A Collection of Fascinating Images Featuring the Loma Linda University Campus Transformation Project

The Way it Was (Circa 2005) …

The Way it Will Be (Circa Summer 2015)…

The Towers: Type and Prototype (09.22.15)

In the Beginning, The Make Ready Stage (Circa Winter 2016)

The Ground Breaking (05.22.16)

A Hospital, a Helicopter, and the Pit (12.20.16)

A 360 View of the Project From Above (02.15.17)

Early Morning Rays (02.16.17)

A 360 View of West Elevator Concrete Pour (02.16.17)Medieval Crossbow (02.20.17)

Lake Loma Linda (12.29.16)

A 360 View of the Project From Grade (02.15.17)

This Photo Was Taken From the Basement Floor Near the West Foundation Wall. Today, This Shot Would Not be Possible (06.27.17)

Even the Shadows Can Hang Rebar (06.27.17)

Alex Getting in Some Climbing Time (08.11.17)

Perks of the Job (08.14.17)

No, Mable, That ain’t T-Rex (8.30.17)

It appears that a Tower of Healing is About to be Devoured by a Billowing Cumulous Cloud (08.30.17)

An Isolator Base Hovers Over the Pit (08.31.17)

Lining up the Approach With the Crane’s Cable (09.12.17)

Blue Skies, The East Tower, and the Pit (10.16.17)

The Approach

Just for fun…The helicopter in the center is in the actual photograph. The shaded helicopters on either side are the same helicopter as it was coming in to land on the north helipad. (11.07.17)

The Overlay

Just for fun… As the crane operators were assembling the Liebherr LR-1750 crawler lattice boom crane a Sany Excavator rumbled by. A photo of the small crane has been screened over the massive track of the crane. The crane’s track stands 7 feet and the overall height of the Sany Excavator is 8 ft. 8 in.

Dark “V” shaped clouds (11.28.17 -C)

Seemingly Cascading Zig Zag Lights From Parking Structure P4 (11.28. 17 – C)

Silhouettes and Sun Rays (11.29.17)

Piercing Rays of a November Sky (11.29.18)

Cutting the Corner…Look at the Two Crane Operators Standing on the Boom (Center Right) to Gauge the Size of the Boom. (11.29.17)

The End of a Long Day…The Boom is Up! (11.29.17)

A sunset benediction on the present Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital and Medical Center and on the site on which the replacement facilities will one day rise. (11.30.17 -B)

From this angle, it appears that the Medical Center’s cloverleaf towers are resting on the massive double node spline beams (12.12.17)

Framed by the Support Beams (12.15.17)

Twinkling Lights—The Pit at Night (12.15.17)

From Grande: The First Foundation Pour (03.25.17)

A View Into the Pit: The First Foundation Pour (03.25.17)

Piercing the Hammerhead (04.10.17)

The Moon and the Cross (04.29.17)

A Night Scene of the Second Foundation Pour (04.29.17)

A 360 Shot From the Pit During the Second Pour (4.29.17)

The Pit, the Moon, and the Medical Center (04.29.17)

The Battle Between the Sun and the Cranes Hammerhead (05.11.17)

A Snorkel Fest During the Last Foundation Pour (05.20.17)

Hang Ten From a Steel Column (05.16.18)

“What I’m Doing on This Project is For All of the Kids Up There”—Alex (08.31.17)

The Early Morning Rays Pierces the Rebar Column (09.07.17)

Isolator No. 39 Is Lowered Down Into the Pit (09.13.17)

Sun Rays, a Snorkel Pump, and a Snorkel Lift (10.27.17)

Early Morning Scaffold Climbers Warmed by the Rays (11.06.17)

Flags Framed by a Lattice Segment of the North Cranes Boom (11.28.17)

A Horizontal Nightscape (11.30.17)

Chasing the Late Afternoon Sun (12.01.17)

The Cranes Cable Bisects the Moon (12.11.17)

The sun dancing on the head of a column. (01.26.18)

