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They don’t dream up names like that any more: The Million Dollar Building, Broadway, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Eiffel Tower, the Pantages Theatre.
Changing the Million Dollar Building to the Mulholland Building is even worse than it sounds because of the reason: “. . . Legend has it that William Mulholland, the Department of Water and Power engineer who selected the route for the Los Angeles aqueduct system, waged some of his political battles in still intact offices on the 12th floor of the Million Dollar Building.”
Mulholland belongs on the aqueduct, or on a reservoir. Million Dollar belongs where it belongs. And a million hoorays to Ira Yellin for saving and restoring the building (“Developer Buys Downtown Landmark,” Business, Feb. 10). Millions of memories will remember him for it.
DUKE RUSSELL
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