That link I posted, showing current job openings at all the California State Hospital, includes a bunch of openings in Stockton. Is there still something going on there? Is there a new facility being built in Stockton now?
I live about 200 yards from a CA state hospital in Napa. (Insert jokes here) I actually have bricks from the original creepy castle building in my back yard.
I am so glad that the wine industry is the king here now. When I was a kid, the only thing anyone knew about Napa was that was where they sent the crazy people. Now it’s wino jokes.
Not unless you’re setting your story at least four decades back anyway. Orphanages have been pretty much all shut down and replaced by foster care.
I was just going to post that. For those of us of a certain age, Pendleton is only really known for two things: Roundup and the State loony bin.
And the woolen mills!
Are you talking about ordinary state-owned hospitals, or mental hospitals? The term “state hospital” general denotes the latter here in the South. There’s still no requirement that they be in the state capital though.
I was going to say it was under construction, but then googled to be sure. It looks like it might have opened last summer. It’s outside of city limits. Yup. It’s open.
There was a noticable amount of “Oh, Woe!” when the location was announced, years ago, so I thought its opening would have been enough of a production that I’d have heard of it. But either they sneaked it past me or it was quiet enough that I forgot about it.
Looks like they kept some of the buildings intactwhen they turned the old one into CSU Stanislaus. The old State Hospital is also the reason we have Smith Canal.
Hey, Anise. If you want to write a sequel, here’s a State Hospital that was turned into a University (annex). It’s got a small cemetary for prior patients on the grounds. It’s a block from the city’s main cemetary and about a mile from the rural cemetary where all the cool old monuments are.
In between the main cemetary and the rural cemetary is St. Joseph’s Hospital. So characters can be extensively damaged and still pull through because the ER is so close. Hypothetically.
Oh, a mental hospital. I was thinking the hospital perched on a cliff at Oregon Health Sciences University would make a pretty spectacular story setting.