Copper thieves strike again, mutilating a 100-year-old monument in MacArthur Park in LA
LOS ANGELES — Standing stoutly on a granite rock just off Wilshire Boulevard in MacArthur Park, Harrison Gray Otis has lost his retinue. A colossus of the rough-and-tumble politics of Los Angeles at the turn of the last century, a former military officer, antilabor crusader and owner of a newspaper that would become the Los Angeles Times, he is alone, a solitary statue in the midst of the ...
LOS ANGELES — Standing stoutly on a granite rock just off Wilshire Boulevard in MacArthur Park, Harrison Gray Otis has lost his retinue.
A colossus of the rough-and-tumble politics of Los Angeles at the turn of the last century, a former military officer, antilabor crusader and owner of a newspaper that would become the Los Angeles Times, he is alone, a solitary statue in the midst of the city.
A soldier, who stood to his left, vanished years ago, and last month, the newsboy who held aloft the latest edition disappeared, stolen by thieves who left behind only two bronze shoes, one intact and the other mangled.
The theft — and its most coveted metal, bronze — belongs to and the country that have , and public art destroyed.
