In November 1951, the nonprofit Kaiser Foundation ...

In November 1951, the nonprofit Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals broke ground for a new cutting-edge facility in East Hollywood. The ground-breaking ceremony was attended by some of the most high-profile real estate developers, labor leaders, politicians, and hospital administrators in Los Angeles, including representatives from Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, and Methodist Hospital.

I was born here in 1960, and forty years later I worked on the demolition of the original building.