![]() ![]() I had a great middle school child hood at Ancora. We had moved from Trenton State but I was to young to compare the two. I remember some buttons would always be broken and Romco came out with the “Buttoier”, that saved my mother a lot of time.ĭad drove a State car, a Fury III, that the patients would wash. they would return them with dad’s shirts pressed. The patients would pick up or marked laundry let in a rectangular bin on our front steps. The hidden lakes (or eight lakes) were just through the woods and provided great summer and winter diversions, we boys needed. we used to dig tunnels in he walls of the cliffs and burn leaves to harden the walls into rock. straight back of or house, along the tracks where they mined the yellow gravel. The cliffs were another great place for us boys. The drift wood forest, where they put all the tree stumps pulled during construction was a great place to shoot BB guns, as was the dump (land fill) till my dad caught use shooting florescent bulbs and glass IV bottles. Always mowing the lawns with the push mowers and a large screw driver in the back pocket to adjust the blades. The patients were milling around, and as a child we were not to talk to them, but we did. There was a police squad, a barber, a chapel, a small soda hop, a commissary, a mail room, and everything else for a town. these were next to the ball fields, the green house (remember Mike, and AJ the sparrow hawk), and the pool. In the gate there were buildings for the single girl nurses. they housed all the support staff for the hospital. Out side the gate were the Edgewood homes, or we called them the hundred homes. The next tier was about 20 homes across the street, and they had the next tier doctors living there. I live at Laurel Lane that was in the shape of a “U” with seven other houses. We used to ice skate on them and have a camp fire on the island of the big one. The top doctor lived in the mansion with two lakes in his yard. The hospital grounds were set up like the Air Force base I work at. We lived in one of the second tier doctor homes, as my dad was one of the seven in that tier. ![]() I grew up there from 1968 to 1972, and went to St Joe’s in Hammonton instead of the public school. ![]()
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