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Remarks Of Mayor Fletcher Bowron at Unveiling of Plaque at First Street Entrance to City Hall, Wednesday, November 5, 1941

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Identifier	clloy_219
Title	Remarks Of Mayor Fletcher Bowron at Unveiling of Plaque at First Street Entrance to City Hall, Wednesday, November 5, 1941
Creator	Los Angeles (Calif.). Office of the Mayor
Date Created	1941 November 5
Description	A typed transcription of a speech commemorating the centennial anniversary of the arrival of the families in the Rowland and Workman Party in Los Angeles. The speech praises and thanks the original settlers and their descendents for their contributions to the development of Los Angeles.
Historical Background	Fletcher E. Bowron (1887-1968) served as mayor of Los Angeles from 1938 to 1953. Prior to becoming mayor, Bowron had worked as a Hearst reporter and as executive secretary to Governor Friend W. Richardson, as well as serving as a Superior Court judge. Taking office after the recall of corrupt mayor Frank Shaw, Bowron won the election by a wide margin despite opposition from the Los Angeles Times. He was appointed to finish Shaw’s term and went on to serve three additional terms, for a total of 15 years, becoming the first to achieve that record. The Workman family traces its residence in Los Angeles back to the mid-nineteenth century, when two brothers, David (1798-1855) and William (1800-1876), originally from England, were the first Workmans to settle in Los Angeles: David came from Missouri, and William from Taos, New Mexico. Several of their descendants went on to become prominent figures in the social and political life of the city.
Type	text
Physical Description	4 leaves ; 22 cm
Institution	Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount University Library.
Collection Identifier	http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt8870232n
Project note	Funding for a portion of this collection came from a Local History Digital Resource Project grant . The Local History Digital Resource Project is supported by the U. S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. For more information, please visit: http://www.califa.org/lhdrp.php
Country of Creation	US
Copyright Status	Public Domain
Copyright Statement	Materials in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Language	eng
Subject (Name)	Workman family; Rowland family;
Subject (Place)	Los Angeles (Calif.);
Subject (Topic)	Settlers--Commemoration; Agricultural colonies--California--Los Angeles--Centennial celebrations, etc.; Cities and towns--Growth--History;
Form/Genre	Manuscripts;
Metacollection Identifier	http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/
Item/Call Number	Workman Family Papers CSLA-9, Series 1: Mary Julia Workman, Box 2, Folder 1
Contributors	Bowron, Fletcher, 1887-1968;

Identifier	CLLOY_219_PAGE001
Title	CLLOY_219_PAGE001
Project note	Funding for a portion of this collection came from a Local History Digital Resource Project grant . The Local History Digital Resource Project is supported by the U. S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. For more information, please visit: http://www.califa.org/lhdrp.php
Transcription	REMARKS OF MAYOR FLETCHER BOWRON AT UNVEILING OF PLAQUE AT FIRST STREET ENTRANCE TO CITY HALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1941 So intent are we with the manifold problems of a great city and in planning for a still greater Los Angeles of the future, we do not give sufficient consideration to the significance of our glorious past. In the history [handwritten underline] of the founding and development, growth and expansion of Los Angeles, we are able to determine the underlying reasons that made this city great; not merely in numbers, in wealth, in industries, in beauty, but as a city with a soul, a city with distinctiveness, a city that is different from any large municipality in the world. There is only one Los Angeles, and it is known in the most remote section of the globe, to the utmost limits of civilization.

Remarks Of Mayor Fletcher Bowron at Unveiling of Plaque at First Street Entrance to City Hall, Wednesday, November 5, 1941

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