Need someone in Houston area...
09-17-2013 | 07:19 PM
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HMMMMM Never heard of Houston Charity Hospital / Charity Hospital???? I bet these new comers know it as LBJ Hospital http://www.lbj.uth.tmc.edu
09-18-2013 | 09:10 AM
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We are off topic.
BUT... there is no "Houston Charity Hospital". Never was. The "newer" Jeff Davis has been closed since 1999 and was at the time of its closing the "busiest maternity hospital in the United States". Built in the '30's, the aging infrastructure and increasing controvery as it had been built atop an old cemetary led to its demise. The original hospital has been renovarted into modern lofts.
Jefferson Davis Hospital started out as an ordinary hospital on the outskirts of the city. It led an unremarkable existence except for the fact that thousands of people were buried on the site. These graves were dug from the 1840's to the 1890's and are the final resting places for Confederate soldiers, former slaves, and city officials. In front there are several low rock walls in squares that might mark grave plots, or were possibly once flower beds. For a time there were actually two Jefferson Davis Hospitals in Houston. The original which opened in 1924, and a second just a couple of miles away on Allen Parkway. The 1938 Jefferson Davis Hospital was demolished in 1999. When the second one opened, the original was used for storage from the 1960's until the 1980's. The last gasp of activity came during the shooting of the film Robocop 2, when the hospital was featured as the location where the ficticious drug "nuke" was made."
BUT... there is no "Houston Charity Hospital". Never was. The "newer" Jeff Davis has been closed since 1999 and was at the time of its closing the "busiest maternity hospital in the United States". Built in the '30's, the aging infrastructure and increasing controvery as it had been built atop an old cemetary led to its demise. The original hospital has been renovarted into modern lofts.
Jefferson Davis Hospital started out as an ordinary hospital on the outskirts of the city. It led an unremarkable existence except for the fact that thousands of people were buried on the site. These graves were dug from the 1840's to the 1890's and are the final resting places for Confederate soldiers, former slaves, and city officials. In front there are several low rock walls in squares that might mark grave plots, or were possibly once flower beds. For a time there were actually two Jefferson Davis Hospitals in Houston. The original which opened in 1924, and a second just a couple of miles away on Allen Parkway. The 1938 Jefferson Davis Hospital was demolished in 1999. When the second one opened, the original was used for storage from the 1960's until the 1980's. The last gasp of activity came during the shooting of the film Robocop 2, when the hospital was featured as the location where the ficticious drug "nuke" was made."
