That's a pretty shot. I was reading about the Tower on Wikipedia. I would like to see the City from there and look at the murals. Google says it is closed?
I was up there once, many decades ago (sheesh!). The murals are great, but often were closed to the public in the past because of vandalism. Painted in the thirties, they had certain passages with communist content, and this was first hidden from the public, and then painted over - defaced by right wing liars.
I believe the murals had suffered from other damage and in the last 20 years have been restored to their original condition - although I don't know for sure about the communist stuff. (One of the murals has a library with books by Marx and Engels, Vladimir Lenin, etc., and leftist newspapers from the mid 30's. This mural was painted by Bernard Zakheim, who I actually met in the late 70's as a very old man. He was trying to stop the painting over of a mural of his in another part of the city that had been taken over as a Dentist's building. The Dentist's remodeling called for the destruction of the mural. The local left wing Artist's Coalition in North Beach attempted to protest and raise attention to this, but failed, and the mural was destroyed.)
I also got to know the grandson of another of the artists, Victor Arnautoff who I worked with in my Union job.
I think Coit Tower is currently open to visitors. I should go see it again, now with the restoration of the murals. It is very nice up there on Telegraph Hill, with many beautiful garden walkways leading down to the base of the hill.
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Date: 2016-02-18 02:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-02-18 03:49 am (UTC)I believe the murals had suffered from other damage and in the last 20 years have been restored to their original condition - although I don't know for sure about the communist stuff. (One of the murals has a library with books by Marx and Engels, Vladimir Lenin, etc., and leftist newspapers from the mid 30's. This mural was painted by Bernard Zakheim, who I actually met in the late 70's as a very old man. He was trying to stop the painting over of a mural of his in another part of the city that had been taken over as a Dentist's building. The Dentist's remodeling called for the destruction of the mural. The local left wing Artist's Coalition in North Beach attempted to protest and raise attention to this, but failed, and the mural was destroyed.)
I also got to know the grandson of another of the artists, Victor Arnautoff who I worked with in my Union job.
I think Coit Tower is currently open to visitors. I should go see it again, now with the restoration of the murals. It is very nice up there on Telegraph Hill, with many beautiful garden walkways leading down to the base of the hill.