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that was taken from Death metal band Cannibal Corpse
a great band...
sorry, been a long day.
thats a little twisted.
not cool.
Or he's just a dick.
The sentence has no bad words... it's well thinked, structured and you even need some talent to express in such a short sentence such powerful idea, it might be even poetical and this guy could be admirable, hate him, but not for his words, but because he already has some control over you!!! .... Use that phrase the next time you make love to your bored wife and see the flames of your love flourish again !!! or see them in your bed for the first time in your life!!!... with all due respect to you all... it's just all comments are inspiring and just felt free to write like everyone. Peace :D
the guy probably couldnt think of anything else to write. it happens.
nasty for sure .
We were never allowed to do anything like that.
Any drawings you find from us were done with our fingernails scraping the paint off the walls.
Most of what you'll find is names and dates instead of actual drawings.
Tak complete pictures of every room and try to get some nice pictures of the main hallways.
With those pictures I can tell you where they are and give a "tour" of the place.
Behind this place is a play ground of sorts, and yes we did get to go outside and we did get to take hikes and "Field Trips" into town.
There is also a path that runs by the big water tower, that was the path that we took hikes on.
Out in the play ground area we also planted sunflowers.
I did find some pictures of the exterior if the admins here would like I can send them and they can post them.
You may find some names and dates in the bathrooms too as well as the shower room.
Would be on the wall to the left as you enter the room.
Some will be written like "was here '73".
Just food for thought for anyone else wanting to look for more history.
I am twenty six and this kept me up all night.
I still like my death metal...Its a positive way of addressing and recognizing the rage within..WTF i didnt make death metal popular it was all the people who werent imprisoned at gaebler..
Free people came up with those lyrics nobody in gaebler.
Only the SPECIAL punks got to go outside on field trips.That was RARE;,as for the gaebler being a f-ing summer camp,,.....bulls**t john! JUST BULLS**T!
I dont know any one who ever got to go in to town either ..I dont know much of anything about you nor you me...But c'mon you gotta be kidding making gaebler sound like some vacation destination...pft please !
I am NOT trying to make that place sound like a vacation.
Because you never got to go outside or go into town does not mean it didn't happen.
You have to remember that when I was there Mr. Heathwood ran the place, and unlike other people Mr. Heathwood allowed such trips.
You rant and rave about this place as though only you was hurt.
Everyone of us was hurt, but I related other things instead of the bad things, living one nightmare is enough, re-living it is even worse.
I still hurt seeing these pictures, but I moved on with my life.
And if you read the comments you will find that another person remembers the trips I talked about.
poor kids who had to looked at that. that would have traumatized me the rest of my life.
I live in the MA area, and your work has very much inspired me to do some Urban Exploring myself, seeing how I am an aspiring photographer.
I have already giving a layout of the place, from the 1st floor to the 4th floor.
I even give the layout for the classrooms on the 1st floor from the 80's to the wood shop and printing shop of the 70's.
From the gym ther are stairs on the left hand side of the stage that lead up to the school on the 4th floor.
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You are a different shauna but I wish I was there when you got out I would love to laugh at them after someone got away. Brooks and I always tried but got caught
i wish i could of seen their faces. i never went back. supposedly the state"mass" refused to allow me to ever go back i was a danger and security risk.(roflmao)truth be known they were too stupid to catch me. love to see the offical discharge record of "where i am" or if i'm still a danger to myself & society.? its a joke we were all placed here for safety reasons and this was the worst place of all? god help massachusetts they really never had a clue
poor Dr. j. Meinke. Bet he had some explaining to do?
Ward A was a daycare when I was there.
For future reference, some of the locks on the wooden doors are the old 'skeleton' keys. I remember specifically the keys had two "wings" and a strip of metal in the middle.
If you can, could there be, at any point, pictures of the old kitchen and the Nurses office (Second Floor over the front enterance)?
Yes you were Kim C's boyfriend, she was my roomate and she was awesome, she carried around the Moody Blues Album cause she was so crazy about Justin.
Well now, you have me at a disadvantage.
You remember me?
Been so long ago.
I am glad that we can come together and perhaps get some closure and maybe healing too.
I think that most of us, if not all, went through hell growing up, not only in this place, but growing up in general.
I know I still have major trust issues because of "the adults" which has made me a kind of recluse.
Seems like every time I trust someone they stab me in the back.
So my trust is hard to earn, but once you earn it, you have a friend for life, unless you lie to me, then trust is lost.
I think a lot of us feel the same way. I think our feeling of love and family are different from most peoples. Its nice to know that other people understand how I and some other of feel in general. Compared to. "Regular people" because it is different.
When I was in Devereaux School, in Rutland, MA, I was 8 or 9 and a staff member wanted to show his power, so he grabbed me and hung me out of a 2nd story window by my feet, when the Betty ( I think her name was) came and saw what was going on, that asshole, Jon Baker, said that I tried to jump out the window and he was just trying to bring me back in.
