Abandoned St. Vincent’s Hospital in Los Angeles, CA
Explored the Abandoned St. Vincent’s Hospital in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Always freak myself out visiting these places! The previous owner, Verity Health System, filed for bankruptcy in 2018, and ultimately announced it would shutter the hospital on January 6, 2019. Now it sits empty being rented to the studios.
A little history of St. Vincent’s Hospital…
The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul established the first hospital in Los Angeles - the Los Angeles Infirmary, in 1856. It was located in the Sonora Town adobe owned by then-Mayor of Los Angeles, Don Cristo´bal Aguilar. Four years later, in 1860, the hospital relocated to 1416 Naud Street, between Ann (named for Sister Ann) and Sotillo Street (though other data indicates the location was 1414 Naud Street, between N. Main and San Fernando Road). In 1869, Daughters incorporated the Los Angeles Infirmary under their own ownership, the first women in the region to do so. In 1883 they purchased six and a half acres of land at Beaudry Park at a cost of $10,000, and a new hospital building was erected a year later at Beaudry and Sunset, on a hillside overlooking Sonora Town. By 1898, Los Angeles Infirmary had come to be known as Sisters Hospital, but both names were used interchangeably in reference to the same hospital; in 1918, the name was officially changed to St. Vincent's Hospital. In 1924 a new building was erected on 3rd and Alvarado, which was built by John C. Austin and Frederick M. Ashley. For 47 years, the hospital had such a steady growth that they were forced to expand yet again, and groundbreaking for a newer, larger building took place in 1971 - this time, located at 2131 W. 3rd Street. With a new hospital came a new name, and in 1974, it changed again, this time becoming St. Vincent Medical Center. Through the years the hospital has had many firsts: in 1957 the first successful open-heart surgery was performed; in 1960, it was the first to use a surgical microscope to operate on the inner ear; in 1962, the first to offer hemodialysis to kidney failure patients; in 1966, the first artificial heart transplant and human heart transplantation were performed; in 1988, first heart transplant took place at S. Vincent Medical Center; in 1993, pancreatic cell transplant to overcome diabetes was performed; and in 1995, the Liver Transplant Program was founded. Although St. Vincent's is the oldest medical institution in Los Angeles, it has evolved with the years to serve the people of this fine city. In 2006, St. Vincent Medical Center celebrated 150 years of service.
Architects John C. Austin and Frederic M. Ashley designed this 1924 Italianate style St. Vincent's Hospital building, located at 2131 West Third Street, which is no longer standing.
Visiting...With Huell Howser #1714 - GROCERY STORE STORIES
Huell meets two nice ladies at his local grocery store and sees where the story takes him. Hint, think pawn shop and neon!
Historic Culver City
A tour of various long-standing traditions and historic sites of Culver City, with profiles of FIESTA LA BALLONA, The HELMS BAKERY employee picnic, the JULY 4TH festival and more. This is a great overview of Culver City in 1995, presented by Hal Horne, then the president of the CC Historical Society.
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Visiting...With Huell Howser #1705 - COUNTY USC MEDICAL CENTER
Join Huell as he gets a tour of Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center which has been a familiar landmark for over a 100 years. The big white building has been used in many TV shows and films and has serviced countless patents over the years. In 2008 the old hospital finally closed its doors and all the remaining patients were moved to the new state of the facility across the street.
Visiting...With Huell Howser #227 - TALLEST BUILDING
Huell visits the First Interstate building which is the tallest building west of the Mississippi (73 floors) and goes off the top with the window washers.
Visiting...With Huell Howser #1718 - TALLYRAND
Huell visits a California institution and digs into some very tasty food at the Tallyrand. This popular eatery got its start in 1959 when Al and Delores Thomas, with $5,000 in hand, opened a small coffee shop on Olive Avenue in Burbank. Stop in today as they are still serving wonderful food and hospitality!
Visiting...With Huell Howser #705 - SALTON SEA
Huell travels to one of the most bizarre and wonderful beaches in California as he spends the day at Bombay Beach. Located on the Salton Sea, he tours the town and talks with the locals about the community and the inland sea that was created in 1905 by a flooding of the Colorado River.
