2,712 Comments for Fuller State School and Hospital

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Maybe the fence wasn't for children or people. Maybe it was for dogs!!
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Totally out of place. I can't picture a bowling alley in a place like this!!
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The Rails refuse to decay along with everything else. Weird!!
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Just sad how things were back then.
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The Door seems to be tauting.
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What's up with the more modern looking tube that has the purple lid? It looks like the kind they use when I get my blood drawn, never seen the others.
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It kinda looks like stairs leading into a coffin.
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I think Lynn should write a book about this subject, past and present included. It would educate a lot of people!
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Your photographs are awesome---but I'm almost physically ill looking at the images and knowing the history of this place.
Thank you for not trying to "pretty up" the pictures and let them speak for all the children that were in this hellhole!!
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im a fan of how the piano keys look as if some one is playing it
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hmmm, i actually like this little dress and i would want to take it home with me.
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"know thyself" seems a disturbing phrase to have there - I could think of many others which would've been more appropriate. Hmmm....strange...
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Actually the top door was removed; it looked just like the others but it was used as an access point to service the refrigeration units up top.

As far as a viewing area, I would guess you are speaking of autopsy theaters... they were far and few between in psychiatric hospitals, I have only seen one in Byberry State, and another in a non-psychiatric facility. They were used so medical students and colleagues could safely observe autopsies being performed in a large group, as opposed to being in a cramped morgue like this one.
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Motts, I need your expertise:
Was there a "viewing" area to the morgue? I see three freezer doors (from the ground up) and a glass door at the top. What does this glass door seem to be for? Is it just another door that for some reason has glass?
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seriously...I didn't know what this was as I've never taken notice of the dentists tools-I've never had a problem -high threshhold for pain. (No, I'm not a masochist. Unfortunately or fortunately?, it was my dentist who told me so -now he would be the saddist!)
OK, jokes welcome.