4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

I remember them, they had them in the mid / late 1980's... The upper southern school I was at had no funds for special -ed so they used "hand me downs" from other schools. The players for these cards were heavy and teal / black or light brown / dark brown color.

I know the feeling all to well, when watching the sun pass across the floor gets too boring and looking out the windows is just too sad we would walk around "speed walking". (I was never here but another place years ago).

Sad photo from a history point of view. The horrid past and derogation time has done. Great photo's but kinda sad..

and long...

i like the pics they are great

now that there is a lonly looking chair

It looked like a nice porcelain one too...
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/p_22050.html

I remember the guy was also trying to sell the morgue freezers too.

The lone chair is so session 9

I know at Dixmont (just outside Pittsburgh,PA..soon to be a Wal Mart) the man that owns it sold the autopsy table to a buddy who turned it in to a counter to for his bar How sick is that??

Wow check out the bent railings on the right. I wonder what the hell could have caused that ???

Yet another great pic, it looks so cold, hard.

If anyone cares to, check out El Peechos Pennhurst site. It contains a plethora of documented information and has an extremely graphic and depressing documentary called "Suffer The Children"

http://www.elpeecho.com/pennhurst/pennhurst.htm

when i was there last april, the flourescent light seen on the ceiling was flickering on and off creating a humming sound and the fading evening light made this hallway incredibly creepy.

Maybe because the equipment was antiquated and not worth saving, like this wheelchair... or they could've just packed up and left in a hurry... who knows.

These little numbers were curiously stenciled on the walls, I'm not sure why.