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Louis Mitler is a translator.
Accredited by the Secretariate of State of Canada, Ottowa, Ont. has been an Active member or the American Translators Association since 1976, a member of the American Literary Translators Association since 1990, and a member of the National Asscoiation of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators since 1995. Has graduated from Istanbul University Department of Arts and Letters in 1967.

HIPAA is pretty new, so if this area clsoed down before HIPAA it wouldn't apply. I agree that they should have had more regard for their patients and should have taken these out, but at the time it might have been considered normal to leave those behind, and not insensitive at all. These might not have even been considered confidential at that time. It might have been cost prohibitive to move them to a new location, so they were left behind.

Then again, there is the possibility that this is administrative paperwork (order forms, employee info, etc) that truly wasn't important at all. It's like Lynne says, these employees were truly (usually) doing the best they could, and wouldn't abuse patients like this on purpose...

We're doing wonderful.

Isn't it sad that the pc killed the IBM selectric like the one in the picture??

Unless you live in a tent, some developer built the home you're living in now. Not that I want to take up for these people, but they do perform useful jobs, it's probably the way they develop that you disagree with.

I'm curious anonymous have you ever experienced anything out of the ordinary in Pennhurst?

This was a "steam lighter", a small ship with a derrick used to carry cargo between shallow-water wharves and deep-draft ocean-going ships moored or docked in deeper water. I believe they were nicknamed "stick boats", so called because of the derrick boom. The very tall stack implies that this one was a coal-fired steamer.

Looks like a machine we had to use in one of my high school classes. You would expose a metallic sheet to an image, run it through a developer, then load that sheet onto the drum, fill it with ink, and let it run. As I remember, ours broke down frequently, so part of the class was learning how to fix the more common things that could happen to it... Good to see one again after all these years!

This is still in the dentist area, correct? It looks so different in color than it did in your B&W panorama!

Motts - if this gives away any info about the site, please delete it immediately. I don't know what it means, just what I can read...

The top line appears to say "HENRI TTA HOWSE" (I'm guessing it should be "Henrietta, but is missing the E), which could be the name of the person in charge? The last word on the first line is "Operation". The next few lines are too blurry to read, but the second to final line says "Louis Mitler", and the final line says (I think) 1900. Motts, if you ever get the chance to take another photo of this, I'd be happy to try again!

Maybe those soap dispensers knocked the last digit down? It looks like they took out part of the "E" in welcome when they fell too...

I like how the bottom right window is open, when the rest of them are closed. Damn, it seems like I'm posting to all of these older ones, and posting on almost every image!

If you don't mind me asking, how did you manage to get this picture without catching your own reflection? It seems like such a straight on shot, that one would think you would show up somewhere in the window...

I first came to this site because I was interested in abandoned buildings (any and all). Since I have spent time reading the comments (especially Lynne's) I have changed perspective completely: instead of looking at abandoned buildings, I am experiencing the life that the buildings once had in them. Some of it was good, some of it was bad, and some of it (to quote Lynne) was just plain boring, but all of it was life. Thank you Motts and Lynne for reminding me that death doesn't precede life, be it in people or in buildings.

yes, we (PA army national guard) use one main building activily and have been since six months after it was first abondoned. amandaJ doesnt know what she's talking about, police dogs do train there but only on the weekends at certain times in the year. TRUST ME, i've been doing running PT and some german shepard barks at you through his cage. What's nice though is that when you run you loop around the whole place. You should see how it is in our area of the building. Since we came in right after it closed we continued to use it's things. The showers in our sections still have the original curtains on them (we dont use them) and the soap in the soap dishes is still "penncor" brand (yellow with age of course).

Was this taken with a digital camera, or was it scanned? I only ask because there are some conversion artifacts on the underside of the stairs, and usually your photos are so crisp I feel like I could walk right into them. I tried once, but I stopped after I smacked my face into my monitor... :D