OHSU

Wed, 11 May 2005 23:59:59 -800

Went on a walking tour of OHSU today. We met at SW Corbett and Curry (right
in Seth's hood) and went up the hill. For those who have never been there,
OHSU was started in the 1860s and moved into the hills in the 1920s.
Apparently a railroad had bought the land for use as a rail yard, not realizing
that the land was a big hill! Stupid. The railroad sold the land to OHSU
for a dollar, and now OHSU sits high in the hills south of downtown. Nearly
all of the university and related hospital are built into the side of a
canyon that courses down the hillside; the buildings have many many stories
and there are amazingly long bridges interconnecting the various parts of the
hospital.