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Wow, this room got hit hard by water damage, now didn't it?
I have to say that Kings park is the place where I have seen the most extreme cases of water damage, peeling paint, etc.

My junior high-school had soap dispensers similair to that one, and I never knew how to work them on account of the bottley part being none-squishable.
I probably sound really stupid because I don't know how to work these little gems.
Haha, either way, if memory serves me correctly, the liquid soap usually put into these dispensers was pink, was it not?

I'd say resourceful.

creepy

man, i wish i had one of those in my collection

If enyone has a good website on gurneys
please post here...

thanks,DIB

I looked through some of my old operating/surgery manuals and found that it is a twin bottle apparatous for providing gastrick suction. the two bottles would rotate upside down. the passage of water from the opper to the lower bottle produces suction the patient would be conected to it via the Miller- Abbott tube

old gorneys like thiese are now considered "high art". people slap glass tops on them and call them dining tables,
they sell for thousands fixed up.

I read that when these hospitals where overcrouded they performed autopsys in bath tubs like this one, because the morgues where full..........
shocking right...

I'm not sure why, Mr. Motts, but this photo makes me think of Aztec/Myan ruins.

Beautiful photo.

Quite a few of the Catholic grade schools performed at Byberry at Christmas time. I know that my school did it, as I went and performed.

I can't tell you what stage we did it on though, since there is apparently more then one stage in Byberry.

Was a distrubing experiance.

I performed for the patients here when I was in grade school in the late 70s. Or at least I think it was on this stage (not sure if Byberry had more then one stage). I was 7. We sang Christmas songs for the residents.

Disturbing that it looks like this now.

Come to think of it, it was disturbing as a 7 year-old to go to a state hospitol and sing for mentaly ill people.

does anyone have floor plans or know how to contact the super?

I'm not sure I'm buying Sam's comments about finding these films. I just found some old movie reels in my attic and depending on the size of the film I'm not sure you would be able to make out any of this stuff he has talked about. And considering age and the elements I'm even less sure. However if indeed he has seen some film I would guess that it may be from when new employees started I seem to recall seeing some footage of the way institutions used to be. I'm not even sure if it was actual footage of Pennhurst but an overview of instituional life past and present. I do know that during the 70's and 80's employees were not allowed to bring in movie cameras. We're not talking small camcorders here. Also I get the feeling Sam is more than one person. His posts are all over the place. Sometimes he posts like a 12 yr old other times like an adult.

beautiful