Monte Sano Hospital
originally posted by
GW
Quote:
Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
HossThere was, it seems, severe overcrowding in northeast L.A. schools at the time. So maybe the city should have turned Monte Sano into a school?
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I think that would have been a great idea
GW (if it was structurally sound),
...but short sighted bureaucrats seldom think in these terms. Look what they did with the Ambassador Hotel.
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below: Monte Sano Hospital even had it's own railway stop.
Here it is pictured in 1955. Note the tiny Monte Sano sign on the utility pole.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphot...=276734&nseq=0
It was the last trolley stop before crossing Riverside Drive and the Los Angeles River. The station closed in 1955, the Riverside Viaduct
at Monte Sano was dismantled in 1959 (the same year the nearby Fletcher Viaduct was dismantled).
In the
above 1955 photograph notice the balustrade at far left.
The balustrade (and stairs) were left to deteriorate for over 30 years!
1987
Paul Ayers 1987.
http://redcarproperty.blogspot.com/s...l/Monte%20Sano
1987
Paul Ayers 1987.
http://redcarproperty.blogspot.com/s...l/Monte%20Sano
The stairs pictured, descended down to Riverside Drive from the trolley stop. It appears the railway was located midway between Riverside Drive
and Monte Sano Hospital. I wonder if there were additional stairs leading up to the hospital?
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