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SUNDAY. April 7. 2002 THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE LOCALS courthouses COMMUNTIY Calendar i refers to a quote attributed to Winston Churchill: We shape our bufldin and afterwards, our buildings shape us. I believe this Is especially true of our courthouses. In this rich and unprecedented collection, the story of the state unfolds In Its architecture from Spanish Colonialism to statehood, to postwar Internationalism." Alameda Countys court- -house receives stellar atten-tlon In the chapter on Bay Area examples.

The 11-story steel-frame and reinforced concrete structure, built In 1935 and funded in part with federal assistance, was The first all-purpose courthouse In a skyscraper." The first three stories and mezzanine Conn a rectangular base or podium on which Is centered a square seven-story tower that terminates in a low-pitched, pyr- amklal copper roof square observation cupola. The building's unique lakeside setting enhances the. civic presence of the complex, affording it an especially effec-. Landmarks by fire and crumbling beneath the wrecker's ball. Essays on the histories and architectural styles, as well as anecdotes and legends con- tributed by Judges, lawyers and politicians, have been compiled and edited by author Ray McDevitt, a San Francisco-based attorney who specializes In municipal and environmental law.

McDevitt will be on hand at 2 p.m, April 14 at the Oak-. land Museum Auditorium to give a presentation, featuring photos from the book. The free lecture Is sponsored by the museum's Council cm Architecture and the History Guild. In the book's Chief Justice Ronald M. You're time argued in favor of the bond measure' on the ballot, claiming that the project would "put men to work anf ccmaolldatkm of county offices.

In one central location would offer savings on maintenance and other expouM. In addition to the male coni-struetkm crew put to work oif the project, a woman, locally prominent artist Marian Simpson, got the nod to create a striking pair of -murals in the grand east -foyer. The panels, consisting' of 52 shades of marble, de -4 plots California history from 'the earty Spanish period to the emergence of statehood. The panels were also funded 3 the WPA Federal Arts The OaUand Mu-seum Bookstore will be of-ferlng copies of die hard i- bound book for sale at the April 14 event The coat is 850, For mine Information, caU the museum's special events office 238-2920. The museum Is at 1000 Oak- Street 'CtEEffit i i ii ftff jttist 5 WM ai-is-fn 'CAtr-v' r.

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Many of the book's photo-never been pub-1, and chronicle events ranging from scenes of a hanging in the 1880s, to Joe DlMagglo and Marilyn Monroe's wedding in the 1950s, to a Black Panther Party demonstration in die 1960s. In addition to formal portraits," of each of the courthouses, there are views of the 1 under construction, 1 with holiday lights, consumed Lab workers to hear about Jews in WWII FROM STAFF REPORTS LIVERMORE In a presentation to Lawrence Livermore Laboratory employees, speaker Robert Katz will discuss Jewish resistance during World War II. The presentation will be held from noon to 1 pan. Thursday In the lab's Budding 543 auditorium. The event sponsored fay a lab diversity committee, is offered by die South Bay Holocaust Survivors Group and the Jewish Partisans'.

Education Foundation. f. An estimated 1.5 million per-' sound In the Allied armies, during World War were Jewish, according to historians. Armed Jewish groups resisted the Nazis In 24 ghettos In western and central Found. The 'Warsaw Uprising lasted.

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