Ex-Mayor Yorty Is Hospitalized
Former Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, a colorful, scrappy politician who ran the city during the turbulent ‘60s, was in stable condition after being admitted to UCLA Medical Center with an unknown ailment, a hospital official said.
Yorty, 88, was transferred to the medical center from an unidentified hospital at about 1:30 p.m. Monday, nursing supervisor Susan Davidson said.
“The doctors don’t know quite what is wrong with him,” she said. “The doctors are still running tests.”
Davidson said hospital officials are reluctant to release much information about Yorty, because they have yet to contact his family.
Yorty lives in Studio City, but a spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department said no ambulance had been dispatched to his home in the past two days.
Yorty was elected mayor in 1961 and stayed in City Hall until Tom Bradley ousted him from office in 1973 to become the city’s first black mayor.
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