Strange Room

kinda looks like a bathroom where the sinks would be cause of the holes in the wall

Maybe a laundry room.

Maybe a bathroom?.....

it indeed looks like a bathroom, with the outlines of what appear to urinal stalls.

she thinks it is a cage

I think it looks like a laundry room.

i thinks a bathroon....ewww

Actually, I don't think I really want to know what kind of room this was; especially after knowing some of the history of Pennhurst.

Yes, this was a bathroom. I did a student internship there, sad but horrible place.

i belive its a small auditorium first row of chairs where the marks are and the second on top.

ive read about these. when people misbehaved, they wo8uuld climb over that and sit on there knees, and a flap would come over there head and grip there neck. they would then sit there for hours.

Yes, definitely. 8`-)

Any talk of the state coming in to clean this joint up?

bathroom for sure

were is this picture at, like wat building

a contractor bought pennhurst so no more army on ur ass

i work in a much nicer but similiar place. this is proberbly a hydro tub for therapy

(Well restrained, Lynne ;)

This one really stumped me; I like a mystery. So I asked someone I know who was in the care sector and is now a qualified buildings surveyor. He reckons that they're individual toilet stalls. Small hole at the top for the inlet, bigger hole below for the outlet. The presence of a second hole in each of the stalls suggests that the toilets were changed at some time. The far right stall is patched up, hinting that it was removed (possibly because of breakage).

The galvanised space at the back would've protected the pipes from the damage (and from causing damage, too), and it would also have had a hinged lid that would allow access for maintenance.

Well, it sounded convincing to me...!

Shortly after turning 18, I had the misfortune of being taken to jail in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. This was in 1984. At that time, the jail in Ft. Lauderdale was very old and I remember it was condemned shortly after my stay. To say the least, it was a very unpleasant experience and one thing that haunts mt memory of the place is being put in a part of the jail that seemed as if it hadn't been used in a long time. It was a huge cell, very cold, dimly light and dank. There were toilets (toilets is the word for them but that's not what they were, not in the sence as what you have in your bathroom) against the wall. They were actually holes cut into a long wood box that ran the leagnth of the wall. They were open air, with no seats and no lever to flush. This is very similr to what i saw a very long time ago and it's very chilling.

At first I thought it was a laundry room but after reading all of the discussion I can see how it could be stalls & toilets.....interesting picture though.....

window is open better shut it up

they look a bit like fever cabinets

i worked all over pennhurst from 1971 to 1986 i saw what the gov. saw in 1969.

If you look to the far right it seems as if there is a devilish face in the hole......

too sad right now to remember the torture my brother went through in this place. I do think people have a choice now to visit., too bad he never had a voice.

Yes mary hight, people do visit. It's a haunted house attraction.

it is so sad what people went through i did not want to even watch the videos on youtube but i did and if i went there i would go there with open arms for the children but i would despise the people that tortured them there.i watched the videos on youtube and i started to cry. it sound and even looks like a terrible place to be put into an insane asylum i feel bad just talking about it.

i also fell bad about mary hights brother

What building is this in? All the laundry was done in the laundry building, so if this isn't that building, then I don't know what this is.

Whats a fever cabinet??? I think that it must have been a bathroom because of the large holefor the actual tolet and thesmall hole for the pluming...

maybe its a place where they were punchied? but the bars are sot ehy cant espace by teh windows. i very much want to go there just to see what its like to be in it. i've seen the place on GHost Advencherse and Ghost HUnters. buts it not really the same till you go yourself i think.

...punchied?

i think it was for hydrotherapy baths...we had something similar when i worked at a center for the mental ill in the 80's....it was a nice place for the handicapped and for the employees...sure there are mean people in every profession but basically the people i knew were good and caring people and most loved their clients

Okay was reading this book... http://www.disabilitym...681&&page;=3 Lost in a dessert world. it was written by one of the patients. I think this was the sweat box..... maybe i don't know i'll read farther and find out...