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These buildings should all be inspected to see if any of them are salvagible. the ones that are fixable should be renovated the rest should be demolished. id love to go inside building 93 and explore it.

pegasus64 I agree with you 100%

I would definitely take my Cross and some Holy Water over a gun any day.

Occupying leisure time is usually addressed in the treatment plan of any patient with mental health concerns. An important means of reducing undesirable behaviors is to institute incompatible desirable behaviors. When a patient has productive, interesting things to do, s/he is less likely to focus on self-injurious behaviors or delusional thoughts. So entertainment is critical in treatment and recovery. It can also be very therapeutic. Sometimes patients can act out their feelings or reveal them in art even though they cannot discuss them. Often a person who has difficulty speaking finds it easier to "sing" the words. Dancing provides physical activity that is useful (unlike banging one's head against a wall) AND does not sound like "work" in the way "exercise" does. It should go without saying how helpful humor can be. Patients can share their special talents and skills with one another and with staff, and thereby become less "different" and "other." Patients see themselves not as "sick" but as thinking, intelligent, talented individuals with much to contribute, and staff see this also. Entertainment is something to look forward to and may be an incentive to improved behavior . We should never think that someone is "too far gone" to enjoy or benefit from an activity, much less that he or she is unworthy or undeserving of an activity. Thinking like that is one step on the road to even further disenfranchisement, isolation, and abuse of persons with mental illness.

When I was in grade school in the Midwest in the 1960s, we were taught to recognize the difference in the tornado siren and the civil defense ("air raid") siren. The tornado siren was a continuous modulated blast and the civil defense siren was intermittent--short blasts kind of like a very loud "busy" signal on the telephone. For fire, they used the school's regular alarm bells/buzzers. We had periodic fire, air raid, and tornado drills throughout the year. I now live in an area where a "disaster" siren would mean a leak or explosion at one of the chemical plants or on the railroad, and we do "shelter-in-place" drills as well as fire drills.

scary i use to live in kp

good picture...I love looking at things from the interiors of the patients rooms....quite interesting.

Wow. This is very beautiful! I love the light

If I'm not mistaken (and I very well could be,) Disney threw a fit a while back about schools and hospitals painting murals of Disney characters without obtaining permission ( which never would have been given. ) In fact, I believe there were several lawsuits relating to such. I don't know whether Pennhurst was one of the involved, but since Dopey here has been painted over, it certainly seems plausible. . . then again, I believe the building had other, later uses as well, so the paintjob could have been because of that.

bonjour,

juste un mot pour vous diree que j'aime beaucoup votre travail..... plus que ds photo on visite les lieux.....

stefane

s-h1@linbertysurf.fr

this looks like the undersea door that kept the Kraken from escaping....

I would just have to hold it until I got back to civilization!!

thank you erica, you are most helpful

I love these before and after shots you have.
It's just like taking a step back into the past.

I can't get enough.
How I'd love to be there myself.

Despite it not being very nice to look at (of course, I understand that beauty wasn't the concern when they constructed these sort of tubs), I'd love to have that tub in my house.
Although it's most likely bigger than my bathroom itself... x]
It's like a jacuzzi, haha! :)

Wouldn't want to be drinking water from there now! :P