3,698 Comments Posted by Motts

It's all just old paperwork from other hospitals in the area, I don't know why they didn't dispose if it properly.

Telling how to get in kinda ruins the fun, no?

Anyway, it's pretty cool that you were in there in the late 80's, the place must've looked a lot better than it does now.

David D, I think I remember the children's hospital having two theaters, on opposite ends of the buildings... they were empty rooms with a small stage, and small projector windows in back, although in one theater they were covered over. I don't think the patients performed, they were pretty sick people... just walking around was probably difficult.

Yep.. I caught him pulling some funky dance moves up there.

That's me lighting the hallway.

It is saddening, but I hope they didn't die in the morgue!

It was real and alive... he didn't make any noise or move too much until I got close to it, so it was kinda startling.

It closed in 1970.

They sold the demolition rights, not the land.

No...

Thanks, yeah that's me trying to light the shot.

Well, many of the patients here probably had constant medical problems that needed constant tending to. If you're alluding to prefrontal lobotomy procedures, they were most likely performed at the state hospitals; I haven't heard of any being done here.

It's a multi-series documentary made a while back to publicize the mistreatments from within Pennhurst State School. A video can be on El Peecho's site: http://www.elpeecho.com/pennhurst/pennhurst.htm

Interesting... thanks for the info, zodiac.

That streetlamp goes on and off every now and then... I don't think there's a light bulb left in that building.

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