4,255
4.3K
Feb 11, 2004
02/04
Feb 11, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 4,255
favorite 4
comment 0
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz interviewed by Chris Carlsson July 6, 1999, on 1970s Central American Solidarity Movements in San Francisco, their influence on and from the growing gay movement in the city.
Topics: Sandinistas, San Francisco, Gay Movement
5,637
5.6K
Feb 11, 2004
02/04
Feb 11, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 5,637
favorite 1
comment 0
Harry Hay, venerable co-founder of modern Gay movement, tells about being in crowd during 1934 waterfront strike in San Francisco, how militia was shooting into crowd, and bullets whizzed past his head.
Topics: Harry Hay, 1934 General Strike, San Francisco
8,731
8.7K
Feb 11, 2004
02/04
Feb 11, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 8,731
favorite 1
comment 0
Former editor of San Francisco Sun Reporter, Thomas Fleming, gives his account of the 1966 Hunter's Point Riot, which led to three days of martial law in some neighborhoods of San Francisco.
Topics: Thomas Fleming, 1966 Hunter's Point riot, Black San Francisco
11,611
12K
Feb 11, 2004
02/04
Feb 11, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 11,611
favorite 3
comment 0
A Summer of Love poem/rap by San Francisco legend "Diamond Dave" Whitaker.
Topics: Summer of Love, Diamond Dave Whitaker, spoken word
2,801
2.8K
Feb 11, 2004
02/04
Feb 11, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 2,801
favorite 5
comment 0
Huge anti-Iraq War demonstrations rocked U.S. cities in autumn 2002 and winter 2003. This shows the January 18, 2003 demonstration in San Francisco.
Topics: Anti-Iraq war, San Francisco, protest
11,524
12K
Feb 11, 2004
02/04
Feb 11, 2004
by
Christian Bruno and Sam Green
movies
eye 11,524
favorite 23
comment 3
The 1969 San Francisco International Film Festival opens on the steps of City Hall, but is unexpectedly attacked by independent filmmakers with pies. This footage was long-lost and then found and made into a movie in the late 1990s.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 3 reviews )
Topics: Film Festival, 1969, Pie Fight
14,879
15K
Feb 11, 2004
02/04
Feb 11, 2004
by
Kathy Katz and Mike Kavanagh
movies
eye 14,879
favorite 21
comment 9
An excerpt from Farmcore, a 45-minute documentary about The Farm, the remarkable rural oasis under the freeways in San Francisco from 1974-1986, an autonomous zone that housed farm animals, rehearsal, and performance space, theater and punk rock...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 9 reviews )
Topics: Farm, San Francisco, punk rock, 1970s, eviction, utopian experiment
7,411
7.4K
Feb 11, 2004
02/04
Feb 11, 2004
by
Bay Area Coalition Against Operation Rescue
movies
eye 7,411
favorite 5
comment 1
excerpted from a documentary prepared by the Bay Area Coalition Against Operation Rescue, showing the battles that took place in the late 1980s between anti-abortion direct action groups like OR, and women who defended clinics against them.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: abortion, women, Operation Rescue
3,831
3.8K
Feb 11, 2004
02/04
Feb 11, 2004
by
Flyaway Productions
movies
eye 3,831
favorite 1
comment 0
Modern dancers "re-purpose" the Copra Crane on Islais Creek for a stunning dance performance. The Copra Crane has been the subject of a campaign to save it as a monument to the old days of longshoring at the creek.
Topics: dance, Copra Crane, Islais Creek
10,799
11K
Feb 11, 2004
02/04
Feb 11, 2004
by
n/a
movies
eye 10,799
favorite 4
comment 0
excerpt from William Mandel's testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee hearing at San Francisco City Hall, May 1960.
