North Mission News

Tlvi* p.cVur. (S *‘>o«V Nkx-Wj X W

x oU*^ w ^ srrv^U - V>uV t ^ *^ r *

X u>tOs * ^ vVeA
Hue ku*ou* to** 'Won,
0»W wort <spec«vll^ '*

SOM I w*l \AtT€.l**cJ f*\ th«*n V ^
but CVXr^HM^ T
it 5«h I* He WOU* O#- **A

•flu'MJ

pSa-o

'^‘'V*' -*«_ JUJk*. o_ c&«a^) A»K«We rT\fr\><JL

«K

cia^ (WvjtfAjl^ A>e uL

cj

>^j3jjA4.

<*/?3

RICH AND POOR, a book by Jim Goldberg, see page 10

youj^OiKVfmm/

BABY, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE
Mr. Jiamon

"Baby" is, of course, a
rolled up overcoat or
backpack, your pillow for
the night. The cold is
everywhere. San Francisco
is a cold city when it is
cold.

I was lucky for a couple
of weeks; a friend had left
the cab of his miniature
pick-up truck unlocked for
me to use when it was dark.

Five weeks of searching
for a room in the North
Mission district was fruit-
less. There were no vacan-
cies in the numerous hotels,
all of them were contracted
out to the City's "housing
program", a far more lucra-
tive and assured way of a
guaranteed incane on a 2 -day
basis than frem the elusive
transients' weekly rate.

So hotels with up to a
third of their roans unocc-
upied had stark NO VACANCIES
in crudely lettered signs or

complacently blurted out
mispronouncements of the
English language.

Eventually it got too
cold, even in the pickup
cab. And then the rains
came, dripping methodically
through the edges of the
door and the windscreen,
misting the insides with a
secondary dampness which no
amount of stuffed newspapers
could absorb and no amount
of blankets could ward off.
Like an invisible fog, the
cold settled in your bones.

Numbed desperation made me
ring a friend with connec-
tions into teh City's emer-
gency shelter programs for
advice. Like anyone living
in the Mission I was aware
of their existence but not
hew to use than.

I was lucky. She made a
number of phone calls and
in about ten minutes she
gave me the name and address
of a hotel where I shoul ’
register after work (at 9FK
continued on page 4

0 BY BRIAN D00HAN

"Redevelopment, which con-
tributed to a 35£ decline in
residential hotel rooms in
the city over the past eight
years, has been another
factor in the increase in
homelessness . "

- from SF proposal for the
mentally disabled homeless

The winter winds blow
bleak and aimless through
the Civic Center.

In the days between the
demolition of the Crystal
Palace Market and the
subsequent capture of the
block at 8th and Market
Street by such a6 Carol
Shorenstein, Frank Lembi and
Angelo Sangiacomo loomed
Cardboard City, a Brigadoon
of failure and despair.

Most downtown homeless
enclaves have been destroyed
by development... forever
gone the colonies in Yerba
Buena rubble and irate mut-
terings of the telephone
company over the "campfires
of the bums".

So the homeless have moved
out into the open, sleeping,
for example, on the steps
and in bushes adjacent to a
squat, one-story structure.
Terrorists... bent upon sub-
verting the credibility of
authority... have fastened
plastic graffiti to its wall
above these sighing sleepers
with their tongues stretched
out to pavement blotched
with desiccated chewing gums
MAYOR'S OFFICE OF HOUSING
AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Over the last thirty years
the number of the institu-
tionalized mentally ill has
fallen from 560,000 to
125,000. These hundreds of
thousands roam America's
streets by day and sleep by
night in parks, shelters or
f lophouses .

Although only IX of the
estimated two million chron-
ically mentally ill still
live in institutions, 70£ of
the six billion dollars
spent yearly by government

6

2

= Mail =

The time has come for
a last stand in the
battle between downtown
interests and the
neighborhoods. This last
election when the
Highrise Freeze issue
(prop. F) received 41% of
the vote when all the
media (including the Bay
Guardian) called it a
joke shows that there is
a broad cross section of
support for more
meaningful control of the
downtown than the
"Downtown Plan". This
"Plan" means the end of
any unsubsidized low
income folks being able
to live in San Francisco
and a quick end to the
Mission as we now know
it. This "Plan" allows an
estimated preapproved
additional 12-million
square feet of office
space to be built with
just a token amount of
new housing to absorb the
associated housing demand
of the new office
workers.

What is at stake is
debatable since one could
argue that the already
existing highrise worker
housing pressure brought
about by the
unprecedented growth of
high-density office space
will mean unsurmountable
housing displacement
pressure in the years to
come. However, there is
still a good possiblility
of mitigating the
displacement pressure in
a way which would also
mean more balanced growth
for our beloved city.

There needs to be one
simply^-stated ballot
measure which will call
for developers to match
their already approved
office square footage
with an equal or greater
amount of housing square
footage .

This same standard
can apply to new office
space but the more
important battle is to
slow the rate of growth
of the pre-approved
square footage. It will
also be important that
there be no more than one
" slow-growth" proposition
and that it not be open
to being called "extreme"
(spelled no-growth). If
these criteria are met it
should be possible to win
a broad cross-section of
support from progressives
and conservatives alike
who do not like the way
their city is being
transformed from
neighborhoods to
office-worker housing.

Chris Collins

The question of neighbor-
hood improvement has always
been an issue in San Fran-
cisco. I feel that it's
important who is doing the
improvement .

The neighborhood? Or the
City government? The City
manifests its influence in
many ways , seme disguised,
others not.

The Mission versus SOMA?
Has it finally ccme to that?

I believe it has.

The filth on the streets
is being blown away by a
wind. A wind so foul, so
disgustingly human I cannot
imagine whose bcwels spawned
it.

I have never met Dianne
Feinstein, but I have heard
a lot about her. Apparently
her reign started with a
bang and she has been
generating ever since.

The "Downtown Plan" has
been spreading, it infected
and then re-created SOMA as
we now know it, driving
artists out, real estate
prices up, and small busi-
ness down.

It is now creeping under
the 101 and into the
Mission. . .Check out the maps
in the new South of Market
handbook SOMA DIRECT (Prem-
iere Issue & Free).

Theater Artaud is being
surrounded by the new "Gift
Center District". The real
estate promo reads like a
Viking raid! rape, pillage
and arson. Of course the
Mission is familiar with
real estate companies...
Check out Skyline, Anchor,
and Landmark Realty.

But the Mission is
unfamiliar with city minions
dressing in trendy clown
suits, spouting off about
how much money they can
raise... Check out Susana
Montana and the Vats.

Nor is it familiar with
self-proclaimed visionaries
who pretend to support the
arts but cannot even pay for
their services... Check out
Mark Renne and art exhibits
at Club Nine.

It is too bad the
supervisors are not elected
within districts like they
used to be. Perhaps it
would have helped.

Instead, we have globe-
trotting toilet inspectors
who make their activities
all to obvious every time
they open their mouths.

There are two major groups
in the Mission found in
greater numbers there than
anywhere else in the City,
Latinos and Artists.

The City stopped the lew-
riders on Mission Street,
but it did not stop La Raza
or the Mission Cultural
Center.

SOMA has not laid claim to
the Latinos but it tries to
Artists. But whatever
happened to the Goodman
Building and Group?... Check
out the Art space Development
Corporation .

Artists are independent,
they do not form coalitions,
artistic zoos, or buy clubs.
Most San Francisco Artists
can be found in the Mission.
It has cheap food, cheap
spaces, good cafes, the
Roxie and atmosphere.

Sure there are prostitutes
in the Mission but unlike
SOMA, they do not work for
the City.

The Mission has a certain
balance, creative, relaxed
and even international. But
not trendy. Small business
abounds and prospers.

There are those who
masquerade and pose, those
with slimy, unethical and
hollow-headed little men
leading them... Check out
New Generic at 2 Clinton
Park.

A lot of them slither
under the 101 into SOMA
where there are those stupid
enough to listen... Check
out New Generic Productions
at Martin Weber's Gallery.

There is no real relation-
ship between artists and the
City of San Francisco.

There is no relationship
between the Mission and SOMA
excepting a cannon boundary
which SOMA, the City, pseudo
promoters and real estate
developers seem to want to
change.

I do not like what I see

and smell.

I do not want the cafes to
change, small business to
die. Latinos and Artists to
leave, and prices to sky-
rocket.

The Mission is in trouble,
in danger of being annexed,
and SOMA is the enemy.

Artists are the heart of
the Mission and small busi-
ness the brain, each will
die without the other. The
onus is on the small busi-
nesses to organize and set a
course. The smell of SOMA
is growing every day.

It is time the North
Mission Association was re-
vitalized, and serious
thought and action applied
to keep the Mission unique.

The Mission is not a hor-
rible crimeridden eyesore,
the Mission is the heart of
independent art in this
city.

I appeal to small business
owners and property owners
to save and preserve the
Mission and its art, charac-
ter, architecture and
uniqueness. You are the
only ones who can.

AUNT MARY’S
RESTAURANT

Mexican & American Cuisine

Try our excellent dishes in a nice atmosphere
INFLATION FIGHTER SPECIALS:

No. 1 Two buttermilk pancakes, two strips
of bacon, one egg

No. 2 Two large eggs, hash brown potatoes
toast & jelly

No. 3 Huevos Rancheros - two fried eggs
topped with Monterrey Jack cheese
Spanish sauce, rice, beans, tortillas .

Specials Daily until 10:00 am Coffee & Tax not included

OPEN: TUES • FRIDAY - 7:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

SAT • SUN 8:00 a m. • 2:00 p.m.

1.49

1.49

2.99

Reservations 626-5523

— 3122 16th St.

Readings *dified, Clairvoyant

SISTER CHRISTINE

Tarot Cards • Astrology

Palm Reading VT

41 ADVICE ON ALL PROBLEMS ^

il X X X X X

Everyone wants the same things out of life --
health, love, happiness, security, a greater
understanding and a'wareness of their
purpose here on earth The road of life has
great rewards, but there are many obstacles
along the way. stumbling blocks that confuse
us. overwhelm us, make us lose sight of the
path we are to follow I have a special spiritual
gift, phychic ability that can bring you every-
thing that is written for you in life

TELL ME NOTHING, I LL TELL ALL!

3012 - 16th St Office 103 (Comer of Mission) S.F.

558-8816

^ •MARKET

fe §S9|iJ * DELICATESSEN
f • RESTAURANT

OPEN 1 0 AM TO • 0PM... 7 DAYS A WEEK! NO RAINCHECKS PLEASE.

OPEN 10 AM TO 10PM... 7 DAYS A WEEK!

CORNER OF 16TH AND VALENCIA

CATSUP

0TL.

FLOUR

iO" Si

ALL PURPOSE FLOUR

BANANAS

tfy

6^.

I I

lOJokPOflATTl' I

(^AfeMATiON

EVAPORATED

MILK

12-0*

NAV^U

ORANGES

Rich

llsl

TOMATO (^mtaoinia

QIIIAF t ;^ 0 ou 1C6 “d

I AlVin ATA

4 |

#0Z-

CARROTS

^NAPPlN’

Ff?e*u

■EEJfS

POTATOES

(C*VWO

<31 Ffcy

1O^.0A^

Kind ot Market, Vdticate&m ReAlmvuud.

SEAGRAM’S
7 GROWN

76o mu tome

1.75 UIBA

W0LFSCHMIDT

VODKA

AMw?e

f 9 ?

75C>MU

RENE JUN0T

6&Uo

IaJiME

AUC- ^
VAf^eries fV£9

1-6 UTERgTu.^i •

750 Ml

goal

tome

ycu'ffi eKjwj iL

4

Qntlnuad-fm page one

on that day) and good for 2
nights. It was the...

MIRADI HOTEL on Hyde. After
checking in with what would
become a familiar stern
stricture "No guests or vis-
itors, check-out 8 AM, leave
your key at desk when you go
out," I took the elevator to
the fifth floor.

A whiff of curry smells
told me at once that the
cwners and management were
vegetarian East Indians.
Although my foot and heart
sank in the lush red
carpeting of this touristy
"posh" hotel, I was anxious
to see what my roan offered.

When I a ecu stoned myself
to the light switch, I could
not believe my eyes!

