Oak Knoll Naval Hospital (closed) (Oakland, California)

USA / California / San Leandro / Oakland, California / Mountain Boulevard
 Second World War 1939-1945, hospital, closed / former military, United States Navy, historic ruins
The naval hospital, also known as Naval Hospital Oakland, began in 1942 as a temporary hospital to handle battle casualties returning from the Pacific. At first it consisted of 25 wooden barracks built on the site of the Oak Knoll Golf Course. Expansions were made during and after the war and the hospital evolved into a modern regional hospital handling naval personnel needing specialized care from a 10,000 square mile area of California and Nevada. Naval Regional Medical Center, Oakland was closed in 1996.

The main hospital, which was the last building standing, was imploded on April 8, 2011. Sic transit gloria mundi.

www.militarymuseum.org/NavHospOakland.html
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Hospital_Oakland
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Coordinates:   37°46'0"N   122°8'43"W

Comments

  • Flattened to make way for more "master planned" urban garbage rather than something more useful like open space or a school.
  • it is also the location of where Scientology was created by Hubbard.
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