Bathroom

i bet the the hobos go on one of the first 3

Looks like someone was here before w. some cherry bombs! ^_^

what strikes me odd here is that no toilet is the same. Things being just a little off, out of wack, oddly placed and off kilter seems to be a signature theme in Pennhurst. Does anyone else notice this?

different seats for sure....looks like one might have been for wheelchair patients....

like i would want to pee while 4 other people are too

it's depressing that there wasn't even an attempt to give these people a modicum of privacy. Some of the older children and teenagers must surely have been sufficiently self-aware to feel shame and embarassment at being on display to staff and fellow patients 24/7. I wonder how many youngsters grew up here when today they wouldn't have to.

Different times, different standards of privacy. Haven't you seen four hole outhouses where the whole family could "share the moment"?

It looks like you can see marks on the wall where there used to be dividers. They must have been removed some time ago.

Yes, there are also marks on the floor where the divider supports were fastened, they would have had doors also, like any public restroom

I would just like to say from being up there exploring personally, and from researching this place and the things that went on you actually should see the toilets that have seatbelts on them now you are telling me that there was a reason for someone to be seatbelted to a toilet seat and they were open just like these. It would not surprise me if there were no dividers that is just a small part of how these people lived!!!!!!!!!!!

I've often thought about installing seatbelts on my own toilet at home, just in case... Then again, I've got handcuffs attached to my bed, so maybe I'm not the best role model!

Knock it off, Motts. If you give people the REAL reason it was done it won't be near as much fun and they can't slobber and wet themselves whining about all the cruelty, torture, and death in those gosh darned heck-holes. ;-)

Yep it was mean of them to have seatbelts, so that the patient wouldn't have the chance to fall over and maybe give themselves a concussion. And the seatbelt probably enabled the staff member to not have to stand over them every moment so the patient could have some privacy. Wow, they are so mean!! I also imagine that these places often had some type of curtain separating the toilets for added privacy...the torture don't end, do it? ; )

Did you know that toilets were invented by a Dr. Crapper?? Seriously!!

they have taken down the dividers you can see the screw holes in the fin wall

if you peek in some of the toilets you can see some crap in them...so dont tell me no bums never spent the night there

You can see that there were stalls there at one time. Look at the holes in the wall where they were connected.

yes there were walls that divided them but no doors used to work there

this is the best bathroom i've seen in this place. in most of the other ones, i've seen toilets and urinals that have either fallen off he wall, been blown up, or are totally gone... and i've seen pics of this state-sponsored hell in it's hayday, and there were doors, and a stretcher over a toilet for specialized patients.

"and she said daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn!"

(From the Toilet musem website) http://www.toiletmuseum.com/faq.html

Who invented the toilet? Was it really a guy named Thomas Crapper?

If I had a nickel for every time I've been asked that, I'd have, oh, about seventy-five cents actually. The fact is, nobody knows exactly who invented the toilet, but the general consensus is that it was not Thomas Crapper. While toilets date back to ancient times, the modern toilet can be more accurately traced back to Sir John Harrington, who described a waste disposal system in the Metamorphosis of Ajax in the 16th century. Some accounts of Thomas Crapper's life indicate that he patented the flush toilet in 1861, but Adam Hart-Davis, author of Thunder, Flush and Thomas Crapper, discovered that, while Thomas Crapper filed for a total of six patents, the earliest being filed in 1881, not one of them was for a flush toilet. It's quite possible that we can thank Sir Thomas Crapper for giving us the word,

yeah I'd be holding it for sure and end up getting uromiceaticeses.

there are some bums that stay there but there is also kids who go and party there often and they deff use the toilets. its very gross and disturbing that people have to be so inconsiderate.

does anyone have to go to the loo?

Seems like all the toilet tissue should be here!