CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 20, 2005 | By Bob Pool, Times Staff Writer
Marilyn Monroe spent some of her most important Hollywood nights in its safe embrace. So did about 20,000 others. Now, though, the last young resident has packed his bags and moved. Los Angeles' original orphanage is shutting its cottage doors after 125 years of housing children whose families have all but given up on them. Without fanfare, the venerable privately run Hollygrove children's residential treatment center has closed.