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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

28: Abandoned LA County Poor Farm

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Ghost Town

Social Sciences, History, True Crime, Science

3.7938 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The LA County Poor Farm was a safe haven for the ill, destitute, and the elderly. This somewhat revolutionary commune was ahead of it's time as a facility, and an important part of the greater Los Angeles county history. Now the once sprawling institution is merely a shell of it's former self.

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0:00.0

This asylum was home to the rich, the poor, and the unknown.

0:04.3

I'm Jason Horton.

0:05.4

I'm Rebecca Leib.

0:06.3

And this is Ghost Town. And we are back. We never left. We never left. We never left. We never left.

0:27.0

Have you been to Downey, California by chance? I have. I think it was, I feel like I was going down there to help somebody like their car broke down and for some reason again

0:37.0

Downey. But I think Downey has the last or one of the last

0:44.1

old school McDonald's. Oh, they have that like the facade,

0:46.4

like the, you know, this still has the facade.

0:48.4

Oh, like the hamburger, like the tray.

0:50.6

The arches are there, which I still remember as a kid. I feel like you know the nature of this podcast

0:56.8

It's a shame when they have to tear it down. I understand like there's probably you know technological

1:01.6

advantages of having a new corporate you know ice cold

1:06.7

corporate logo just like no one like just that's it yeah so like I'm really into old, the neon signs.

1:15.0

Yeah, there's a lot of those everywhere.

1:16.3

The neon museum that's in Glendale?

1:19.0

I haven't gone, I just actually, it was just drove by that and I was like,

1:21.9

I have to go there because they're relatively close but I've

1:24.0

got to the neon museum in Las Vegas or it's the like the graveyard it's all the old signs yeah and

1:30.9

we're going to get a little off track there, but it's...

1:32.6

We are getting off track.

1:33.4

Portland also has great neon signs, and...

1:36.4

LA still has...

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