3,485 Comments for Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)

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i worked in the boiler room from 1972 until closing....i may have some answers if anyone is interested
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My twin has had brain surgey 50 staples from ear to ear and the trama and recovery were dificult and a learning expreince. Her peronality changed and no longer able to smell, which is linked to depression. It has been a long hard road. ( 2 brain anurysms) a"study" of our family history shows it could be hereditary. 6 members of my family have fallen victim of the brain anuyrms.
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Remember the story with this one?

http://info.detnews.co...p;category=locations

Wouldn't THAT be one heck of a find! =8-o
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I took some film classes in college and was quite awful at it, so I suppose one could say I've taught myself once I started focusing on it during my own time, and with these abandoned buildings as subjects that inspire me to improve myself.
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Hmm, it would definitely be a county morgue. The one that was probably the largest was stripped of all the steel and equipment, so I couldn't really tell how big it was. The next largest one would be an English morgue, which had about 30 or so drawers.

The largest psychiatric hospital morgue I've seen so far would be the 12 drawer one at Pilgrim State - http://www.opacity.us/image1384_morgue.htm
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Read what I posted.
They DID.
The movie is called "The 4th Dimension."
Here's the website for the film.
http://www.4thdmovie.com/
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Motts, sorry I ask so many questions (not really sorry ,but dont want to be a pain) Did you self learn , did you take classes or you are a natural talent? just curious.
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Motts, whats the largest morgue youve been in?
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It's a real shame no one filmed a movie inside the hospital.
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They did though...
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Joey,

I'm an avid defender of graffiti, but sorry, mindless tagging is not art and if that's a subculture, I'll stick with mainstream. These aren't even good tags.
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It's almost a shame they never filmed a movie there.
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Not that you narrow minded people would understand, but there is a whole sub culture to graffiti. It becomes something of a brotherhood.
Love it or hate it, it's invading commercialism as well.
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That's a quality photo. something like that separates a picture from a photograph
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Well, why the heck would they write in here if they are the people doing the demolition? Do they think people who read this will believe there is a large groundswell of outside support for their techniques and jump on the bandwagon? That's just a little embarrassing, to me. Oh well, I guess the business world is a weird one. That's why I prefer to work with people in MR/MH/ID. At least they are generally honest about who they are and what they want.