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Hallway

A deteriorated hallway in the C group's infirmary.
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Probably one of my favorites thus far.
This is sick!
I hope you don't mind Motts but I printed this picture out for a project tha i'm doing. You see I am going to attempt to draw this hallway but it'll probably just end up looking like a tradgedy.
No problem, good luck!
Motts, you rock! I've been trying to take that shot for a year and some change now, and havent been able to capture it so illuminated. I even opened those windows at the ends of the hall.
absolutely stunning
This picture just absolutely floors me...
unsettlingly eerie
Unbelieveable!!!
Incredible!!! Did/Could you walk down that one?
Yeah, the floors are cement so it's pretty sturdy.
As usual, I am beyond words
Like a black metal CD cover...
only much, much better because it's a real pic from Byberry!
I admire your photography skills!
I can imagine these places being used in top British dark comedy The League of Gentlemen, it just seems so fitting for their style!
Straight out of the 'Poseidon Adventrue'. All it needs is a moaning Shelley Winters.
perhaps... the most deceyed hall way u have ventured through? or at least the most hellish?
why is this hallway in THAT bad a shape? was there a fire in there?
The walls were all plaster and old-school drywall, and the drop ceiling was cheap crap. It all has all turned to mush to expose the building's skeleton.
Radical Ed and all y'all UEs - does every building there have asbestos? Did they ever do any projects to rip it out before the place closed down? How about the floor and flooring tiles, etc.?
There's lead in the paint but the only asbestos I'm aware of is wrapped around the plumbing for insulation.
amazing shot...
Hallway to the netherworld.
removing asbestos before the place close down required money
Hallway to Hell.
Lead paint AND asbestos! YAY
now that is horrifing hallway to hell you took the words right out of my mouth.
Motts, Why are you so awesome.
OOOOOOOKKKK THIS LOOKS LIKE A TORN UP RAG
I love this shot
In black and white, this photo looks like the result of a raging inferno.
Looks like NYC subway tunnel if you stand in the front of train and look out the "railfan" window.
Looks like somthing you'd see in a Hellraiser movie! Fantastic shot Motts!!
i could sit against the wall (if able) and find a good book to read...
LOOKS LIKE WAR
War is a great way to describe it. It actually looks like post World War II.
OMG DO U HAVE ANY IDEA HOW FUN IT WOULD BE TO SHOOT A HORROR FILM IN THIS PLACE!!!
Yes, Byberry is a PERFECT backdrop for a horror film. Either that, or a slasher film.
Motts - I think I am in love with you :)
hee hee.
Love the Photo though - great compisition
DONT WALK INTO THE LIGHT!!! they have however made a game called the suffering during the time when the people were still alive and you could go through every building its pretty neat for a 3d virtual game.
Egads!
This pic is amazing.
I can feel the ash going through my fingers and choking my lungs!
hmmm... all this needs is a silhouette of big man standing at the end of the hallway.

Motts... you could easily sell a pictorial of Byberry for publication. National Geographic and Life photographers have nothing on you.
this hallways looks as if its been thru hell and back
This hallway looks like the dark dimension in the Silent Hill movie.
And that makes the hallway look even more fantastic.
It's almost a shame they never filmed a movie there.
They did though...
It's a real shame no one filmed a movie inside the hospital.
Read what I posted.
They DID.
The movie is called "The 4th Dimension."
Here's the website for the film.
http://www.4thdmovie.com/
Hey, this is a long shot, but Radical Ed, the City Paper is trying to do a follow up on the byeberry artilce for our end of year issue, and I'm trying to interview you for it. Contact the managing editor of the CP, and he can put me in touch with you. Or you can just reach me at jaredmgo -at- gmail -dot- com . All apologies is this is off topic.
Had to come back to byberry one last time!
If anyone would like to see pictures of Byberry in the 1930's and 1940's,you can go to the Philadelphia Historical Digital Image Library.Type in Byberry in the search box.You can click on each picture and get a full screen image.There are some pictures of the patients/residents,and staff inside the hospital.
The "HALLWAY to HELL"

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Germany.
that is sooo cool looking lol creepy as hell but cool.
The lines and rubble work well together.Like organised chaos.
wow.
i would not want to walk through that hallway.
(:
that is some cool shit
i would like to walk thrught that hallway
Organized Chaos is a wonderful way to describe this picture!
talk about fu#&ed up
where was that hall?
ok SCARY!!!!
Incredible!
I work in a state run Psychiatric Center in another state not to far from PA & sadly what most of the people entering these buildings (mainly kids to hang out & drink) don't realize is that they are ALL aspestos insulated & all that dust , debris & paint chips have aspestos fibers in it...Leaving them open to aspetosis & mesophilioma...all of our closed buildings at my facility are marked with this info were these buildings?
Holy crap. That is some serious destruction.
First I love how you captured this.
There were alot of boxes full of poly-styrene clam shells for food. Boxes and boxes full all up and down the walls in the hall. We were destroying a bunch of paint cans the idiots were using to tag everwhere and we as stupid kids decided to blow up the cans with a small fire and a BB gun. Well it became an inferno rapidly. The people involved all felt horrible, we saw byberry as our home, and from then on never damaged a thing..
Also the entire hallway and all areas surrounding were all concrete structures, no plaster or Drywall. BTW Drywall was not around in 1900-1910 when this place was built
Hard to believe this place was once sterile

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