3,485 Comments for Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)

NOW PRESENTING OBNOXIOUS THE CLOWN!!!

A pitch black backround
a lonely camera man
Here to save the past

(#54 of the day, TO MOTTS!!)

es como profundo, inquietante, pero seguro... es la forma en que vas a morir, y lo sabes, qué terror!
la foto: bastante interesante ^^

I hurt myself today
to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything

what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
you could have it all
my empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of shit
upon my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
beneath the stains of time
the feeling disappear
you are someone else
I am still right here

what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end

you could have it all
my empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
if I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

I went to St. Dominics and St Francis De Sales (in West Philly when we moved later). Oddly St Francis De Sales sang there and St Doms didn't.

I made it there the other day and found the was no water in the tunnel!! So I finally got to see the wall at the end of the tunnenl! - No light, just the wall :-)

Lost in a Desert World (1994) by Roland Johnson was about his life at Pennhurst State School.

Lots of young women go to the Berry.How bout Sassy, Violent Kitty, Spirit, Shanna, and Mustang Sally. Snapper is also a woman. Amie is only one of many female explorers to walk the dark places. I respect and protect all of them.

Did you got to St. Christopher's?
I went there for CCD classes when I was in elementary school, being a student of Comly, a Philly public school in the same neighborhood. You more-than-likely performed in the much-larger Furey Ellis auditorium. This auditorium (pictured) was used primarily for the staff as an instructional-film viewing room. Motts has some photos of the patient assembly, which was larger than my high school auditorium. (George Washington H.S., another Philly public school).

creepy

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.

searching for title of book about byberry title may be trapped in a desert world? cj can you help.e-mail at mew215@msn.com thanks in advance moe

Damn...that's what it looks like in the day? Yeesh...

Gorgeous. It's very artistic.