Topics: William Mandel, HUAC 1960, San Francisco City Hall
3,032
3.0K
Feb 11, 2004
02/04
Feb 11, 2004
by
California Newsreel
movies
eye 3,032
favorite 2
comment 2
excerpted from a one-hour documentary called "Redevelopment: A Marxist Analysis", this clip shows the frustration of the retired longshoremen in the Yerba Buena project area when ILWU president Harry Bridges failed to support their struggle against displacement.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: Redevelopment, ILWU, Harry Bridges
817
817
Apr 28, 2004
04/04
Apr 28, 2004
by
Jim Swanson
movies
eye 817
favorite 0
comment 1
Original opening animation for Shaping San Francisco CD-ROM in 1998.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: San Francisco, animation, Jim Swanson
12,484
12K
Apr 28, 2004
04/04
Apr 28, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 12,484
favorite 2
comment 0
Thomas Fleming, former editor of SF Sun Reporter, tells how then Mayor Roger Lapham wondered in a 1946 press conference when the thousands of African-Americans who had come to work in SF during WWII would return to the South. Fleming sets him straight.
Topics: Fleming, African-Americans in SF, Mayor Lapham
5,209
5.2K
Apr 28, 2004
04/04
Apr 28, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 5,209
favorite 2
comment 1
Herb Mills, former secretary-treasurer of Local 10 ILWU, describes the role of containerization in the global economy.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: containerization, longshoring, globalization
3,898
3.9K
Apr 28, 2004
04/04
Apr 28, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 3,898
favorite 1
comment 2
Scenes from the chaotic 3rd birthday Critical Mass bike ride in San Francisco
favoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: Critical Mass, bicycles, San Francisco
4,409
4.4K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
by
Bert Gould
movies
eye 4,409
favorite 13
comment 0
Pathe News newsreel footage of the first days of San Francisco's General Strike, stores and streets empty. Another similar newsreel.
Topics: Big Strike, 1934, newsreel
13,172
13K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
by
Shaping San Francisco
movies
eye 13,172
favorite 1
comment 1
Animation showing Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy Valley before and after inundation, with a quote from John Muir
( 1 reviews )
Topics: John Muir, Hetch Hetchy, San Francisco water system
8,718
8.7K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 8,718
favorite 6
comment 0
Footage shot from a canoe ride under the Bay Bridge takes a look back at the San Francisco waterfront from under the bridge.
Topics: Bay Bridge, SF Bay, waterfront
4,028
4.0K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 4,028
favorite 4
comment 0
footage of 1994 Carnival in SF proceeding on 24th Street.
Topics: Carnival, Mission, Music
2,224
2.2K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
movies
eye 2,224
favorite 5
comment 1
Excerpt from the ACLU's "Operation Correction" in which they took an anti-communist propaganda film paid for by the U.S. gov't. and added a new soundtrack explaining what really happened at the May 1960 HUAC hearings in San Francisco.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: HUAC, 1960, ACLU
5,998
6.0K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
by
Jim Swanson
movies
eye 5,998
favorite 2
comment 0
Using the well-worn image of Yerba Buena cove in 1847, this animation dramatizes the rapidity with which it filled up after the Gold Rush, with a voiceover introducing Shaping San Francisco's 1st CD release.
Topics: San Francisco, Yerba Buena Cove, 1847
6,770
6.8K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
movies
eye 6,770
favorite 9
comment 1
brief excerpt from a documentary on the Key System, which once ran trains across the Bay Bridge.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Key System, Ferry Building, Bay trains
22,831
23K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
movies
eye 22,831
favorite 13
comment 5
Newsreel footage from the Market Street celebration of the end of WWI in San Francisco, 1918.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 5 reviews )
Topics: WWI, San Francisco, 1918
10,611
11K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
by
Caitlin Manning
movies
eye 10,611
favorite 9
comment 0
short excerpt from documentary "Stripped Bare" highlighting the sex-positive retail operation Good Vibrations, a long-time resident on Valencia Street in the Mission.
Topics: Good Vibrations, sex-positive, vibrators
5,971
6.0K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 5,971
favorite 3
comment 0
Pelicans soar across the water in front of the San Francisco skyline.
Topics: pelicans, SF Bay, waterfront
14,998
15K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
movies
eye 14,998
favorite 9
comment 0
animated map showing the three days of the Great San Francisco fire of 1906 that followed the earthquake.
