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That geri-chair looks strange indeed...almost more hyper-real than the rest of the shot, like it was Photoshopped in. The fact that it wasn't makes it all the more eerie.

Why does it say "Kid" on the fireplace? Just grafitti?

This pic is beautiful in an eerie sort of way. I would *so* buy a print of it if it were available.

Phenominal Shot!

Sallie, I don't think Pennhurst was ever a beautiful place. The structures themselves look wonderful but inside I think it truly was the 'pit of despair'.

Check out El Peecho's Pennhurst site for some rather disturbing images of what it looked like in use (late 70s).

to think some one was shooting real guns a each other

Well put Shayla.

I wanna go on an expidtion too!!!!

email me mibuhiro@prodigy.net

Well? Did you make a wish?

just.. awesome.

Do you go to these places alone? My god that is one hell of a picture. It's like Munsters meet Qeen of the damned.

I agree, but it's my brother's problem. He didn't keep it. I think it creeped him out, and rightfully so. But none of my brothers are ever normally creeped out by anything. (except the little one) I'm not sure what he did with it but this happened over four months ago.

I have always liked black and white pictures. I think it was an excellent choice for a building with this kind of rep.

This conjures up so many images... Frankenstein's laborotory, yes, or a scene from a retro-futuristic Gotham-type city, or maybe a temple... to the God of Electricity perhaps....

Those lamp posts are incredible either way.

This probably has to be my favourite image so far. The eye is inescapably drawn to the yawning hole surrounded by twisted vines and flanked by two seriously scary lamp supports... you can almost imagine them festooned with buzzing, sparking cables and old-fashioned insulators, gearing up to deliver thousands of crackling volts for some freakish experiment...

Odd how the bridge is off-centre - this would be pure Art Deco symmetry otherwise.