we need a new wpa. they are walking over the sidewalks, which is wpa. this was a demonstration outside of dianne feinstein's office. and demanding it not be torn down. the new deal moved in and gave rural areas water and electricity. this is one in modock county and we have cheaper electricity. and then, there were sustainable communities, people think they are discovering this at this time. this one was done in georgia. this is one in maryland green belt outside of washington d.c. this is right outside of the co-op. and then urban roads like this in the los angeles river and this is being built. this is mira loma park. this is lark merced blvd. it's all made of clay. it's going to slump. these are the roads built in the oakland hills. nate, red woods. skyline. and enabled them to go up and develop the hills. the rural roads that go through the coast range. this enabled them to get their stuff to market. this is at road built by the ccc. this is a bridge. this is highway one and you won't know, except you look at the bridge and you will see dates, 1938,

they turned it into a park and it was also restored by wpa. i believe they torn down the house, which was unforgivable and the zoo is wpa. and here's the murals inside the mother's building. the marina sea walls and great aquatic park. the palace of fine arts. we woul't have and a little further in, lake merit, this pier. alva rado park and then, some of you my recognize this. the berkeley rose garden. did it have to be this beautiful. finally, i'm going to wrap up. san francisco is rich in the various kinds of arts projects. we have a fabulous collection of stuff here. there were four components. there was visual arts, federal theater, federal musics and federal writers. they employed many people. this is excellent to show the work. the visual arts project. it was especially important in san francisco because of dieggo rivera and radicalizing it. this is the coit towers. this was done under cw a. 1934. the wpa wasn't in existence. this is the very first of the relieve projects. harry hopkins said, they have to eat too. the artists should dig

he was the forerunner of the wpa and the prototype for it. this is a page from the cw a and it showed kids getting hot lunches. that was important. he put 2 million americans to work. and that included about 50 thousand school teachers sent out to rural areas. this is a cw a project. that's stern grove behind it. they are using wheel barrels. for this reason, many projects were well built. there are no cw a plot. this was one in berkeley placed there and the tennis court at coat niecis park. i was showing a montessory class there. this is an amphitheatre. it's a wonderful amphitheatre. there was from the sidewalks and they just reused it to create other things. down in menlow park. they built into a caretakers house. the wpa is must more famous. it came after the cw a. it did everything. they put eight and a half million people to work. they built roads. they sewed clothes. they built roads is in san francisco. this one, i have seen them on sidewalks in san francisco. this is on a retains wall in crocket. they are very seldom markers. cw a do

everything from monument to golden gate park to market street, other works in the collection, from the wpa era, the quite tower, the works from the george washington high school. we have the contemporary education, where they depict some of the vocational arts that were taught at george washington high school. what is interesting is the artist's and corp. of some of the -- incorporation of some of the architectural elements. they used the speaker from the p a system as part of the design. on the opposite side of the library, we have a large fresco which depicts the academic subjects that were taught at the time. it serves as a foil to the other fresco in the library, we have academic subjects on one side, vocational subjects on the other, and result is the concept of a well-rounded education. additionally, what we plan to do is the academy of hospitality and tourism will be part of, so the students can share with other students, faculty, the neighborhood, and others to come by and what to look to the artwork we have. >> by working with the students, we hope to raise awareness of the collec

he was the forerunner of the wpa and the prototype for it. this is a page from the cw a and it showed kids getting hot lunches. that was important. he

lauderdale and the florida center for the book hosted a symposium, rediscovering the 1930s: the wpa and the federal writers' project. it was there that my husband jeep and i first -- gene and i first met john who as executive direct offer of the center for the -- directer of the center for the book, served on one of the panels. that event coincided with the miami book fair which gene and i attended with a bookseller friend from washington. at the book fair, i picked up a nice first edition of the st. john's, a parade of diversities planning to make it a christmas gift to my sister and her husband who live on the st. john's river in jacksonville, florida. our friend noted that would make a nice collection. by that he meant the rivers of america series, the st. john's being a volume in the series. i was not familiar with the rivers series, but a seed had been planted. i kept the book for myself, not for my sister, and began to research the river series. [laughter] i remember buying my second and third rivers books at the book shop while visiting san francisco. when i asked if they had any

i am almost of the opinion of wpa, something else that puts money in the hands of people with a tendency to consume host: . host: david malpass. guest: that argument has been made. as the government spends more money, people look at their own budgets and cut back. you don't actually get the stimulus that the economists claim. i think we saw that in both -- bush started this idea of putting money in consumers' pockets with rebate checks. it turned out that people knew if the government borrowed the money, it was on them. so they cut back. you did not get the consumption impact that economists had labeled. i want to focus on the production side of the economy. the question is how do you get small businesses and new businesses to add that next worker. how'd you get every small business in the country to add one worker? you are not going to do that by having the government spend more money. that has the opposite impact. furthermore, the money flows away from the united states. big corporations are borrowing dollars and taking it abroad to create jobs there because those governments are not a

i am almost of the opinion of wpa, something else that puts money in the hands of people with a tendency to consume host: . host: david malpass. guest: that argument has been made. as the government spends more money, people look at their own budgets and cut back. you don't actually get the stimulus that the economists claim. i think we saw that in both -- bush startedhis idea of puttg money in consumers' pocks with rebate checks. it turned out that people knew if the government borrowed the money, it was on them. so they cut back. you did not get the consumption impact that economists had labeled. i want to focus on the production side of the economy. the question is how do you get small businesses and new businesses to add that next worker. how'd you get every small ness in the country to add one worker? you are not going to that by having the government spend more money. that has the opposite impact. furthermore, the money flows away from the united states. big corporations are borrowing dollars and taking it abroad to create jobs there because those governments are not as out of cont