The featured image for this post is a collage of photos depicting the new signage and towers along with the welcomed azure skies.
For the last three weeks, we have been blessed with clouds, rain, showers, and mist. This combination has been good for the wild flowers, the health of our gardens, and lawns . We even added to the snowpack, which is great for our future water needs. The cloudy skies have not been kind to the camera lens, and so, I was delighted when we were greeted Sunday with azure skies. I took the opportunity Sunday to capture a few images of the glass towers as viewed from various campus locations.
The azure skies serve as the backdrop to the towers.A southeast view of the towers as viewed from Anderson Street at the Faculty Medical Clinic entrance south of Barton Road.The adult tower bookend by trees at the entrance to the Carrol S. Small Alumni Center building.An Anderson Street view of the towers from the Student Center parking lot.A northeast view of the Adult Hospital tower as viewed from the southeast ent of the hill at the corner of Mound and Shepardson Streets.This black and white image was taken on the north side of the Loma Linda hill was take in the early 1900s. In this photo, we see the railroad station that was located on the east side of Parkland a few yards south of the railroad tracks. The Sanitarium is on the hill above the train station. This composite image depicts the Adult Hospital tower to the right of the sanitarium. When the following image was taken, I stood at the approximate location where the red “X” is positioned. What a difference a century makes. I wonder what the pioneers would think?This image of the Adult Hospital tower soaring above the western edge of the hill.The once iconic clover leaf towers of the existing Loma Linda University Medical Center is now dwarfed by the Adult Hospital tower, which is nearing completion.
Campus Signage
As the Loma Linda University Health Campus Transformation Project is drawing to an end, new campus signage is being is being installed at strategic locations around the campus.
As one drives south on Anderson Street toward the Hospital Campus, a new easy-to-read overhead freeway style sign directs visitors to various campus locations.A new overhead freeway style sign on Stewart Street directs visitors to the south (left) on Campus Street where the Emergency Department and patient self parking is located. To the north (right) is parking and the Centennial Complex building.The obverse and reverse sides of the ground directional signs. Similar signs are located around the campus.A sign located at the corner of Anderson Street and Hill Drive.A newly installed frame at the main entrance to the Carrol S. Small Alumni Center Building, which is located at the corner of Anderson and Starr Streets directly across the street from the hospital towers.
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 🔨
