1,016 Comments for Eastern State Penitentiary

how a bout a big sloppy kiss on the wall

wow kinda looks romantic

that is truly awsome....

I went to Terror Behind The Walls about 5 yrs ago. It was great ! Can't wait to go back again, to see how much has changed !

That is Saint Martin de Porres. A friar of the Order of Preachers/Dominican. He is from Lima, Peru. He is patron to many causes, especially to the sick. He is a Saint of the people.

dis is a nice cell wish i had one when i went in

Jesse, I was waiting for a RHPS reference...

and the lights still work?

It looks like a large opening into a smaller space, rather than a small opening into a larger space. Fascinating.

It looks like the frame of the sky lite once had paintings surrounding it as well. Must have been quite difficult to paint those.

Wow, is there really a patron saint of prisoners?

The door does look skinny when you look at the opening and the amount of wood under the hardware. Is it only a partial door? You can see brick behind it. On the other doors you could tell it was bigger than the opening, but this one looks odd.

I suspect the paintings were done in oil paint and the walls in latex. The oils would hold up better to the temperature changes that make the latex paints peel.

Operation Theatre of the Damned

The chair stands alone. Still fighting to hold up the debris long after the war is lost.

Det høres ut som en pndaesse jobb for meg, tror jeg må godsnakke med gamlingen-som-kan-bryte litt. Så han kan si at jeg er sønnen hans, og få meg litt jobb.

Great shot-the booth had to have been a later addition since movies had not yet been invented when the place was built. Even much later, when huge movie palaces wher being built, there were times when a theater was underway and they planned for everything but a projection booth! You'd have to add it anyway you could.