IWo large single beds, an
attached bathroan/shower and
toilet, ample closet space
and a color TV set! After
bathing and entering between
the clean white sheets of
the comfortable bed,
stretching my full length
for the first time in cen-
turies, it was obvious to me
that heaven could not hold
better delights.

The two nights were over
too soon.

The hotel had been
provided by the Housing Hot-
line and for my next
accomodation I would have
to do my cwn footwork. This
procedure is worth noting
for its eccentricities. It
involves the following:

1) arriving at 150 Otis
Street anywhere between 9
and 11:30AM, depending on
the frame of mind of that
day's official. You ask for
a ticket - a number.

2 ) You are asked to return
at 1:30, regardless of
whether or not you ask for a
number. This is important
to remember. You are not
given one unless you know
and ask for it.

3) You arrive at 1:30PM and
are asked if you have a
number. If not, you stand
in line for one. If you
have one, you join about 60-
100 people already seated on
stack-away plastic chairs.

4) At about 2:30 numbers are
called out. If you are
lucky, so is yours.
Sometimes not. There are
only so many rooms and
hotels to be assigned, and
you are asked to return the
next day. It is new about
3:30 PM.

5) You are lucky. You have
been called. You are given
the name and address of a
hotel, good for 2 nights.

6) You have to register at
the hotel anywhere after 5
PM, but not later than 6PM
if you want the roan regard-
less of your work schedule.

7) You register at the hotel
(anywhere f ran the Tender-
loin to South of Market or
the Mission) and try and
return to your night work
shift.

8) You wake up early the
second morning, check out,
and report to the above for
your next hotel.

If you apply for a hotel
on a Friday morning, again

depending on your luck and
teh official's discretion,
you may be assigned a roan
for the weekend ie. 3 nights
and return to the ritual on
the following Monday. Thus,
not to be homeless on
Sunday, it is worthwhile to
skip Monday and start on a
Tuesday.

On the average, you will
spend over 6 hours for a
roof over your head for 38
hours of which you actually
use it for about 16 hours at
the maximum. An expensive
ratio of 3:8 in time, energy
and stress, not to mention
uncertainty.

My next hotel was the . . .

ANXIOUS ARMS on Folson and
Sixth. I misheard the name
as Ancient Arms but no, it
was Anxious. I wondered
what canforting arms would
embrace me.

This, too, turned out to
be a pleasant experience in
spite of the seedy address.
The hotel was clean and neat
with a kind of rustic hane-
liness and little thoughtful
touches like plastic sealed
water glasses on your sink,
soap and fresh towels and
little wrought/iron tables -
one even in the bathroom
with an ash tray on it.
Pleasant and civilized and
restful .

My stay here ended on the
Friday morning after Thanks-
giving Day. There were no
rooms for the weekend...
Friday being a state holiday
as well. By and by I wound
up at the . . .

EL CAPITAN, Mission near
20th. This hotel has had a
notorious reputation over
years and is usually des-
cribed as "the jailhouse" by
knowledgeable locals.

Entering through steel-
barred doors on the first
floor to register confirms
it, as you cure suspiciously
buzzed in. This elaborate
security does not extend to
the privacy of your room.
Roan #209 faced the street
and was noisy and dilapi-
dated. Shards of a broken
mirror dislocated your face
as you stared at it over a
sink where only one faucet
worked. The mottled bedside
rug was askew.

On the second night, I
entered my room, where my
backpack & other belongings
were clearly on the side
table, to find a stranger
fast asleep on my bed.

Summoning the manager
brought apologetic explana-
tions, and an improvised bed
somewhere in a corridor
where I lost my bearings and
my glasses in the early
morning chill.

The toilets were unusable
and without paper. One
begins to becane a stranger
to oneself in bed. I left
early to return around
midday to pick up my back-
pack, nonchelantly handed
over to me by a female desk
clerk.

No sign of my glasses.

(On December 16, under the
headline "Welfare Man's Plea
for Decent Housing" by Katy

Butler was a newspaper story
about the Dickensian condi-
tions she and her daughter
lived in and the systematic
harassment by the manager.
It came as no surprise to me
that the squalor described
was the El Capitan.)

After two or three more
turndowns at the Shelter
Hotline (no vacancies as
Christmas came nearer), I
called my friend again for
help. I was tiring of this
perpetual two-day relocation
in any case. This time, the
resourceful lady put me in
touch with the Salvation
Army shelter, where the min-
imum stay was for two weeks.

SALVATION ARMY SHELTER, Eddy
Street. I quote frem their
intake leaflet which speaks
for itself:

Hours of Operation: 6:00 PM
to 6:00 AM daily
Gate Opens: 6PM (you sit in
an open yard until... )

Admission Begins: 8:30 PM.

You are let in four at a
time, undress, shower, stash
your clothes and belongings
in garbage bags and change
into pyjamas provided.
Coffee and sandwiches served
at 10PM. A raffle held for
extra sandwiches, usually
two or three. Lights out at
10:30. Wake up at 5AM.
Dress, stand out in the dark
courtyard for coffee and
donuts. Wait until 6AM to
leave.

It is difficult and unsafe
to do much in the Tenderloin
at 6 on a winter morning
except watch the street
cleaning trucks.

Rules are simple: 1) No
Alcohol or Drugs, 2) No
smoking or eating in the
building, 3) No weapons, 4)
No violence or threats, 5)
No disruptive behavior.

Disregarding any of them

PIZZA WARS

KJHtN THE

Teuton . , , THe 1£>U dH

'on the sunny side of Market Street

550-8080

2823 Mission at 24th Street

would result in instant dis-
missal.

The 14-day stay must be
used consecutively, after
which there has to be a 90-
day period before you are
eligible for entry again.

Salvation was truly Army
in style.

In a longei account , one
could detail the conversa-
tions and people one meets
in this off-street brother-
hood (you are always on the
pavement anyway). You
admire the patience and
stillness of so many differ-
ent individuals who have to
erase time between the
inevitable lines, the hours
between one door opening
after another is shut.

It is an endless kaleido-
scope of perpetual inmobil-

ity. A vei y un-American,
non-American activity.

Five days later at mid-day
I was walking around 16th
Street paying off bills. It
was dark when I woke up to
bright lights and green mas-
ked figures peering at me.

I was told I was in the
intensive care unit in San
Francisco General Hospital
being treated for hypother-
mia. I was covered with
hotlines everywhere: oxygen
in my mouth, penicillin in
arms, several other IVs
wherever a vein shewed.

I was told my body temper-
ature had been down to 65
degrees Farenheit.

The hotlines were shelter,
were life. San Francisco
General was warm.

MIDNIGHT MUSIC FRI&SAT

mondays to thursdays
9 00 am to midnight

on fridays & Saturdays;
from 9:00 am until 1:00am

Ale are across the street from the movies.

Tome -join
us, before or
after the show.

SHA'-LAH
. V -

Discover Us! *

Direct Importers of
Guatemalen fabrics,
contemporary &
ethnic clothing at
affordable prices

if.

* * ,

, V ;

**:

V- -• ,>

•V

>'-• 41 5/647-322 V
3961 V 2 -24th St.,

<9

New College of California

School of Humanities

" Valencia M San Francisco t A 1 1 10 ( 1 1 Si (»2(»- IM «

School of Law

SO Fell St . San FrmkImu. < A 9 1 102 < « I S » MM- 1 1 1 1

• Individualized B.A. Programs

• M.A. Program in Clinical Psychology
Psychodynamic; Marriage & Family Focus

• M.A. Program in Poetics

• Weekend College Accelerated B.A. Program

• Computer Learning Center

• Life Experience Credit

• Integrated Health Studies

• Science Institute

• English as a Second Language Institute

• Artists-in-Residence Program ,,

in Music, Dance and Poetics

Sc liabkt espanoi * *•

Financial Aid available 0t +

Fully accredited programs /

COMMUNITY HEALTH

For the past two years, the Integrated Health Studies
Program at the New College of California has presented a
series of lectures entitled "FOCUS ON HEALTH". These
lectures have examined topics in health, disease and
medicine form the esoteric to the political.

In response to a student initiated effort, this program
will now seek to directly involve the ccmnunity in determin-
ing the subject matter to be rpesented. In this way, the
Integrated Health Studies Program can best respond to the
health and health care needs of the ccmnunity in which it is
located — the Mission.

The means for soliciting ccmnunity input will be multiple.
First, on Monday February 3rd, at 7:30PM in the Theatre at
New College, a Ccmnunity Forum will be held to allcw ccmnun-
ity members to provide input into the program. People will
be gathering to discuss possibilities for presentations
which they consider important for their health and the
health of the ccmnunity.

Secondly, a series of workshops will be conducted
throughout the Spring Semester to ensure continued and
widespread involvement. Finally, it is hoped that an
Advisory Board of concerned ccmnunity members can be formed
to provide continued direction.

The "FOCUS ON HEALTH" series runs frem February to May.
The schedule for February has been established. The topics
are as follows:

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3: COMMUNITY FORUM: HEALTH IN THE PUBLIC

INTEREST;

A meeting to discuss the ccmnunity' s needs and wishes
for health topics.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10: FANTASY AND IMAGINATION: ITS ROLE IN

ACHIEVING HEALTH:

Stan Dale, Author.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17: SPECIAL PRESENTATION IN HONOR OF BLACK

HISTORY MONTH: "TRADITIONAL AFRICAN MEDICINE AND ITS IMPLI-
CATIONS FOR THE HEALTH OF BLACK AMERICANS:

Presenter: Roland Foulkes, President of ROOTS , Tradi-

tional Medicine of the African Diaspora.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24: MOVIE/SLIDE SHOW: PROJECT PIAXTIA:

VILLI GER RUN COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE IN MEXICO.

Produced by the Hesperian Foundation, publishers of
DONDE NO HAY DOCTOR , a manual based on the project.

The Integrated Health Studies program believes that it can
best "Serve the People" by involving them. We hope to be
able to make that possible.

For further information, contact Michael J. McAvoy at New
College, 777 Valencia, 626-1694.

ifa utodjw f

* a G d ras

COSTUMI PARTY and OANCi

with Viva Brazil
Sunday, Feb. 9*>», 4-8pm

Oyatar Monday
Tab. 10*’ , 4 -7pm

Traa admittion if in co*ti*nio
or IS.OOaach

I •' and 2 nd Priio* for B»»t Coitui
3158 Mission St

6

The Original

S«n Francisco Roommate

Referral Service
$14 Fee

LiH Your Vacancy Free

626-0606

Mon Fn Noon-t pm

Saturday 10 am -7 pm

6I0A Cole Street at Haight

\o* C rlfhrohnt Our loth )ror
Your friendt Ahuut C»'

Continual fran page one
goes to the institutions.

Conservatives blame the
ACLU and the labor unions
for the mess. Liberals fix
the blame on corrupt or
uncaring bureaucrats.

While they hiss and claw
at one another the mentally
ill... and the public... pay
the cost.

On Sunday, December 1, one
of these statistics rode the
N-Judah to the end of the
line, got off "looking for
someone to kill", and killed
an elderly woman.

According to neighbors,
Daniel Thornton, a veteran
of the shuttle between board
and care homes, prisons,

©Tfl hOCHG

VALENTINE’S

SWEETHEART

PARTY

Friday,

FEB. 11

hospitals and the street was
disturbed that his counselor
was ill and felt nobody
cared about him.

"He said he needed help,"
Police Inspector Earl San-
ders told the Examiner
(12/2) "and figured this was
one way to get attention."

The State of California,
has responded to the problem
of the homeless mentally ill
by authorizing a $20 million
budget augmentation to the
Department of Mental Health.

These funds, divided among
58 counties, have been targ-
eted to provide services and
counseling. In a memo
drafted by George Peterson
of the Health Dept, to the
State on December 6th, a
broad Interim outline of San
Francisco's problems and po-
tentialities can be gleaned.

The City's share of these
State monies, counting the
mandatory 10% matching funds
will amount to slightly over
$1.1 million.

(By comparison, Governor
Deukmejian claimed that $1.2
billion already budgeted to
new prison construction is
insufficient, and an addi-
tional $400 to $500 million
is needed - Exam. 7/17/85.)

