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well, thats a really nice picture. doesn't it just say: "if your shave was unsatisfactory, well, we don't like you."
funny how we are expected to suit someone else's likings.
best wishes, from Monterrey, Mexico.

Amazing. People are really that bored that you are in dyer need to go into a building and completely distroy it. Sad. You don't remember your own name that well? Hey I know ! let's go to byberry and write it repeatedly on walls ! ..Losers

The arch is the backside of this facade: http://www.opacity.us/image1578_decor.htm

It looks to have been done by a homeless person residing in the hospital after it closed, the items looked like they came from the curbside.

This website is incredible...the photos are stunning.

That's funny stuff "concerned resident".
I don't cross the Poquessing Creek by wading through it, I walk across the Roosevelt Blvd.
I don't leave suits or respirators on neighbor's lawns, I don't trespass on residential land nor litter. I've never brought a tool to Byberry and never smashed anything there. When I go home, my hands are still clean.
I've never walked on Carter Road, nor parked there or used it to gain entrance to Byberry.
How does someone walking through an enclosed building expose the neighbors to hazarous waste? One would surmise that demolition and heavy equipment bringing down improperly-abated hundred-year-old buildings would put more waste into the environment than a pair of Timberland hikers do.
You really are reaching for a reason to blame the problem on folks visiting the buildings, when you should focus on the slip-shod operations going on across the street. The Vietnamese Tyrant running the demo is cutting corners and causing problems by doing that, while houses all around Londontown are going up for sale.
The folks aren't moving due to curiosity-seekers walking through the property, it's due to the quality of life being compromised by money-grubbing practices and their pollution of the environment.
Why don't you worry more about the unskilled laborers working there as well? I'm sure you're aware that some, if not most, are illegal immigrants from South America and the fines from illegal and improper activities so far equal close to a million dollars.
You're worried about me walking around in a condemned building and all of this is going on in front of your own eyes.
Maybe you should do some research yourself, put aside your prejudice for the kids, and look at the big picture.
You'll see it's not us, but the entire operation that's compromising your health and well-being.

Damn Motts, I wish I had your eyes!
No, don't worry, not LITERALLY! LOL
Just artistically. This is simply awesome stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Those werent pipes of any sort, between them used to be a public pay phone. I used to sit on the pipes when making a call!

i love the iron work , its beautiful the light poles are awesome i wonder what the glass globes looked like .

motts is that where the stained glass is above there ?

nice brick work that hoist system is pretty industrial . awesome shot i can almost see it in motion

those are the woods where me and 3 others heard a girl scream 3 times ,,,scary

from that balcony that you see on the left is where me and 3 others heard a girl scream 3 times from the woods.

ive been to glenn dale with a bunch of freinds numerous times. and i have a couple different stories wich are very weird. the first time i ever went there was around 2 am in the fall and it was very dark there was no moon out. i was with my girlfreind and 2 freinds. it was about 65 degrees outside so it was roughly warm, we are walking up to the main childrens building and as soon as we get around 50 feet of the building the air got very cold, and we could actually take a step back, feel warm air, then take a step forward and feel a silent cold coming from the building. that night we walked around the childrens hospital and the mansion and thought we heard things, but i think it was because we were paranoid. so we left.... then we came back about a week later with the same 4 people plus another four. one of which was a man who had been to glenndale in the 80s when it was first shut down. the advice he gave us before we convinced him to come was this "When you go to the basement make shure your flashlights are off" i was confused and asked why, he said"you dont want whoever is down there to know your comming" hearing this i was pretty shook, so i gathered a larger group of freinds to make it less scary. anyway we were in the childrens hospital and we found a small deck which i believe stretched out across the front door facing the woods...all of a sudden 4 of the 8 hear a girl screaming help coming from the woods. it sounded distant. i myself heard a scream 3 times, the others say they heard it 4 times, anyway, we couldnt explain it so we kept touring the place and eventually covered the entire childrens sector. as soon as we exited 3 of the people we were with said they heard somthing yell "HEY" from the roof of the hospital including my girlfreind. we then walked towards the smokestack, and we were walking past the 2 small buildings on the right and we all heard a very loud crashing noise come from the first one, it sounded like the roof was caving in. i dont know what to make of that building but we avoided it. we went to the smokestack and walked back to our cars thru the feild when we stumbled apon a manhole covered in grass which we tried to open to get to the underground tunnels, but it wouldnt budge, then the veteran of the hospital said he could see a red dot coming from the childrens hospital, he pointed it out to us and we were watching this dot for about 10 seconds until it dissappeared, that freaked us out so we decided to get the hell out of there and upon exiting we stumbled apon a graveyard,,,scarry. that night we actually drove my freinds car through the grass and up to the childrens hospital,,,how much dumber could we get... the third time we went we went to the main hospital and we got to the 2nd basement looking for the morgues, and it was completly filled with water up to my freinds calfs. he turned around because he said hed lose his shoes in the mudd. nothing weird happedned that night. then resently i went with another group of freinds. we parked across the street in the neighborhood and proceeded again to the child hospital once we left there me and another freind hear a weird laugh sounding like it came from the little courtyard of the child sector, we ignored it. we proceded to the smokestack. right when we got close to the stack all of us heard a little girl make a moaning noise,,,there was no wind,, nothing out there but us...we were definantly spooked....wait it gets better... we walk around the smoke stack and we saw a light coming fromt the other side of the building, the first thing i think is,,,COPS, we run towards the car full speed and we could see the spotlight coming out from the building and towards us,,,we run all the way till we can see our cars and low and behold, i see a cop car parked behind my car. we all gather underneath one of the huge pinetrees and watch the cop, who apparently we find out was watching us with his night vision binoculars. we hid out for about a half hour and 2 times we heard a walkie talkie on the other side of our tree. we could also see the searchlights searching everywhere across the feild except our little nitch. then a park police rolls up and catches us hiding. so after all we got to go to court and do community service and pay a 600 dollar fine...great huh, we totally could have gotten away if our cars were not parked visibly from the road...goodluck and park far.

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