| World / USA / California / Atherton, 2 km from center | Coordinates: 37°27'21"N 122°10'29"W |
333 Ravenswood Avenue
Menlo Park, CA 94025-3493
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"The site was used as a 2,700 bed veterans hospital. There were 115 buildings constructed on the site by the end of 1943. The site is currently occupied by the following:
* Stanford Research Institute
* City of Menlo Park
* United States Geological Survey
* West Bay Sanitary District
* First Church of Christ Scientist
* California Department of Fish and Game
* Several private owners"
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www.militarymuseum.org/DibbleGH.html --
"Anticipating a wave of wounded soldiers from the Pacific operations during World War II, the U.S. Army bought the estate of Mark Hopkins, of California railroad and hotel fame, including the mansion formerly known as Thurlow Lodge, to care for the thousands of soldiers injured in the South Pacific in World War II. Originally, the post was named Palo Alto General Hospital but was soon renamed, "Dibble Army Hospital" to honor Colonel John Dibble who was killed in an aircraft crash in 1943.
"Menlo Park's wartime population suddenly soared when the U.S. Army chose to build Dibble General Hospital on the site of the where the Stanford Research Institute and the Menlo Park Civic Center stand today. Between 1943 and 1946 Dibble specialized in plastic surgery, blind care, neuro-psychiatry and orthopedics and at its peak it had 2,400 beds, about two-thirds the population of the entire town. Dr. Bernard Silber was working at Letterman Hospital in San Francisco when he was transferred to the new Dibble hospital. But first, he had to ask four or five people where Menlo Park was. "It was a quiet, pleasant place," he recalled, noting that there weren't any stores yet on Santa Cruz Avenue except at the corner of El Camino Real.
"In June 1946 the hospital was transferred to the Federal Public Housing Authority."
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2 months ago portola | +1 |
 
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In the 1970's I worked as a temp laborer during my summer off from school in the SRI facility. There was lots of government/defense contract work going on with radar tracking and radio dish technology back then. Brilliant people worked there, but socially many of them were a bunch of kooks! LOL | ||||
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