Topics: 1906 fire, animation, Big One
8,763
8.8K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
movies
eye 8,763
favorite 12
comment 1
Silent footage of picketers marching through the streets and attacking a scab-driven streetcar at Haight and Buchanan during violent 1917 streetcar strike.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Streetcar strike, URR, 1917
11,309
11K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
movies
eye 11,309
favorite 6
comment 0
Health inspectors walk up Chinatown alley
Topics: Chinatown, plague, alleys
1,650
1.7K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
by
Jim Swanson
movies
eye 1,650
favorite 1
comment 0
clip of cyclists rolling down Lombard Street during San Francisco's Critical Mass in 1995.
Topics: Critical Mass, Lombard Street, bicycles
8,995
9.0K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
movies
eye 8,995
favorite 14
comment 0
silent footage of a mass bike ride in Golden Gate Park in 1915 which was headed to the Panama-Pacific Int'l. Exposition.
Topics: bicycles, mass rides, 1915
8,333
8.3K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
by
Biker-X
movies
eye 8,333
favorite 5
comment 1
footage of the chaotic July 1997 ride in which Mayor Brown unleashed the police to attack bicyclists.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: bicycles, Critical Mass, police riot
26,132
26K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
by
Caitlin Manning
movies
eye 26,132
favorite 15
comment 0
The infamous Geneva Towers housing project was imploded to make way for improved public housing.
Topics: public housing, Geneva Towers, implosion
2,893
2.9K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 2,893
favorite 0
comment 0
Ed Dunne, longtime member of the Haight Ashbury Recycling Center, describes how he got involved, how the center works, and what some of the problems are of solid waste disposal.
Topics: recycling, HANC, Ed Dunne
3,629
3.6K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 3,629
favorite 6
comment 0
images from the End of the World's Fair, held May 12, 1984, marching up Market Street and ending at Dolores Park.
Topics: End of the World's Fair, San Francisco, 1984
1,446
1.4K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 1,446
favorite 4
comment 1
Heart of the City Farmers' Market in UN Plaza, San Francisco
favorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Farmers' Market, UN Plaza, Civic Center
7,377
7.4K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
movies
eye 7,377
favorite 4
comment 2
Fatty Arbuckle and one of his adoring dames, posing for the publicity cameras of the PPIE in 1915.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: Fatty Arbuckle, PPIE, 1915
3,634
3.6K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
by
Peace Navy
movies
eye 3,634
favorite 1
comment 4
excerpt from documentary on Fleet Week created by the Peace Navy as part of their campaign against the event.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 4 reviews )
Topics: Peace Navy, Fleet Week, anti-militarism
2,604
2.6K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 2,604
favorite 0
comment 1
Harry Hay describes the scene along Market Street on July 9, 1934 as strikers tore hats from bankers and kept their own security.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Harry Hay, 1934 Strike, Funeral
2,553
2.6K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
by
Craig Baldwin
movies
eye 2,553
favorite 3
comment 1
Street theater held across from Gartland Pit in the mid-1980s. Peter Plate on megaphone.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Gartland Pit, Street Theater, Peter Plate
4,399
4.4K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
movies
eye 4,399
favorite 11
comment 1
Hazel Lagenour, first woman to swim across the Golden Gate, in 1911, provided courtesy Bill Pickelhaupt.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: First swim, Golden Gate, Hazel Lagenour
6,624
6.6K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
by
Pathé News
movies
eye 6,624
favorite 17
comment 1
Original Pathe News newsreel footage describing the unfolding General Strike in breathless and fearsome tones. Another similar newsreel .
