An underground passage connected buildings at the old West Side Sanitarium, an antecedent of Memorial Hospital. Food and patients were shuttled through this passageway. Ruth Kammer wrote in "Inside West Side" that the tunnel occasionally served as home to an "unfriendly, nocturnal inhabitant which caused some consternation to employees and patients." Background post: East side Memorial Hospital formerly on west side.
In his day, many people knew Dr. Edmund K. Meisenhelder, owner of West Side Sanitarium.
In fact, many still remember the surgeon who operated the private hospital, forerunner to Memorial Hospital, from 1913 until he retired and sold it in 1945. It then became West Side Osteopathic Hospital... .
