Talk:Million Dollar Theater
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[edit] Metropolitan Water District vs Department of Water and Power
First, there was no need to disambiguate the link "Metropolitan Water Board" as no such agency ever existed in Los Angeles. It is the Metropolitan Water District which had its offices in the Million Dollar Theatre's office building.
Secondly, I don't know where it began (though I suspect this page, the fourth paragraph of which contains the earliest example I can find), but I'm seeing much conflation of two agencies; The Department of Water and Power of the City of Los Angeles and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. William Mulholland was the head of the predecessor of the city's DWP, the city-owned Bureau of Water Works and Supply. The separate MWD was established in 1928, at a time when Mulholland had already been chief engineer of the city's much older agency for ages.
The MWD was formed with the purpose of acquiring water supplies for areas of Southern California outside the City of Los Angeles. Though today's Los Angeles DWP gets some of its water from the still-independent MWD, there was in 1928 no connection between the two, and Mulholland never ran the MWD. Neither Mulholland or the LADWP ever had offices in the Million Dollar Theatre's office building.
I've removed the false information from this article and corrected the wiki-link to the Metropolitan Water District article. Whyaduck 23:27, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
