San Francisco Metblogs » Diego Rivera http://sf.metblogs.com Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:59:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 1930s era SF ‘wonderful creations’ include Alcatraz? http://sf.metblogs.com/2009/04/05/1930s-era-sf-wonderful-creations-include-alcatraz/ http://sf.metblogs.com/2009/04/05/1930s-era-sf-wonderful-creations-include-alcatraz/#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:34:26 +0000 Mark Pritchard http://sf.metblogs.com/?p=5600 I missed this LA Times travel piece when it came out a month ago — a nice little writeup on how many San Francisco landmarks were built during the Great Depression of the 1930s, from the Golden Gate Bridge and Coit Tower to the Opera House. Here is a beautiful photo gallery.

Other newspapers are still reprinting the piece: for example the Winston-Salem (NC) Journal, whose website today highlights one curious 1930s San Francisco landmark: Alcatraz, which opened in 1934. Their headline says Wonderful creations emerged during the hard times of the ’30s, with a picture of Alcatraz right underneath. Somehow I doubt the copy editor who wrote that headline has been to Alcatraz.

Anyway, the piece nicely totes up the number of Diego Rivera murals in the city, including the one at the San Francisco Stock Exchange (“What were the stockbrokers thinking?”) — and the one at City College.

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