3,485 Comments for Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)

they recently knocked alot of the buildings down and its a 50 and older community...looks very nice now compared to what it used to look like....they also used to have haunted houses at byberry until i guess that got shot down

Gainfully employed? Well, I'm employed alright, but all I'm "gaining" from it is a load of misery. I hate hospitality.

I didn't know the Aflac duck knew how to hold a can of Krylon.

Calling someone a "retard" is reserved for those with such a limited vocabulary that they cannot think of something more creative. However, it's even more pathetic when they can't even spell the word right. "Retart"? What is that? Like a SweeTart with twice the sour?

At that point, I think, Byberry was so covered in graffiti that I doubt one less tag would have changed much.

anyone looking to go and see the old byberry hospital good luck it is not there no more condos were built over it ass holes they should of kept the place open and charged admisson to walk around and see it

Does amie have amnesia because she sure does like to write her name alot, maybe in case she forgets what her name is

I think the term mental retard is highly disrespectful. Have respect and imagine what they must have gone through. Has anyone that has ever climbed into one of these ever sensed anything?

I've always wandered If when the patients die, do their spirits return as a "normal" person would be where their mental state of mind has disappeared or are they still as they were when they were alive

Me - I thought the uvula was proprietary to a female's anatomy? =D

Radical Ed- I absolutely enjoy all of your photos. I don't live any near Byberry and looking at these photos is the next best thing to personally being there. As a UE you should know to leave nothing but footprints and take nothing but pictures. You should leave the tagging to all the other ignorant people. You should know better. Looking through your pictures was great until I saw that you are contributing to the vandalism to these abandon places. You are making the next persons experience worse by tagging every thing. I don't want to hear excuses.

Cool pic but I nevr saw it that bright...well maybe with bright colors...but nevr that bright...

A case of Bud and a couple of "HAPPY HOMES" doses on your tongue...Byberry was our hangout in the early 90's...especially the steam tunnels that hooked-up all the buildings...quickest entrance to the tunnels was through a door in the boiler room...jump through the hallway window and into the boiler room window.... escape point under the chapel and on the other side of Rt. 1, for when the cops arrived...and they always did...We actually had cops draw their guns on us!!! MAN we did some stupid shit back then....BLOOD!!! Whoever bleeds the most WINS!!!! Windows were punching bags that bit back.

You know what's really sad? Listening to Billy Joel's, "everybody has a dream" while looking at places like this because it makes me think that there were people in the institutes who lived there their entire lives, and they dreamed.....but never fulfilled them because they were cooped up here all their lives...

Where's the tennis court? Let's rally! : )