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…..🦋🦋🦋
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.
Saint Elizabeth's storied past encompassed many accounts of people who helped to make the hospital the bustling place it was. Presidents, health advocates, and other people of note mentioned in this video were really invested in this place. The historic rise and fall of this place reads like an enthralling bestseller. Great job! I truly enjoyed this video!
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
Man, rode by there everyday on the way to Ballou. Some of them used to get on the bus. I live in NC now, people think I be tripping when I talk about it. About to share this video.
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 ❤️🙏🏽
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.
My aunt was committed to St. E's when she was a teenager. She passed away there in her early 40's under mysterious circumstances. I remember when I was young always feeling weird but not scared when we visited her at that place. Our family never got the full story about her death but got a huge bill from the government when my grandfather (her father) passed away 2 years after her. Diki-D where can I get info on patients who were at the facility?
I hope you find it. It's still open but they've destroyed a lot of the records because they were experimenting on Black folks in there. They tortured folks in there.
Yall remember Marty if yall from that part of SouthEast he’s a S.E legend. Not only at Anacostia station but all over MLK all the way to congress heights good ole Southeast days ❤.
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 lived across the street from st elizabeth in the 80s sometimes we used to shoot hoop At a St eliza building near Barry farms. i went pass there this summer they built a new section of ST Eliz near the subway.
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…..🦋🦋🦋
My mother worked there too. We used to joke with her that her job was rubbing off on her.
Who else misses the OLD DC!? 😢 💔
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 🫶🏾
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.
We missed you Diki D….. keep up the great work…. Love your videos
Saint Elizabeth's storied past encompassed many accounts of people who helped to make the hospital the bustling place it was. Presidents, health advocates, and other people of note mentioned in this video were really invested in this place. The historic rise and fall of this place reads like an enthralling bestseller. Great job! I truly enjoyed this video!
Over a year ago, I spent a brief stint in a homeless shelter that was on the old Saint Elizabeth campus. Wild times 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
Thank you for all of your information and videos allways enjoy them ❤❤❤❤
Man, rode by there everyday on the way to Ballou. Some of them used to get on the bus. I live in NC now, people think I be tripping when I talk about it. About to share this video.
I remember doing my Howard Dental School rotation there. I must admit, I was scared to death😨😨😨
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 ❤️🙏🏽
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
Thank you for sharing I'm a baby boomer I'm 63 years old and I do remember as a child hearing about Nicholas Avenue in saint Elizabeth hospital
I love and appreciate your content very informative.
Very informative, thanks.
Thank you for all your work....Its time for you to be on a Podcast
There’s a park with a beautiful view of the city at that hospital. A guy took me on a date (I know) but I’ll never forget how beautiful it was.
Someone need to do one on crownsville hospital center
My aunt was committed to St. E's when she was a teenager. She passed away there in her early 40's
under mysterious circumstances. I remember when I was young always feeling weird but not scared when we visited her at that place. Our family never got the full story about her death but got a huge bill from the government when my grandfather (her father) passed away 2 years after her. Diki-D where can I get info on patients who were at the facility?
@@willf.5608 they have a website
I hope you find it. It's still open but they've destroyed a lot of the records because they were experimenting on Black folks in there. They tortured folks in there.
this is very informative thanks
Another fire video keep em comin🔥🔥🔥
Excellent information.
Yall remember Marty if yall from that part of SouthEast he’s a S.E legend. Not only at Anacostia station but all over MLK all the way to congress heights good ole Southeast days ❤.
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.
What year u go there
@ 2010/2011
My grand mother Gloria Ross worked here
Thanks!
That's for the history very informative video
I started my First Job in the Government where I worked in the Patient Property department back in the early 70s
I lived across the street from st elizabeth in the 80s sometimes we used to shoot hoop At a St eliza building near Barry farms. i went pass there this summer they built a new section of ST Eliz near the subway.
My neighbor who long since passed on Worked there. He had his eye knocked out the socket by a resident there.
I was born here in 1982!!
YOU DO KNOW THAT ST ELIZABETH'S IS STILL OPEN ON A SMALLER LEVEL.
@@michaelmarshall6150 You are correct
Right behind congress heights station
My great grandmother worked here.
Why is it still abandoned building area? Why did it get abandoned or slowed down? Are they rebuilding them?
Didnt get that info
@@Dabooah Yes I still have to give an update on what is happening with the empty buildings
First the 🚤 NOW THE K2 had a aunt there
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