LAC+USC Medical Center Women’s and Children’s Hospital demolition project with wrecking ball. 2021
LAC+USC Medical Center Women’s and Children’s Hospital demolition project with wrecking ball. Los Angeles, CA. March 26, 2021. Video and photos by Alex Carrillo (Instagram: AlexC43)
LAC+USC Medical Center Women’s and Children’s Hospital demolition project. 2021
LAC+USC Medical Center Women’s and Children’s Hospital demolition project. Los Angeles, CA. 2021.
Video and photos by Alex Carrillo (Instagram: AlexC43)
Huell Howser at the Broguieres Dairy in Montebello
A great figure in our time, Mr. Huell Howser.
Visiting...With Huell Howser #622 - HOT DOG ON A STICK
Huell goes to Santa Monica Beach to the site of the very first Hot Dog on a Stick stand. It all started in 1946 when Dave Barham opened his first stand by Muscle Beach. The company has become a California tradition with Dave's daughter at the helm. We get a behind the scenes look at Hot Dog on a Stick.
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Pacific Railroad Society special (April 3, 2011) just after passing Soto street, the train passes Lincoln Park on the right and then County USC medical center on the left.
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Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center, also known as County/USC, or by the abbreviation LAC+USC, is a 600-bed public teaching hospital located at 2051 Marengo Street in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Wikipedia
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Trauma level: Level-One trauma center lacounty.gov
Founded: 1878
Parent organization: Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
Affiliated university: University of Southern California
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Kamala Harris at LAC USC Hospital
US Senator from California Kamala Harris speaks regarding the Affordable Care Act at the LAC/USC Hospital in East Los Angeles.
1/15/17
EXPLORING AN ABANDONED HOSPITAL! St. Luke's Hospital Part II
After the first visit, we explored more of the building, but thanks to vandals, the owners deadbolted the east wing from access. The hospital was in even worse shape with fire damage, flooding, leakage, scrappers, etc.
I made this video with a 1999 promotional video Tenet Healthcare had made to advertise the hospital I’d found online to show the contrasts between the running state and the state the hospital is in the video.
The hospital opened in 1926 as a health facility for the northern Pasadena community at 2632 E Washington Ave. It began to decline in profit by the early 1990's, and it was sold to Tenet Healthcare in 1997. Tenet poorly managed the building and assets, leading to a decline in patient care and profit. By 2001 Tenet planned to close the hospital despite city officials rejecting the idea because the second nearest urgent care facility was 6 miles away at Huntington Hospital. By January 5th 2002, the owners began phasing out the different services: radiology, cardiology, birth Ward, and finally urgent care. It abrubtly closed on April 5th 2002 at 9:00 PM. In April 2003, Tenet finally sold the property to the City of Pasadena after failing to secure a lender to renovate or demolish the hospital, no buyer opted to purchase the outdated facility and the property went up for auction numerous times until 2008 when the property was sold to an Equity Firm who promptly sold the untouched property to Caltech in 2010. Much of the interior furnishings remained until 2010 when Caltech purchased the property and auctioned off most the furnishings. Caltech later had no plans for development in the Hospital and sold the property in 2012 to the City of Pasadena. Unable to decide what to reuse the property for, the hospital sits deserted to this day. Vandals began breaking in, trashing the hallways, spraying graffiti on the walls, and traces of drugs and bullet holes can be found. The roof also leaked due to scrappers removing piping leading the rainwater and still-running water to leak into the ceilings and floors creating warped linoleum and walls to bend or crack altogether. During this visit on January 29th, 2017 we noticed that there was much more damage to the structure itself and to the equipment, and the eastern wing was bolted shut due to vandals and scrappers. On February 6, 2017, vandals set fire to the lower levels forcing the LACFD to condemn the building.
**UPDATE 11/14/18**
The building has since been further gutted and further boarded up by the city to keep the vandals and drug dealers out, numerous property crimes involving scrappers, vandals and thieves subsequently spurred the City Of Pasadena to enforce security around the hospital more thoroughly, it is believed that all utilities have been shut off and the remaining medical equipment and furnishings have been removed. The Graffiti is extensive and much more visible all over the hospital once vandals began to find more entrances, fire damage is also very evident in more spots than we’d seen the first time.
Fun facts!
- Alex received 3 stitches at St Luke's in August of 2001 after a head Injury
- The hospital is still usable as a filming location and has been used in major films, music videos, and shows like Emergency!, To live and die in LA, Terminator 2, One Finger & a Fist By Drowning Pool, and San Andreas, and most recently Straight Outta Compton.
