LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The Los Angeles orphanage where Marilyn Monroe spent several years as a child has closed.
Hollygrove's last resident, a 9-year-old boy who went to live with his father in Texas, moved out Sept. 2, The Los Angeles Times reports.
The orphanage was founded in 1880 as the Los Angeles Orphans Home Society by two women who traveled the city in a buggy picking up waifs. In its early days, most residents were orphans, while more recently they have been children who were victims of family abuse or had parents unable to care for them.
Monroe, whose mother was mentally ill, was taken to Hollygrove by an aunt in 1935 when she was 9. She visited the home three times after she had become its most famous former resident, signing in the first time as Norma Jean Baker -- her original name -- and the other times as Marilyn Monroe.
Hollygrove, like other orphanages, has fallen victim to the belief that children are better off with relatives or in foster homes. The home has merged with a company that provides children's services and plans to offer camp programs for foster children and other needy youngsters.
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Do you think that foster care is better than an orphanage?
all i know is that hollygrove sucked fucking balls. it was the worst place i've ever been to in my entire fucking life. sure it was where i met my now ex-girlfriend Alyssa Gomez, and we shared alot of great moments together. but that was the only meaningful and descent experience i had at the fucking hellhole. something, i thought i should say just for the hell of it. me and a few others often referred to hollygrove as hEllygrAve. sure it was childish... but it meant something. anyways, i have no idea what good any of this will do. and if you were for some reason someone who suffered greatly at hollygrove and agrees with everything i've said then, email me at,
cliffordwilliams2@netzero.com
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