The proposal is an
interesting one, a blend of
flaws and opportunities,
with rather more of the
latter than usually emanates
from City Hall.

Most encouraging is the
possibility of community
access to decision making at
several interim stages.

According to Peterson, rec-
ommendations are to first be
brought before the Health
Commission then, hopefully,
before the Board of Supervi-
sors' Health Committee
towards the end of February.

A final plan will go
before the board in March
and, if approved and signed
by the Mayor, the proposed
services should be opera-
tional by July.

Two Locations To Serve You

* open *

11 :

00 AM TO 10:00 PM

Seven Days A Week
PHONE 431-3351

ATENCION

COME RIDE WITH

y»c^ tC v# v

TAQUERIA

NOW OPEN

3071 - 16th STREET
Bet. MISSION & VALENCIA

OPEN DAILY

10 AM to 12 PM

864-8840

The San Francisco proposal
i 8 broken down into six
funding categories. Clinical
support services presently
funded by the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation will be
expanded .

The other five programs
are new, and include special
services for addicts and
alcoholics, seniors and vet-
erans, and an increase in
the facilities provided by
the Tenderloin and South of
Market clinics.

The most extensively fun-
ded (at nearly $400,000) and
perhaps the most innovative
proposal is a Community Hou-
sing, Advocacy and Support
category including provision
of such amenities as
laundry, shower, storage
and, most importantly, mail
services .

It is impossible to pin
down the number of people
whom, because of homeless-
ness, are denied State and
Federal benfits to which
they are legitimately
entitled .

A few of the more "fortu-
nate", Peterson declared,
have been receiving mail
through shelters, including
such hotels in the Contract
Compliance program as are
described in this month's
NMN articles "Baby, It's
Cold Outside" and "Complaint
Department" .

Where innumerable clients,
some mentally confused, are
being shuttled through the
shelters, their mail service
has a potential for
misunderstandings .

Moreover, public assis-
tance laws do not look with
kindness on the policy of
receiving welfare checks by
post office box. The con-
cern is a legitimate one.

Peterson indicated a need
to draft a process balancing
the entitlement rights of
the homeless with taxpayer
concern about fraud.

He indicated that the leg-
islature, which motivated
the grant, may have the
capacity to resolve this
contradiction. "We'll have
to work things out."

A more nebulous problem is
in the number and location
of such facilities a6 are
proposed in the project.

"The problem with services
is that they're concentrated
in the central city," stated
Bob Prentiss of the Health
Department .

And Peterson admitted that
some neighborhoods with a
high homeless population
would probably remain devoid
of the targeted services.
The Haight, despite its
proximity to the vast unof-
ficial shelter of Golden
Gate Park is unlikely to
benefit by the grant. The
Mission is also problemati-
cal; although persons who
are not elderly, confused or
sick will probably be able
to walk to services in the
Tenderloin or South of
Market .

Centralization of homeless
facilities downtown will,
sooner or later, conflict

7

LINDA WILSON’S GRAFFITI JOURNAL #1

with "revitalization" plans
encouraged by the Mayor and
Chamber of Commerce.

In a special Chronicle
feature on the gentrifica-
tion of SOMA (2/18/85),
Police Captain Robert Farni
declared: "I spoke to some
people who put a million and
a half bucks into a garage
at 7th and Harrison they
want to turn into a Studio
54-type after-hours place.

"In five years you won't
recognize this neighborhood
at all. The down-and-outers
on 6th St. will be pushed up
to 16th St. and, after that,
way out into the Mission. “

"Why do so many people now
believe that homelessness is
a psychiatric problem?" re-
plies Thomas Szasz, a critic
of psychobureaucracy. "Be-
cause they want to treat
homeless people as if they
were insane."

"If you don't eat and
don't sleep," advises Howie
Harp of Berkeley' 8 Indepen-
dent Living Project, "you go
crazy. Anyone would."

The bad news, accordingly,
is that the San Francisco
plan allocates 86, 88, 93,
100, 96 and 1007. of State
funds for its six programs
to mental health profession-
als (to at least keep these
educated and important citi-
zens sheltered from winter's
chill).

The good is that Peterson
and Prentiss, unlike many of
those who accept a City
paycheck, are cognizant of
the contradictory policy of
hurling psychiatrists at
economic problems.

"It's going to be tough,"
Peterson responded to the
prospect that, if the State
funds help the homeless get
their act together, hundreds
or even thousands of such
"success stories" will enter
the already brutal competi-
tion for the remains of the
City's affordable housing.

Homelessness, he explains,
"wears on the psyche". Each
of us has a breaking point,
a quota of days or week6 or
months of cold and hunger
after which the manifesta-
tions, if not the reality,

of mental illness takes
hold. For some, this eco-
nomic illnecs precipitates a
decline which will never be
reversed .

Coincidentally, the Plan-
ning Department's recently
issued Residential Hotel
Status Report reveals that
rents for single rooms have
nearly doubled in the last
four years.

If the housing isn't there
these people will go right
back to shuttling between
Cardboard City and expensive
jails and hospitals. One
questions the mental status
of those who propose and
maintain such a system.

A suggestion frequently
voiced is that vacant
properties be acquired and
rehabilitated as community-
based shelters

But there are still four
opportunities for the
Mission to speak out against
official madness:

1) Community Advisory Board

- meets Jan. 27 and Feb. 17.
Information 558-2564.

2) Mental Health Adv. Board

- meets Feb. 5th, City Hall
Room 2c (basement) 7PM. In-
formation 558-5533.

3) Health Commission

- meets Feb. 4th and 18th.
Information 558-3348

4) Supervisors' Health Comm.

- meets Feb. 11th & March 11
(Walker -chair, Britt, Ward)

Thereafter, the proposal
will be brought before the
Supervisors, five of whom
will be up for election in
November .

Ironically the inclusion
of mail service may have a
bearing on that contest, for
recent court decisions have
affirmed the right of the
homeless to register and
vote.

****************************

* "Fire and Gold" by Brian *

* Doohan is an examination *

* of the links between San *

* Francisco's slumlords, *

* gentrifiers, developers *

* and politicians. Parts *

* have appeared in the NMN *

* and copies will be given *

* to anyone making a dona- *

* tion of at least $5 to *

* the North Mission Assn. *

Quan Yin
Acupuncture
& Herb Center

of San Francisco

A community-oriented healing center offering
Acupuncture, Chinese Herbs, Shiatsu massage,
and Classical Homeopathy in a supportive
environment. Sliding fee scale.

Monday 2-7

Tuesday through Friday 9-7
Saturday 9:30- 2 Drop-ins welcome.

513 Valencia at 16th 861-1101

AIDS AND THE FOCR

- by Misha Cohen

As we have discussed pre-
viously in this column, AIDS
is a disease of alienation.

The people who have been
diagnosed with AIDS are
primarily gay men, intra-
venous drug users, Africans
in parts of Africa, Haitians
and black people (especially
in Florida) and all of these
groups have a combination of
living in a society which
does not accept them.

Self denial, self-hatred
and alienation associated
with international society's
view and unsanitary living
conditions (especially among
“blacks, Africans, Haitians
and intravenous drug users),
along with increased expo-
sure to the virus HTLVIII
exists within each group.

I mention black people
here because recent stati-
stics shew black pecple to
be 25% of those contracting
AIDS in the U.S. while black
people comprise 13-14% of
the total population.

The increase of AIDS among
blacks is growing faser
while among the gay (mostly
white) population it is
slewing down.

AIDS, as of the beginning
of January, has be cane the
leading cause of death for
young men in New York, Los
Angeles and San Francisco.

Use of intravenous drugs
now accounts for a large
proportion of the increase
in AIDS. The primary popu-
lation using intravenous
drugs are poor, alienated
people - particularly blacks
and others such as Latinos
who are forced by our
society into drug addiction.

According to the chronicle
of Jan. 8, 1986, "AIDS has
become an affliction largely
of the poor, ethnic minpri-
ties in such Eastern cities
as Newark and New York City
where its spread among in-
travenous drug addicts is
outpacing AIDS increases
among gay men."

Yet poor blacks, latinos
and other poor people cannot
afford health care and are
filling the wards of city-
run hospitals.

The alternative programs
of nutritional supplements ,
meditation, personal coun-
seling, acupuncture and
herbs are often out of reach
even in the most affordable
of conditions (see previous
AIDS article).

We in the AIDS alternative
healing project also find
that there is great
opposition among many
medical doctors (in City
hospitals especially) to
using alternative treatment,
leaving those who want to
try on their cwn to also pay
on their cwn.

While the solution in
general is to build a
society in which health care
is for people, not for
profit, in the meantime we
encourage practitioners to
offer their services at a
lew cost. We also encourage
people with AIDS to ask
practitioners to work with
them on a lower scale or
take Medi-Cal if they have
limited funds.

The AIDS alternative
healing project is also
offering very inexpensive
support groups for people
working with holistic meth-
ods and a positive view.
The AAHP offers three hour
groups on a sliding scale of
$2 - $5, not refusing anyone
for lack of funds.

One group is clsoed
because it is full and
another is almost closed.
Hcwever, more groups can be
started if needed.

Some acupuncturists and
other alternative healers
will take Medi-Cal or lower
fees. People with AIDS or
AIDS related conditions need
to check around.

Contact the AIDS alterna-
tive healing project by
calling Misha Cohen at Quan
Yin at 861-1101 or Alan
Brickman at 668-1611.

Manufacturer of the Daikon Shield, A. H. Robins, has filed
for bankruptcy. If you have had a Daikon Shield IUD in the
past and had injuries, you must file claim by April 30,
1986. This date is an extension recently granted if
you need to file claim or want information call Action Alert
for Warren at 436-4500 or 1-800-DS-ALERT, or write P.O. Box
4796-94101, San Francisco, CA 94101.

GAMES

- by Nick Homsfelt

Imagine my surprise last
week when I pulled my '73
Vega into what had been Ed's
Body & Combustion Shoppe to
find a new sign proclaiming
Ed's Brace & Bite Repair -
Three Chairs, No Waiting!

When I found Ed with both
hands in the mouth of a lady
who had met Morpheus aided
by a nearby bottle of Wild
Turkey, he explained:

"I'll tell ya, ya might
have begun to suspect after
13 years of my working on
your car as a mechanic, I
leave a mite to be desired,
and I always had a hankerin'
to go into dentistry so here
I am, a dream carte true."

With that, the lady seemed
to rally and started scream-
ing bloody hel-l, so I beat a
hasty retreat.

I can't blame Ed, after
all he's only following the
lead of that august body of
civic leadership, the Board
of Supervisors.

Over the past few weeks,
while funding ran out for
teh Senior Escort Service
that aided thousands of
elderly residents, and the
security guards almost left
Rosa Parks Apartments to the
mercy of thugs. Board mem-
bers spent days dabbling in
international politics -
South Africa and its "mor-
ally repugnant system of
apartheid practiced by that
country's white government".

Apartheid is hot press!

Harry Britt and Willie
Kennedy and Doris Ward put
together the proposal that
would be discussed at the
December 11th Finance Com-
mittee meeting.

In a nutshell (where it
seems to have ccme from in
the first place) the legis-
lation would strike down
apartheid by "prohibiting
city government as a whole
from investing or depositing
money, contracting for any
services, or buying any
merchandise from businesses
with ties to South Africa".

This would mean no new
contracts with IBM, Xerox,
GE, Kodak, Exxon, Mobil,
Chevron, GM, Ford, Goodyear,
Firestone, Uniroyal, Coke,
PRpsi, Dr. Pepper, Gillette,
Revlon, Kraft, Kellogg's
Carnation, Band-aid, Ameri-
can Express, B of A, Anacin,
Reader's Digest, or the city
accounting firm Peat, Mar-

yick, Mitchell & Co., just
to name a few.

Now you and I might get by
without these guys, but
imagine a city without spare
parts for buses, cars, gas,
tires, banks, office equip-
ment, and the Mayor without
makeup! !

On December 11th, ties
were tightened, panty hose
hiked up, and the doors of
the Finance Canmittee opened
to the public.

