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I live here in tc ill try to get up there to
get a pic of the "real" hippie tree for the
page.
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.
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.
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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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.
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...
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...
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
http://www.hall-18.com/mp3/heart%20attack.mp3
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.
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.