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Big Strike, 1934, newsreel
4,839
4.8K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
movies
eye 4,839
favorite 8
comment 1
silent footage of strikers marching, parading along waterfront, cops on horseback, scenes of the Embarcadero
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: waterfront strike, longshoremen, 1934
6,651
6.7K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
by
Paper Tiger TV West
movies
eye 6,651
favorite 11
comment 1
scenes from demonstrations against the 1991 Gulf War in San Francisco.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Gulf War I991, civic center, anti-war protests
133,962
134K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 133,962
favorite 93
comment 13
Harry Hay describes gay sex when BVD's were still predominant underwear, before zippers in the 1930s... men would meet at Presidio guardhouse and go into the bushes.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 13 reviews )
Topics: Presidio, Gay Sex, Harry Hay
5,792
5.8K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 5,792
favorite 4
comment 1
Harry Hay describes the pickup scene at the North Beach bar Finocchio's in the early 1930s.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Harry Hay, Finocchio's, gay dating
3,609
3.6K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 3,609
favorite 0
comment 1
Herb Mills, former secretary-treasurer of ILWU Local 10, describes the importance of the Hiring Hall to the culture and politics of longshoring.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: ILWU, hiring hall, longshoremen
1,480
1.5K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 1,480
favorite 3
comment 1
Herb Mills, former secretary-treasurer of ILWU Local 10, describes the lost landscape and culture of the old waterfront in San Francisco.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: waterfront, ILWU, working class culture
11,555
12K
May 4, 2004
05/04
May 4, 2004
movies
eye 11,555
favorite 16
comment 5
Mud people descend on downtown San Francisco... the only rules? No walking and no talking! Merry mayhem ensues.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 5 reviews )
Topics: mud people, financial district, anarchy
4,964
5.0K
May 5, 2004
05/04
May 5, 2004
by
Chunkmoonhunter Productions
movies
eye 4,964
favorite 11
comment 1
Hundreds of police attack the I-Hotel on Kearny in 1977 to evict the remaining tenants.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: I-Hotel, police, eviction
1,400
1.4K
May 5, 2004
05/04
May 5, 2004
movies
eye 1,400
favorite 1
comment 1
Lucius Cabins, Helen Highwater and Linda Thomas hawking Processed World magazine at Market and Montgomery in the summer of 1982.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Processed World, financial district, dissent
5,926
5.9K
May 5, 2004
05/04
May 5, 2004
movies
eye 5,926
favorite 13
comment 1
3 seconds of the Cliff House from Ocean Beach, people milling about on the beach in the foreground.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Cliff House, Ocean Beach, 1900
9,441
9.4K
May 5, 2004
05/04
May 5, 2004
movies
eye 9,441
favorite 14
comment 1
Turn of the 19th century crowds at Ocean Beach
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Ocean Beach, Cliff House, 1900
11,292
11K
May 5, 2004
05/04
May 5, 2004
movies
eye 11,292
favorite 12
comment 2
scenes of students being washed down rotunda stairs in SF City Hall during mass arrests at HUAC hearings, May 1960.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: HUAC, protests, City Hall
13,719
14K
May 5, 2004
05/04
May 5, 2004
movies
eye 13,719
favorite 2
comment 1
Difficult to discern, but President Teddy Roosevelt is in a procession heading up Van Ness in this short clip.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Teddy Roosevelt, Van Ness, parade
7,192
7.2K
May 5, 2004
05/04
May 5, 2004
movies
eye 7,192
favorite 10
comment 4
Ferlinghetti in his Potrero Hill home in 1965, ruminating on San Francisco
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 4 reviews )
Topics: Ferlinghetti, Potrero Hill, poetry
4,945
4.9K
May 5, 2004
05/04
May 5, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 4,945
favorite 3
comment 1
canoe ride into Mission Creek before the freeway was reconfigured or Mission Bay was built.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Mission Creek, freeways, Mission Bay
9,129
9.1K
May 5, 2004
05/04
May 5, 2004
movies
eye 9,129
favorite 13
comment 3
Animation dramatizing the choice between "prosperity" and "anarchy, sedition, and lawlessness" in 1916
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 3 reviews )
Topics: Tom Mooney, Preparedness Day, bomb
3,686
3.7K
May 5, 2004
05/04
May 5, 2004
by
Mooney Defense
movies
eye 3,686
favorite 3
comment 1
Tom Mooney, filmed by his defense team in San Quentin, appeals for a new trial or a death sentence, rather than the endless years in jail... he had already been in jail for 16 years. Excerpt from "The Strange Case of Tom Mooney".
