DEMOLISHING HISTORY:

The City of Santa Monica is now demolishing the two original RAND Corporation buildings. Generally thought to be America’s first think tank, RAND occupied the site from 1951 until last year when it moved into its new HQ, which is just south of these buildings. Several years ago, RAND sold most of its original acreage to the City for $53 million. Many of America’s most significant post-World War II foreign and domestic policies and strategems were developed in these buildings, and it was a RAND researcher Daniel Ellsberg who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times.

You might be interested in …

March 2, 2005

Theatre:

Birthday Girl, through thru March 19, at The Promenade Playhouse, 1404 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica. Tickets are $15.00 and can be purchased by calling the box office directly at (310) 656-8070 ext. 10. […]

September 24, 2007

980 Pounds Of Trash:

Twelve hundred volunteers cleared 980 pounds of trash and recyclables from Santa Monica’s beaches Saturday as part of the 23rd Annual California Coastal Cleanup Day coordinated in Los Angeles County by Heal the Bay. Volunteers […]