William Mulholland, the man who brought water to Los Angeles, is discussed in this article. Without fresh water, there is no urban living.
Without Hollywood there is no one to tell the story of America . Hollywood is explainer, propagandist and story teller in chief for this enormous country. Photograph: David Swanson/AFP O’Connell School in Dublin 1 has produced its fair share of taoisigh, sports people and journalists, writers and poets, but maybe few are as consequential in global terms as William Mulholland , the man who made Los Angeles . Today’s column comes from the City of Angels, and more precisely Mulholland Drive.
This road, immortalised by David Lynch’s 2001 movie, was named after the O’Connell’s old boy. Mulholland, stowaway, lumberjack, self-tought mechanic and engineer, is best known as the man who brought water to Los Angeles, breathing life into a barren land. Without fresh water there is no urban living. LA at the end of the 19th century was an outpost, a somewhere-at-the-end-of-the-line place. As head of the Los Angeles department of power and water, Mulholland commissioned the construction of a spectacular example of public infrastructure – the Los Angeles aqueduc
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