Citizens quoted St. Thomas
Aquinas, implored that this
matter be left to the
voters , and one member of
the chamber of catmerce was
very practical and asked "If
a South African wants to buy
a $75,000 painting in a San
Francisco gallery, hew can
the deal be closed?" The
kind of thing I lose sleep
over myself.

On the moral battlefield
of finance, some of the
greatness of our Board
showed through when they
questioned representatives
of the big corporations

Nancy Walker:

"I am concerned about how
this (bill) will affect
credit card use."

Louise Renne, trying to
understand how Arthur
Anderson sets up its
international accounting
offices in various cities:
"It's like a McDonald's
franchise?"

And the winner of the
Board Blooper of the week,
Louise Renne again with:
"Look, we're going to pass
this anyway, but can someone
tell me what in the hell is
a 'corresponding banking re-
lationship'?"

This lady sits on the Fin-
ance Canmittee!

Quentin kept quiet and
Hongisto arrived an hour and
forty minutes late. The
bill passed the Finance Com-
mittee to go on to the Board
for January 7th vote.

The press quotes changed

tone

Sup. Molinari:

"It would be a zoo around
here- an economic disaster."

So? This would be a dif-
ference?

Chamber of Canmerce Execu-
tive Director John Jacobs
observed:

"The Board ' s measure does
more damage to the City than
to South Africa."

What a great motto for the
Board, "Damage is our Busi-
ness" !

On January 7th, the Board
refused to deal with the
issue because 3 of the 11
members were absent, giving
themselves time to drop this
hot potato somewhere else.

' The outcome? Well, every-
one got their names in the
papers.

As for the Senior Escort
Service or permanent funding
for security at senior hous-
ing, San Francisco seniors
of all races face the pros-
pect of "township" life
where if they dare to go out
at all, they won't go far.

Apartheid is an evil, but
then so is apathy and we
seem to have apathy in our
own front yards.

The

WOMEN’S

PRESS

Formerly

The Women’s Press Project
& Up Press

Quality

Offset Printing
For The

Progressive Community
626-4477

50 Otis Street
(near Mission & Van Ness)

San Francisco, CA 94103
Unlqp Shop • Up To 17x22 • Since 1977

Don't Forget

L&M

COLLECTIBLES

HAS A LITTLE
BIT OF
EVERYTHING
TO SELL

998 GUERRERO
550-6773

TUE-SAT lorn 7 Dm

& &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& &&&

MAGIC of PERSIA

Affordable Authentic Tribal
Persian Carpets

3548 22nd St. (bet. Dolores G Church)
Son Francisco

282-6109

We DO NOT cony reproduction rugs.

CoMH AHP’ Msit

Sam f'RAMctscoi o HL y

Animal &Arw y A Kj,

QutpFp foo. qaoups

Call iN*>*M*n*rt

CLASSES

6-00 • 9-30

ffeftCt/SSlft * 1 V*'**‘>

of CUSA,

m ondkvy &00-IOSO 4*1

yWr <JALUW

LOCAL artists iNvrrap TC>

SoaMir WORK fbR qALLt*f

A*P fAMRpAy fViQHf yAUO./

fee

qLotuous pM amp .

BeMfflT roR SAQO magAZ-«*J£

fe* 7

T#*** ** f&CX

rro&Ram g»u ifc 1

MUSIC, poemy
DAM&lAG j

ftt> £ fAtfWtpM

CHICAGO CoaliTio**

qRuPo rAATic/

CASINpo

"Hhyth -0 - rlatics
VotCfi

CI 6 P £6

pecofAe a **e*A*&*» or rue fARtA

r^AK£ A TAX P6PUC TA&L6 CONr*IB*>riOW t

ReCtf'VP OUA fcHtPUUA OP .

1499 Potrero Ave., S.F. 826-4290 ALL AGES WELCOME

■ The Bull

In this issue of the North Mission
News you will find several articles on
what life is like when you are poor in
San Francisco In fact it is not very
different being poor in this city than in
any other city in America. And the way
we treat our poor people is a direct
consequence of the way the United
States conducts its economic business,
both here and in the rest of the world

In the U S. we have constructed a
myth of rugged individualism and
boot strap economics. Poor people are
poor because they want to be poor or
are too lazy to take advantage of the
opportunities America offers. People
are homeless for the same reason

Starting with the depression in the
30's, the election of FDR and
continuing through the term of Jimmy
Carter, the US government
acknowledged, if half-heartedly, its
responsibilities to the poorest people of
this country and enacted various laws
and programs to assist poor people

Except for social security these
programs were not universal the
welfare system had (and has) as its
basic assumption that poor people were
stupid, lazy and dishonest A direct
result of those assumptions was the
imposition of onerous conditions of
eligibility on potential welfare
recipients.

In order to get welfare a person had
to give up many rights that we take for
granted For example in order to
receive welfare checks a person had to
allow periodic checks of their home in
order for the government to make sure
that the recipient didn't have any
possessions that weren't absolutely
necessary for life.

And the welfare system never
provided the amount of money
necessary for families to sustain more
than a mean existence, bounded by a
harping bureaucracy and petty rules
that seemed designed more for
inflicting the maximum amount of
humiliation than providing for the
sustenance of a family.

After all if we are going to give money
to stupid, lazy good-for-nothings then
we are damn well going to make them
pay for the privilege. pay in the
currency of humiliation, abuse, denial
of rights and invasion of privacy.

To this day the welfare system in
this country is a travesty; more a
caricature of how to help people than a
viable system of delivering benefits to
needy people There is still no limit to
how poor you can get This country has
never seen fit to proclaim that all of its
citizens are entitled to certain basic
minimum requirements, food to eat, a
place to live, decent clothes to wear and
adequate medical care

It is as if we were afraid that if
everyone was guaranteed a basic
minimum survival level then no one
would work Why work when you can
get a free place to stay and free food
This reasoning also seems to drive the
meanness of the welfare system

Now, with the election of Donald
Reagan and the coming of the so-called
new conservatism, even the meager
subsistence we provided to our poorest
citizens has been cut.

If you read the papers or watch the
tv news you have seen the ghastly
statistics on who is poor in this
country Mostly it is women and
children.

Over the past ten years we have
seen a massive shift in the pattern of
poverty We have shifted resources
from the young to the old We have
raised most of the old people in this

country above the so-called poverty
line and pushed many women and
children below it

Social Security, the main engine
pulling this transfer of resources
remains off limits to cuts. The reason
for social security remaining
sacrosanct is easily

discerned — everyone is eligible for
social security and it has become
political suicide to target social
security for changes.

Despite attempts to convince us
otherwise, social security is not much
different from Aid to Families With
Dependent Children (AFDC). Money
is being transferred from one segment
of the population to another.

My aim here is not to question the
social security program but rather to
point out that enriching one group
while impoverishing another is one
consequence of the way the American
economy operates. The creation of an
economic underclass is an inevitable
result of a system that allocates the
greatest resources to its greediest
citizens.

There is simply no excuse for one
person to have billions of dollars in
assets while millions of others do not
even have a place to live.

I am always amazed when I find

people who are surprised when
businesses do things like dump toxic
chemicals on the highways, or sell
products they know are dangerous.
The American economic system
actively encourages this type of
behavior by providing greater benefits
to the purveyors of death than it exacts
in penalties. ^

Even more telling in the last twenty'
years is the war that has been waged
against government. The people who
were preaching the evils of government
in the background have, with the
ascendancy of Ronald Reagan, been
brought to the forefront.

We have been treated to a constant
barrage about how the government is
wasteful, the people who work for the
government are slothful and nothing
the government does works. This
unremitting assault has left us with a
government filled with people who
don't seem to care Bureaucrat has
become an epithet and the people who
work for the government are the
victims of unending vituperation.

We are further told that the "private
sector" can better solve the problems
the government couldn't.

What a crock of shit. Are we really
going to entrust our country to the
people who gave us Bhopal, the pinto

and the Firestone 500. Give me a
break. We need government to
protect us from those people

Moreover, close examination reveals
that the manner in which America
treats its poor people fits into a
continuum with the way the United
States interacts with the rest of the
world, especially the poorer countries
Several years ago the debt crisis of
the third world made headlines
everywhere Poor countries had been
encouraged to borrow money, mostly
from American banks When the world
economy hit the skids these countries
were hardpressed to make the
payments The danger that was
stressed was not the danger faced by
these developing countries but rather
the danger that American banks would
be destroyed.

To the rescue rushed the
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
But in order to get more money the
developing nations had to accept the
IMF's conditions. "In this case the IMF
acted (and acts) as an enforcer (Hey,
you dpn't pay the vigorish. Okay we
break your legs.) And in every case the
conditions imposed further
impoverished those citizens least able
to bear a further cut in their standard
of living.

VALENTINE’S

SWEETHEART

PARTY

Friday, 4 jk

FEBRUARY 11 1986

RED & WHITE ATTIRE WELCOMED!

1 =

Special

Drinks

t Bring a Sweetheart;

Or Find One Here!

527vAlENciA/16iL

VALENCIA BOOKS

USED & RARE

sss

sssssssssssssssssg

_ _ VD - -
CL I N I C
VIDEO DRUM
LESSONS
C ALL s
< 415 ) 621-7399
NOW . !

SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS5

A

— PERFECT-
PRINT

FAST. QUALITY PRINTING

3228 16th Street (y Guerrero
San Francisco. California 94103

626-6650

TYPESETTING AND GRAPHIC DESIGN
PRICES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

AMERICAN AND EL' ROPE AN LABOR AND RADICAL HISTORY
WOMENS STL DIES. CLASSICAL AND MEDIAEVAL STl'DIES
ANTHROPOLOGY • LATIN AMERICA • AFRICA ■ FAR EAST
LINGUISTICS • UTERARY CRITICISM • JLDAICA
HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE . LAW . ECONOMICS
ART . PHILOSOPHY . HISTORY OF RELIGION

and other areas.

Friday and Saturday
Noon to 6 PM
or by appointment

BOLERIUM BOOkS

2141 Mismoiv Suite W/ • S»n Fr.no»co. CA ®41 1C • USA

41SH6I-6H)

524 Valencia. S.F. 94110716th St. Bart

wK OYS

Older Out of Print Scholarly
Bought & Sold
4 1 5-863-6829

I AM - lOPA\

2 AM -10 PM

Open Every Day

S«/h

ToddPratum John Quinn David Park

C q mmkk+Rknta ls

ONE CALL RLNT ALL

Since 1947

I No \idfNiiti Siiiyi

Xin l itiHij.u ( ii/ifoniia V4I02

648-7860

i

10

1** 4~~*- soZ*

S* *— 3 — j i4 c^a y

—~~~ /uc»v»v .

< _<

b&kett&Oi

"Rich and Poor" is a new
photodocumentary book by Jim
Goldberg, which contains
black and white photos of
San Francisco's rich and
poor, accompanied by com-
ments frcm the participants
themselves .

Photographed in their own
surroundings, be it palatial
mansion or transient hotel,
the human vulnerability of
the individual emerges.

"A picture is worth a
thousand words , " goes the
old proverb that comes to
mind when reviewing Jim
Goldberg's photo essay book
"Rich and Poor".

Some photos leave you
speechless as deep emotions
of anxiety emerge seeing
people at the margin of
society full of despair.
In this book, Jim has
brilliantly exposed the
lives of people who live in
the transient hotels of the
city. There are people who
we see every day in the
streets, ambulating with no
place to go. Through his
work, he has brought us to
their hotel roans.

In the same fashion, he's
brought us to the hones and
mansions of the rich,
showing us how they view
themselves. What one sees
f ran the rich is contentment
with their wealth and the

privilege that goes with it.
They lead protected lives
against the crude life
outside and the wealth they
must preserve.

With the wave of a magic
wand, rich and poor are
humanized. What is most
revealing is not the
difference between those who
are rich and poor, but their
similarities.

Among the children of the
poor one boy , upon looking
at his photograph, said of
himself, "I think I'm stu-
pid. I always do something
wrong." His brother wrote
"... I look scared", and the
other brother says "... the
hotel is rotten, I want to
move . "

This is contrasted with a
rich kid who says "I like
living incognito. People
are envious of my wealth. I
can't help having been bom
with money. I try to ignore
the hurt and hide it all
away where I don't have to
deal with it. I can't
escape being a Zellerbach."

