I think that everyone in the neighborhood knew it was a home for wayward girls but didn't know what they actually did. Most people thought it was unwed mothers. I remember my mother as well as other mothers in the neighborhood threatening to put us in there if we didn't behave. The home being there may have well been the reason why more of us didn't wind up in there. I remember them calling out from the window to guys passing by but I didn't know what they said because my mother put her hands over my ears.