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He watched over what is now the Third Street Promenade with a focused stare and stoic smile, affixed to a pedestal, frozen in time. Then he disappeared. The bust of Santa Monica co-founder John Percival Jones was removed when the promenade underwent dramatic renovations in the late 1980s, relegated to a storage warehouse as officials […]