What one sees is a society
where the illusion of class
mobility is replaced with a
caste system where one who
is bom into it remains!

Can one not make the
connection "where there are
rich there are poor" or,
"without poor, there can be
no rich"? These ideas begin

to surface as one reviews
this book.

What else does one observe
from this book? The
disarray of the lives of the
poor, the disorder, squalor,
general lack of control over
their lives... whereas the
rich have a highly organized
and structured living with
full control over their
lives .

One can argue that both
are unhappy and dissatis-
fied, but the poor hat their
situation and want a better,
more dignified life.

Another revealing photo-
graph is of a middle aged
poor woman. Her name is
Dorothy. She writes "My
face shows the intensity of
a pained woman. I've been
ask for this mess. This
(photograph) makes me look
like a bum - I am not. I am
fantastic Dorothy, a popular
personality, the nicest
person in the hotel."

Her statement shows how
she had been victimized by
violence. Although she
admist she appears like a
"bum", she rejects that
concept - she is crying out
I did not choose to end up
this way, I am the opposite!

What Jim Goldberg elo-
quently demonstrates in his
book "Rich and poor" are the
casualties of American capi-
talism, those who lost the

struggle and the victors,
those who inherited and
maintained their wealth.

It's victors vs. van-
quished; American dream vs.
American nightmare. Surely
an image that Reagan would
prefer to deny exists.

The paradox of all this is
that these are not even the
poorest of the city, there
are approximately 10,000
haneless, those who sleep in
walkways, abandoned

buildings like Poly High
School . See for yourself ;
go at daybreak where the
truly unlucky ones live,
where irony and reality meet
on 13th Street and Bryant
underneath the freeway
overpass and see the
haneless emerge fran their
nightmares to begin their
lifeless day.

Someone told me that
Martin De Porres was a black
saint. I didn't know there
were any black saints but
then I'm pretty confused
about the whole concept of
saints.

In theory, you have to die
before you officially become
a saint, isn't that the way
it goes? Seems a weird kind
of reward system to me. All
I know is that there are
quite a few living saints of
all races and creeds working
as volunteers at Martin de
Porres' "House of Hospi-
tality", a super soup
kitchen on 23rd and Bryant
in the heart of the Mission.

It was there that I was
educated about saints by one
of the guests as I ladled
out a delicious rabbit soup
the first day they opened
after the Christmas holi-
days.

I had originally spoken to
John Moore who, along with
Barbara Cal j p*' he.-^ i team
of volunteers mio
run the soup kitchen. I
called him up because I'd
heard that Martin de Porres
might have to close due to
eviction.

Apparently .the building is
owned by the man who owns
the laundromat next door and
he wants to expand.

I talked with John about
all the relevant facts on
the phone, but then he said
"well if you really want to
get a feel for the place you
should cane and volunteer"
and I thought "good idea"
and immediately went over
for the lunch-time stint.

A lot of people have never
heard of Martin de Porres:
they only know about St.
Anthony's, and I was one of
them.

What I learned was that
"Martin's", as it is affec-
tionately kncwn , serves free
breatfast Monday through
Friday 6 - 7:30 AM and free
dinner from 12-3 Tuesday
through Saturday. Free
brunch is served on Sunday
from 9 - 10:30 AM.

Smaller and more persona]
than St. Anthony's, it was
part of the Catholic Worker
movement which was begun by
Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin
in 1933, but you don't have
to be religious to either

eat there or help out.

The house philosophy is
that eating is a right, not
a privilege, and that
feeding the hungry is a
matter of justice, not of
charity.

Martin's has been serving
the hungry there for 15
years with no church or
government funds, just indi-
vidual donations of food or
money.

As John said, "we never
know what is going to be on
the menu until we get there,
it's creative cooking frcm
donations." He had made the
rabbit soup that day himself
and I can vouch that it was
one of the best soups I've
ever tasted.

Not only is the quality
impressive, but the quantity
is unrestricted. Guests can
eat as much as they need.
No Oliver TVists there!

Also, people can stay as
long as they like while the
restaurant is open. No one
is hustled out. On the con-
trary, I noticed that the
guests are treated with in-
finitely more respect and
care than are the paying
clients at Jack-In-The-Box
where those awful "Security"
thugs pressure you to get
out before you've virtually
swallowed your last bite.

The atmosphere at Martin's
is relaxed and friendly and
guests relate on a first
name basis.

The kitchen is spotless
and all the volunteers wear
freshly laundered green or
red aprons. Everyone seems
to have fun and I'd give
credit to John's leadership
for creating the positive
easygoing atmosphere on that
particular day.

I thoroughly enjoyed
working there and found it
one of the most gratifying
volunteer gigs I've ever
done. I felt I got back as
much as I gave and I have
every intention of going
back if Martin's is still
there.

But this very special
little free restaurant in
danger of closing!

Martin de Porres has io
move from 2826 23rd Strec
by March 31. They netc
$300,000 to buy new premises
so. they can continue to

serve the 1,000 or so meals
they've supplied for the
last fifteen years.

Tbey need help!

Donations of money,
however small, are desper-
ately needed to maintain
this vita] lifeline. Food
and clothes are also always
welcomed but right now money
is the number one priority
because without the kitchen
there can be no soup.

ii

So please, in this land ot
plenty where the irony of
millions of dollars being
spent on weight loss diets
frcm too much food by same
contrasts sadly with mass
malnutrition and hunger for
others, let's take care of
those in our ccmmunity who
are struggling with basic
survival .

For further info, call
John or Barbara at 550-9091.

BY CLARE KNIGHT

i

r

* -

OF SOUP AND SAINTS

O

ft-

O

CT

*<

!>

OJ

13

QJ

CT

rt>

-5

ft

(/>

maelstrom

• 572 Valencia
863-9933

NORTH MISSION’S

FIRST GENERAL BOOKSTORE

Jan .8-Feb. 13
Rupert Jenkins
Photographs of
Buffalos

Private
libraries
always wanted

Mon-Sat
11-6

f ust around the Corner ...»
It’s fust a matter of TIME.

Trouble Will* &!o°J?

Every Monday night for the
past nine months, local
filmmakers working fever-
ishly on a cure for this and
other problems facing the
"McLuhan generation" have
given the public an opportu-
nity to view the results of
their research , absolutely
free, at a nightclub on the
corner of 16th Street and
Albion appropriately named
The 16th Note.

"The Filrnnakers' Showcase"
was started last spring by
two shadowy figures known,
it seems, only by the
monikers "Shawn" and "Jean-
Louis".

I was unable to track them
down for an interview in
time for this article, but
while Kelly McKlusky (one of
the three people currently
working on the Showcase) was
untangling equipment, I was
able to talk to the other
two members of the team,
program coordinators Karin
Nordh and Peter Weiselmann.

Under their direction, the
program is expanding to
include special showings by
particular fi lnmakers such
as Donna Cameron on February
17th and Dominic Anger ame on
March 10th. Plans are afoot
to host opening night par-
ties for special events at
the Roxie Cinema, just down

the street from the 16th

Note. , .

Grants have been applied
for to purchase more
advanced equipcment such as
a video system, and Peter is
working out arrangements
with Canyon Cinema , one of
the largest independent,
underground and experimental
film libraries in the coun-
try, to bring in works from
outside the Bay Area.

at 9PM.

This should come as a
welcome relief for those
students and independents
whose careers and aspira-
tions have been continually
frustrated by the institu-
tional gauntlet.

As a result of this open-
door policy, nude people
made entirely of Leggo
blocks are allowed to
explain things about our-
selves that we really may
not want revealed, in terms

For these special events,
there will be a two dollar
cover charge . The rest of
the Monday night showings
will remain admission free.

They asked me to stress
that during the regular cpen
nights that "There is no
screening process here! All
you have to do to get your
film (and possibly video by
spring ) shown is to walk in
the door with it." Prefer-
ably before the show starts

that only an audience built
of Leggo blocks could
comprehend .

Many are left shocked and
dismayed as they realize at
the end of another film that
all the characters have the
same nose.

In case you're one of
those people that must have
everything spelled out for
you, a film is shewn in wich
beautiful female dancers in
tights slowly descend a

chromium spiral staircase,
explaining it all in a
timeless red light with per-
fectly studied gestures of
their bodies and limbs.

The audience roars as a
purse snatcher meets a
bizarre fate trying to
extricate his hand from a
curious old woman's handbag.

Are these the Tobe Hoopers
and Roger Cormans of tomor-
row? Francesca, co-owner of
the 16th Note doesn't think
so.

She does, however, like
thinking that she may
discover one day that she
drank saki with and helped
foster the career of a 21st
century Fellini or Zeffer-
elli.

Filmmakers, themselves,
should enjoy the unique
forum her club provides for
them to meet and mix with
their audience in a pelasant
dimly lit environ that lends
itself both to uninhibited
(occasionally drunken) soc-
ializing and/or voyeur-
istic anonymity

"There is so much more
than just music," says Fran-
cesca, who maintains an
eclectic repertoire of dance
ensembles, theater troops,
divergent forms of music and
any or all of the above in
combination .

by Alabama Street

4>'

❖V

FROM

1975

GARTLAND PIT
FIRE

The Spark
That May

TO

1985 ^

DOLORES PARK

Cause a Fire rapes

NORTH MISSION NEWS

SUBSCRIBE NOW! Only $12.00 A Year

Name.

Addiess.

Send Check or Money Order Today
N.M.N. 3004 16th St. SFCA 94103

Zip.

The North Mission News is the voice of the
North Mission Association, a nonprofit organization
committed to championing neighborhood issues. Your
subscription will keep you informed and provide the
financial support needed to assure that these issues
continue to be addressed.

ALL TYPES OF

CONTACT LENSES INCLUDING:

• EXTENDED WEAR
• ASTIGMATIC
• TINTED SOFT LENSES
GAS PERMEABLE HARD LENSES

OTOPATHY in San

Gregory Manteuffel, M.D.

Family Practice
Homeopathy

Phone 6B1-4440
By Appointment

345 West Portal Ave
San Francisco. CA 94127

Corey Weinstein, M.D.

Ortho'Bionomy

Homeopathy

Phone 221 7751 4827 Geary Blvd

By Appointment San Francisco, CA 94118

safe, effective therapy ♦ sliding scale ♦ insurance accepted

DESIGNER EYEGLASSES
NO LINE BIFOCALS
FACETED LENSES

I-S’IOT

DR. BARRY M. SMITH

EYE EXAMINATIONS MEDI-CAL - INSURANCE

& 861-6611 3

3109 16TH ST AT GUERRERO SAN FRANCISCO

I'lii'lo In ( htirlt i KcwuirJ

(tory by Htria idrr rtd Mlchaal Pag*

Director Ray ration (left) and student-artists Eduardo Jurado and Barbara Duncan are
proud to show off the results of their efforts at a Creativity Explored workshop

Creativity
2511 24th
550-0828/29)

Explored
Street (phone

Impossible dreamer

You are invited to visit
San Francisco's first
full-time visual arts
center for the
developmental ly disabled.

We recognize
this aspect

with pride
of Mission

Culture .
arts and
studio , "
Pat l£n ,
promote
disabled
is as
found

"This is not an
crafts busy-work
clarifies Ray
director. "We
the art of the
which we think
valuable as work
in major

galleries . "
his staff
encouraging
environment

Patlan says
provide an
unstructured
where the

artist-students can give
free reign to their
expression .

The goals of the center
include the prevention
of institutionalization
of one of our most abused
and neglected members of
our community. Vitality
itself is promoted in
this well-equipped
studio. Development and
inner personal growth is
achieved in this relaxed
and stimulating
environment .

Classes in Muralism,
History, Design and
Technique with muralist
Juana Alicia are being
given thanks to La Raza
Graphics (648-0930) and
C.A.C. Latino youth are
encouraged to apply.

Today is
King day.

