Falling Ceilings

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This is actually a pic of the infamous "Button Hallway". Notice the thousands of black plastic buttons on the floor. They lead into a textiles workshop with some of the ugliest fabrics I've ever seen.

Radical Ed

Sat 01-08-2005

I'd walk gingerly on tippy-toes under that baby!

Max

Wed 06-08-2005

Does anyone see the next eBay fad - "Actual Buttons from Byberry"? There's a market out there, people!
8`-)

Lynne

Wed 06-08-2005

This hallway also leads to the BBQ Courtyard.

Radical Ed

Thu 06-09-2005

so can one actually get a button? i grew up in suburbia around philly and use to come here as a kid with my brother and hand out cigarettes to the patients. around 1985. this site is unbelievable.

brother

Wed 06-15-2005

Dude, there's thousands of little black buttons all over the rooms and hallways in this part of Byberry. Look in the pic on the floor. I'll pick up a handful next time I'm there and post after I get 'em.

Radical Ed

Wed 06-15-2005

I actually took off a year from work several years back and made my living selling crap on eBay, and buttons were one of my best sellers. I LOVE buttons. But I would like a couple from here just for my ownself. Mr. Radical Ed, sir, please send me a mailing address via Motts and I'll even send you money for postage plus a little extra for a 6-pack to help you make it through the site again. ;-)

Lynne

Thu 06-16-2005

If anyone has button I would love one!

Konstantine

Sun 09-11-2005

I have returned from the Berry with a pocket full of buttons today.
Sunday, Oct. 9th.

Radical Ed

Sun 10-09-2005

Oooh! Oooh! Oooh! Can I have a couple? I promise I won't sell 'em. :-)

Lynne

Sun 10-09-2005

Hey! [she asked suspiciously] Do buttons have orbs? >:-(

Lynne

Sun 10-09-2005

Orbs? Nope, just four little holes and some Byberry grime encrusting them!

Radical Ed

Mon 10-10-2005

Buttons are too flat to be orbs.

Twug

Mon 10-10-2005

Twug, my little love, I didn't ask if they WERE orbs, I asked if the buttons HAD orbs. There is a (supernatural) world of difference there! I just didn't want to get no haunted buttons that would be flashin' their ghostly orbs at me all the time and haunting me with tortured tales of having been sewed on haphazardly or, Heaven forfend, having been placed on a garment with mismatching buttons - horrors! =8-o Just think of how those poor little buttons would suffer for all eternity! =8-o

Lynne

Mon 10-10-2005

lynne................LMAO !!!!

anna

Mon 10-10-2005

Oh my I can see it now the naughty button orbs, always unbuttoning when least expected, leaving poor Lynne blushing

~Me

Mon 10-10-2005

Radical Ed, I would love to have one of those too!! and no I won't sell it!!

Mon 10-10-2005

Well, I'll jump on the bandwagon, too - I would love to have one of those! And no, I won't sell it either

Then I can go around and show it to my friends and say "Look! I have a -button- from Byberry!" and they will be like "Wtf?" because they don't understand my fascination with such places...oh well, their loss.

Barbara

Mon 10-10-2005

Ed I do hope that you saved me at lease one button please tell that you did.

Sure did dude!

Ed you are my freaking hero!!! Do you still have my address or do you need it again?

Grant

Wed 12-07-2005

Ed did ya send it yet?

Grant

Tue 12-20-2005

I believe as of yesterday I own some of those button! :-) Thanks Ed!
And I'm in school! I fought them to get opacity back.

Grant

Thu 01-12-2006

any buttons left?

i would love to have one! please?!

thecurvingbackbone@gmail.com

curious cat

Fri 01-20-2006

Is this building still up
if so which is it

Sneeb

Sat 01-28-2006

This is one of the "newer" buildings. We used to have bbq's in the courtyard to the right of this pic. I'm pretty sure it's N-9.

Radical Ed

Sun 01-29-2006

I'm sorry, but I'd like one as well. Sometimes, when I feel items such as clothes, buttons, or precious stones, I can tell where it's been and what it's witnessed (like a shirt belonging to a dead person. tells me how they died.)
I know, I know.

Mail me!
jimmyluver354@hotmail.com

straitjacket

Sun 02-05-2006

what eles is new in this place

Mon 02-06-2006

Hey...um...not to be greedy or anything, but could I have a few buttons; E-Mail is madmac570@yahoo.com

Shawn McDonald

Sat 03-18-2006

Ha look what I have started jealous people!

Grant

Sat 05-20-2006

The whole place is slated to come down to become an "active adult community". One man has already died wjile inspecting the place for demoltion.

poes

Tue 09-05-2006

it looks like a monster coming out of the ceiling

shannen

Wed 09-12-2007

Okay, I believe I've been looking at these pictures too long or something. In the middle of the photo I see a man, he's wearing an old cap like a bus driver or a pilot would have worn back in the 60's. It looks like he has a white shirt, dark tie, and a dark coat. His hands are folded in front of him. I probably need to take a break and give my eyes a much needed rest!!!

Amazed

Sat 02-16-2008

I saw a man too!!

and then i realized it was just the angle of my screen along with smudges on my screen. laptops, GAH!

my stomach turned upside down though, for a minute

Angela

Mon 03-10-2008

Interested in any items or stories from 1940 to 1950 ... buttons too..thanks
mybyberry@gmail.com

MYA

Mon 06-23-2008

oh noo the ceiling is meeelllttiiinng

look there's the red pyramid

oh nooooo!

Prodigium

Sun 11-02-2008

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Date Shot:	August 2004	Image ID#:	558
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