The last time I was back there, I went to the Burger King down the road, and there were a bunch of straightlings there, passing out balloons and Straight brochures like some cult! (of course, that's what it was)
I asked one which phase he was on, and he stammered, then one of the older phasers recognized me and said, "He's a graduate, don't talk to him!" Then they all ran away, terrified. That was around 1993, which musta been shortly before they closed.
Even though I have been drug-free since I got out, I was banned from Straight right after I graduated because, while I was in the Building for "aftercare", I was overheard joking about being brainwashed. Man, staff had no sense of humor! I mean, none of us doubted that we had been brainwashed - the saying in Straight was that our brains needed washing. Besides, I had studied brainwashing, and Straight was a textbook case for it. They also didn't like that I had long hair, black leather and punk spikes. :-)
If you ever ate at any of the fast food joints an Ann Arbor Road, chances are you were served by phasers. Since they have to get summer (or all year for older phasers) jobs on 4th phase and can't drive until 5th phase, that means that we all had to work on Ann Arbor Road, and most of the jobs there were in one of the 20 or so fast food restaurants. I worked at Wendy's, Pizza Hut and Big Boy's, even though I had been in college and the Teamsters before Straight. For a long time, I thought Ann Arbor Road was all there was to Plymouth!