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Gymnasium

Gymnasium

A good-sized gym with a good-sized hole in the ceiling.
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ive never seen the gym in byberry, wheres it at????
Miller
Wed 01-05-2005
I'm not sure, the place is so big, I kinda lost track of where I was.
Motts
Thu 01-06-2005
It's located on the second (ground) floor of the maintenance building in the center of the mansions. See Goddog's excellent maps on his site at - http://theduke81.tripod.com/
Building "N" on the second map.
Radical Ed
Mon 01-10-2005
This is actually not a gymnasium at all. It was originally built as a kitchen/cafeteria building. This was the women's cafeteria. There's an old shot of it from the 30's on the jeffline archives. It was later used as an occupational therapy suite.
GD
Mon 05-02-2005
theres a person at the top of this picture right by the light!!!
jill
Thu 06-30-2005
Unfortuntely Jill, I don't think so...
I was there when this pic was taken and climbing on the roof here is an excercise in silliness, especially on a 94 degree day.
Radical Ed
Thu 06-30-2005
Well, *I* see a severed forearm next to a can of natural light on the right-hand side of the page. Are you going to tell me that I am mistaken?!

Seriously, I don't ever see anything in these pictures (except for cool buildings), but then again, I'm not a ghost hunter.
Nauseous
Fri 07-01-2005
I'VE NEVER BEEN IN HERE BUT IT LOOKS SOOOOOOO SCARY I PROBLEY WIL;L NEVER GO IN !!!!!!!!
DANIELLE
Thu 07-07-2005
Any one want to play me in a game of some thing?
Doug funny
Fri 07-15-2005
I am always game for something
~Me
Fri 07-15-2005
there was no gym
dolt
Sun 11-27-2005
If you read the posts above yours, you'd notice this was already stated by Goddog.
The gym did exist however, but was located in the building next to Self Help on Southampton Road.
The building still has the gym equipment stored there.
Radical Ed
Sun 11-27-2005
wow i would of never guessed they had one
Meghan
Sat 02-04-2006
Dark and lonely place.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Germany.
Joseph
Tue 03-13-2007
There was a gym on the East side of facility. It was a one story building with glass on both long sides and a small office at one end. I worked at Byberry from 11-71 to 2-89.
JTMcD
Mon 02-11-2008
its a convertable! lol
colin
Thu 02-17-2011
There was also a large recreation building south of the campus, but it was torn down back in the 70s. There was also a building for working patients, as well as a group of cottages for children. It's almost impossible to find pictures of these buildings, but Goddog has some great ones on his site: The Story of Byberry.
Andrew
Wed 02-15-2012

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