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

the lower walls was actually billed as part of the wpa. the upper wall was built in 1991-'92. this is a concrete wall and it has rocked going through the wall that extends the distance of 80 feet beyond the wall. the next earthquake occurs, the wall is designed to resist and the movement of the sand and allowed it to move down hill. this is a classic example of the creek and degree flow and exists all the way the area. we might see the other evidence. we have done nothing to improve the quality and the strength of the dam. >> one of the things that has come up in the policy issue over and over is that people are concerned that construction of a new building or the upper story might exacerbate these kinds of soil problems. we have extra review where we might have extra problems. it does that construction have an impact? it is a good idea to come to a peer review or a geotechnical review process as part of determining. >> in january of this year, the california building code requires almost all of san francisco that we get geologist and a geotechnical engineer. it was a state bu

death was a shoe salesman who lost his job in the great depression and went to work for roosevelts wpa. my father was a small town life guard, but he had big dreams. he wanted to go to hollywood from a young age. >> were those dreams encouraged by his mother? i think his mother may have been the only one who m.a.s. -- who encouraged those dreams. and his fiancee at the time, mugs cleaver, she left him over his dream of going to hollywood. he told his friends, though, there in dixon, ill., within five years i will be making $5,000 per week, which at the time was an astronomical figure. and he made it. just under the wire he got a contract in hollywood. >> do you believe in the american dream? >> that is a good question. i do not think i believe in it as wholeheartedly as he did because i think i have a perception that there are some people for whom the american dream is a very distant prospect. there is some -- there are some people for whom the american dream is much more difficult to attain. >> it is literally a dream? >> it is literally a dream, by virtue of the circumstances of thei

take a look at all of the wpa buildings, all of the municipal buildings in the schools and all our cities were built then. take a look. eisenhower, the economy wasn't very good when he got the interstate highway system which really opened this whole country up. you can go right back here. we always talk about the eerie canal which was done in tough times or the railroads which were built lincoln's time. those were the things that really changed the country and to not -- the equivalent of those thing is investing in the schools. like these guys talked about, it's in investing in getting companies, the high tech companies to come here and invent new things here. >> investing in the future or are you going to stay in the past. >> so as mayor bloomberg said, yes, you have to run the city, yes you have to balance budget. >> charlie: yes have you to make hard decisions. >> yes, every day but you always have to be looking toward the future and you cannot december mate -- dessimate the place you're taking today down the road. these tough times will not last forever. >> charlie: you have to build