4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

Actually the orange material reminds me of the bedspreads from the 70s. Chenille? I think that's what they were!

LOL @KahunaTony! I thought the same thing..wow..that's major security with that board across the door...

I actually LOVE those chairs! Any idea what era they would be from? 40s or 50s maybe?

LucieLou you are right..I had paper dolls like these when I was a little kid.

This is such a gorgeous shot!

Camping!!!

So, it's just a cruel joke that the door says exit, and the stairs lead nowhere?

You rarely get a good footprint of a zombie, but here we can plainly see they wear boots. Next we are sending Bob in to flush out the zombies. . .

Looks like a werewolf tried to beat through the middle and top panels of the door.

LOL autoguy

Would latex paint really last longer? I thought lead based paint was superior except for that whole poisoning the kids thing.

I really enjoyed your photos thank you so much for sharing your journey. Your work is truly amazing!

Preach on Barbara. And with all the time some of these folks spend complaining about how there was no privacy, may be they could spend 10 seconds and look a little closer and see the marks on the wall between each toilet (one high, one low) where partitions were mounted. It always surprises me how quickly people are to jump on the cry baby train. I'm sure it was horrible to have to live here, but let's not exaggerate for our own morbid pleasure people.

Thank you, Ilaynay. I guess people see what they want to see/what they are looking for.

Neat - those laundry cart tracks are great. I've only come across them in really large, sprawling hospital buildings. http://opacity.us/imag...mouth_of_madness.htm

You can see this in the hospital where I work, too: in the basement are the remnants of "train tracks" that trundle off in to no where where the tunnels to the older (and no no more) parts of the hospital used to exist...