More SWM
Just a quick note that there are a lot of pending activities with the fight to save Los Angeles oldest museum, the Southwest Museum. The SWM, which began 100 years ago in 1907, merged four years ago with the Autry National Center, which has its eyes on the prize of a priceless, extensive collection. The Autry wishes to remove the collection and move it into a new building within Griffith Park. This new building would more than double Autry's already extensive footprint in Griffith Park, and it would total more than FOUR TIMES the space occupied by the well-attended and well-known Griffith Observatory (think of the observatory used in "Rebel Without A Cause").
Furthermore, the Autry pays little more than a $1 per year monthly "rent" to the City of Los Angeles for the space that Col. Griffith G. Griffith deeded to the City with the promise that it would REMAIN GREEN / OPEN SPACE for the residents of Los Angeles. If that legal concern were not enough reason to deny the Autry its request to expand their footprint, there is also the issue that the Autry promised to maintain the Southwest Museum as a fully operational museum, but is now reneging on the promise in the hopes of creating a vague "community center" of some kind that might include "educational opportunities." In other words, not only is the Autry plan not specific enough in creating a museum, THEY ARE NOT EVEN AN ENFORCEABLE AGREEMENT!
I mentioned pending activities, and there are two at this time that I can mention. For starters, the Friends of the Southwest Museum Coalition will be marching in the annual Northeast Los Angeles Christmas Parade on Sunday, December 2. Anyone in the Los Angeles County area who wishes to participate on our behalf can contact me.
Additionally, a benefit fund-raising dinner - and celebration of the birthdays of Ann Walnum and Dan Wright, two extremely active members of the Coalition - will be held at the Ebell Club in Highland Park on Thursday, November 29. Again, anyone requiring additional information can contact me. If you are unable to attend to the dinner but wish to make a donation, again, please contact me and I will provide you with all the necessary information.
Furthermore, the Autry pays little more than a $1 per year monthly "rent" to the City of Los Angeles for the space that Col. Griffith G. Griffith deeded to the City with the promise that it would REMAIN GREEN / OPEN SPACE for the residents of Los Angeles. If that legal concern were not enough reason to deny the Autry its request to expand their footprint, there is also the issue that the Autry promised to maintain the Southwest Museum as a fully operational museum, but is now reneging on the promise in the hopes of creating a vague "community center" of some kind that might include "educational opportunities." In other words, not only is the Autry plan not specific enough in creating a museum, THEY ARE NOT EVEN AN ENFORCEABLE AGREEMENT!
I mentioned pending activities, and there are two at this time that I can mention. For starters, the Friends of the Southwest Museum Coalition will be marching in the annual Northeast Los Angeles Christmas Parade on Sunday, December 2. Anyone in the Los Angeles County area who wishes to participate on our behalf can contact me.
Additionally, a benefit fund-raising dinner - and celebration of the birthdays of Ann Walnum and Dan Wright, two extremely active members of the Coalition - will be held at the Ebell Club in Highland Park on Thursday, November 29. Again, anyone requiring additional information can contact me. If you are unable to attend to the dinner but wish to make a donation, again, please contact me and I will provide you with all the necessary information.
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