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Shaping San Francisco
Feb 11, 2004
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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
Topics: Sandinistas, San Francisco, Gay Movement
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
Topics: Harry Hay, 1934 General Strike, San Francisco
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
Topics: Thomas Fleming, 1966 Hunter's Point riot, Black San Francisco
A Summer of Love poem/rap by San Francisco legend "Diamond Dave" Whitaker.
Topics: Summer of Love, Diamond Dave Whitaker, spoken word
Topics: Summer of Love, Diamond Dave Whitaker, spoken word
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
Topics: Anti-Iraq war, San Francisco, protest
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.
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Topics: Film Festival, 1969, Pie Fight
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Topics: Film Festival, 1969, Pie Fight
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...
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Topics: Farm, San Francisco, punk rock, 1970s, eviction, utopian experiment
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Topics: Farm, San Francisco, punk rock, 1970s, eviction, utopian experiment
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.
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Topics: abortion, women, Operation Rescue
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Topics: abortion, women, Operation Rescue
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
Topics: dance, Copra Crane, Islais Creek
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
Topics: William Mandel, HUAC 1960, San Francisco City Hall
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.
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Topics: Redevelopment, ILWU, Harry Bridges
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Topics: Redevelopment, ILWU, Harry Bridges
Original opening animation for Shaping San Francisco CD-ROM in 1998.
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Topics: San Francisco, animation, Jim Swanson
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Topics: San Francisco, animation, Jim Swanson
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
Topics: Fleming, African-Americans in SF, Mayor Lapham
Herb Mills, former secretary-treasurer of Local 10 ILWU, describes the role of containerization in the global economy.
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Topics: containerization, longshoring, globalization
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Topics: containerization, longshoring, globalization
Scenes from the chaotic 3rd birthday Critical Mass bike ride in San Francisco
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Topics: Critical Mass, bicycles, San Francisco
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Topics: Critical Mass, bicycles, San Francisco
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
Topics: Big Strike, 1934, newsreel
Animation showing Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy Valley before and after inundation, with a quote from John Muir
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Topics: John Muir, Hetch Hetchy, San Francisco water system
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Topics: John Muir, Hetch Hetchy, San Francisco water system
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
Topics: Bay Bridge, SF Bay, waterfront
footage of 1994 Carnival in SF proceeding on 24th Street.
Topics: Carnival, Mission, Music
Topics: Carnival, Mission, Music
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.
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Topics: HUAC, 1960, ACLU
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Topics: HUAC, 1960, ACLU
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
Topics: San Francisco, Yerba Buena Cove, 1847
brief excerpt from a documentary on the Key System, which once ran trains across the Bay Bridge.
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Topics: Key System, Ferry Building, Bay trains
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Topics: Key System, Ferry Building, Bay trains
Newsreel footage from the Market Street celebration of the end of WWI in San Francisco, 1918.
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Topics: WWI, San Francisco, 1918
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Topics: WWI, San Francisco, 1918
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
Topics: Good Vibrations, sex-positive, vibrators
Pelicans soar across the water in front of the San Francisco skyline.
Topics: pelicans, SF Bay, waterfront
Topics: pelicans, SF Bay, waterfront
animated map showing the three days of the Great San Francisco fire of 1906 that followed the earthquake.
Topics: 1906 fire, animation, Big One
Topics: 1906 fire, animation, Big One
Silent footage of picketers marching through the streets and attacking a scab-driven streetcar at Haight and Buchanan during violent 1917 streetcar strike.
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Topics: Streetcar strike, URR, 1917
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Topics: Streetcar strike, URR, 1917
Health inspectors walk up Chinatown alley
Topics: Chinatown, plague, alleys
Topics: Chinatown, plague, alleys
clip of cyclists rolling down Lombard Street during San Francisco's Critical Mass in 1995.
Topics: Critical Mass, Lombard Street, bicycles
Topics: Critical Mass, Lombard Street, bicycles
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
Topics: bicycles, mass rides, 1915
footage of the chaotic July 1997 ride in which Mayor Brown unleashed the police to attack bicyclists.
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Topics: bicycles, Critical Mass, police riot
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Topics: bicycles, Critical Mass, police riot
The infamous Geneva Towers housing project was imploded to make way for improved public housing.
Topics: public housing, Geneva Towers, implosion
Topics: public housing, Geneva Towers, implosion
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
Topics: recycling, HANC, Ed Dunne
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
Topics: End of the World's Fair, San Francisco, 1984
Heart of the City Farmers' Market in UN Plaza, San Francisco
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Topics: Farmers' Market, UN Plaza, Civic Center
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Topics: Farmers' Market, UN Plaza, Civic Center
Fatty Arbuckle and one of his adoring dames, posing for the publicity cameras of the PPIE in 1915.
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Topics: Fatty Arbuckle, PPIE, 1915
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Topics: Fatty Arbuckle, PPIE, 1915
excerpt from documentary on Fleet Week created by the Peace Navy as part of their campaign against the event.
