A Crane, A Helicopter, and A Window

Although I have watched the helicopters land and/or take off from either the Loma Linda University Medical Center’s north helipad or the helipad to the south above the Children’s Hospital, I never tire of watching their vertical trajectory and horizontal thrust forward. Should I have a camera in hand, I snap an image. Today was no exception, I watched the helicopter land, but I was not in a position to take a photo. I did take a shot after it landed vowing to snap a photo at takeoff. And, so I did. I was making my way through the first floor toward the Adult lobby of the new hospital when I heard the engines of the helicopter begin to whine. I whirled around and made a beeline over to one of the two narrow windows facing the entrance to the Medical Center.

I shot the helicopter images through the window at the left.

This blog features the photos taken through the glass in what will be the Adult Lobby entrance just off of the Galleria. Perhaps this is the first photographs of a helicopter taken through a glass window from the new hospital.

This image of the helicopter just after it had landed is very important to me in that the moment I took the photo may have been my last chance to snap a helicopter framed by the crane’s resting boom. Yesterday, the crane may have lifted its last load, and it is scheduled to be dismantled on Sunday, June 23, 2019.

The window frames is part of the story. The engines whine and the blades begin to turn.

Dennis E. Park, MA

After graduate school Dennis accepted a position at Loma Linda University. He worked there for 42 years in the areas of administration and financial management, also teaching accounting and management to dietetic students at the School of Public Health. Through the years Dennis has chronicled the growth of the campus, including the construction of the Drayson Center and the Centennial Complex and the razing of Gentry Gym. He is the author of "The Mound City Chronicles: A Pictorial History of Loma Linda University, A Health Sciences Institution 1905 - 2005." dEp 09.30.2016 🔨

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