Children's Pool La Jolla
Crescent concrete seawall built as a wave-sheltered swimming cove, now a sunbathing nursery for wild harbor seals.
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This guide to Children's Pool in La Jolla, San Diego, follows engineer Hiram Newton Savage, hired in 1923 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps to tame the cove's currents with a crescent seawall, and the disappearance that stalled the project mid-build. You'll hear how city officials chased him across three continents over five years, and the one condition he set before agreeing to come home and finish the job. Along the way you'll meet architect William Templeton Johnson, who added the parapets and dressing stalls behind the water.
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