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Tom Mooney, San Quentin, Preparedness Day
9,651
9.7K
May 5, 2004
05/04
May 5, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 9,651
favorite 2
comment 0
shot from a canoe off Pier 33 looking up at Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill.
Topics: Telegraph Hill, SF Bay, Coit Tower
2,402
2.4K
May 10, 2004
05/04
May 10, 2004
by
Mary Ellen Churchill
movies
eye 2,402
favorite 3
comment 1
A rank and file member of Local 2 denounces the rampant corruption and anti-democratic practices of the union leadership under Joe Belardi.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Union democracy, rank and file, corruption
8,896
8.9K
May 10, 2004
05/04
May 10, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 8,896
favorite 11
comment 1
Seal Rock off the Cliff House, the ocean roaring around it.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Seal Rock, Pacific Ocean, Cliff House view
5,542
5.5K
May 10, 2004
05/04
May 10, 2004
movies
eye 5,542
favorite 2
comment 2
footage of Catholic Feast Day parade on Potrero Hill, April 25, 1937.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: Potrero Hill, Parade, Feast Day
5,885
5.9K
May 10, 2004
05/04
May 10, 2004
movies
eye 5,885
favorite 6
comment 1
panoramic view of the PPIE on San Francisco's northern edge, 1915, as broadcast in a 1930s newsreel.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: PPIE, World's Fairs, Marina District
3,363
3.4K
May 10, 2004
05/04
May 10, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 3,363
favorite 1
comment 1
Sea Lions cavort on piers facing San Francisco's Pier 39.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Sea Lions, Pier 39, Tourism
23,094
23K
May 10, 2004
05/04
May 10, 2004
movies
eye 23,094
favorite 18
comment 6
Footage taken about a month after the massive earthquake and fire of 1906.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 6 reviews )
Topics: Earthquake, Fire, 1906
3,068
3.1K
May 10, 2004
05/04
May 10, 2004
movies
eye 3,068
favorite 2
comment 1
Mayor Angelo Rossi appeals to San Franciscans to allow business to proceed, while most of the city is on strike in July 1934.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Mayor Rossi, General Strike, 1934
4,522
4.5K
May 10, 2004
05/04
May 10, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 4,522
favorite 6
comment 2
The San Francisco Illegal Soapbox Society conducted races on Bernal Heights for years, and still does at unpredictable times.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: Soapbox Derby, Bernal Heights, underground culture
7,481
7.5K
May 10, 2004
05/04
May 10, 2004
movies
eye 7,481
favorite 9
comment 1
A strike begins at the Union Iron Works at the foot of Potrero Hill in 1917.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Strike, Potrero Hill, Union Iron Works
1,896
1.9K
May 10, 2004
05/04
May 10, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 1,896
favorite 5
comment 2
canoeing under the piers along San Francisco's waterfront.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: waterfront, Piers, canoe
12,871
13K
May 10, 2004
05/04
May 10, 2004
movies
eye 12,871
favorite 6
comment 1
Dedication of Dewey Monument in Union Square, c. 1903. St. Francis Hotel visible behind scene.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Union Square, Dewey Monument, 1903
12,968
13K
May 10, 2004
05/04
May 10, 2004
by
Glenn Bachmann
movies
eye 12,968
favorite 17
comment 2
The old Falstaff brewery became a home to punk rockers in the early 1980s before its demolition. Here's a glimpse of an impromptu concert outside.
favoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: Punk, Vats, Brewery
1,176
1.2K
May 10, 2004
05/04
May 10, 2004
by
Paper Tiger TV West
movies
eye 1,176
favorite 3
comment 0
A protest against the silence surrounding the original genocide in North America staged at a "Queen Isabella" pageant.
