The Southwest Museum of the American Indian is just off Route 66 and is the oldest museum in Los Angeles, dating to 1913. Some controlling interests want to move the museum’s contents to another site; American Indians and other museum advocates want the artifacts to stay where they are.
For more background on this complicated issue, read this and this.
Los Angeles Route 66 advocate Scott Piotrowski writes:
I encourage each and every one of you to send your letters of support to the following members of the Los Angeles City Council and to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, as well as to send copies to the Friends of the Southwest Museum Coalition. All the addresses are listed below …
Mayor Villaraigosa, 200 N. Spring St., Room 303, LA, CA, 90012. E-mail mayor@lacity.org
Councilmember Jose Huizar, 200 N. Spring St., Room 425 LA, CA 90012. E-mail is councilmember.huizar@lacity.org
Councilmember Ed Reyes, 200 N. Spring St., Room 410, LA, CA 90012. E-mail is councilmember.reyes@lacity.org
Councilmember Tom LaBonge, 200 N. Spring St., Room 480, LA, CA 90012. E-mail is Labonge@lacity.org
Human Relations Commission, Gary de la Rosa, 200 N. Spring St., Room 1625, LA, CA 90012. E-mail is gary.delarosa@lacity.org
Friends of the Southwest Museum Coalition, 755 Crane Blvd., LA 90065. E-mail is swmcoalition@pacbell.net
UPDATE: There were some problems with the e-mail addresses. They’re OK now.