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Topics: Peace Navy, Fleet Week, anti-militarism
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Topics: Peace Navy, Fleet Week, anti-militarism
Harry Hay describes the scene along Market Street on July 9, 1934 as strikers tore hats from bankers and kept their own security.
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Topics: Harry Hay, 1934 Strike, Funeral
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Topics: Harry Hay, 1934 Strike, Funeral
Street theater held across from Gartland Pit in the mid-1980s. Peter Plate on megaphone.
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Topics: Gartland Pit, Street Theater, Peter Plate
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Topics: Gartland Pit, Street Theater, Peter Plate
Hazel Lagenour, first woman to swim across the Golden Gate, in 1911, provided courtesy Bill Pickelhaupt.
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Topics: First swim, Golden Gate, Hazel Lagenour
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Topics: First swim, Golden Gate, Hazel Lagenour
Original Pathe News newsreel footage describing the unfolding General Strike in breathless and fearsome tones. Another similar newsreel .
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Topics: Big Strike, 1934, newsreel
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Topics: Big Strike, 1934, newsreel
silent footage of strikers marching, parading along waterfront, cops on horseback, scenes of the Embarcadero
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Topics: waterfront strike, longshoremen, 1934
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Topics: waterfront strike, longshoremen, 1934
scenes from demonstrations against the 1991 Gulf War in San Francisco.
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Topics: Gulf War I991, civic center, anti-war protests
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Topics: Gulf War I991, civic center, anti-war protests
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.
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Topics: Presidio, Gay Sex, Harry Hay
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Topics: Presidio, Gay Sex, Harry Hay
Harry Hay describes the pickup scene at the North Beach bar Finocchio's in the early 1930s.
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Topics: Harry Hay, Finocchio's, gay dating
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Topics: Harry Hay, Finocchio's, gay dating
Herb Mills, former secretary-treasurer of ILWU Local 10, describes the importance of the Hiring Hall to the culture and politics of longshoring.
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Topics: ILWU, hiring hall, longshoremen
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Topics: ILWU, hiring hall, longshoremen
Herb Mills, former secretary-treasurer of ILWU Local 10, describes the lost landscape and culture of the old waterfront in San Francisco.
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Topics: waterfront, ILWU, working class culture
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Topics: waterfront, ILWU, working class culture
Mud people descend on downtown San Francisco... the only rules? No walking and no talking! Merry mayhem ensues.
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Topics: mud people, financial district, anarchy
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Topics: mud people, financial district, anarchy
Hundreds of police attack the I-Hotel on Kearny in 1977 to evict the remaining tenants.
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Topics: I-Hotel, police, eviction
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Topics: I-Hotel, police, eviction
Lucius Cabins, Helen Highwater and Linda Thomas hawking Processed World magazine at Market and Montgomery in the summer of 1982.
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Topics: Processed World, financial district, dissent
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Topics: Processed World, financial district, dissent
3 seconds of the Cliff House from Ocean Beach, people milling about on the beach in the foreground.
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Topics: Cliff House, Ocean Beach, 1900
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Topics: Cliff House, Ocean Beach, 1900
Turn of the 19th century crowds at Ocean Beach
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Topics: Ocean Beach, Cliff House, 1900
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Topics: Ocean Beach, Cliff House, 1900
scenes of students being washed down rotunda stairs in SF City Hall during mass arrests at HUAC hearings, May 1960.
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Topics: HUAC, protests, City Hall
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Topics: HUAC, protests, City Hall
Difficult to discern, but President Teddy Roosevelt is in a procession heading up Van Ness in this short clip.
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Topics: Teddy Roosevelt, Van Ness, parade
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Topics: Teddy Roosevelt, Van Ness, parade
Ferlinghetti in his Potrero Hill home in 1965, ruminating on San Francisco
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Topics: Ferlinghetti, Potrero Hill, poetry
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Topics: Ferlinghetti, Potrero Hill, poetry
canoe ride into Mission Creek before the freeway was reconfigured or Mission Bay was built.
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Topics: Mission Creek, freeways, Mission Bay
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Topics: Mission Creek, freeways, Mission Bay
Animation dramatizing the choice between "prosperity" and "anarchy, sedition, and lawlessness" in 1916
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Topics: Tom Mooney, Preparedness Day, bomb
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Topics: Tom Mooney, Preparedness Day, bomb
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".
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Topics: Tom Mooney, San Quentin, Preparedness Day
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Topics: Tom Mooney, San Quentin, Preparedness Day
shot from a canoe off Pier 33 looking up at Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill.
Topics: Telegraph Hill, SF Bay, Coit Tower
Topics: Telegraph Hill, SF Bay, Coit Tower
A rank and file member of Local 2 denounces the rampant corruption and anti-democratic practices of the union leadership under Joe Belardi.
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Topics: Union democracy, rank and file, corruption
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Topics: Union democracy, rank and file, corruption
Seal Rock off the Cliff House, the ocean roaring around it.
