4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

This may sound wrong, but it might be better then living on the streets.

Love your info Lynne!!

Second or third story up... yes the floors were wooden.

It was actually a niche in a hallway outside of the x-ray room, if I remember correctly.

Motts,
What floor was the xray room on? Are the floors wooden?

Motts, what was this room?

Well, it didn't look so creepy back when it was operational...

Also, I'm sure most, if not all of the families who put their children here did not know what it was like back in the wards... perhaps all they saw was the wonderfully decorated administration building.

how could anyone leave a loved one in a place like this

this is horrible

Isn't that an examination table someone dragged into the bathroom? Don't know if this is a first or second floor shot, but if it's first, mebbe it was to hop in and out the windows. If it's second floor, can't help. I am assuming it was dragged into the room after the place was shut down because it blocks the final stall.

Shitter stalls with a desk??

Antiquated or not, most 35mm film prints still arrive on 20 min. reels. (the time it takes to burn a carbon arc rod)

I've never seen an attic so clean!!! Where's the boxes of stuff?

Two words... Social Darwinism.

Why even bother... Reminds me of another photo I saw somewhere else of Byberry, some goofy paintings someone did of some girl with dolls in her pockets (the photographer joked that he couldn't tell actually if they were dolls or kids) and of some hot dog vendor with a "Cinzano" umbrella over his cart with the letters arranged so that it looked like it said "inzano"... Was there any sincerity in any of these paintings, or a trace of mockery, both??