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Show 2 THE CITIZEN Right, Central Court looking into the giant open air auditorium in the Denver Civic Center. Below, San Franciscos pub- lic library,, and below that, the Frisco city hall and auditorium, two units of the civic center. ing point for thousands of people every day, a beauty spot and the nucleus of Denver's daily pulse. Frisco Ambitious San Francisco's civic center is a pretentious affair. "San Francisco is an ambitious city," said Mayor James Rolph, Jr., when discussing the present and future of San Francisco. Following five or six holocausts, which laid the city in ashes, came the great fire of 1906, which wiped out miles of buildings. Immediately San Francisco started rebuilding on each Before the ashes had occasion. cooled in 1906 the citizens were planning bigger and greater things. Among the ambitions were the building of a civic center second to none in the world ; the establishments of more parks and playgrounds for |