Harrison Gray Otis Statue by Paul Troubetzkoy

This would be that tarnished statue on Wilshire with the man in the wide-​brimmed hat pointing off in the distance while a turn-​of-​the-​century paperboy stands next to him hawking the latest edition.
Was going through Unilocal when I noticed a review-​less page for the piece, and not having anything else to do today we ended up swinging by MacArthur Park to check it out. I drive by this statue at least once a week and I just never gave it a second thought.
Harrison Gray Otis was the first publisher of the Los Angeles Times and served in the Philippines during the Spanish-​American War.
Oh, and he made a lot of money buying up land where the L.A. Aqueduct was going to go through (source:
) after receiving some insider information.
His statue looks like it’s pointing up at a stacked angel on the Park Plaza Hotel, and when we got there a few homeless men were using at the statue’s base as a urinal.