Topics: Pageant, protest, Quincentennial
6,640
6.6K
May 10, 2004
05/04
May 10, 2004
movies
eye 6,640
favorite 5
comment 2
West Portal tunnel under construction, Portola Drive cutting through empty surrounding hillsides.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: West Portal, Portola Drive, Sutro Forest
31,373
31K
May 10, 2004
05/04
May 10, 2004
movies
eye 31,373
favorite 38
comment 1
Riot and destruction at City Hall in the wake of the slap-on-the-wrist manslaughter verdict against Dan White, murderer of Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: riot, White Night, Harvey Milk
3,645
3.6K
May 10, 2004
05/04
May 10, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 3,645
favorite 3
comment 1
"Diamond Dave" Whitaker recites his Digger poem
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Diamond Dave Whitaker, Diggers, counterculture
2,316
2.3K
May 10, 2004
05/04
May 10, 2004
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 2,316
favorite 2
comment 1
Lifelong Bernal Heights resident George Will describes growing up in the marshland near the Old Clam House on Bayshore Blvd. in the 'teens.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Islais Creek, wetlands, Bernal Heights
14,598
15K
May 10, 2004
05/04
May 10, 2004
movies
eye 14,598
favorite 21
comment 2
scenes of Japanese-Americans being shipped out of the Fillmore on their way to "internment".
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: Japanese Internment, WWII, war crimes
8,358
8.4K
May 10, 2004
05/04
May 10, 2004
movies
eye 8,358
favorite 14
comment 1
Before occupational health and safety, this is how excavation was done. A steam shovel is digging a tunnel for the SF Muni, c. 1917.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: steam shovel, digging tunnels, excavation
2,599
2.6K
May 10, 2004
05/04
May 10, 2004
by
Mary Ellen Churchill
movies
eye 2,599
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Alliance for the Rank and File activists in Local 2 HERE led a strike against Zim's Coffeehouse chain.
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Topics: strike, restaurant workers, Local 2
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Artist Mona Caron describes the meaning of her mural along the newly christened Duboce Bikeway.
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Topics: murals, Duboce Bikeway, Mona Caron
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How a shrine to Shiva emerged in Golden Gate Park in the form of a cement pylon.
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Topics: Shiva, Golden Gate Park, religion
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Alejandro Murguia, who fought in the 1978 Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, describes the role San Francisco played in the uprising.
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Topics: Sandinistas, Nicaragua, Bernal Heights
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Sped-up trip eastward along the old Sutro Steam railroad from Cliff house back towards the then-empty Golden Gate.
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Topics: Golden Gate, Lands End, railroad
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Mayor Willie Brown is hit with 3 pies by activists of the Biotic Baking Brigade at a "Clean-up" event in Bayview/Hunter's Point.
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Topics: Willie Brown, Biotic Baking Brigade, pie-throwing
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Artist Pele DeLappe describes her encounter at age 15 with Frieda Rivera (Kahlo), sitting around painting and smoking cigarettes together, while Diego Rivera was painting the San Francisco Stock Exchange mural (c. 1930)
Topics: Frieda Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Pele DeLappe
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This is part two of a public conversation about the history of U.S.-Philippines relations as seen through the prism of San Francisco history. It is a recording of a Talk given at CounterPULSE under the auspices of Shaping San Francisco on February 8, 2006. This is a 30-minute excerpt prepared by Josh Wilson of Independent Arts & Media and originally broadcast on KUSF-FM in San Francisco.
Topics: history, Philippines-U.S. War, Spanish-American War, Philippines
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continuing the conversation about the category of "natural disaster" and how many things taken for granted as normal or natural are actually artifacts of human culture. This episode features Chris Carlsson and Peter Davidson.
Topics: public health, heroin overdose, natural disaster
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David Kardatzke
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A short film about the relationships embodied in Sarah Dorrance's mosaic mural at Synergy School in San Francisco.
Topics: mosaic, mural, synergy, school, participation
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a 6 minute introduction to the work of mosaic artist Sarah Dorrance.
Topics: mosaic, mural, sculpture, objects
A four-part radio series based on the Public Talk at CounterPULSE in April 2006, featuring Kevin Epps, Alicia Schwartz of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), and Espanola Jackson of Bayview-Hunters Point.
