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Auditorium Group Shot

p0lyamor0us

may I add.. I was in a TB hospital abandoned since 1976 that had damn near no vandalism.

Location: Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)  Gallery: A Grand Tour

Auditorium Group Shot

p0lyamor0us

the funny thing.. one of my friends and I were talking about how shitty the grafetti in Byberry is.
You would think after all these years of practicing they would atleast develop SOME talent.

Location: Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)  Gallery: A Grand Tour

Auditorium Group Shot

p0lyamor0us

Byberry hasn't been closed down "for decades". Bob Casey initiated its' closing in 1987 and it officially shut its' doors in 1990.
All the people I know that have been going there for atleast a decade tell me that vandalism started picking up sometime after 2001.
Nevertheless, thank god Motts changes the names of the locations on this site so these tools don't do to 150 year old kirkbrides what they've done to Byberry.

Location: Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)  Gallery: A Grand Tour

Shelves

p0lyamor0us

I got a half of a book on infectious diseases published in the 1940s from N-10

Location: Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)  Gallery: Depression

Large Auditorium

p0lyamor0us

you know the abandoned warehouse on jacksonville road in our hometown? thats where they got those posters... they being the people from no-trespassing.net
-natalie's cousin

Location: Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)  Gallery: A Grand Tour

X-Ray Machine

p0lyamor0us

I'm sorry, I referred to "Liz" as a "she".... this "Liz" is most certainly an IT

Location: Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)  Gallery: A Grand Tour

X-Ray Machine

p0lyamor0us

I heard there is this one nasty mofo that roams there going by the name of "Liz".... don't let that name fool you, the gender is indistinguishable! This "Liz" is so heartless she cut open a deer last winter and crawled inside the body to stay warm in the basement of N10...

Location: Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)  Gallery: A Grand Tour

Hallway

p0lyamor0us

removing asbestos before the place close down required money

Location: Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)  Gallery: Sunlight

Rusted

p0lyamor0us

I saw two of those property tags on the same projector (the one closer to the stairs in Fury Ellis)

Location: Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)  Gallery: Sunlight

Spinal Spiral

p0lyamor0us

my favorite staircase in the whole complex

Location: Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)  Gallery: A Grand Tour

Dementia

p0lyamor0us

that sounds kinky.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Wonderland

Tree in a Cage

p0lyamor0us

despite all my rage I'm still just a tree in a cage

Location: Fuller State School and Hospital  Gallery: Disturbed

Seclusion Room

p0lyamor0us

Java... I've never had a problem with leaking water
Yaggy... considering that happens even in public bathrooms... I honestly don't know how females get urine on the damn toliet seat- let alone how they get shit all over the bathroom!

Location: Fuller State School and Hospital  Gallery: Disturbed

Shining Sterility

p0lyamor0us

Similar to Byberry right down to the yellow glazed cinderblocks seen in the majority of the buildings there...

Location: Fuller State School and Hospital  Gallery: Disturbed

Columns

p0lyamor0us

ha! I was kinda mocking a friend of mine (in a non-malicious manner!) who found a WWII newspaper at a cornerstone... shortly after GD found his goodies in his cornerstone (and I was told he found quality goodies!)

Location: Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)  Gallery: Sunlight

Curtains

p0lyamor0us

yup.. especially in N10 and the C buildings

Location: Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)  Gallery: Sunlight

Columns

p0lyamor0us

atleast it wasn't some crummy newspaper from World War II!

Location: Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)  Gallery: Sunlight

Mixers

p0lyamor0us

If it wasn't regulated patients would become morbidly obsese...

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Deep Breaths

Piano

p0lyamor0us

one note short of an octave.
weird.
unless if its just the angle

Location: Malone Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Infiltration

Impression Trays

p0lyamor0us

Mouthpieces were inserted into the mouths of patients undergoing various forms of shock therapy to prevent the patient from damaging their tongues prior to the introduction of muscle relaxants.
At the birth of insulin coma shock therapy (and shock therapy in general, at that) it was believed that epilepsy and schizophrenia were mutually exclusive, thus justifying psychiatrists to induce seizures to alieviate symptoms of schizophrenia.

Location: Letchworth Village  Gallery: Into Darkness

Slats

p0lyamor0us

Read the study "Sane in Insane Places" by David L. Rosenhan on diagnostic labeling and patient bias.
Visual halluncinations are the most common after auditory hallunctinations in severe schizophreniacs. Visual halluncinations can also be a result of psychosis and psychosis can be linked to anything from PTSD to depression.

Location: Adonia State Hospital  Gallery: Spring