3,698 Comments Posted by Motts

Thanks! Yep I recall some being faint, but still legible.

It's a bit illegible; T-RRDROME?

Nope, the cemetery is still there. You can go around the block in google street view and see it.

Neat - those laundry cart tracks are great. I've only come across them in really large, sprawling hospital buildings. http://opacity.us/imag...mouth_of_madness.htm

The residents of this building may not have been ambulatory at all, so the tub could be raised up to make the task of bathing a little less back-breaking for the attendants.

Hmm, they appear to be steel anchor plates for the inner brick wall. Perhaps it was in danger of collapsing, so these tie rods were put in after construction, which would account for the holes in the plaster.

There's a fluorescent light fixture dangling from the ceiling in that room.

Personally, no; I didn't take many photos from this last visit as the place was pretty trashed, and my previous visits were still fresh in my mind. I'm not sure what's left to explore there these days, but if I were in the area and had never seen the place, sure I'd have a go at it!

It's a list of first names stenciled on the wall, entitled "V.R." Not sure what it could stand for...

Looks like a small table for kids. Might be made of plastic.

Thanks; I enjoy dead-on photos a lot, but when there's too many in a set, there's just something off-putting about it, so I try to mix it up. I think the lines of perspective work well at this angle.

That's interesting, I just bought and read The State Boy's Rebellion two weeks ago. Pretty wild stuff, especially how many "normal-grade" kids were dropped off at these state schools. With no advanced education or social training skills at these overcrowded and underfunded institutions, there was very little hope of leaving.

Looks like an attachment for a vacuum cleaner.

The tunnels connected most of the buildings on campus so one could travel around without being in the weather. The tops of the tunnels stuck out of the ground a bit, providing outdoor walkways. Pennhurst wasn't a huge sprawling complex, so they weren't that long.

Thanks, yes, Pennhurst had a small cooler in the center of the medical building, seen here: http://opacity.us/image1781_narrow.htm

I recall it being pretty trashed by this last visit.