Oak Knoll Hospital on LF
The first building on Oak Knoll was constructed in 1942 as a temporary structure to treat World War II veterans. Through the years the hospital campus grew to include dozens of structures and this 1967, 11-story hospital. L Ron Hubbard was treated here. In February of 1996 Oak Knoll finally closed its doors, per the BRAC (Base Realignment Committee) decision.
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33 comments
Jonathan Haeber wrote...
Thanks scott!
Carla C wrote...
Great picture!
Please join us at: Beautifully Ruined
Andy Frazer wrote...
Yeah, super job with the clouds.
rustyjaw wrote...
Beautiful shot, quite perfect for halloween.
David Bram wrote...
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called 4x5, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
upshift wrote...
This is my best LF shot of yours! Bravo!
Karl Burke wrote...
Great, very eerie....
Frans Peter Verheyen wrote...
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Film is not dead it just smells funny, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Steve Anderson wrote...
Great shot!
Carlos Borrego Iglesias wrote...
great!
It was the light, it was the angle wrote...
wow killer sky in this shot.
did you go inside?
Jonathan Haeber wrote...
yeah. I've been inside before, but I didn't go inside this night. To be honest, it's not very interesting inside. Much of the equipment has been stripped out, and it's a copper-thieves' no-man's land.
Christopher Scott Conway wrote...
!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shay B wrote...
Very cool shot! The sky background reminds me of Aurora Borealis! hehe
Guido wrote...
Nice, nice, is very disquieting and obscure !
John wrote...
Its crazy how i live across the street and i am sad that they will one day knock it down!
Soon!
Ouch
kingoftarmac wrote...
Ive been to the very bottom and the very top at night, The top has some really good tags or "grafs" or whatever you want to call them. you cannot be more right when you say its a copper-thieves' no-man's land. Great shot
Giulio Laccania wrote...
Hi! I'm the admin of a very new group called "Hospitart": artistic photos from hospitals. Please consider the opportunity to join us.
Air33 {ntropy.us} wrote...
how long was your exposure?
Jonathan Haeber wrote...
I think this was about 12 minutes. F/8
andre.govia wrote...
Great photo 10/10
Giulio Laccania wrote...
Hi! I'm the admin of a very new group called "Hospitart": artistic photos from hospitals. Please consider the opportunity to join us and to add thid wonderful photo to ours.
fuluk wrote...
Magnificent !!!
florian.glonn wrote...
Hi,
I would like to have your picture added to our new
group called "Krankenhaus - Hospital".
You are welcome to join the group and add your picture to the fotopool
ryanthedanger wrote...
How did you go over there and in the buildings without the gards seeing you? And is the hospitol safe to go in?
vic wrote...
great pic, you are amazing at taken photos.
Kent Mercurio wrote...
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Profectio | An Invite Only Gallery, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
miquelet wrote...
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Blanc i Negre, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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edgeplot wrote...
Hey, I was born there!
Andrew... wrote...
you've got such dramatic results from long night exposures... I love this one for the sky!
I've had similar resuts during the day with pinhole, but that's another story...
perhaps you'd like to add this and your other tachihara shots to the Tachihara group!
Dennis Carr wrote...
Yesterday, Aug. 4, 2009, I happened just by accident to find myself at the entrance to the old "Oak Knoll Hospital." There's nothing preventing anyone from entering. I cruised the grounds. As I passed along through the abandoned, winding roadways, an eerie sense shot through me. The hospital is completely fenced with many signs of: "Asbestos...Cancer Warning," etc. I looked into some of the other buildings down below, most of them without doors and windows. Everything is barren, generally deteriorated, debris everywhere, and stray cats and deer roam the area.
Went into one structure that must have been a recreation area. Signs were posted inside (and looked relatively new): "Bowling...Pool...Suds..."
I asked myself, "How many heroes must have been made well here? How many died here?"
What a haunting sensation it was to visit the former Naval Hospital, now just a hollowed out shell.
Dennis Caracciolo Danville
Andy Martin wrote...
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Large Format Night, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Wow, the clouds are great in this shot. Nice work.