A View From the Podium

The day after the July 4, holiday, I took the man-lift up to the sixth-floor decking to get a view of the existing Medical Center, and Children’s Hospital. Just as I feared, the Children’s Hospital was not visible–except for a small horizontal portion of the parapet–from the east side of the podium. The feature photo was stitched together from three (3) separate photograph so that one can get a panoramic view from the podium. Number one (1) identifies the roof of the walkway that connects the two hospitals. The atrium in the center of the podium is designated by number two (2). From the vantage point of the sixth floor, one can see how quickly the new towers will obstruct and overshadow the view of the Medical Center’s towers. 🔨

The yellow arrow spots the location where I stood to take the following photographs. The man-lift cage on which I rode is just to the left of the pointer. 🔨

Looking south toward the Loma Linda Hills from the sixth-floor of the podium. 🔨

Looking toward the southwest over the atrium in the center:  In the far distance above the atrium, Blue Mountain rise above Ritchie Canyon to the east and the City of Grand Terrace to the west. 🔨

A sobering view of the Medical Center’s cloverleaf towers, which will soon be dwarfed by the new towers to the east. 🔨