Tucson SP Hospital (was Are there UP hospitals still standing?)
Author: SPSF
Date: 01-24-2013 - 08:49

The SP Tucson Hospital didn't make it long enough to part of the UP. Some basic details from a story about Tucson passenger stations in the Tucson Weekly (http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/the-other-station/Content?oid=1872213) a few years ago:

"In 1929, Southern Pacific announced it was going to erect a tubercular sanatorium for its employees near the former (EP&SW) station. Headed by Dr. Charles A. Thomas and S.C. Davis, the hospital opened in 1931. Among its 100-beds and other facilities was a separate "Negro ward" for the company's black workers. The hospital served railroad patients with tuberculosis until 1946, when it became a general hospital for Southern Pacific employees. In 1964, it was opened to the entire Tucson community, and three years later, it was named after longtime U.S. Sen. Carl Hayden. It was closed permanently in 1974 and demolished five years later."

The area is now a parking lot and near a federal court house, among other downtown buildings.

A relative was an engineer out of Tucson, and I still hear stories from his children about visiting the Spanish-style hospital downtown with red tile roofs and lots of green grass.



Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  Are there UP hospitals still standing? Big Hoss 01-22-2013 - 21:09
  Re: Are there UP hospitals still standing? DW 01-22-2013 - 21:41
  Re: Are there UP hospitals still standing? Graham Buxton 01-22-2013 - 21:56
  Re: Are there UP hospitals still standing? Timothy Barham 01-22-2013 - 23:04
  Re: Are there UP hospitals still standing? Dmac844 01-23-2013 - 07:58
  The best and brightest John West 01-23-2013 - 08:35
  Re: Catch 22 Enjoying a merlot on SP #27 01-23-2013 - 19:52
  Re: The best and brightest Chas 01-24-2013 - 08:20
  Re: The best and brightest Drew Jacksich 01-24-2013 - 08:47
  Tucson SP Hospital (was Are there UP hospitals still standing?) SPSF 01-24-2013 - 08:49
  Re: Tucson SP Hospital (was Are there UP hospitals still standing?) Chas 01-24-2013 - 16:18
  Re: Are there UP hospitals still standing? Carol L. Voss 01-23-2013 - 09:22
  WP Portola Hospital Eugene 01-23-2013 - 12:43
  SP's Palace of Death E.H. Scaryman 01-22-2013 - 23:55
  Re: SP's Palace of Death Bill Kohler 01-23-2013 - 06:50
  Re: SP's Palace of Death Ken Shattock (KRK) 01-23-2013 - 06:57
  Re: SP's Palace of Death Tony Johnson 01-23-2013 - 08:08
  Re: SP's Palace of Death Graham Buxton 01-23-2013 - 08:13
  Re: SP's Palace of Death Alfred Doten 01-24-2013 - 10:37
  Re: SP's Palace of Death Rolland Meyers 01-24-2013 - 12:38
  SP Hand Cleaner Pdxrailtransit 01-24-2013 - 14:58
  Some more info about the SP hospital John West 01-24-2013 - 20:26
  Re: Some more info about the SP hospital Carol L. Voss 01-24-2013 - 21:03
  SP and Kaiser John West 01-24-2013 - 22:17
  Even more info about the SP hospital John West 01-24-2013 - 21:04
  Re: Even more info about the SP hospital--physician relationships Carol L. Voss 01-25-2013 - 09:00
  Re: Even more info about the SP hospital--physician relationships Alfred Doten 01-28-2013 - 10:27


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