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i wonder how much treatment really went on in there

i am going to go with: your head in the whole and body hair pulled off from the other side

i love the moss covered floor

You'd be surprised. There are people out there who would love to forget that we had places like this, let alone the patients who lived in them.
IF we took the time to look, learn, and appreciate what went on in these buildings, we could learn more and progess in care.
Rather than to disrespect, and allow the care to stop. The disrespect that someone shows for old buildings, only shows that they have no respect or undestanding of the past.
Grafitti aside.
What I mean, is arson, broken windows, and stealing things from buildings like this.
An arsonist, will burn bridges in life until they lead a lonely existance.
Someone who smashes, has no care for another's belongings, until one of theirs gets broken.
A theif, will never appreciate how hard it is to work for what they really want. For them it's the easy way.
Someone who fails to show respect, will never know respect.
And someone who just goes along because their friends all do it... Will have a hard time being a leader.
At least these are the observations I have made in my life.

Sag, don't forget...crayons.

I don't see how anyone could not have the respect for these places.

awesome shot- not only does the natural inviting-ness of an open door contrast with the foreboding of the overall mood, but the vines in the door show how long a door meant to be shut has been open

the perspective on this shot is amazing- it would be interesting to try with different lenses- (i.e. fisheye, wide angle especially)

I spy a Hence! Go SKE!

When you have a car or house I hope some neighborhood kids say, "It should be legal to place paint on this worthless junk, they will either be wrecked or demolished anyways." It's the art of an abandond buiding that awes people. The fact that people have some respect for it and dont bring in cans of spraypaint deciding to do their own paintjobs. If you really must become an artist who uses a median of spraypaint, they do make canvas, posterboard, heck even paper for you to use, not buildings.

Who cares if they are spray painting on this run down mess anyway. People used to get labotomies here and somebody drawing on the walls in there having a good time concerns you. You people are lost. The place will be demolished anyway, it should be made into a legal place to paint, whatever you feel like.

i have asperger's syndrome and only live about an hour from pennhurst, so this place really hits home for me. why, if i had been born just ten years earlier i would have ended up in this hell hole...or possibly wernersville.

Help. My name's been hijacked! Although this does look a little like my attic.

The real Bill

It discusses a 6-alarm fire that occurred back in May, 1955 at the Publicker Industries warehouse. Very interesting.

Would you LIKE to have after effects from being in the building? ;-)