FYI: mason says schick at 7:20 because he noticed a disused razor and thought it'd be funny to mess with the censor.
Language edited for family viewing
Music: Bad Omen, Good Mourning/Black Friday, Looking Down the Cross All by Megadeth.
Paranormal Videos: Lincoln Heights Jail - Los Angeles, CA
Lincoln Heights Jail: Paranormal History
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Getting Outdoors in South Los Angeles
Home to nearly one million, the region is one of the densest, but also the most park poor.
Rancho Los Amigos Preservation/ Demolition Status Report (July 2022)
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Once upon a time in South Los Angeles County, a progressive community was formed, using the vast resources of local government, to provide care and safety for the most vulnerable among us.
On fertile soil rich from centuries of floods rose a sprawling campus of dormitories, medical facilities, entertainment halls, craft workshops, cafeteria, laundry, dairy, farm, flower fields, morgue and cemetery. Here lived the elderly infirm, the mentally unstable, women suffering from post-partum depression, grizzled 49-ers with nobody left to see that they ate supper, those who were out of work and without a home. It was known as the County Poor Farm, then later under the enlightened management of William R. Harriman as Rancho Los Amigos, ranch of the friends.
Over the decades, this vast campus served the people, until it was determined by County leaders that the old ways of communal care were no longer best. The property has been carved up, the northern section modernized as a world class rehabilitation center, the southern part allowed to fall into a sad state of neglect, suffering vandalism, theft of copper wire and roof flashing, tagging and fires, so many fires.
As housing insecurity exploded in Los Angeles, Rancho Los Amigos sat derelict and unused, dust blowing across the huge expanse that once housed a tent village for homeless Angelenos. And then the County Supervisors, irked by the fires set by arsonists undeterred by weak chain link fence, decided to demolish the attractive nuisance. This demolition is ongoing.
We love Rancho Los Amigos, both the historic campus and the inspiring story of the enlightened social services provided on the land. And we’ve made it one of our historic preservation causes to share the forgotten stories of the place—working closely with our friend Colleen Adair Fliedner, author of Rancho’s official centennial history book, advocating that the lightning struck 1888 Bunya Bunya tree not be chopped down, telling the stories of the land in an on-demand webinar, and engaging in a series of meetings with the County, asking that the massive demolition plan spare the central Morgan and Walls-designed quad, so that the community can enjoy an intact 19th century landscape and learn about the good work done here.
It’s hard to bear witness to all the fine buildings that have been burned down or torn down in just the past few months, but we feel that we are making progress. The injured Bunya Bunya tree has not been chopped down, but instead fenced and watered in hopes that it might recover from its electrical wounds. We’re in ongoing discussions about removing William R. Harriman’s fire-damaged Craftsman home from the demolition list, with the aim of forming a foundation to restore it as an interpretive museum and community center. And with each visit, we discover more that is wonderful and worth preserving, even as big pieces of old Rancho Los Amigos are lost forever to the demolition crews.
This video is a report from the central quad as it stands today, a holy place of healing and hope. One day we would like to invite you to meet us here, to hear about the history and personalities that called it home. Until then, please join us in holding Rancho Los Amigos in your heart, so that the heart of the campus might be preserved for all of us to learn from and enjoy.
Abandoned Haunted General Hospital
Built in the Early 1900s as General Hospital...It had 63 beds and Provided many services such as Nuclear Medicine , Anatomical Laboratory , Clinical Laboratory , Dietary , ICU Medical and Surgical , Operating Room , Pediatric , Physical Therapy , Respiratory care , Alcohol and or Drug , Anesthesia , Blood Bank , Diagnostic Radiology , Emergency ,Inpatient Surgical , Outpatient , Pharmacy , Postoperative Recovery Room Services and Social Services. After Closing as a Hospital it became 2 different Mental Health Agencies that Specialized in Child Mental Health Care and finally Closing its doors in 2012...
It has Only been Abandoned for 6 years but was suppose to become a senior living center in 2018 but has not happened yet
As i explored i got to the basement of the hospital were 2 Led lights 1 at a time turned off and wouldn't come back on...Usually Spirits draw Energy from items such as lights and or video recorders etc. You be the Judge