407 Comments for Rancho Los Amigos

It's interesting that the sink is still holding on despite the wall around it is crumbling

What's that black rectangular thing on the wall?

Awesome photos! I worked at Rancho from 87-2000. This building was abondoned long before that but one mill write made it his shop for a few years...the power plant to the left and the one story next to it was the sheet metal shop...I worked in that shop until 1990 when the whittier earthquake damaged the roof and the shop was closed and moved further south to Gardendale. The burned out building with the metal shelves where all used for USC medical students and record keeping. I was part of a 4 man crew that installed all the metal shelving. I miss working there and want to take my 41 ford and son who is taking photography in high school to take some photos of my car in front of the old buildings. The floats were built in a small metal building right on Gardendale...I helped fab some parts here and there for them. If you dont mind I belong to a vintage car forum and I posted a few of your pics on there. I also played with a few bands in that auditorium and so sad how fast the place has deteriorated.

When the U.S.M.C./ "Leased" RanchoLosAmigosStateMental Hospital.I was and actived Marine that participated on the [grounds tactical military exercise.] On a tuesday night our "C.O" brief my team. that according to the maps readyings the facilities have un-explored undergrown tunnels and that on early morning wednesday. my team.new
direct orders were to "RECON" the undergrown tunnels and to conduct a unique military tactical exsercise:we were using inferred digital cameras in our helmets and base camp was recording everything and anything: we came across the main surgical hospital unit. and the operation table had blood stains and on the floor massive blood stains, I order my team to wear there top chemical warfare gear, due to the foul smell and the great amout of flies in the area. what we found was more then body parts I can't say anymore. because my self and my team were: "DE-BRIEF" Right after we finished conducting a 3 days formal investigation!!! please don't believe what the local media tells you. theirs more to advice our citizens of the horrifying actual events that took in that creepy facility: please due your own re-search and you will fine the truth: Yours Truly Sergeant01.

Thank you for the great photos. My mother was a polio patient at Rancho in 1952 -1954 I spent every Sunday their visting her.

those are mine too i have a huge estate its not small. and its not his or yours i still can claim my properties its the law...you and the courts failed to contact me and tell me about my estate. Dont tell me you didnt know where i was, you weer spying on me since a child with hidden cameras. Fraud is not valid , got to pay me back for losses.

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Aw, man. You should've taken pictures of the body parts too cX

I think this was the main entrance. Filled with lots of chairs. For waiting patients. I think the last time i was there was 1962. These are childhood memories. By then i refused to go back as there was nothing new couldn't help most of us any more. Nothing thry can do to help "POST POLIO SURVIVORS" now either. I am grateful for all the wonderful care I received from this hospital and am saddened it looks so lonely.

This looks like that hall we went down to ex ray. Side doors entered into ex ray rooms. But it could also have been the room at the end of the hall was the cast room.

You're welcome; it's quite possible those records are in this piles! Many hospitals and other large institutions that have downsized often use surplus building for the storage of bulky paperwork. Unfortunately these buildings aren't usually maintained, and the records, sometimes long forgotten by administrative staff, eventually get destroyed through neglect and vandalism as evidenced above.

Thanks for all these great photos. I just ran across your site and need to tell you my story. My grandfather died here in 1926. The family was poor and this was all the medical help he could get. I've been to this place at least three times and took many exterior photos, but I've never been brave enough to challenge the local police that patrol here nor the conditions you so willingly cross. Anyway that you for showing me what it was like. BTW, when I discovered about 10 years ago that this was where he died, I wrote the existing hospital for any records and I was told they were no longer available. Ha Ha, maybe they're somewhere in this mess. bobray1461@aol.com

lights are cool by the stage

Sorry I don't make that information public, but getting inside these places usually requires some searching for an open window or door.

I have been real curious about this place since i found it one day taking a drive, to later found out that my grandfathers brother had a stay here after suffering a heart attack but he also suffered from polio. But it looked pretty closed up, how can i get inside to look around, or how did you get in?