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The Olive View Sanatorium was founded in 1920 as a treatment facility for tuberculosis patients. As the number of tuberculosis cases decreased, the facility was renamed Olive View Hospital. Later, the hospital became affiliated with the UCLA Medical School, becoming the Olive View Medical Center, a teaching hospital with a new 888-bed facility dedicated in December of 1970. Unfortunately, the San Fernando earthquake damaged the building just weeks after opening and the building was demolished in 1973. Olive View continued to serve patients in Van Nuys until the reopening of a new facility at the original Sylmar site. The Olive View - UCLA Medical Center, at 14445 Olive View Drive, was dedicated in 1987. Photograph caption dated December 9, 1955 reads, "Members of San Fernando Valley chapter, National Secretaries Association, will collect Christmas packages at dinner on Dec. 19, for patients at Sanatorium who have no families. Wrapping gifts, from left are Virginia Lauer, Genevienve Connors and Pearl Wray."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
National Secretaries Association (U.S.) Olive View Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.) Associations, institutions, etc.--California--Los Angeles Sanatoriums--California--Los Angeles Hospitals--California--Los Angeles Secretaries--California--Los Angeles Gifts--California--Los Angeles Women--California--Los Angeles Christmas presents Sylmar (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs Portrait photographs Group portraits
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