Discover an era when tuberculosis sanatoriums lined the foothills of Southern California — as seen through the private postcard collection of the Los Angeles Times' Patt Morrison, who tells Lost LA host Nathan Masters about the "sunny paradise" where TB patients could receive care and rest during their convalescence at places like Paradise Valley Sanitarium.

For the wealthy and prosperous, it was a pandemic of playing croquet and tennis while living in foothill cottages with a mountain view — hoping for a "sunshine cure."

Learn more in the full Lost LA episode "Tuberculosis: The Forgotten Plague"    • Tuberculosis: The Forgotten Plague  |...  

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