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Topics: Seal Rock, Pacific Ocean, Cliff House view
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Topics: Seal Rock, Pacific Ocean, Cliff House view
footage of Catholic Feast Day parade on Potrero Hill, April 25, 1937.
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Topics: Potrero Hill, Parade, Feast Day
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Topics: Potrero Hill, Parade, Feast Day
panoramic view of the PPIE on San Francisco's northern edge, 1915, as broadcast in a 1930s newsreel.
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Topics: PPIE, World's Fairs, Marina District
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Topics: PPIE, World's Fairs, Marina District
Sea Lions cavort on piers facing San Francisco's Pier 39.
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Topics: Sea Lions, Pier 39, Tourism
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Topics: Sea Lions, Pier 39, Tourism
Footage taken about a month after the massive earthquake and fire of 1906.
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Topics: Earthquake, Fire, 1906
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Topics: Earthquake, Fire, 1906
Mayor Angelo Rossi appeals to San Franciscans to allow business to proceed, while most of the city is on strike in July 1934.
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Topics: Mayor Rossi, General Strike, 1934
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Topics: Mayor Rossi, General Strike, 1934
The San Francisco Illegal Soapbox Society conducted races on Bernal Heights for years, and still does at unpredictable times.
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Topics: Soapbox Derby, Bernal Heights, underground culture
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Topics: Soapbox Derby, Bernal Heights, underground culture
A strike begins at the Union Iron Works at the foot of Potrero Hill in 1917.
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Topics: Strike, Potrero Hill, Union Iron Works
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Topics: Strike, Potrero Hill, Union Iron Works
canoeing under the piers along San Francisco's waterfront.
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Topics: waterfront, Piers, canoe
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Topics: waterfront, Piers, canoe
Dedication of Dewey Monument in Union Square, c. 1903. St. Francis Hotel visible behind scene.
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Topics: Union Square, Dewey Monument, 1903
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Topics: Union Square, Dewey Monument, 1903
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.
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Topics: Punk, Vats, Brewery
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Topics: Punk, Vats, Brewery
A protest against the silence surrounding the original genocide in North America staged at a "Queen Isabella" pageant.
Topics: Pageant, protest, Quincentennial
Topics: Pageant, protest, Quincentennial
West Portal tunnel under construction, Portola Drive cutting through empty surrounding hillsides.
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Topics: West Portal, Portola Drive, Sutro Forest
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Topics: West Portal, Portola Drive, Sutro Forest
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.
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Topics: riot, White Night, Harvey Milk
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Topics: riot, White Night, Harvey Milk
"Diamond Dave" Whitaker recites his Digger poem
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Topics: Diamond Dave Whitaker, Diggers, counterculture
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Topics: Diamond Dave Whitaker, Diggers, counterculture
Lifelong Bernal Heights resident George Will describes growing up in the marshland near the Old Clam House on Bayshore Blvd. in the 'teens.
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Topics: Islais Creek, wetlands, Bernal Heights
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Topics: Islais Creek, wetlands, Bernal Heights
scenes of Japanese-Americans being shipped out of the Fillmore on their way to "internment".
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Topics: Japanese Internment, WWII, war crimes
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Topics: Japanese Internment, WWII, war crimes
Before occupational health and safety, this is how excavation was done. A steam shovel is digging a tunnel for the SF Muni, c. 1917.
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Topics: steam shovel, digging tunnels, excavation
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Topics: steam shovel, digging tunnels, excavation
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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Topics: strike, restaurant workers, Local 2
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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Topics: murals, Duboce Bikeway, Mona Caron
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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Topics: Shiva, Golden Gate Park, religion
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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Topics: Sandinistas, Nicaragua, Bernal Heights
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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Topics: Golden Gate, Lands End, railroad
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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Topics: Willie Brown, Biotic Baking Brigade, pie-throwing
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
Topics: Frieda Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Pele DeLappe
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
Topics: history, Philippines-U.S. War, Spanish-American War, Philippines
Shaping San Francisco - Audio Recordings
Jul 17, 2007
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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
Topics: public health, heroin overdose, natural disaster
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
Topics: mosaic, mural, synergy, school, participation
a 6 minute introduction to the work of mosaic artist Sarah Dorrance.
Topics: mosaic, mural, sculpture, objects
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,
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
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
Topics: New Deal, WPA, Depression, 1930s, San Francisco, CCC, PWA, public works, FDR, Franklin Roosevelt
Shaping San Francisco - Audio Recordings
Nov 18, 2008
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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,...
Topics: Candlestick Point, State Park, urban park, bayshore, redevelopment, endemic species, birds,...
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
Topics: Recycling, Ecology, Documentary, Reuse
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
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
Topics: art, politics, Shaping San Francisco, Talks, murals, magic realism
Shaping San Francisco - Audio Recordings
Mar 22, 2009
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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,...
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
Topics: bees, urban agriculture, biodiversity, agribusiness, Colony Collapse Disorder
Shaping San Francisco - Audio Recordings
Mar 26, 2009
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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
Topics: Recycling, waste, remanufacturing, materials, sustainability, green jobs, work
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