Allentown State Hospital: Former employees reflect on it's history

[@69NewsWFMZTV]

View a 360 degree virtual tour of Allentown State Hospital here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmKzYpWLp6yMias

[@lolarosa2295]

I am outraged that the city of Allentown didn't do all they can to save the state hospital and it's legacy. This is tragic.

[@meleepinata]

No one in the Pennsylvania legislature has seen what has been done with Buffalo State Hospital or Traverse City. It's pathetic that they are so myopic to what can be done with this facility. No one builds with these materials or level of quality anymore. It's a terrible shame.

[@Zapruderfilm1963]

Disgusting how such a historic series of buildings are destined to be destroyed. Why? Greed? So called “” progress ?”” Nauseating to witness such history circling the drain.🤢

[@graciegj63]

Make a protest to the township to make it a historical landmark.

[@margaretr5701]

@@graciegj63 People did protest but were not listened to. What a waste of a beautiful building.

[@rick3747]

I delivered medical equipment for 28 years and had numerous deliveries to the back of the hospital. A high fenced, locked seperate building. I was not allowed in to deliver or get signatures. I would love to know what or who was locked in there.

[@seanmarsh2217]

Hi Rick this is Sean MARSH how are you doing that hospital is creepy a lot of history

[@rosewater120]

My school is literally right across this building. Amazed to see the history of this facility!

[@stevengriffith436]

Micheal my brother had issues all his life, in first grade the school district or teachers union decided he was to hard to manage because of his AHAD, Epilepsy, and being partially brain damaged due to having seizures. He was forced to be enrolled in a program called 20/20 at the Allentown state hospital were he lived and went to school between 80-83 only getting to come home every other weekend. On one of these weekends he was supposed to come home we were out of town and weren't able to pick him as usual. One of their staff members decided they didn't want to work that weekend and drove him over 60 miles to our home in Dingmans Ferry and with nobody home, left him there. By the grace of God he was able to break a basement window and crawl in and fend for himself for a couple days until we got home, I don't remember how we found out but I remember my mom getting a speeding ticket in Ohio trying to get home. They also prescribed medication that ended up deadly when mix with his regular medication and if it wasn't for our dad giving him CPR in our living he would have died. I found out years later our dad had an opportunity to get involved in a lawsuit against the state hospital but declined to do so. After he did his time there our dad said he had gotten worst because someone had to hover over him to get him to do anything. A few years after his time, I got interested in Billy Joel music and every time Piano Man came on he would freak out he told me hated that song because his whole time there that's all they played in the halls in-between classes. He passed away November 5, 1990 with leukemia.

[@Superduper666]

That would have been an awesome apartment building

[@sbmacmane21]

Omg, yes I would!!!!

[@whitneysanborn7934]

This place has some awful history (I have two family members that were patients and another who worked there). I find it interesting that they barely touched on that. I mean this is an old hospital, so of course medicine wasn't as advanced as it is now, but still...

[@franfran7102]

They only put it on spot light because of the movie .my mom was gonna get admitted there when I was little but she didn't want go for some reason she said about there certains in the front of the building creeped her out.... they took her to mulenburg she has schizophrenia

[@whitneysanborn7934]

@@franfran7102 I get it - that place is CREEPY. Patients talked about shadow people being present, and even the workers had weird experiences. Has Muhlenberg been good to her?

[@graciegj63]

@@franfran7102 The world seems to want to explain away things they can't explain. Your mom definitely has someone protecting her. God gives knowledge, even on a subconscious level.

[@Superduper666]

Whitney Sanborn What patients talked about shadow people?

[@whitneysanborn7934]

@@Superduper666 I can't share that for privacy reasons

[@tamlewis9690]

Could have been a very good halloween attraction

[@chrispraz877]

Deinstitutionalization was one of the worst things that ever happened for mental Healthcare. It then became the responsibility of the prison systems and general public.

[@Matthieu260582]

feels like the beginning of the end for USA. Tearing down such buildings rather than rehabilitate them. sth so wrong.

[@imquiet6562]

My grandmother was formley a gest here. she told me of the tunnles. And her experiance. Its a shame there going to tear it down. But times change.

[@cyndiet4960]

Finally something positive in the treatment of the mentally ill.

[@akeffo]

The good ole Funny Farm! Great building but what went on there? Crickets

[@graciemaca6996]

My parents used to call the place "Rittersville". Presumably named after that area in Allentown back in the 1930's.

[@akeffo]

@@graciemaca6996 I used to live on Grandview Blvd in Bethlehem and I could access the grounds at the end of my street which was a dead end. It’s a crime that they destroyed it.

[@sucnipii6834]

“The last images inside” lmao ai I’ll be there next week. I gotchu guys with updated pics. Demo crew there or not this a gta heist

[@mrmouse7778]

Nice

[@sucnipii6834]

@@mrmouse7778 bruh I got the pics 80% of the place was gone