I don’t remember when my mother started working here but during the early seventies I would take her to work and pick her up sometimes when she would let me keep the car. She worked in the evening from 3 to 11 in the Geriatric department as an RN. I remember vividly going through the main gate to pick her up I can still she my mother walking down the hall in her nursing uniform, proud black women. I miss my mother…..🦋🦋🦋
Thanks for this informative video. As a kid, I never liked going to the Safeway, McDonald's, Holly Farms or High's because it was near the building surrounded by that brick wall. It gave me the creeps!
Remember the patients use to be walking on MLK. posted up at the Safeway and bus stops, McDonald’s. 😂 good old southeast days. They filled the whole MLK. Then a certain time they go back to saint Ez.
Wow! What a great history lesson! From someone who remembers going there in the late 70’s when there was still patients & whose wife’s mother did a nursing internship prior to WW2. Thanks Diki! Steve, DCFD retired.
@@StevenvonBriesen Thank you very much. I have quite a few friends and relatives who are now retired DCFS. I don't know if you ever met anyone named Smothers, but all of them are related to me LOL.
Great story you can only imagine horrors that took place in that place that was the age of brain experimentation and the like. Older Black people during that time in Baltimore would say never be in the vicinity of John Hopkins the story was they were snatching people off the street for medical experiments or routing them in to asylums like the one you are documenting in this video. Very interesting Ms Diki thanks
I briefly stayed in DC and gotten sick. I went on Google for hospitals to get seen. Once I got on the grounds I just had the most erie feeling. It did not feel right being on that land at all. I went into the wrong building and was then lead on a wild goose chase from building to building. I gave up and went to the other hospital. Ironically, one of the first questions I was asked was why didn’t I got to Saint Elizabeth’s. As an outsider one thing I noticed is Saint Elizabeth’s had mostly Black & Brown people & run down and the other hospital was mostly white & very nice.
i was in there in the late 80s i got on some pcp that my friends set me up to smoke they lied and said it was weed but it had the pcp liquid in it and messed me up so i had to go in there but i refused to be another junkie or vegetable and i fought to come back to earth and i did it but i learned a valuable lesson from it tho dont ever drink or smoke u dont know what u getting
I’m so grateful for your honesty! I use to smoke it myself on weekends at the GoGo. I lunched out a few times myself but never over a couple of hours. Only because of Gods Mercy and my family prayers. God Bless You ❤️🙏🏽
Fun Fact: Before MLK Ave., it was called Nicholas Ave. What was its name before that? It was named Asylum Ave 😮 and Nicholas Ave was named after a Psychiatrist that worked there!
I don’t remember when my mother started working here but during the early seventies I would take her to work and pick her up sometimes when she would let me keep the car. She worked in the evening from 3 to 11 in the Geriatric department as an RN. I remember vividly going through the main gate to pick her up I can still she my mother walking down the hall in her nursing uniform, proud black women. I miss my mother…..🦋🦋🦋
You have a powerful voice for teaching! Thanks again for a great video 🙌🏾
My mom worked here for 25+ years... The stories she had... Thank you for covering this... Brings bk so many memories 🫶🏾
Thank you for all of your information and videos allways enjoy them ❤❤❤❤
Thanks for this informative video. As a kid, I never liked going to the Safeway, McDonald's, Holly Farms or High's because it was near the building surrounded by that brick wall. It gave me the creeps!
Remember the patients use to be walking on MLK. posted up at the Safeway and bus stops, McDonald’s. 😂 good old southeast days. They filled the whole MLK. Then a certain time they go back to saint Ez.
@@thefamily9006 I'll talk about some of that in another video
Damn!! You're an original! Played 🏈 and🥊 at #11 B+G Club, that was criminal what we as youth were subjected too on the avenue
That was some criminal stuff, we should be eligible for COMPENSATION
Holly Farms! Wow...haven't heard that in ages
Wow! What a great history lesson! From someone who remembers going there in the late 70’s when there was still patients & whose wife’s mother did a nursing internship prior to WW2. Thanks Diki! Steve, DCFD retired.
@@StevenvonBriesen Thank you very much. I have quite a few friends and relatives who are now retired DCFS. I don't know if you ever met anyone named Smothers, but all of them are related to me LOL.
Great story you can only imagine horrors that took place in that place that was the age of brain experimentation and the like. Older Black people during that time in Baltimore would say never be in the vicinity of John Hopkins the story was they were snatching people off the street for medical experiments or routing them in to asylums like the one you are documenting in this video. Very interesting Ms Diki thanks
@@blkfrost5 I'll talk about some of the horror stories in another video
I love and appreciate your content very informative.
Another fire video keep em comin🔥🔥🔥
this is very informative thanks
Over a year ago, I spent a brief stint in a homeless shelter that was on the old Saint Elizabeth campus. Wild times lol!
Excellent information.
I briefly stayed in DC and gotten sick. I went on Google for hospitals to get seen. Once I got on the grounds I just had the most erie feeling. It did not feel right being on that land at all. I went into the wrong building and was then lead on a wild goose chase from building to building. I gave up and went to the other hospital. Ironically, one of the first questions I was asked was why didn’t I got to Saint Elizabeth’s. As an outsider one thing I noticed is Saint Elizabeth’s had mostly Black & Brown people & run down and the other hospital was mostly white & very nice.
i was in there in the late 80s i got on some pcp that my friends set me up to smoke they lied and said it was weed but it had the pcp liquid in it and messed me up so i had to go in there but i refused to be another junkie or vegetable and i fought to come back to earth and i did it but i learned a valuable lesson from it tho dont ever drink or smoke u dont know what u getting
@@DeionHarris I'm so sorry to hear this! Thank God you made it out of that situation.❤️
Happens alot! Evil people out here, my dad used to say, if you walk away from your drink anywhere public, that is no longer your drink!
I’m so grateful for your honesty! I use to smoke it myself on weekends at the GoGo. I lunched out a few times myself but never over a couple of hours. Only because of Gods Mercy and my family prayers. God Bless You ❤️🙏🏽
My neighbor who long since passed on Worked there. He had his eye knocked out the socket by a resident there.
Thanks!
Someone need to do one on crownsville hospital center
Fun Fact: Before MLK Ave., it was called Nicholas Ave. What was its name before that? It was named Asylum Ave 😮 and Nicholas Ave was named after a Psychiatrist that worked there!
First the 🚤 NOW THE K2 had a aunt there
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YOU DO KNOW THAT ST ELIZABETH'S IS STILL OPEN ON A SMALLER LEVEL.
@@michaelmarshall6150 You are correct
Right behind congress heights station