Topic: gentrification, African-American, San Francisco, redevelopment, Bayview-Hunter's Point,
A 3-part radio program based on a Public Talk at CounterPULSE on March 8, 2006, under the Shaping San Francisco Spring Talks series. A historical look at how San Franciscans have fought for a human-centered city. From saving Telegraph Hill, stopping freeways, and resisting redevelopment, the corporate agenda has been thwarted again and again. Today new movements are again contesting the direction of the city. We'll have a look at the historic Burnham Plan and other ideas for reshaping the city....
Topics: anti-highrise, freeway revolt, citizens movements, saving Telegraph Hill, redevelopment
Local historian, geographer and author Gray Brechin ("Imperial San Francisco") gives an opinionated and sharp tour through the hidden legacy of the New Deal in San Francisco and California. He looks at buildings, murals, and more, with a clear exposition of the different agencies that organized the work: CCC, WPA, PWA, etc. Held at CounterPULSE, Nov. 12, 2008, as part of the ongoing Shaping San Francisco Talks series.
Topics: New Deal, WPA, Depression, 1930s, San Francisco, CCC, PWA, public works, FDR, Franklin Roosevelt
Claude Everhart of Friends of Candlestick, Alan Hopkins, Golden Gate Audubon Society, Patrick Rump, Literacy for Environmental Justice talk about the unusual history and present of the Candlestick Point State Recreation Area. It's an open bayshore park built on landfill and trash, a product of a deliberate community-driven process that chose open space and natural qualities over the usual city-style parks and recreation facilities. It's now home to many returning species of birds and wildlife....
Topics: Candlestick Point, State Park, urban park, bayshore, redevelopment, endemic species, birds,...
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For decades the San Francisco Bay Area has been a hub for the recycling movement. Despite the lack of surviving community recycling centers, the Bay Area is still home to a unique community of recyclers who push the envelope of possibilities.
Topics: Recycling, Ecology, Documentary, Reuse
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Roberto Lovato, who grew up on Folsom near 25th Street during the 1970s, describes how his father was involved in the "alternative economy" centered on Hunt's Donuts at 20th and Mission, and how it benefitted his extended Salvadoran families in San Francisco and in El Salvador.
Topics: Crime, Salvadoran community, Mission District
San Francisco-based muralist Jet Martinez talks about Art & Politics as part of the ongoing Shaping San Francisco Talks series at CounterPULSE. Martinez hails from Mexico originally, and he paints magical realist images of nature, incorporating metallic paints and repetitive geometric patterns (that in turn evoke both pre-industrial textiles and industrially homogenous designs) with natural forms from trees, leaves, and more.
Topics: art, politics, Shaping San Francisco, Talks, murals, magic realism
Part of the ongoing Shaping San Francisco Talks series at CounterPULSE. San Francisco California State Park at Candlestick, an urban shoreline park used by bird watchers, picnickers, and fishermen, is being ecologically transformed for the benefit of the Bayview community and local critters. Alan Hopkins, Golden Gate Audubon Society, Patrick Rump, Literacy for Environmental Justice, Claude Everhart, Friends of Candlestick. Oct. 29, 2008
Topics: nature in the city, ecology, urban parks, shoreline, wetlands, birds, state parks, fishermen,...
Learn about the âColony Collapse Disorderâ afflicting commercial beekeepers and the threat to agribusiness, in juxtaposition to the dozens of native bees flourishing in Californiaâs urban environments, which reinforce local biodiversity and provide another important link to growing our own food in cities. K. Ruby and Philip Gerrie
Topics: bees, urban agriculture, biodiversity, agribusiness, Colony Collapse Disorder
How Can Making Products Locally From Recyclables Solve Local Economic Challenges? "We need to make products locally from local recyclables." said Peter Berg. "Remanufacturing provides meaningful work, closes the energy loop, and stimulates creativity. It is a practical response to the economic slump that builds on our physical and human resources." Featuring: Neil Seldman, President of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute For Local Self-Reliance, Peter Berg, Planet Drum...
Topics: Recycling, waste, remanufacturing, materials, sustainability, green jobs, work