Martin Luther

Assembly at City Hall.
We went to see Martin
Luther King, Jr. School
put on a play. Third-
world kids crowded into
the rotunda with teachers
pushing out the memory of
King. We sat through a
lovely little chorus of
essay contest, model
minority choral reading
The kids return with a
washed-out liberal
sentiment of being proud,
and welcomed in the Halls
of Justice. Their
performance was a rip
off,- being used as proof
of great gains when human
rights are still at the
heart of our daily
struggle. It is the
events like these, like
the huge marches and
rallies, that are the
mainstreaming of us we
watch on T.V. The
'system' destroys
people's culture. What
happens in America is a
fear of differences, a
demorepublikan wash, the
T-V-isa.tion of us.

***** * *

The Mission Cultural
Center at 2451 Harrison
also offers excellent
cost-free Drawing and
Screen printing classes
open to the public.
Pueblo, aproveche !

Isa Mura is a flamenco
dancer who traces her
roots from both the
Mission and Latin

America. She can tell
you about living with her
four children in one room
and about her love for
her work and appreciation
for her position as a
teacher, performer,

choreographer and mother.

The Mission was suffering
when she left it 25 years
ago. There just wasn't
the day-to-day means.
People were living 2 or 3
families to one house and
trying to get their
relatives from El

Salvador, Mexico or other
places. She says that
there was not the
possibility then for the '
psyches fo these people
to relax enough to take
part in cultural or
artistic things. She
also admits, while

hitting her fists

together, that the stress
and strain of her career

-

Isa Mura began teaching
Ballet and Tap in her
mother's garage at 9
years old and loves to
teach, ??? passing of
strict self-discipline,
good posture and the
heritage she understands
as part of the Mission
community's Latin
American identity. She
has never been to Spain,
but taught in the 70s at
La Raza Community Center
at 362 Capp and has
achieved notoriety in the
Bay Area and Los Angeles.
Her goals as of now are
"limitless as long as the
life force is running
thru jne." Through the
Mission Cultural Center,
she wants to realize
performing with her
company involving more
Spanish musicians and men
and children and bring
other artists from Spain
and elsewhere to give
master classes.

Isa has submitted a grant
proposal to the
California Arts Council
to continue her work.
Latin women artists are
statistically one the
most ignored groups when
it comes to getting major
art financial support.
She uses her creativity
that there be no
deficiency. And that the
Mission have a vital
culture and we all» are
more active and more at
peace in ourselves as a
result .!

When we break out of the White Man's T.V. one-way culture imposed
upon us, we develop within as we search for solutions. We become
stronger, healthier, more patient, more at peace with ourselves
and others as we use more of our inner powers.

A Pesar de Todo -- Redoblando Esfuerzos
En TiemDos Cada Dia Mas Dificiles — Creatividad Mas Tenaz

Si nos cortan los medios de expresion nos estan cortando la vida
misma! We all have the potential to be artists en la medida que
nos expresamos .

\

14

NEIGHBORS

LYNN JOHNSON

Clarion Cafe

New year, new beginnings,
and the plum tree in front
of my house began to show
tiny blossom buds before the
15th. This is the earliest
I can remember my personal
harbinger of spring showing
its face.

New beginnings, new
growth, nice things to think
about at the beginning of a
year. One beginning I'd
like to see is the transfer
of 6ome energy in our neigh-
borhood .

I'd like to be able to
drain off some of the money-
making energy pervading our
neighborhood (sky-rocketing
rents that continue to force
individual neighbors and
neighborhood businesses out
of our community) and pump
that energy into the
citizens of the community to
enable us to effect more
positive changes in our
lives as individuals and as
a cohesive community.

What would "more positive
changes" be? There's a book
titled Life After Life that
recounts the experiences of
many persons who have
technically died and then
come back to life. One of
the insights common among
these people privileged to
an outside perspective of
this life we live is that if
there are any goals in this
life, they are LEARNING and
LOVING.

If we could each increase
our learning and our loving

at the rate that rents
increase and megacorporation
junk-food palaces invade our
neighborhood, we'd form a
pretty wonderful community
in a very short time period.

If you have access to a
garden (and I see an awful
lot of unused backyards in
our neighborhood) or even
window boxes, January is a
good time to prune. The
rainy season is also a great
time for fertilizing since
the rains wash it down into
the earth.

It '8 a great time to get
some cuttings from your
neighbors even for
houseplants. I stick cut-
tings in a dark green glass
container with water and
Vitamin Bl transplant
starter and let them root ,

and then stick them in the "a
garden or in a new pot. o
Getting your hands down in g*
teh dirt (potting soil ^
included) and helping things q-
grow is a really pleasant, ^
grounding experience.

1986 6eems a good year to o,
think about learning and ^
loving and thi6 is a good
time to start. There are
many avenues of learning in ^
our neighborhood including -s
classes nad libraries and ^
new activities and just
talking to more of your
neighbors .

Loving is something we
increasse by doing. Be
conscious of how you live
your life and what you do
with your time. Dedicate
one day or one day each week
to noticing what you do and
how you do it.

With each activity ask
yourself, "Is this a loving
thing to do and a loving way
to do it?" "Is this loving
of myself?" (never forget to
be loving to yourself). "Is
this loving to my neighbors
and my environment?" "Is
this for the best benefit of
all or just for my own ego
enrichment ?"

I think we're already a
pretty wonderful community,
but under the current na-
tional and local administra-
tions all growth and change
is measured by dollar
increases for the few who
own and manipulate, and this
kind of change is all too

prevalent in our neighbor-
hood .

As a few make more and
more money and rents
continue to increase, each
of us is forced to become
more competitive and less
cooperative just to maintain
residence in the neighbor-
hood we love.

Now there's another McDon-
ald's at 16th and Mission
(rumor from the advertising
agency has it that the owner
who also owns the Mac's at
24th and Mission is a vege-
tarian) and there's a Carl's
Jr. proposed for 20th and
fission. And why do we sup-
port these megacorporations?
Because the television tells

U8 tO?

There are certainly more
nutritious, less expensive

fast food restaurants in our
neighborhood. My current
favorite is P ANCHO VILLA
TAQUERIA at 3071 16th St.
Super-clean, staffed by
friendly neighbors, and they
serve healthy foods in big
portions at really low
prices .

TAQUERIA EL FAROLITO #2 at
2092 Mission is another good
one. ANDREAS IMPORTS AND
DELI at 3091 16th Street is
great for Greek specialties.
MING' S GARDEN RESTAURANT has
great nourishing Chinese
food at really low prices at
2172 Mission Street, CAFE
PI CARO at 3120 16th St. is
good, and the CLARION at
2118 Mission is great.

"Another new favorite
Mexican restaurant for me is
LA PERLA jn at 1198 Treat
Street (by 25th).

Remember that the megacor-
poration hamburger stands
are also undermining the
ecologies of other countries
as their demand for beef
forces more and more clear-
ing for cattle production.

Rumor has it that the
CORONA bar at 16th and
Guerrero is trying to open
the old Industrial Club
across the street as a
social service community
club. Supposedly the police
are against it because of
two citations in November
for selling drinks after
hours , and supposedly the
ABC is against it because of
12 protests about another
bar in this area.

Personally, the CORONA has
been on my blacklist ever

2118 Mission

since I walked in one night
and ordered a scotch and
soda, and it took the bar-
tender ten minutes to figure
out how to make it.

While we're gossipping I
heard that Kush tried to get
the VALENCIA ROSE (that
sounded great), but now
INTERSECTION is trying for
it. I hope that whoever
gets it continues the tradi-
tion it maintained of a
great community arts and
presentation center.

Even more rumors: the

ROXIE THEATRE has received
ominous, perhaps even threa-
tening calls about its up-
coming showing of "Hail
Mary". Just the rumor makes
me want to see the film.

THE EYE GALLERY (758
Valencia Street) and Cable
Channel 25 present a
screening on February 16th
at 8PM which examines one of
post-modern society's most
undervalued resources Public
Access Television. Tapes
drawn from Channel 25' s past
and present will be shown in
a celebration of the
diversity and vitality of
Public Access.

The SAN FRANCISCO INSTI-
TUTE OF MAGICAL AND HEALING
ARTS has an impressive list
of classes, workshops, and
intensives for this spring.
For more information, you
can call 821-7145.

In connection with the SAN
FRANCISCO AIDS ALTERNATIVE
HEALING PROJECT I will be
leading a support group for
People with AIDS or ARC
beginning in February on

Sister Christine 3ol2 16th st.

Friday mornings from 8:30 to
11:30. The cost will be $2
- $5 sliding scale.

This group is only for
people with AIDS or ARC who
want to use or are already
using alternative healing
methods. There are still a
few spaces available.

In March, on my own, I
will be beginning a support
group for the Worried Well
(members of the community
who are healthy now, but
terrified of contracting
AIDS). For more information
on either group, call 626-
6565.

THE MISSION CULTURAL CEN-
TER invites you to discover
a new world of learning thi6
winter. Among the variety
of music/dance classes being
offered are flamenco, samba,

Friday Februai) 28th at 8PM.

The Noh Oratorio Society
pre8ents"Saints and Singing"
by Gertrude Stein on Sunday,
February 16th at 3PM at
STUDIO EREMOS (PROJECT
ARTAUD) , 401 Alabama Street.

If you're a man who hits
your wife or lover, you're
not alone. Male violence is
a problem in more than half
of all adult relationships.

You can stop being abusive.
The men at MEN OVERCOMING
VIOLENCE (MOVE) are current-
ly accepting new clients for
group and individual coun-
seling. MOVE is a nonprofit
agency that has been helping
men in the Bay Area for the
last six years.

At MOVE, men are working
together to find alterna-
tives to violence. Services

Carlos

Mexican folkloric ballet,
Congolese drumming, tradi-
tional Aztec dance and capo-
iera... the unique Brazilian
martial art and dance.

Screen painting and design,
figure drawing and graphics
courses and a film produc-
tion workshop are also being
offered. Some courses are
absolutely free but enroll-
ment is limited, so stop by
the Center soon at 2451
Harrison Street or call 821-
1155 for more information.

Topical songsmith8 with
music to inspire and empower
you will be at MODERN TIMES
BOOKSTORE Saturday, February
8th at 8PM, and at ARTEMIS
CAFE , Valencia and 23rd,

are provided on a sliding
scale. For more informa-
tion, or to begin counseling
right away, call 626-MOVE.

If you're a woman over 40
and need job information
tailored to your needs, 0P-
TIONS FOR WOMEN OVER 40
offers unique services to
mature women looking for
work. You can stop in their
offices in the WOMEN ' S BUIL-
DING, 3543 18th Street, or
call 431-6405.

The blossoms in front of
my house are reminding me
that this is a good time of
year to plan what you'd like
to grow.

Book

Center

VMOCff ME W //////
OW NERSH/P // . .

WaRRCn l*ee cmspensimo optician

CASTRjO EYEWEAR. 252«+ market st, sf

e>€>l-2l6b (fceu**. ^mcast^

FASHION E-VEWEAR- CONTACT UCN5E.S • SUN CLASSES •

FITTING ♦ SERVICE • FRAME ADJUSTMENTS- shins.

********************

SE HAULA ESPANOL FOREIGN 6*. DOMESTIC

A ce

uto SUPPLY

12 10 VALENCIA ST.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA. 94110

AUTOMOTIVE PARTS ^ ACCESSORIES

M F: 8 AM 6 PM SAT : 9 AM - S PM HIS) 647*0432

RAUL MENENDEZ FORMERLY OF CAR PARTS SUPPLY

★ ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★

Book

Center

518 Valencia St.

San Francisco 94110
(415)626-2924

Specializing In

MARXIST

LITERATURE

From all around the world

In English, Spanish. Persian

Also books about Labor. Black
Liberation. Third World. Wom-
en s Liberation, the Peace move-
ment; Science. Cultural. Perio-
dicals: Posters. Records. Child-
ren s Books.

OPEN

MON. -SAT. 10:30am - 6pm

K & H LIQUORS

at 16th and Valencia
OPEN WHEN YOU NEED US

7 days

6 a.m. -2 a.m.

