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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
I didn't know the Independent Order of Foresters had a Tubercular Sanatorium in Lopez Canyon. (about 25 miles north of downtown Los Angeles)
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I was hoping to find some ruins up in Lopez Canyon, but without a specific address it's like searching for a needle in a haystack.  |
I found this 1937 picture which I've enlarged slightly.
The organization opens Foresters Haven, its first home for needy elderly members on the site of the Lopez Canyon Tuberculosis Sanitorium in California.
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I'm wondering whether this is the old sanitorium on a 1953 image from Historic Aerials. The 1952 and 1954 images are both very similar, but a couple of the buildings around the semicircle are missing by 1964. The semicircle has gone completely by 1972, and the remaining buildings by 1978.
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Here's roughly the same area today. The buildings, many of which date back to at least 1972, now belong to
Hope Gardens, a family center for women and children run by Union Rescue Mission.
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