When LA city officials balked at Lummis’s plan to build the Museum on Mt. Washington, he took them up here, probably on a day like this, and showed them the view. “The Museum will be like the Alhambra,” Lummis told them, “and there are the Sierra Nevada.” He meant Mt. Baldy, which can reliably stand in for the Snowy Mountains that hover over old Granada. The officials gasped, and paid.
The pomegranate is the emblem of the Kingdom of Granada, which during the 13th century was merged with the lion of Leon and the castle of Castile, in the long reconquista that produced the Spanish empire.
Granada was the seat of a powerful Moorish emirate, whose palace was the Alhambra, and whose toleration of Jewish scholars and intellectuals made it a center of medieval learning.
Thanks be to Wikipedia for the splendid art.
The Valley Village View 