Many of you ask how can I be of help to The Museum of the San Fernando Valley in little ways. Well here's your chance. Gary Fredburg just donated these two photographs to The Museum's archives, but I can't find anything about a San Fernando Hospital in 1927.
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Early Olive View?
Late 1970's I worked at SF Community Hospital ( I think it was off Maclay) 35 beds ( the other side of the hospital was LA county mental health hospital( you could see the doors padlocked with chains through the adjoining doors..) GOOD Times
Possibly the San Fernando Valley Veterans Hospital in Sylmar? It opened April 11, 1926.
http://wikimapia.org/18178268/San-Fernando-Valley-Veteran-s-Hospital-Closed
Here is a photo of a hospital from the 1920s from the CSUN digital archive.
The lower left hand corner of the photo has some information that may or may not be helpful to you.
http://digital-library.csun.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2FSFVH&CISOPTR=2549&CISOBOX=1&REC=10
I checked with my wife if this could be her old place of employment, and she says that yes, the facade is even still there to this day. That would be the hospital that became the Sherman Way campus of Northridge Hospital until recently closed by Catholic Healthcare West in 2004. The closure leaves many a heart still broken among the close-knit medical community that practiced there.
It's located at 14500 Sherman Circle in Van Nuys. Still surrounded by active medical offices, it's often used as a filming set for medical settings.
Edit: Another friend who worked there a lot longer than my wife doesn't recognize the facade, and thinks this may have been a different hospital in the City of San Fernando, looking much like the mission, that was there at least as late as 1958.
I worked at Valley Hospital (prior to it becoming Northridge Hospital, Valley Campus) in the 1970's thru 1980's. There are mountains in the background in the 1st photo that would be more consistent with San Fernando than Van Nuys and the building itself is too small to be Valley Receiving (the old name to denote that it was a receiving hospital for all patients as opposed to a private hospital like Van Nuys Hospital off Van Nuys Blvd). There is a larger building to the left in the 1st photo, possibly the hospital building. The benches in the 2nd photo make me think that the building might be a small theatre.
Stetson Ranch? I used to live at Oakridge Mobile Home Estates on Glenoaks & Foothill Blvds and would often walk in the surrounding area where many abandoned/vacant buildings exist... maybe a rancho or hacienda ...?
I was born in the San Fernando Hospital in 1962. I believe it is on Mott, cross street is Chatsworth. I think it is part of the UCLA family of offices.
My birth certificate says I was born in the Valley General Hosptial in Encino, CA, in 1955. I can't find anything on this hospital. I suppose it was an early incarnation of what is now the Encino Hospital Medical Center, but I would appreciate information, especially pictures, of the Encino hospital as it looked in the mid-1950s.
I was born in San Fernando Hospital in February 1952. It was on Mott Street. I had my tonsils and adenoids removed at the same place during Easter Vacation 1958.
I was born at this hospital in 1967. It's located on Mott and Chatsworth St in the city of San Fernando. Dr Flores use to deliver babies there, and most of the patients were of Mexican-American descent. The hospital was refurbished about 15-20 yrs ago and converted into medical offices. It was a small, one-story hospital with no more than 40 beds, imagine that?
It's a little town full of rich history, you can feel it the air, in the old Mexican and Spanish architecture. Many families have been in San Fernando for many generations, dating back to the colonial era when California it was Mexico.
My mother was RN at this hospital during the 60s and 70s, I had my appendix removed there when I was a kid in middle 60s.
I was born there too in 1963, delivered by Dr Luis Flores, does anyone has any pictures of the hospital back then?
Judging by the white building on left of left photo, this is the U. S. Veterans' Hospital, San Fernando. It was destroyed in the 71 earthquake. It was located at 13000 Sayre Street in Sylmar and was the first Veteran's Bureau hospital to be constructed on the Pacific Coast. It consisted of twenty buildings costing approximately $1,500,000 and had one of the finest tubercular institutions in the world. Upon completion, it could accommodated 232 beds, and in case of an emergency, could handle 1,000 cases.
Looking for information on where the old Records of the San Fernando Hospital are kept? I'm a little confused as to where the hospital was located. Was it the Veteran's hospital in Sylmar or the Community hospital on Sherman Way?
The San Fernando Hospital was located at 732 Mott Street, in San Fernando. I was born there in 1959. I'm not sure where you would find their records.
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