by ronl on Thu Aug 27

by **ronl** on Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:00 pm

Here are 3 pictures Audrey too at TCSH this past weekend

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by **mkfarnam** on Thu Aug 27, 2009 5:01 pm

3 more of Audreys picture taken at TCSH

Administration

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caged porches

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I'll have to resize to pictures before I post anymore. I don't have time right now.

by **Amurphy** on Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:14 pm

I live here in tc ill try to get up there to get a pic of the "real" hippie tree for the page.

by **Go_super_Trina** on Fri Aug 28, 2009 12:53 am

Your hippie tree and the urban legend hippie tree are two completely different things. The "gateway to hell" tree is way back by the barns, quite a ways away from the buildings. It's rather stupid, I know of people who have gone out there walking around for hours thinking they're going to stumble straight into hell's flames. Most people go out there and get high. Your hippie tree, sounds like a great place. It's crazy to think about how kids worry and try so hard to make friends and be cool, whatever their situation is. I bet you were hot stuff out there back in the day.

About the buisness cards, I believe that it would be cheaper to make up a design and print them myself. If you could come up with something and send it to me that would be awesome.

by **mkfarnam** on Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:29 am

Go_super_Trina wrote:Your hippie tree and the urban legend hippie tree are two completely different things. The "gateway to hell" tree is way back by the barns, quite a ways away from the buildings. It's rather stupid, I know of people who have gone out there walking around for hours thinking they're going to stumble straight into hell's flames. Most people go out there and get high. Your hippie tree, sounds like a great place. It's crazy to think about how kids worry and try so hard to make friends and be cool, whatever their situation is. I bet you were hot stuff out there back in the day.

About the buisness cards, I believe that it would be cheaper to make up a design and print them myself. If you could come up with something and send it to me that would be awesome.

I have "Print Shop 20" on my computer. I can make posters, banners, business cards, patches to iron on T-shirts, labels..and more.........

examle.................

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by **okie** on Fri Aug 28, 2009 3:18 pm

Thank you audrey for the pictures. You really captured your subject very well. Thanks to Ron also for posting them. Job well done. Gives me a idea of the stiffling conditions of the cages.

by **audrey** on Sat Aug 29, 2009 3:42 pm

These were taken from broken windows.

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by **audrey** on Sat Aug 29, 2009 3:44 pm

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by **audrey** on Sat Aug 29, 2009 3:58 pm

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by **audrey** on Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:02 pm

Keep out!

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by **mkfarnam** on Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:36 pm

Nice pictures Audrey,
I see you've got the hang of it. :wink:

by **ronl** on Sat Aug 29, 2009 5:56 pm

I remember walking them basements as a child and scared too.
All the doors were locked and cage wire was everywhere. Spider webs everywhere, rats, mice, little rats and roaches shooting out at you like lightning, in some places many at a time would explode...... breath taking, and at night it got worse, you could not see them, but they were there...

by **mkfarnam** on Sat Aug 29, 2009 6:26 pm

One time I was sleeping with my arm hanging over the side of the bed and a rat bit my thumb. The night nurse gave me a shot and that was it. I still have the teeth marks on my thumb. :roll:

by **ronl** on Sun Aug 30, 2009 1:01 pm

Today I went in my studio and found this I recorded before my heart thing, funny it is called Heart Attack
http://www.hall-18.com/mp3/heart%20attack.mp3

by **MAD** on Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:07 pm

I've been reading everyone's posts with interest. I have a different perspective in that I was on the outside looking in for many years. I guess you could say that my siblings and I were the 'forgotten children' of the mentally ill adults. My mother spent 26 years in an out of TCSH so I spent my entire childhood visiting her there. She did share many horror stories but her last one ended in 1976 when at the age of 52, the illness that she contracted while there went untreated for 6 months until they let her die. I also had a former friend who was sent there in 1970 for many months at the age of 15 for truancy-she refused to go to school because she was taunted and teased. Also, a sister who was committed after her military break down in early 80's.
Anyway, I did want to make a comment to Mike about his stay. Although the record files of the patients were destroyed several years ago, there are supposed to be admitting and discharge records in the state archieves in Lansing available to the patient and family. I requested copies and received my mother's records several years ago. They could probably give you the exact dates of your stay.