Person from the conservancy. She is absolutely right. It was and still is central arc is the first great civic work of art in this country. In this young democracy of the mid19th century, mid19th century. Europeans hoped we would fail. We did not. They said, you may have succeeded, but you will never put anything out culturally that is interesting. You are nothing but a bunch of carpenters and political heirs bricklayers. What do you know . We full them. We put together our own central park. Park. It is a city that has grown. We had 60,000 people in a city that barely stretched from the battery down below to city hall park, that was new york in 1800. By 1860 or so, the city had stretched up to 59th street. They already know in the 1850s that manhattan and new york city is going to cover the whole of manhattan island. They knew that. But the build up city, when central park is being designed and built, the bills up city only went to 16th street. We need to remember central park was buil
Is central park was the first great civic work of art in this country. This young democracy, europeans had hoped we would fail. We did not. They said, you may succeed economically, but you will never put anything out culturally that is interesting. What do you know . We fold them. Fooled them. We put out central park. The city that put out the spark, it is a city that has grown. We had 60,000 people in a city that barely stretched from the battery down the road. That was new york in 1800. By 1860, the city had stretched up to 59th street. The already know the manhattan is going to cover the whole of manhattan island. Only went tocity 60s street. Out of park was built westchester. In 1811,commissioners the hudson river is at the top, east river is down below. The builtup city is to left of us. ,hen they laid out the grid ifir mental attitude was, people want recreation, they will go to the riverfronts. Those with money would buy a states on the riverfronts and they would have gorgeous h
Development staff, we are going to switch gears a little bit and talk about the water taxi, something that is relatively new to us all here in San Francisco. The one on the left that you have not seen is the boat belonging to the San Francisco water taxi and you know, you could see it in action there, and in that the other one on the right is or belongs to our other, and our second operator, and tide line marine group and you can see it there, and docked at pier 1 and a half here in the fair building area. And i am going to be talking a little bit more about both of those operators in a moment. And just to go through kind of what i am going to be covering, in this presentation. I will talk about the purpose of this work in this presentation, and a little bit of background, about the current operators, and their operations. I tell you about some Research Efforts that we have been doing to kind of inform ourselves, about water taxi in other places. And to get some ideas for us here in Sa
Create a National World war i memorial in washington dc. Thepresentative from centennial commissions spoke recently at the National Press club about the plan. This is 45 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the National Press club. We are very fortunate to have mr. Edwin discuss the world war one memorial. I am your moderator with the National Press club. We have the eisenhower memorial controversy now. That has been going on for years and we have no idea when the eisenhower memorial is being built. We have several other memorials but not a world war i memorial, and therefore there is much excitement about this project. Just a few words about our speaker, edwin fountain, the grandson of not one, but two world war i veterans. He cofounded the world war i Memorial Foundation. This led to the advocacy of a National World war i memorial on the mall in july, 2013. Mr. Fountain was appointed by Senate Majority leader harry reid to the u. S. World war i centennial commission. He was elect
We have several other memorials, but not a world war i memorial, and therefore there is much excitement about this project. Just a few words about our speaker, edwin found, edwin of notn, the grandson one, but two world war i veterans. He cofounded the world war i Memorial Foundation. Of aled to the Advocacy National world war i memorial on july, 2013. Mr. Fountain was appointed by Senate Majority leader harry to the centennial commission. He was elected vicechairman of the commission in july, 2014. Mr. Fountain is a graduate of the university of north carolina, and the university of virginia law school. Thank you, tony. And good morning. My name is edwin fountain. The commission was formed by congress in january, 2013 and given a mission of ensuring suitable observation in this country of a centennial of this great war, and more importantly, commemorating the service of american servicemen and women in educating the public about this causes and consequences of that war. It has 12 memb