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Originally Posted by Handsome Stranger
Happy Anniversary to the City of Los Angeles, officially founded September 4, 1781...
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I remember L.A. having a Bicentennial Celebration on September 4, 1981, for the city and mother nature responded with an earthquake that day, prompting the L.A. Times headline (the next day?):
"L.A.'s Birthday Quake". (Or something like that.)
I think I have some commemorative coins that were sold for the occasion.
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If you search "Los Angeles Bicentennial Coins" you'll see photos of them from auction sites.
Leave out "coins" in the search and you'll find other things I didn't know about. Apparently there was
a very limited "Los Angeles Bicentennial portfolio of prints" (around 500) that were done by prominent
artists. I don't know if one could buy them individually.
Two examples:
If you want to see these depictions of Los Angeles, the only place I could find photos of all 17 of them was on the iCollector auction site, where one of these portfolios was sold for $5,000 (plus a $1,125 buyer's premium). 15 of them were signed by the artists, however. The artists were: David Hockney, Ed Ruscha, Wayne Thiebaud, Saul Bass, Helen Lundberg, Charles White, Milton Glaser, Deborah Sussman, Raymond Saunders, Marvin Rubin, Takenobu Igaraski, William Crutchfield, Carlos Diniz, Betye Saar, Ken Parkhurst, Carlos Almaraz and John Follis.
http://www.icollector.com/Various-Ar...ts-17_i6914478
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KCET has a 2014 posted piece about the L.A. Bicentennial.
https://www.kcet.org/kcet-50th-anniv...s-bicentennial
Some of it:
The anniversary concluded a year-long celebration of the city and its heritage.
The Los Angeles 200 Committee consisted of 44 community leaders, civic figures, and businesspeople who planned the Bicentennial festivities. On the anniversary date, they dedicated a Bicentennial Plaque and time capsule at the former location of the Angels Flight Railway, near 3rd Street and Grand Avenue.
A number of events were staged from September 1980 to September 1981, with mayor Tom Bradley present at many of them, as a city long accused of not having a history explicitly celebrated it.
The celebrations were also a rehearsal of sorts for the upcoming Olympic games, which would take place less than three years after the Bicentennial.
The city's 200th anniversary even had its own slogan, "L.A.'s the pLAce," and its own logo, a stylized angel figure with a multicolored rainbow design over its head, symbolizing the City of the Angels and its cultural diversity. The logo and slogan was seen all over the city and in commemorative merchandise.
The Los Angeles Dodgers wore the bicentennial logo on the sleeves of their uniforms for the duration of the 1981 Major League Baseball season. Incidentally, the team went on to win its fifth World Series championship in October, defeating the New York Yankees in six games.
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I don't recall knowing about that time capsule. I'm a bit confused, the article says it was located near 3rd and Grand Ave., but a 2017 article in L.A. Mag says there was a 1976 Bicentennial capsule that was "reburied" at Angels Flight, 351 Hill St, Los Angeles, CA. So are these two separate time capsules or the 1976 one was moved to the new Angel's Flight location, which was not there in 1981, am I correct. That info says it's to be opened on the "city's" tricentennial.
By the way, that L.A. Mag article is titled:
The Locations of 15 Time Capsules Hidden Throughout L.A.
Guarantee you’ve walked right over a few of these
by Emily Ayers - March 3, 2017
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/...s-los-angeles/
It's worth a read and quite fascinating, including this intriguing one: Underground Garage Pershing Square.
It says it was put there in 1950 and not much is known about it other than whatever is inside it weighs about 225 pounds.
Anyone go missing around 1950?
And the piece has this astute observation:
Here’s the funny thing about time capsules. People forget about them. They go through the trouble of making them, and there’s a ceremony, and a plaque, and then time happens. Because we love time capsules and the earnest and sometimes unintentionally funny way that they capture an era, we are bringing these 16 to light so that they may never be forgotten.
[FYI: The above paragraph says "16" time capsules and the article title says 15 locations. That's because one location has two of them.]
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The city's 200th anniversary had its own logo, a stylized angel figure with a multicolored rainbow design over its head, symbolizing the City of the Angels and its cultural diversity.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers wore the bicentennial logo on the sleeves of their uniforms for the duration of the 1981 Major League Baseball season.
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Jerry Reuss/Flickr
A photo of Tommy Lasorda with the patch on his sleeve.
(Talking to Fernando Valenzuela.)
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