It was Griffin Memorial Hospital/Central State Hospital for people with chemical imbalances ..to assess, counsel and find the correct meds & sometimes no meds & therapy needed to help individuals gain skills for coping and to hopefully help their lives become easier less stressful. I never worked there but did have clients transitioning into or out of the hospital right up to 2003. I used to go visit people in the hospital just talk and pray with them. People need hope at all times. Precious people.

Just to be clear, people who had depression or mental illness were not insane. Experts did not understand sever bipolar ,scizophrenia and violent disordered.

Also, the use of the word crazy so many is very offensive

You need to real homework, half your story is wrong.

My parents lived across from the hospital in the 90s and during that time there was a violent inmate who escaped. That inmate ended up killing a homeless man and decapitating him, he was found walking around the area naked with the guys head. Very scary stuff.

It's beautiful, a symbol Los Angeles.

Ahhh...the old Griffin Memorial Hospital

Small, low doors mean that enemies cannot easily rush into a building. The attacker is bent over - easier to whack him in the head. Small opening means only one at a time can enter. Small door means when you whack the first guy and he collapses, his body is now helping block subsequent attackers from entering.

There is a ball court in Catalinas State Park as well, although it's not in as good a state of preservation

Anyone remember Glove Man? He wandered campus in the 80s. He was definitely a patient from there

I actually been inside there when I was still in high school back in ~2010! Its along Sooner Road. Its just a theater inside and it was crumbling. As you enter, there are stairways on both sides going up, one of which was blocked by rubble and debris. We managed to use the other stairway, but there is nothing really to be seen. Its pretty empty other than signs of homeless (Listerine bottles everywhere, trash) and the previously mentioned ceiling debris. We also went around to rest of the 'hospital' like office buildings nearby. We nicked a Fallout and Biological hazard signs, and then were chased away by (presumably) an employee in a van. Fun times.

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Ancient porn 😜🙈

Are all the grasses invasive?

Did you know no scientist can prove anything 13,000 years ago? Absolutely no one. I kid you not

Da war ich schon

Drove there in 1968 in Westphalia camper back then no rules park where you want camp where you want the earth was young and so was I. A great time to be alive

I've been here. It's the campus of the old Central State Hospital. The whole place feels off and creepy. Just feels like the kind of place that no one has ever really wanted to be, not back then and not now.

It's a old world building/ruins from prior reset that was mudflooded. The majority of the structure is buried underground...we just repurpose the top part which is why you see old world structures in the downtown areas that have windows half in the ground and brick buildings that look like they are slanted instead of level. Half the building in underneath so they added ramps or steps that were not original to the building so that we could use them. Look closely at the old town buildings casting aside the narrative of all these buildings being built in a short period of time in the 1800's using only a horse and buggy to haul all the materials and without power tools....recalibrate and use your eyes and critical thinking skills...ask God to reveal the truth.

When was this taken, man so beautiful!

Yo im late but is that the 66 pit stop?

Going to this spot next week

The petroglyphs are depictions of what they saw in the sky. Electric discharge and plasma formations. Please refer to the Thunderbolts Project, for enlightenment. I promise you wont regret it.

1:35 "I bet the inside of this looks...insane." Well, of course. I mean, it's not a sane asylum!

As a child it was always threatened that if we didn't behave we would be sent to the Norman looney bin AKA Griffin memorial

Hey, you might need to bring this back! I'd love to own that beauty 😮

My dad took my mom there at the mental hospital twice when was growing up,she lived out a long healthy normal life passing in 2008.I made delivery out there to the main complex recently.. They should open it back up and put the homeless in there that lives under the bridges around south okc 🫢..They keep the grass nice and trimmed..thanks for your videos

Tennessee's license plate hearkens back to those used in the State in the 1950s. Back then, the plate was not rectangular. It was in the nature of a trapezoid, similar to the geographical shape of Tennessee

with luck this winter 2024 into 2025 will be just as wet if not more.. just so this great lake can return to something of it’s glory days.

I remember when I went to OU in 1978-82 and part of this was still being used for patients I believe, as would see people on Main Street who definitely were non violent and would return to the facility in time for supper. It was bizarre having that in college town Norman. Interesting buildings and I remember hearing they moved the function of the facility to Vinita.

This is interesting take on the water levels in the San Gabriels, having water definitely has a profound impact on the life of these mountains

The piers you see are from the original bridge built in 1881 by my great uncle Henry Randolph Holbrook. He was born November 22, 1838 in Columbia, Conn. He was the chief engineer for the Atlantic Pacific Railroad. The town of Holbrook, AZ was named after Mr. Holbrook on September 24, 1881. That was the day the last spike was driven completing the railroad through town. Henry Randolph Holbrook retired from the railroad and moved to Pueblo, Colorado where he made his home until he died in 1907 at the age of 69. A simple Google search " Diablo canyon railroad bridge" will show early photos of the bridge I have correspondence from The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, dated 06-09-1983. On receipt your letter of May 28 1983, We checked our historical records pertaining to Henry Randolph Holbrook and the Canyon Diablo bridge, and have determined that the bridge took 15 months to build and was completed in June of 1882. Inasmuch as Mr Holbrook was the chief engineer during the period July 6 1880 to December 31 1881, he was responsible for it's construction. That was sent to us by Bill Burk, Vice President Public Relations.

I was expecting a comment on how cold the water was next to the dam.

Aspen is birch mimicking poplar

I’m going there

Went here once and got lost inside and had to break a different window to get out

The great news is Tulare Lake will recharge the aquafers that the farmers have been draining for decades. Maybe even see water levels in their wells rising instead of sinking!

I'm having trouble following this. I always thought the first building was an abandoned church because of the stained glass windows. Then you show the cornerstone and the thing over the door that designates it as an American Legion building. Then you ignore all of that and declare it a mental asylum. I can't see how it could be used for that. Your narrative doesn't make much sense. BTW, I think the cages above the entry on the second building were for inmates to be able to enjoy fresh air without hurting themselves.

Cool video. Thanks! That deadly plant is called oleander. And it is very deadly. Honey made from its flowers is not suitable for human consumption.

Lovely blue color

Wait... You get snow squalls in the desert?

Really glad to see someone talking about the remaining effects of a hurricane, my first real experience of a thunderstorm was back in the summer of '05, my first job at the North Rim after Hurricane Emily which proved to be a gracious storm over the Grand Canyon North Rim. I had the day off and was in the employee dinning pub when the first bolt of lightning alerted me to the *oncoming six hour beauty* I was about to witness!

So much assuming.....then you make the mistake all petroglyph viewers do is bring up big foot and aliens....that does more harm than good to bring understanding along.

Hey Benji! At 5;20 you officially walked onto Hell Street in downtown Canyon Diablo.! I'm a local been there 10 times easy, all the ruins in this second video are canyon Diablo, you came in from a different direction? from the north? Any way Fantastik Video great job with the camera!

I grew up here and it’s probably central state mental asylum.

Wow that’s gorgeous

An interesting history of the transformation of the region is The King of California by Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman.

Nice video. You should get a mini drone to capture some of these sites

Hi Benji, thanks for posting this video. I like your written introduction, the views you recorded. The color and clarity of the video is great as well as your comments of the topography throughout the video. Hope you had a good return trip to Southern California. Cheers,

I drove that road back around 1996 when I was working in LA. Beautiful views. I’ve also seen the broken end from Islip on many hikes I took up Mt. Williamson. Love that area!