{"id":1135,"date":"2013-10-24T13:26:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"centennial-commemorative-civic-event-and-reenactment-at-the-los-angeles-aqueduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2013\/10\/24\/centennial-commemorative-civic-event-and-reenactment-at-the-los-angeles-aqueduct\/","title":{"rendered":"Centennial Commemorative Civic Event and Reenactment at the Los Angeles Aqueduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAVA members are encouraged to attend the&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\" style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.5;\"><a style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.laaqueduct100.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DWP<\/a>&#8216;s&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;\">official<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;\">&nbsp;Centennial celebration of the opening of the <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ladwp.com\/ladwp\/faces\/ladwp\/aboutus\/a-water\/a-w-losangelesaqueduct\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Aqueduct<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;\"> at the Cascades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>100 years ago on this day, 30,000 people clamored around the Cascasdes. The Chamber of Commerce distributed bottled Owens River water. The Southern Pacific charged $1 for a round trip ticket from Los Angeles.&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;\">William Mulholland officiated the ceremonies. He thanked his assistants and the City of Los Angeles for their loyal support. His address to the crowd was brief: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This rude platform is an altar, and on it we are here consecrating this water supply and dedicating the Aqueduct to you and your children and your children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s children&#8211;for all time.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He paused for a moment, then quipped &#8220;That&#8217;s all.&#8221; It was a little <a href=\"http:\/\/wsoweb.ladwp.com\/Aqueduct\/historyoflaa\/altar.htm\" target=\"_blank\">later<\/a> in the proceedings that he uttered the immortal, oft-misquoted line &#8220;There it is Mr. Mayor. Take it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Get a carpool together and join us for this watershed event!<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1135\" data-postid=\"1135\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1135 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAVA members are encouraged to attend the&nbsp;DWP&#8216;s&nbsp;official&nbsp;Centennial celebration of the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct at the Cascades. 100 years ago on this day, 30,000 people clamored around the Cascasdes. The Chamber of Commerce distributed bottled Owens River water. The Southern Pacific charged $1 for a round trip ticket from Los Angeles.&nbsp;William Mulholland officiated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}