The Santa Monica City Council devoted a few moments at the beginning of its meeting last Tuesday, July 12, to the 130th birthday of the founding of Santa Monica on July 15, 1875. Mayor Pam O’Connor and Louise Gabriel, President of the Santa Monica Historical History, invited everyone to have a piece of a birthday cake that was on display in City Hall lobby.
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