The Sunken Garden is host to community-wide celebrations all year long. What is often mistaken about this magical place is its layout of stone walls—many are told it is the basement of the former courthouse prior to the 1925 earthquake. This is myth. The sandstone blocks that form the current day landscape were recycled from the older courthouse buildings after the 1925 earthquake.
16 Spirit of the Ocean
It took 160,000 pounds of sandstone to recreate the Spirit of the Ocean Fountain—originally sculpted by Ettore Cadorin in 1928.