San Diego Sheriff’s Crime Lab

This building is now known as the San Diego Sheriff’s Crime Lab. To be honest, I didn’t even know it was there until a few months ago. It’s a nondescript brick building and a big warehouse next to Rite Aid. I found this place while on a search for my grandfather’s place of death, which my grandmother pointed out to me many years ago. We happened to be driving by when I asked where he died, and she said, «Right there,» and pointed. Earlier this year, I began my search for the building.
I finally found the building’s address via death certificate, and I stopped by. The front entrance to the main building looks like a hospital. That’s because back in the day, it WAS a hospital, Clairemont Community Hospital or Clairemont General Hospital, depending on who you ask. The warehouse is newer and was built on the existing parking lot.
They get 4 stars because the building still stands, and the warehouse holds a bunch of physical evidence from various crimes, giving the place a «CSI» feeling. Also, the officers outside of the warehouse were nice enough to let me take a cell phone picture of the warehouse and the front of the main building. This place is probably haunted (just a feeling!), and I wish I could have gone inside, or that it was still a hospital, so I could narrow down my search even more, and get a rough idea where the ward was where my grandfather died.
This is a pretty cool building with a lot of history. I’m sure they’ve even brought about a lot of justice to deserving criminals since the conversion from a hospital to a crime lab!
R.I.P. Forrest, 1921 – 1969.