William Mulholland Memorial Fountain — Attraction in Los Angeles

Here’s an informal “ABOUT” section about this awesome water fountain is actually much larger than it looks in pictures. And since I was born many, many years after it was built, I could be wrong but I’ve heard many fellow, much older Angelenos claim that the water fountain was actually built OVER 80 years ago this coming year, 2025 (the older I get - & @ “only” 39/40 yrs old, U start 2 realize just HOW FAST “TIME” passes; hard to believe it’s already 01.August.24 and ‘25 is ONLY/exactly 5 months away!!); built waaaaay [sic] back in, like, most people say around 1939/1940!! I do know for a fact though that it was built in honor of William Mulholland! The dude was an engineer who constructed the very first aqueduct in LA in 1913!! I DK but I actually remember that little nugget of info from, like either late elementary school or early junior high…B4 my family moved to Austin Texas when I was in seventh grade! Anyway, there’s a little history lesson for anybody that’s curious about this very old fountain that’s still garners a lot of attention to this very day!!!

I like what one of the other comments commenters that mentioned the spray from the fountain that feels really good in summer; so true! It’s funny, somehow California projected to the rest of the country that it’s like 72° year round, ESP in the summer when the rest of the nation is slowly dying in the 100s! They did a heck of a job in promoting that which is not true at all… In a way. In short, if you live within a certain distance from the ocean, the Santa Ana winds aloft, don’t think winds like a windy day rather the winds up high that affect the atmosphere and, yes, within whatever that particular distance is from the ocean, the temperatures are relatively nice in the summertime. But you don’t have to go that far inland before it starts getting really hot in the summertime. In fact, the walk of fame, do you know the area where famous celebrities have put their hand prints in the sidewalk, that area which, isn’t that far from the pacific ocean, relatively speaking, that area easily gets up into the 90s, near 100 in the summertime. And then if you go just a little bit further inland, even the valley, forget about it! It’s just as hot there as it is in parts of southern Arizona, for real! After all, once you get far enough east into the desert, like Palm Springs, think about the fact that death Valley is not that far away which is the hottest spot almost every day in the nation! I’m not trying to put LA down but to anybody who has ever thought that if you moved to SoCal, that is going to be 72° wherever you live in the summer, you are very, very misinformed! It gets very hot there in more areas than not!! Again, think death Valley: they average 120° every day during the summer; that’s 120° on average most days! That makes Phoenix, AZ look like freaking northern Alaska!!!

PostScript: I really wish I could give credit to whomever took this photograph but I actually got it from this pretty old dude that my uncle knew and I have no idea what his name is. I just know that on the back of the picture it’s dated, it’s hard to tell because it’s so old but I think it says 1938 or 1939. What trips me out about this photograph is look at the area behind it… Isn’t that a trip?!?!? It’s just like a picture of the country or some thing; there’s no buildings or roads or whatever that stand out in particular and it looks like it could’ve been taken in the country before Los Angeles‘s population exploded! Which would be about right since, get this, the population of Los Angeles from The, I assume, mid-2-late 1930s, it wasn’t even 1 million people! During this time, the population was only, approximately 699K vs. A few years ago, that is before the city population and the state started shrinking substantially since there’s been such a major exodus from California to Texas, particularly in Austin - which is known as Little California - in Texas. Anyway, at one point several years ago, the greater Los Angeles area had almost 20 million vs. barely...

The Mulholland Park is a really neat little Park with a gorgeous fountain in the middle of it. There's also a lot of sidewalk trails to walk around. This park near the entrance to Griffith Park is a very popular spot for newlyweds to take photos. It's not uncommon to see many couples in tux and wedding gowns having photos taken in front of the fountain. There's a very cool aqueduct pipe section on display at the park. Remember Mr Mulholland is credited with bringing water from the far north eastern valley into the LA area about 120 years ago via the Aqueduct. This work employed 6,000+ employees for several years. If you have time check out the LA Aqueduct videos on YouTube. At nighttime you can see a few coyotes roaming around, so be careful if you have small pets and if you're dog walking. Currently, in April 2022, the park is partially closed with the fountain fenced off, so you may want to wait until it...

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