Oakland City Hall

... that a 36-cell jail is located on the twelfth floor of the Oakland, California City Hall (pictured)?
... that Frank Kanning Mott was a messenger for Western Union, a telephone operator, a hardware business owner and a city councilman before he was elected mayor of Oakland, California in 1905?
... that the sculptor Emile Norman's largest and most famous work is a four-story high endomosaic window in the lobby of the Masonic Memorial Temple in San Francisco?
... that the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco houses one of the world's most comprehensive libraries of academic sexological and erotological resources?

October 2009