A bison tube is a half inch diameter aluminum tube that's an
inch and a half long. It's got a key ring in the top. This has a
magnet and it's stuck on the back of a metal object.
This is located outside the lower parking lot of the old Queen
of Angels hospital, on public property. Hundreds of people are
usually around the upper campus, so this location seemed like a
better place to put a cache.
The Queen of Angels Hospital was founded by the Franciscan
Sisters of the Sacred Heart in 1926. The 360,000 sq foot facility
has over 1000 rooms and a total of 9 buildings on the campus. This
14 story building is viewed by over 2 million motorists each week
on the Hollywood Freeway.
The hospital had such a steady growth in patient admissions,
births, and patient day care from 1926 to 1932, they had to add
additional wings to the hospital. They followed suite in 1938 and
again in 1845 which was followed by a great increase in services.
At one point in it's history, the vast majority of Los Angeles
residents had been born in the Queen of Angels hospital.
It fell on hard financial times in the 1980s. A solution was
found in 1989 when it merged with a neighborhood hospital,
Hollywood Clara Barton Hospital. After more than half a century of
service, this building closed it's doors to the public.
The site was vacant over 6 years and used mostly as a filming
site for Hollywood movies, including Patriot Games, Outbreak, Hard
to Kill, Ghost, Nixon, and Apollo 13. NYPD Blues, Unsolved
Mysteries, LA Law, E.R., and 90210 were among the TV shows filmed
here.
In 1996, Matthew and Tommy Barnett bought it and turned it into
the facility that it is today. I would describe more of what it is
today, but functioning organizations can not be mentioned on this
site. It's a huge, cool old building, visible for miles, with a lot
of history near the heart of Hollywood.