It's crap like that that we kids went through back in those days, and who could we turn to for help?
certainly not an adult, who believes a kid?
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.
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
it's crap like that, if they think something is wrong with you they push and push until they get you to believe it yourself.
How the hell does that help anyone?
Honestly, I think it's all about the almighty dollar.
Hell, how can they make a buck if your normal?
They have to get you to believe there is something wrong with YOU, instead of something wrong with the system or even them.
hello, I have a really hard time myself trusting people, cause of what I went through as a child so I know ow you feel. You don't ever forget being in a place like this and the pain of it follows us for life. I took some pictures a couple months ago when I went there but, for some reason I can't seem to post them on here, so I am going to post them on my facebook. You look me up and add me as a friend if you have a facebook it's Michelle Woods-Godfroy...
It's very eery and freaky in there, there is so much damage, and yes you did hear screams, but, you try to block them out, the place is trashed, the paint is falling off the walls, there is graffiti everywhere, broken doors,windows and bathrooms, it's just scary, but, at the same time, it's interesting, Boiler and I were just there on Sunday 8/1. They have started to take the building down now, Testa is there with all their equipment, so it won't be long before it's gone and just leveled like this horror place was never there, but, us former patients will never forget about Gaebler or the hell we endured., If you were there, when were you there?
This is in the gym. Back left wall. Near the back stairs
I tried so hard to get off grounds privileges. How long did it take you to get them
I can't remember how one earned to go roller skating, but we did go quite a few times.
That and hikes out back of the place.
You needed on grounds privilages to hike out back, but everyone could go rollerskating. My last time here I got one of our old skates. I'm gonna keep it. Its really old lolt
I meant Roller Skating in town, not the gym.
I neber got my off grounds privilages. So I never went skating in town. I tried hars to get them, but they never gave them to me. Once shawna and john broke up I really tried to get my off grounds. But for some reason they never would give me them
I only got to go roller skating in town twice, once when I was on Ward B and once when I was on Ward D.
Only 2 or 3 times hiking.
Most of the time I was playing pool or ping pong or basketball.
I did roller skate in the gym, but not that often.
Been so long ago.
I think I was one of the last ones to go roller skating in town from D Ward.
From your other comments, you said you was in the same room as Kim C.
I remember 3 of the six from that room. Kim C, A Colored Girl that was dating Mike and Sharon who had the hots for Tony.
It was Mike and I who went down to the room, Mike was there seeing the colored girl and I was there seeing Kim, Sharon was hoping Tony was coming down but Tony didn't want to.
After Kim and I broke up Kim started dating Mike.
I remember Danny because of his god awful feet!
As far as staff, Jack the asshole, the Hook, and Willie.
Those are the ones that come quickly to mind.
Willie
Suzanne
Robbie O'connor
Rick Glynn
Rick's brother
Debbie Aruda
Doug (liked U2)
Maria (short, chubby, hispanic)
Mrs. Henderson
Dave (he had a chinese wife who worked there also but cannot remember her name)
Marilyn Litman
Kim (she was also a nurse who was in a horrible car accident while I was there)
Phyllis Schmidt
Dr. Bender
The funny thing about me is the fact that if a person doesn't make an impression, I don't remember them.
Jack made an impression because as soon as I entered Ward D Jack wanted me to take my shoes off and get in seclusion.
Basically he wanted a fight and I almost gave it to him, but I restrained myself and did what was asked.
The Hook, because she was standing in the office doorway watching us, and seeing her working there with a hook for an arm creeped me out.
You never reveled to me who you are other then the fact that you was there when I was there and remember Mike and I going down to the girls end.
I asked you before if you was in the same room as Mike, Tony and myself.
As far as the staff, Willie, although Litman sounds familiar.
I didn't pay much attention to them because to me, they were the enemy and I didn't chat with the enemy.
I had a big problem with authority growing up, to some extent I still do.
I read a question asking what the deal was with Mr. Heathwood.
The deal was this:
Mr. Heathwood and my Social Worker Gray, were childhood friends.
Now that doesn't mean I didn't have bad experiences because I did, but it means that those experiences were not as bad as others.
Because they were friends it afforded me some protection.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I was special, I am saying that I was extremely lucky.
I was kicked out of Devereux School for excessive runaways.
Gary, my social worker, was trying to get me into Kolborne School, however, there was a 3 to 6 month waiting period until a bed was available.
Gary called Mr.Heathwood and Mr.Heathwood allowed me to stay on Ward D until a bed became available.
During my time on D Ward I was not technically a patient, I was more of a guest.
I still had to follow the rules, but the rules were relaxed.
If I wanted to shoot pool, I went and played pool, or basketball or whatever.
That is the biggest reason why I didn't get into trouble when Mike and I went down to the girls end.
None of us did.
All we had to do was file a paper stating what took place.
Nothing ever became of it.
Why?
Because officially, I wasn't there.
But that doesn't mean I didn't go through tough times there.