Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill, in my opinion, are very important landmarks in San Francisco as they stand high above the city. Lighting up at night, the Tower is impossible to miss and prominent within the cities skyline. Coit Tower was built on Telegraph Hill in 1933.The art deco tower is 250 feet tall and was designed by architects Arthur Brown Jr. and Henry Howard with murals by 26 different artists and numerous assistants. It offers fantastic views of San Francisco, the bridge, ocean and city itself. When I visited the tower the views and beautiful setting of it amazed me. It really captures the essence of San Francisco.
The murals inside the tower also seem to reflect the spirit of the city, with very "leftist" political and social themes related to the Great Depression and socialist political movements. Amongst the scenes painted are a banck robbery, a scene from the harbor and a look inside a department store. They are bright and powerful, painted in a Diego Riviera style they give a brief history of the Calfornian experience of the Great Depression.
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Interesting about the murals...sounds like it was a really community-based project. I wonder what the conditions of building the tower were - why was it built, and who wanted to build it? And then I wonder how much information visitors of Coit Tower come armed with...
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