Schools built within less than ten years. Many have art work in or on them. This is Berkeley High school. You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. The schools are always telling you that Public Education can make you better. It should be free. Now, Public Education was fortunatate in california. Just in time for them to move in. They build hundreds of schools. Seismically safe schools. When you enter it, you go under a copper marquee. Enter to learn. We are all this in together. The Public Service is a noble thing. This is a San Francisco school that might be attractive to so eyes. It was a fire trap. They tore these down and replaced them. George washington. Hollywood high school. They have english, latin and greek. This is a middle school in long beach. It wasnt centralized authority. They chose the architects. The main constraint is there had to be an engineer on site. There there is berkeley. And Piedmont Avenue in oakland. This is in nevada city. These schools,
Librariance. New nutritionist. Starving children dont learn well. They give them lunches. This is an art class in San Francisco hospital. Art class for crippled children. The photographers that i find of San Francisco indicate that schools were integrated at the lowest level. You could mitigate the racial problem from the bottom up. There was also Adult Education too. This 1 learned one learned to read as many did. Many of the Community Colleges were a result of the new deal. Sacramento. I gave a talk at santa rosa and the city college in San Francisco was largely a product of the pwa and has wonderful art work all over it by the art in action project at the Treasure Island fair. And then theres these special schools for crippled children. This is in the Mission District and its a Beautiful School with all the features we take for granted because of the americans with disabilities act. It has wonderful tiles. This was not accidental. This is the sunshine school. We made the school as b
Golden gate park and public libraries. And then one at north berkeley. Public hospitals. Clinics and sanitary. As well as polio people did get tuberculosis. Remember that counties were strapped for funds. So the wpa gave it to them. Children got health care. We were headed for a National Health care system. We treat things differently now. Essentially, what we have of medcal is going to be slashed true. As an environmentist, i am opposed to this. They laid concrete in southern california. Without which, a good deal would be washed into the ocean. The ccc and the wpa workers were trained for disaster relieve. We didnt have to rely on the national guard. These kinds of things wouldnt be as disastrous. We need a new wpa. They are walking over the sidewalks, which is wpa. This was a demonstration outside of Dianne Feinsteins office. And demanding it not be torn down. The new deal moved in and gave rural areas water and electricity. This is one in modock county and we have cheaper electrici
They gave grants and loans for dams and sewage. Sewage treatment. Airports et cetera. Hopkins couldnt stand each other. And were constantly battling. They kicked the Construction Industry back to good health. The upper right one is the alameda park station. They could not aid the private agencies. Alameda had its own electrical system. These are various projects. Los angeles storm drain system. They raised the dam. Your water is a product of pw a. They built the sacramento water reservoir. The fans were so well built that in fact, they are still in use. The engineers said we have to replace a ball bearing. We of course, have neglected our infrainstruct our and its rated to be a d and dropping. So if you dont pay your taxes, things do fall down. Much of it is things that were built during the new deal. Fortunately, they built them very well. So the stuff was really built to last. But, if you dont have taxes to run a state. I expect we will see more of that stuff. I will give you a brief
The oakland hills. Nate, red woods. Skyline. And enabled them to go up and develop the hills. The rural roads that go through the coast range. This enabled them to get their stuff to market. This is at road built by the ccc. This is a bridge. This is highway one and you wont know, except you look at the bridge and you will see dates, 1938, 1939. The airstrips are ccc. And the one out at treasure island. Long beach, burbank. This is oakland and the whole built Line Railroad was redone. 19 is a pwa project and our great amphitheatres are from that time. This is Santa Barbara bowl. This is the forest theater in carmel and these are ccc workers putting huge bolder. Heres 6 thousand people getting ready to enjoy oklahoma in that theater. Big basin is a ccc project and this one, on the east river, new york. A project built where people from the Lower East Side could see performances and still do. Our parks and recreation. Almost all from them. Thats the conservatory garden and i photographed