4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

That's what you get when you hire the building crew from the Winchester Mansion...

wierd how the soot is randomly covering some bricks and not others

so mike mccoy i can tell ur in the army. the fake name didn't throw me off too much. the mccoy was a show in 1950's starring howard duff as mike mccoy and sheldon leonard as the police lieutenant

It's just a pile of discarded books which are no longer of any use. Not every single book ever made can or should be kept forever. Many books lose their usefullness over time due to becoming obsolete or damage.

Those books look like old textbooks that are in no condition to be used. Due to their age they are probably useless as textbooks and certainly their condition makes them so. The only value they may still have is historical, and you don't need a bunch of copies of the same book for historical preservation. One or two of the same book is good enough, and I would bet you that the Library of Congress already has a copy of every one of those books.

As to the comment that one could sell them for a lot of money. Doubtfull. A book needs to be more than just old and worn looking to be sold as an antique. It has to have some historical signifigance, and be in at least decent shape. Doubt any of the books in that picture has those characteristics.

The only thing sad about that picture is the fact that someone failed to dispose of those books properly. They shouldn't have been just dumped in a pile in a school yard or wherever that is.

It's not a symbol of a society reading less, or the education system roting, or whatever. It's just a sign of someone being sloppy and not correctly disposing of no longer usable books.

Yeah. It's just a bed. I think it may be how the pillow is placed that would be giving someone a bad feeling about this bed. I dunno. It's just the first thing I noticed and I did not like it there at all.

Good friggin-ness. Take a moment to appreciate the picture and stop with the ghosts crap. Good Lord! Can't we just enjoy a wonderfully captured moment and take it for what it is?

Hey William, we were there today also, were you on horseback?

Was just there today 11/19/06 the center Dome no longer has copper (?)on it, mostly a wooden skeleton.

It's just an empty case, it's from the barracks of Schwanksville which is in Spring City.

I would like to think it was disarmed / deactivated.

Isnt it dangerous to store weapons of any kind in a non secure area? Or am I missin something.

Its nice to put a face to the talent.Your pretty good lookin.

I havent seen many cob webs,

Our museum has a Picker Military Control Unit and Tube Transformer Head for a Picker X-Ray Apparatus 15M.A. Stock No. 6-013-680 circa 1952. It's in like-new condition. Any notions of the value or prospective buyers?

once saw a staff person all but drown a resident in one of these tubs in c building just because