ward D. Now, in this hallway there is, if memory serves correct, a door that had a pool table in it. further down the hallway, going to the right, was a big double door, this lead into the gym.
Motts, do you have pictures of this?

If you go back through the door and into the stairwell, you head up to the 3rd floor, as you walk out from the door, Ward E is to the left and Ward B was to the right.
There is also an elevator right next to the door to the stairs.
Now,back to the main floor, the 1st floor.
Leaving the stairwell you take a right, there is a small flight of stairs here with a door directly in front, and a door to the right, the door directly in front lead into the print shop, which was on the left back in 1973 or 1974, and the woodshop was on the right back then, further down the hallway was other rooms that did other activities like sewing and arts and crafts.
Coming back out and standing at the bottom of the small flight of stairs is the door , that I said is to the right, this door lead into the kitchen, not the cafetiere pro se.
This was setup like a prison mess hall line, you would grab a tray and walk down the line to get your food, then when you was done you would find a table in the main cafetiere to eat.
After eating you left through a door that lead back out into the hallway. The print shop and woodshop is now to the right.
There is the blue door with a glass window that has metal wires in it, this leads out to freedom, this is where you first enter the place, where Mr.Heathwood had his office.
The main lobby had snack and soda machines.
Going left you come to the door that opens into a large room, this room was where they had coffee hour every saturday and sunday morning.
We would get together and have coffee and listen to music.
Motts, or anyone who has been here, do you remember this?
If memory serves, I think back in 1981 or 1982 the print shop and woodshop was made into classrooms.

and yes, there is a small flight of stairs at this end of the hallway too that leads into the large room used for coffee hour.

There are classrooms up on the 4th floor that
was used by the children housed on Ward B.
They did keep the children from Ward B separated from the teenagers on Wards D and
E.
The medical and dental was also on the 4th floor.
That's the basic "tour" of Gaebler.
Although there is a rumor of a tunnel somewhere in the basement that is supposed
to connect to Metro, I have never seen it, nor have I ever been in the basement.

I need to make a correction here.
On the 1st floor when I said take a right, it should be a left. I need to start proof reading before I hit submit.
So coming from the stairwell you take a left and go down the small flight of stairs which has the door to the print shop and woodshop directly in front with the cafetiere door to the right.

What a truly beautiful shot, I wonder what the rest of the room looks like

They put children in seclusion? What kind of monsters...?

So simple yet so powerful... they say a picture paints a thousand words and this proves it. Stunning!

thats depressing a little...but it also represents hope.....i like this shot...it could be used as a motivational piece.

the tunnel doesn't connect, John. It dead ends.

maman01,
Thank you.
I wasn't sure.

its so cool nice pic motts.

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

JOHN.
IS THIS THE SAME JOHN COR***? DARK HAIR ? ME YOU & DOMINICANA WOULD SIT & LAUGH FOREVER ABOUT CRAZY STUFF. IS THIS THE SAME JOHN OR A DIFFERENT? I KNOW THERE WAS ATLEAST 5 OTHER JOHNS. SHAUNA

I remember john Cor********

I was never there, but I'm sure if I was at the age I'm at now back then a docter would have prescribed for me to go there. I can't even begin to imagine what horrible suffering the patients who went there had to endure. I'm fifteen and an aspiring writer and am planning on actually writing a story about what life is like in a place like this to show people that not only is it not the only choice,-it's not the right choice.
If anyone is willing to tell their story to me, I'll be there to listen and it will help me understand all this more.
I_am_sarah123@yahoo.com
Thank you.

shauna o

Different John. I'm John D and have red hair.

This looks like an isolation room, so sad, so lonely, with only a light ray of hope shining through...I wish I was there to help.

This is the small closet that looks into the restraint room that is between ward A and the gym. It was a restraint room when I was there. That closet has a small step up and that window to see into the room

I was right. I looked at this room on monday

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

Is it still there as of today?I was there 83-85,and would like to see it before its gone.

The 4th floor is gone. The school is gone