621-1510

Lottery Tickets
on Sale
HERE

Bombay Bazar

(415) 621-1717

CORN OIL, PEANUT OIL, VEGETABLE OIL
LONG-GRAIN RICE, BASMATI RICE

AND ALL INDIAN SPICES

AMERICAN AND INDIAN VIDEO TAPES

548 Valencia St. S.F.

IP. ENGRAVED SIG_N_S\

DESK NAMEPLATES, I D BADGES, +

„ PLASTIC SIGNS

PHONE

684 Guerrero ..^LA J363 i 3056
v San Francisco Ca. ihmo

510 Valencia St.

16

POETRY CONTEST UPDATE

The North Mission Poetry Contest has received over 500
entries. The judges have been diligently piling through
these but it has proven an enormous task. Therefore, we are
forced to delay announcing a winner until our next issue
which will be published March 1,

At this time, the judges have narrowed it down to 60
poems. The NMN wishes to thank all of the entrants who made
the contest a success and ask for your continued patience
for another month at which time we will have a winner.

TALL GIRLS

TALL GIRLS

- by Susan and the Monkey

We had the pleasure of
seeing "TALL GIRLS" at the
New Performance Gallery on
December 7. "TALL GIRLS",
known on the street as Jill
Daly, Harriet Garf inkle and
Marcia Paulsen, were very
good and we hope to see more
of them in the New Year.

This four year old troupe
which explores popular cul-
ture staged a series of five
short pieces which ranged
from good to excellent. We
were particularly impressed
by the props and staging,
which were perpetrated like
a performance themselves.

The New Performance Gal-
lery complemented TALL GIRLS
and their production; it's
one of the best performance
spaces in the Mission.

Themes and material were
drawn from familiar sources.
The first piece, "Tricera-
tops", was the most
abstract . Choreography by
Harriet Garf inkle seemed
rushed and packed each bar
of music, which was by Lori
Anderson. The dancers
ocncentrated on getting all
the moves in as opposed to
expression and grace.

The overall effect seemed
harried and the theme
undeveloped . Triceratcps is
a 3-homed dinosaur.

"Trash Cash" also a
premiere, was produced by
Doug Skinner. We did not
like it.

Its Be-Bop for "small
change" was very average.
It did make excellent use of
plastic and those pennies
everyone collects. Jill
Daly was very good in this
piece despite what she had
to work with.

At this point the show
took a major turn and the
pieces became less experi-
mental and much more effec-
tive.

"Pink Camouflage", again a
premiere, was dynamite; its
choreography by Marcia
Paulsen was terrific and the
theatrical aspect was very
well done. The music by
Stewart Copeland, the dance,
the feeling were all
developed and everything
worked.

It was an endearing piece
and had none of the female
buffoonery of "Trash Cash".

"45RPM" followed and was
the highlight of the night
and good clean fun.

Jill Daly's piece about a
woman coming home and
listening to music by the
temptations, the Ronettes
and Aretha Franklin was
superb. The visitations
were cleverly done with many
surprises. Jill Daly
displayed good comic sense.

The last piece, which came -
much too soon, also choreo-
graphed by Jill Daly, was
entitled "Tall Girls Wear
High Heels". Music by Bob
Lesoine worked well with
this piece, as did the good
costumes. The "Cosmo-girl"
image, while we hope becom-
ing a cliche, still affords
many laughs.

This piece was enjoyable
and we hope that the TALL
GIRLS develop and create,
taking their themes about
popular culture a step
further.

Worth noting was the
dancing of Pamela Boucher.
It was very good. We both
will make a point of seeing
more of the TALL GIRLS as
they rise above the group.
You should also.

BULLETINS

loss than a month after MUNI fares rose by 25%, City Hall
now has unleashed a proposal to cut several lines and to
reduce service on the 47 and 14L, two critical Mission
routes. Turns out that 90% of the fare increase goes into
the General Fund (a political pork-barrel) and not to MUNI.

Such outrages are not unknown, but never have the politi-
cians expressed their contempt for the public so overtly and
so rapidly. They're counting on the chance that no one will
call them to account. Will you?

THE U.S. STEEL BUILDING

MUNI i 8 planning to take
over the U.S. Steel Building
at 16th and Folsom Street.

The building will house
MUNI's articulated coaches,
those accordian style twin
buses. MUNI hopes to move
in by the fall of 1987.

MUNI i 8 planning to build
a parking garage for its
employees at the corner of
Alameda and Harrison Street.
One must wonder what will
happen to the parking spaces
on Folsom Street.

CARL'S JR.

SAN FRANCISCO
COMIC BOOK CO.

Telephone hot cine
WAYNE SANTOS
GARY ARLINGTON
UNCLE OON
'4IS» 5509158
e PM To 12 Noon

Another fast food fran-
chise in the Mission?
Perhaps .

On Thursday, Jan. 23, the
Planning Commission consid-
ered a request for condi-
tional use at 2401 Mission
Street (at the southeast
corner of 20th). Carl's Jr.
would like to build a
restaurant with seating
capacity for 83 people.

In a letter to zoning ad-
ministrator Robert Passmore,
North Mission Association
President Dave Spero opposed
Carl's Jr., calling instead
for a one year moratorium on
fast food chains.

"Let' 8 take a look at the
economic impact of fast food
chains on our local restau-
rants . "

VETERINARY ACUPUNCTURE
A more holistic approach

C Schwartz, D.m
415-282 5960

House Calls or Office Hours

Available Mission Pet Hospital

in San Francisco 720 Valencia St. SF

A BY JEAN-LUC GODARD

&

n Fri • Jan 31 -Thurs • Feb 13

Jean-Luc Godard's

HAIL MARY

(JE VOUS SALUE MARIE )

Hail Mary is simply Ihe latest chapter in the ongoing autobiography that
Godard is wnlmg on film 01 course it isn't always easy to understand
lust what he* reporting in any one film but each film represents another
report from the front, that is, from a restless mind that has something of
the shark about it It can only breathe, stay alive by remaining in motion,
constantly moving on It seems lo be completely serious in its concerns,
which, in this case, have to do. I believe, with the ultimate expression of
faith and with the ultimate expression ot feminism" —Vincent Canby. N Y
Timet Mane* boyfriend is Joseph a taxi driver, appropriately enamored
ot his divinely -destined lover, even though she's not quite his lover Through
no fault of Joseph's, Mary becomes pregnant with a little help from the
clouds, the sea and a Character who doesn't get screen creou Mane a
soon bound in the outrageous cosmogony of her plight while Joseph all
loo human, fumes at Ihe bizarre turn of events Godard offers a lively table
replete with symbonsn and theological iiioge it « perhaps because of
Godard* geniie pokes at the myths that have swayed a civilization that
the censors are most in arms Audacious Godard endows Mary with
a nobility of spirit the ideas and images are provocative A ser ous mone
by one ot the cinemas most important and innovative directors —William
Wolf With the extraordinarily erotic Mynem Roussel as Mary, Thierry Lacoste,
Philippe Lacoste »n French Color 35mm 1985

cinema

3117 16th Street

17

COMPLAINT DEPT.

LANDLORDS!

Ever since the Patels here
in my hotel were forced by
the S.F. fire inspectors to
quit chainlocking the rear
grill gate after 10:00 pm,
here canes the same gang of
acne scarred, hobo faced
whores with their junk
habits and middle class
dates who can't get what
they want from their wives.
Even Howdy Doody with wooden
brains could see what kind
of traffic, muck and mire
this brings in.

That's more than I can say
for this hotel's management.
It seems to me that all that
is important is rent, rent,
rent!

The Man son gang could move
in here and set up shop and
they wouldn't even knew it.
They won't scrutinize
renters because they're not
interested and even paying
rent is difficult.

They put the wrong dates
on my rent receipts and send
some of my mail to other
rooms. This I can prove.
I've got the rent receipts
to show it . I've got two
people who will attest to
the fact that my mail was
slide under their door even
though my name and room
number were on the envelope.

If someone ever pulls a
Gartland number dewn here I
hope I'm at my mother's
house watching the wrestling
matches on TV. Not here.

The insane asylums are
packed so we get the
overflow and in knowing
that, you don't know what
kind of people move in and
we have the Patels running
this leaky boat that sinks
deeper each day.

POACHES!

So what if I did 2 years
in the low 8th at Horace
Mann Jr. High on Bartlett
Street! So what if this
typer I'm using doesn't rip
it all out for you! So what
if I got into a fist fight
with Carlos Santana in James
Lick's schoolyard and the
gym teachers had to break it
up!

So what!

Why do only the good
people in hotels die? Why
don't the bad ones? Not to
say that I wish death on the

bad people but it seems that
real good folks die quicker
than the lawbreakers and the
rest. Strange... don't you
think? I guess we can't
help it any.

Last week I was sleeping
soundly, alone for a change,
and when I awoke I couldn't
hear out of one ear so I
went to an EN&T doc on
Mission St. and after exam-
ining my ear he extracted a
big copper colored roach ! ! !

That's right. Yeah man, A
Big One !

I drank a few nightcaps
and went to bed. It hap-
pened in my sleep or some-
thing when the roach got
into my ear. Close to the
drum, as the doctor said.

I showed some of the
medical forms to the Patels
who run the place and got a
dumb response. I asked them
if the Rose Exterminator
still has a contract with
this place.

All I got in return was
sane gobbly-gook that was a
bit in-understandable. No
offense please.

To all you readers out
there that are enjoying this
column, if you ever spray or
stemp on a roach (especially
if you live in a Patel hotel

like this one) I send my
blessings .

3) COPS!

My last complaint for this
month took place outside my
hotel. It's about something
that took place up in
Dolores Park, the biggest
park in the Mission Dist.

Me, TJ, T. Bones, our
galfriend Hurricane and two
bearded hippies were sitting
on the benches enjoying out
the afternoon of the park.
TJ had his big-ass Doberman
Pincer tied up at one end of
the bench and I had mine
tied up at the other end.
Stereo Dobes.

After a while I went to
the store and got us all a
big jug of Calistoga Mineral
Water. Here's the kicker.
A police paddy wagon came
cruising down the pathway
and stopped.

It stopped!

It stopped right in front
of all six of us sitting
there drinking pure water

right frem the bottle. We
were all taken in for
drinking in a public park.

Mineral water!

T. Bones had the mineral
water in his hands when the
cop wagon came and when we
got to the station they
called him "Kid Calistoga".
We all got four hours
detention at the station and
then were cut loose.

I was called an "asshole"
and a "punk". I didn't even
open my mouth.

I'm one lucky Irishman. I
can control my temper.

In the paddy wagon we were
all cuffed together...
except for TJ. He had one
free hand and our hippies

had seme cannabis buds so TJ
was able to take the buds
and disseminate them in our
mouths, just like holy cxm-
munion at church.

The heat in the holding
tank was awful, at least 150
degrees. I could hear the
oops asking Hurricane what
her name was. At the regis-
tration center, she answered
"Hurricane".

The cops said "what's your
real name?" She replied
"Hurricane".

The cops said "If they put
you in the same tank as
those idiots, they'd prob-
ably pull a train on you",
and she said, "I'd love it."
by Billy Badd

SAN FRANCISCO
AUTO REPAIR
CENTER

FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
AUTO REPAIRS

• Dependable Work-
Honeat Prices

• Basic Auto Repair Classes
•A Community-Oriented

People's Garage

• Men A Women Mechanics
» Official California Smog S tetter.

- OPEN SUNDAY -

b! 1 FLORIDA ST
(Near 18th St)

SAN FRANCISCO 94 MO

1415)285-8588

ALCOHOLISM and
DRUG ABUSE

Out Patient Treatment

420-9879

Staff consists of licensed
therapists, substance abuse
counselors and/or recovering
personnel.

Recovery Center
CEA, Inc., A Non profit
Organization

OonVaup* 3004- 1 «th SL, Suita 101

program Coordinator s-n Frand#co> CA g 4103

^f u ^dlsao, Ph.o
^•cuti** Director

Caution it irW/ry £/irr/r/ ran
cauir ri Minfiu'ionnu ni

RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PAST
GOLDEN GATE VALLEY

The San Francisco Public
Library on the corner of
Green and Octavia Streets is
called the Golden Gate
Valley branch, and thi6 is
the only place I know of
where this name is still
evident. The unofficial
name for the whole, general
area is, and always wa6,
"Cow Hollow" but, in the
beginning, the early-day
city government named it
Spring Valley in order to
describe the place.

