People + Places: The Forgotten Story of Rancho Los Amigos

Most Angelenos do not know about Rancho Los Amigos in Downey and what it meant to the thousands of people that crossed through its doors. Throughout its history, Rancho was a safety net for the County's most vulnerable citizens, including those with medical, physical, and mental illnesses, the elderly, and those experiencing destitution.
Unfortunately, the County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors have voted to support a plan calling for the destruction of the Rancho Los Amigos Historic District. We firmly disagree with this approach of nearly wholesale demolition and loss of irreplaceable L.A. heritage.

[@arlenegarcia5697]

Fascinating! This answered so many questions I've had about RLA for years. Thank you for doing this.

[@aphex14]

Awesome!!! Thank you for this Historic information!

[@BoneGoddess]

Just got back from exploring there last night. Its so cool there

[@cosmiccarebear6922]

Lol I grew up in Downey, my grandmother used to tell me that if I didn't do well in school, I could always go live over there at "the poor farm"

[@MariaEstrada-zt8jl]

I absolutely loved this!

[@gordonkendall]

Why doesn’t anybody ever talk about where these people were buried?

[@Eriks191]

So since buildings are coming down now, I guess the movement didn’t help much. I guess they didn’t listen in saving more buildings. How sad. The auditorium should have been saved.

[@urban_indy8262]

ive explored the asylum many times, its quite sad the city/ county left it to rot away.

[@teleconferencing-arkadin6748]

HartbreakingStories #EstherHarte

[@fernandocortes6271]

No lie me and my brother I was stay the it was like our house we had our own room lol this was like 2005 to 2007 we found so much thing like pictures we brought a lot of my HOMIE and girls like ex gf and even gf we found and heard a lot off stuff there the lil house by the police department they have everything there the have a lot off peppers of ppl back in the days the 📅 we found was from 1976 me and my brother have stories about that's place we now it like no tomorrow I'm 32 now I was there at 15 to 17 years old we were staying in the streets and we made this place our house... I wanna do it again

[@AceGibson1959]

huh? let me guess, you dropped out of school. Am I right?