At Springfield there were several intake rooms. They varied in size. The largest bein' about 14'x12', the smallest bein' about 10'x 12'. i forget exactly what time the buildin' opened but i think it was about 6am. So from that time on newcomers were bein' dropped off in the intake rooms waitin' for group to start around 9am. The VA program had a huge group when i was there, like what ,i don' know like maybe 100-130 guys, maybe more and maybe 75-85 girls. i don' really remember but there were a lot of newcomers in those little intake rooms.
it would get so crowded, the air was hot and foul, Once things got so tense i got into a fist fight with another newcomer, over leanin' space on the wall. What a wretched memory.