There were any number of
good springs along the
steep, south slope of the
district and they caused
little meadows and ponds to
form which attracted early
dairymen. For a number of
years there were small dairy
herds dotted here and there
all the way from polk Street
to the Presidio. They lay
in a kind of hollow because
of the natural hills to the
east, south and west, and
the great sand dunes along
what is now Chestnut,
Francisco and Bay Streets as
far out as the Fillmore.

As part of the industrial-
ization of the north shore,
the dunes were graded out
and leveled; the material
being dumped in the large
salt water lagoon, centered
around the present block of
North Point, Beach, Pierce
and Steiner Streets, or
whatever they call the
streets down there now.

"Cow Hollow" was a natu-
ral, descriptive name which
has stuck with us common
folk all through the years,
but most of the people
living over there now call
it the Marina. To me,
having been raised there,
the Marina district is, and
always was, the area north
of Chestnut Street where, in
1915, the beautiful Panama
Pacific International Expo-
sition stood.

Much of the land had to be

filled and r; ijed to proper
grade levels in order to
form a base for this
marvelous extravaganza. Some
of the fair sat on the
former Virginia Vanderbilt
Marina Tracts, and that is
the earliest usage of the
word "Marina".

Around the time I was
born, there were docks for
small boats about where
Scott and Jefferson Streets
are now, just inside the
sea-wall as it was then, but
they were known as
Fisherman's Wharf! So,
because of the confusion
brought on by our Spring
Valley Water Company, the
water program adopted about
1875 which used San Mateo
County sources for the City,
the name "Spring Valley" was
dropped and the whole
district north of Broadway
and west of Larkin Street to
the Presidio Wall became
Golden Gate Valley, and that
may still be the official
name. I don't know.

For a time, the northern
6hore area was called Harbor
View. Old-timers, like
myself, will remember the
Harbor View Baths, a hot
salt water spa at Baker and
Jefferson Streets, across
from Stone's shipyard and
the big Fulton Iron Works,
and just north of the fresh
water lagoon which was
cleaned out and used as the
beautiful frontage for the
Palace of Fine Arts.

The reason I know all this
is because, by accident, I
grew up in Cow Hollow.

The 1906 Earthquake and
Fire was the accident which
forced U6 off our perch at
the top of Russian Hill near
Union and Leavenworth
Streets where I was born,
and sent us scurrying to the
safety of the Presidio. We,
my Father, Aunt, Uncle,
Grandmother and I, lived in
a kind of tent city there
and were well fed and
treated kindly by the Army
for a time, until we could
be moved to the Sherman
school on Union Street
between Franklin and Gough.

There, we were bedded down
in a classroom and the
grown-ups did all their
cooking out at the street
curb. I was 8 years old
then, and I learned we were
living in what had been the
old Spring Valley school
which had grown from a one-
room schoolhouse built in

1852 and which, through its
early years, depended mainly
on the support of the
farmers and dairymen in the
valley for their children's
educat ion .

After a short time there,
we moved into our own little
"cottage" in Lobos Square

much exposure, hunger and
confusion in those first
weeks and months following
the 1906 disaster.

We later moved into a
semi-permanent residence on
Lombard and Laguna Streets

(now Moscone
when Chestnut
st i 1 1 a dirt
had, at first,

P layground )
Street was
road. This
jus t been a

good distribution center in
a large tent, but "refugee
shacks" were set up as
quickly as possible and now
we could do our own indoor
cooking!

The name, Lobos Square,
was later changed to Funston
Park and for good reason.
The organizational abilities
of Major-General Frederick
Funston are well worth
mentioning here; the cool-
ness of this man avoided

| Scning Breakfast. Lunch A Supper
| Espressos. Di sserts Heer and Wine

• i

l

Cafe — Restaurant
2! IS Mission Street near 17th. S F.

l*» . a SSI-rK'l ^

THE PAN AMERICAN SOCIETY IN ASSOCIATION
WITH AMIGOS DE LAS AMERICAS PRESENT

CARNAVAL BALL ’86

The Hottest, the Brightest and Most Authentic Celebration in the
Finest Brazilian Tradition

Costume Prizes and a Round Trip Ticket to Rio by
Varig Brazilian Airlines as Door Prize

Continuous Samba and Stage Extravaganza
WITH

VIVA BRASIL
CORPO SANTO
BATUCAJE
SAMBA DA ALEGRIA

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 8:00 PM
THE GALLERIA

101 Henry Adams Street, San Francisco
$19.00 in Advance • $25.00 at the Door
Minors Welcome

— Don’t Miss the Spirit of Carnaval —
Partake of its Joy and Euphoria

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT

• All BASS Centers including Record Factory Stores

• BASS Charge- By-Phone; (415) 762-2277, (408) 998-2277, (707) 762-2277,
(916) 395-2277, (209) 466-2277

• By mail until January 20 Please send check or money order to

Sun Wave

PO Box 40241

San Francisco, CA 94140

For more information Claudio Amaral 664-9036, Bira Almeida 428-1544

■ SLxmfPiaxcioi

ZUZJ

PoAK

MOWDAy MMbHT FooTBALL SPE t' A !l‘'^'

PORK RI6 UTS

6/ * W.

BUY IW &UL-K-.SAVE. MoR£/

' TiiftKey .

!

1,1

'--/camaoiam

4

: bacok) ]

7.

♦ I

b. !

tMSRVOAV ON MEAT 5FECIAU$ ///

where my father had managed
to get two shacks connected,
and even added a kitchen!
This was 1774 Lombard, where
my grandmother 6et out a
nice flower garden and my
father put up a picket fence
to protect it. These were
still only temporary buil-
dings so, at a later time,
we moved to a flat at 1807
Union Street.

Looking back now, it seems
that I spent all my youth
moving from place to place
in Cow Hollow. My last
residence in the hollow was
2052 Union, near Webster
Street, and next door to the
old Cudworth home which is
#2040 and, I am told, is now
an antique and gift shop.
That house was built back in
the 1860's or 70's, but
before I talk about the
Cudworth family I should lay
a little groundwork.

Elijah Ward Pell was a
farmer. He and about 240
other Mormons headed by Sam
Brannan rounded the Horn and
landed in Yerba Buena in the
summer of 1846. It is said
that this party of settlers
off the good ship "Brooklyn"
just about doubled the
population of this village,
which changed its name to
San Francisco the next year.

Mr. Pell, in his search
for a place to farm, learned
that the whole eastern half
of what is now Cow Hollow
was claimed by Thomas Lark-
in, the American Vice-Consul
to California at Monterey.
Since the United States was
now at hostilities with
Mexico, Larkin probably felt
he could get away with
grabbing this huge tract of
land, previously a Diaz
claim.

Pell wrote to Larkin with
a description of a choice
piece and received a price
quote of $100 for a good
plot for farming. Thi6
measured 200 x 100 yards at
about where Laguna and Green
Streets are now. So Mr. and
Mrs. Pell became the first
American settlers in Cow
Hollow.

About three years later,
James and Abel Cudworth came
here and approached Mr. Pell
for the purpose of renting
the northwest corner of the
property to set up a dairy.
The rent wa6 fixed at one
quart of milk each day and
all the cow manure for the
Pell farm.

The name Pell disappeared,
but his daughter, Hettie
Green, became well publi-
cized for many years as the
claimant to several large
chunks of land around here;
she was in and out of court
frequently.

James Cudworth went on to
found the "Dairy Delivery
Ranch". This name shows up
much later, in my time, used
by the Haley Brothers who
expanded this business and
finally sold out to Borden's
in the 308 .

Early on, Cudworth exer-
cised "Squatters' Rights" on
various pieces of meadow
land in the area, and so,
could increase his herd of
dairy cows. This common

practice in early San
Francisco was done by merely
fencing land not in use and
laying claim to it in court.

It sounds easy, but
squatters caused many fights
and even some murders.
Since most people carried
guns in those years, a
squatter had better know
what he was doing!

Ir. 1853 James Cudworth got
title to his first piece of
fenced land. A few years
after he built his house,
that still stands at 2040
Union, he built the "Wedding
Houses" for two of his chil-
dren, and they still stand
at 1980 Union Street. His
youngest son Emory was born
in 1880 and, after the turn
of the century, became the
one to deal with for the
extensive Cudworth pro-
perties .

Ephraim Burr built a house
at Van Ness and Filbert in
1852. He probably
discovered that he was too

close to Washer Woman's
Lagoon, which lay in an area
about where Filbert and
Lombard intersect Franklin
and Octavia Streets today,
and was already beginning to
suffer from pollution. In
1853, he bought two parcels
up on Vallejo Street between
Franklin and Gough, and
built a fine house which is
still standing at #1772.

The stench from slaughter
houses, tanneries and hog
farms in the valley worsened
every year and, in 1855, he
started a campaign to have
them and the dairies moved
out of the city. In 1856 he
took leave of his presidency
of his Clay Street Bank and
ran for mayor and won,
serving one three-year term.
He did this because a son
had died in a cholera
epidemic in Cow Hollow,
which he believed was caused
by the rank pollution in the
pond6, creeks and rivulets
in the Hollow.

Burr got some rulings from
the courts against the un-
wanted industries, but they
didn't move to Hunters Point
until 1870. The dairies
were finally legislated out
in 1902.

Grandma's

Housecleaning

Service

Doing VAfcrt With Pndo

387-5600

CESAR'S

LATIN PALACE

for the Best in
Live Latin Music
& Disco Dancing

3140 MISSION ST. AT ARMY. S.F. CA

( 415 ) 648-6611

HOURS O AM T 4 PM
VONDAV THM'I • >T.JKtiA'

Bill’s Coins

JOE HALE

3166 >6tm STREET
SAN FRANCISCO CA 94103

626 - 174 ?
861 6115

2172 Mission St.

(between 17th & 18th St )

San Franpiscb. CA 94110
Tel 863-3700

* n is *

MING’S GARDEN RESTAURANT

OPEN HOURS 11:00 am - 8 30 pm Closed Sunday
FOOD TO TAKEOUT

Fresh Sea Food Daily - Specialty
Korean Chicken with wine or beer

888S89

(415) 026-4740

• NUMBERING

• SCORING

• PERFORATING

• DIE CUTTING

• IMPRINTING

• FOIL EMBOSSING

• BLIND EMBOSSING
KELSE LAUDERBACK

LAUDERBACK

LITHOGRAPHER

QUALITY
OFFSET PRINTING

OFFSET PHOTO

626 1030

177 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

MISSION LOCKSMITH CO.

COMPLETE LOCK AND SAFE SERVICE
DOOR CLOSERS
PANIC HARDWARE
ELECTRIC DOOR OPENERS

Guido Kaminski

ANDREAS IMPORTS & DELI

“Greek Specialties”

DAVE PINKOWSKI

305 VALENCIA STREET &
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103

ANDREAS TRIPLIS
431-7010

3091 16th Street
S.F., CA 94103

CASTRO STREET GARAGE

Fuel Injection • Air Conditioning *4X4
General Auto Repairing • Brake & Tune-Ups

751 Valencia St. Bet 18th & 19th
San Francisco, CA 94110

626-1346 5
626-1347 &

San Francisco’s Independent Left Bookstore £

MODERN TIMES I

BOOKSTORE |

968 VALENCIA STREET |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 941 10 |
(415) 282-9246

Moo-Sat 11-6:30 ^
HOURS Sunday 11-5 ^
Thursday til 9
s&ssssss&z&i

1009 VALENCIA ST
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110
(415) 821-4675

Feminist Writers
Political Information
Non-sexist & Bilingual
Children s Books
Books by & about Third
World. Lesbian &
Working Class Women
Bulletin Boards

TUES-FR1 11-7
THURS1II9
SAT 4 SUN 11-6
MONDAYS CLOSED

DOOR SERVICE

«888888i*»s8a

T#

CARPENTRY
LOCK REPAIR

511 VALENCIA AT 18TM
SAN FRANCISCO. CA 94110

FURNITURE RESTORATION center

§§»£§» n

COMPLETE STRIPPING
FINISHING &
REPAIR SERVICES

2652 Harrison St
(between 22nd & 23rd Sts
San Francisco CA 94 no

415 - 550-0774

HAIR HAIR

AND

HOLLIDAY'S BARBER SHOP

Lorena - Norma - Don

JACQUELINE

821-9420 2351 MISSION