Two Welders (02.12.18)

Flames From the Welding Torch (03.18.18)

Silhouettes of Two Ironworkers Against the Sky (04.09.18)

An Airplane, A Girder, and Dark Rolling Clouds (04.19.18)

A Pastel Sky Hangs Above As Another Day Gives Way to the Night (04.23.18)

The Moon Dancing on the Tip of a Safety Column (05.21.18)

The Moon and the Flag Converge (05.22.18)

Framed by Columns and a Tower (06.22.18)

“I’ll Hold Up This End Till Noon, Then I take Lunch!” (06.22.28)

The Adult Jungle Gym (06.22.18)

A Flash of Light (07.03.18)

A Shaft of Light (07.05.18)

The Sun Peeks its Rays Over The Sixth Floor Adult Hospital Tower (07.16.18)

Perfect Alignment (07.16.18)

Of Citrus Flowers, Palm Fronds, a Proton Beam, and a Portable Restroom (07.16.18)

Lights at Sunset (07.17.18)

Takeoff Toward the Sunset (07.17.18)

Framed by the Columns (07.19.18)

Passing between the folded booms of the south crane, a DC-10 fire tanker heads east toward the San Jacinto Mountains where the Cranston fire is raging near Idyllwild and Lake Hemet (07.26.18)

More sparks (07.19.18)

Sunset on week 121 (09.14.18). The Children’s Hospital tower at its apex.

Twilight Lights (09.16.18)

Sunset Skies as Seen Through the Columns (9.27.18)

Moody Skies (10.01.18)

Early Morning Rays (11.20.18)

Above the Steel (November 27, 2018)

The afternoon sun is filtered by the incoming clouds (11.27.18)

Storm Clouds (November 29, 2018)

The day is Dying in the West (November 30, 2018)

Two Cranes, and a Cloud Covering the Sun (05.21.18)

With the signature beam in place, the ironworkers meet in the middle to shake hands.

A few hours after the topping out ceremony had ended, the steel frame stood tall against the evening sky.

As the alpenglow bounces off of the mountains, and the full moon hangs in the evening sky, the steel towers begin their watch over the valley floor as the night stars draw nigh. (December 21, 2018)

It is always breathtaking when God paints a rainbow in the sky! (January 31, 2019)

The Adult Hospital tower dwarfs the iconic Cloverleaf Medical Center towers.
(March 31, 2019)

An April Fools Day Sunset. (April 1, 2019)

Ten Days Later: In the Still of the Night. (April 10, 2019)

Beau, a glazier with Tower Glass, releases the hook from the 16th-floor end panel on the north-facing side of the east wing of the Adult Hospital on the Dennis and Carol Troesh Medical Campus on the Loma Linda University Health Campus.

The Loma Linda University Health Medical Center and Children’s Hospital on the Dennis and Carol Troesh Medical Campus now dominates the campus the surrounding communities.

Even at a distance, plumes of smoke from the Apple Fire rise above the Loma Linda University Medical Center and the Dennis and Carol Troesh Medical Campus hospital towers.

The early morning sun and clouds on the east elevation, with a variety of clouds in the background.

**A Pandemic Evening:** A full moon and the lights of Loma Linda University Health Medical Center and Children’s Hospital on the Dennis and Carol Troesh Medical Campus causes one to pause and consider how fragile life can be.

An early morning sunburst bounces off of the parapet of the Loma Linda University Health Children’s Hospital on the Dennis and Carol Troesh Medical Campus.

Almost three-years to the day, I was able to capture sunbursts at the sight,

The Dichroic Glass provides a spectacular reflection in the windows of the Loma Linda University Health Children’s Hospital glass tower on the Dennis and Carol Troesh Medical Campus.

The Dichroic Glass provides an ever-changing feature each day. On this particular day, I was at the right spot to capture this kaleidoscopic moment. To make the moment perfect would have been some celestial music from heaven.

**11.29.17:** A wispy cloud, a helicopter, and a cranes boom at sunset.

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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