The Amazing Adventures of a Paranoid Schizophrenic Senior Citizen in Society.
‘Titicut Follies’: The legendary banned film from 1967 that went inside of an insane asylum
Frederick Wiseman’s powerful, depressing—Roger Ebert called it “despairing” and that’s probably a better word—1967 documentary >Titicut Follies revealed the sordid and horrific conditions of the Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
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This Film was made the Year I hitch hiked to Los Angeles, California. I worked in a Military Surplus Retailer, "Palley Supply" in Vernon, CA.
There I Worked in the Hydraulic Parts Dept. where All the Chicano's came to buy Lifts, to put in the "Low Riders."
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So now shortly let me state, I am insane. In the video I posted [below] some people say I am crazy; a lady down Los Anglies talks about hearing voices. [I have the exact same phenomenon. ]
As a fact, most of them people in that film were peoples who I was in psychiatric board and care homes with. I come to san francisco in 1984. I had escaped from the Louisiana central state hospital, pinevill, la. In april that year, "That' meaning 1984. I come to san francisco in october, 1984. Voices tole me where to go. I had "Out of body visions" and when I was coming across the bay bridge on the grey dog, I had a serious case of deja-vu. I even knew where to find a room to rent, voices told me "Coronado's children" a book by j. Frank Dobe, showed me the hotel! We had the book from my birth! I read it before I started 6th. Grade!
The FRONTISPIECE Pictuer, INDIAN POINTING, was WITH ME , I Followed Him to the "Coronado Hotel" 373 Ellis St. San Francisco, (Jennie, a China Lady, Rented me a Room in the BASEMENT, she thought I was a Indian, [Well, my Grandmother & Greatgrandfather were FULL BLOOD, Kiowa & Cherokee, Respectfully.]
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