Over the course of two weeks, more than 100,000 of you came to our Facebook page and voted for your favorite people, places and things in this city. And now that winners have been officially announced via our latest print edition (you can pick up a copy at any of the 500 locations listed here), we will be rolling out all 30 winners online–one a day for the next month.
Best Mural
WPA Mural on the Promenade Downtown
This WPA mural was created between 1936 and 1938 by artists Albert Henry King, Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Henry Nord on the facade of the old Municipal Auditorium celebrating Long Beach’s love of recreational living. In 1982, the mural was relocated to its current space at 3rd Street and Promenade, where it now caps off the north end of the popular strip and sits directly in the center of what will soon be Harvey Milk Park. There is an ironic appropriateness to its current placement: the mural is tinged with homoerotic references, from the two men huddling with one another at the top, to the woman regarding another woman while she leans against the guard tower, to two women sharing the shade of an umbrella. Harvey would be proud.
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