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imagine how many people have been in that thing.....lol
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these are such beautiful pictures i would absolutely LOVE to visit one time!!
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its amazing how grafiti can be so beautiful at times....
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Ladyhawke...i cant quite finish your lovely letter.I think your giving me the good cry i need. God love you for caring so much about someone you never met. My problems are small compared to yours. Please forgive me for forgetting I'm not the only one with problems Love you so Gail
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Indeed, a small foyer and then a porch.
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Rapunzel's wish my little heart full of love girl, and LadyHawke my little angel of love. thank you both for the kind words, please forgive me for rambling so long last night , it was either too much vodka, or not enough. I miss my dad so. I lost him in July of 98. It hurts less, but it still hurts. does that make sense?
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And where are the clients?
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Sonya, God bless you for trying. I believe he knows what you tried to do.And i believe some where down the road all you did help, and all you tried to know too. I'm a believer "what goes around comes around" You are a wonderful lady.
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Would you say it was about as far from where visitors might see the vilent people as possible?

Because of my job I've been to a number of the state hospitals throughout the Commonwealth. In cluding Northampton Had a friend who worked as a SW at Northampton We used to trade war stories
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I had clients that were saved from pennhurst. They were ruined for life. No matter what we did to try to give them back their dignity, it failed. Dam the staff and administration that did this to them. They should rot in hell forever.
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Great photo, John! Goes to show how popular the ride was right up to the end. I'm dating myself here but the line was even longer when it first opened in 1963. And as the article says, there was a "nurse' on duty at the unloading area back then!
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I can't believe this building has been abandoned only thirteen years. The building that was posted a month or so ago that has been abandoned since '73 was in better shape.
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Looks like the electricity blew out a while back, water damage?
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That....is hell on Earth.
Good photos, though, Motts
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It wasn't written in the log books it was staff lingo. It was frowned upon by supervisors to even say it. But it was a term that was around for a long time evidently.