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22:54, 7 February 2024Ccarlssontalkcontribs created page Willie Mays: A Tribute(Created page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>''' ''by Howard Isaac Williams'' 800px '''Willie Mays crossing home after a home run at Candlestick Park, c 1964.''' ''Photo: OpenSFhistory.org wnp14.6478'' Willie Mays was one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Many who app...")
22:22, 7 February 2024Ccarlssontalkcontribs created page Diane di Prima, Beat Generation Poet(Created page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>''' ''by Nancy Snyder, originally published at the [https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/author-biography/diane-di-prima-beat-generation-poet/ Literary Ladies Guide], August, 2022.'' 380px|right '''Diane di Prima''' ''Photo: Estate of Diane di Prima'' The extraordinary feminist and Beat generation poet Diane di Prima (August 6, 1934– Octo...")
17:30, 20 January 2024Ccarlssontalkcontribs created page New Potrero Theater(Created page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>''' ''by Peter Linenthal'', Potrero Hill Archives Project, originally published as "An Unusual Past and Uncertain Future" in the [https://www.potreroview.net/an-unusual-past-and-uncertain-future/ February 2023 ''Potrero View'']. 800px '''New Potrero Theater at 312 Connecticut, circa 1929.''' ''Photo: Cour...")
17:09, 20 January 2024Ccarlssontalkcontribs created page 1936 Soap Box Derby(Created page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>''' ''by Peter Linenthal'', Potrero Hill Archives Project, originally published in the [https://www.potreroview.net/1936-soap-box-derby/ December 2023 ''Potrero View'']. 800px '''Photo: John Gutmann'' The first All-American Soap Box Derby, advertised as ‘the greatest amateur racing event in the world’, was held in S...")
22:55, 16 January 2024Ccarlssontalkcontribs created page Dolores Street and 27th Street(Created page with "'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>''' The San Jose-San Francisco railroad ran across an elevated iron bridge at the intersection of Dolores and 27th Streets for decades, ending during WWII when the bridge was dismantled after the railroad stopped passenger service and the iron was needed for war materiel. 800px '''Nor...")
22:28, 16 January 2024Ccarlssontalkcontribs created page Alexander Books Closes(Created page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>I was there. . .</font></font> </font>''' ''by Teresa Moore, originally published in the ''San Francisco Examiner'', April 26, 2023'' Image:Alexander-interior 20230428 213442339.MP.jpg '''The last day at Alexander Books at 50 2nd Street, just south of Market Street, April 28, 2023.''' ''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' San Franciscans know microclimates. Live here long enough and you learn to pack a sweater, s...")
15:30, 14 January 2024Ccarlssontalkcontribs created page Revolutionary Art on Telegraph Hill: the Coit Tower Murals(Created page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>''' ''by Nancy Snyder'' ''Originally published at [https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/15/revolutionary-art-on-telegraph-hill-the-coit-tower-murals/ counterpunch.org], December 15, 2023'' 792px '''1958 aerial view from south to north of Coit Tower, Alcatraz, and Marin County in th...")
18:03, 12 January 2024Ccarlssontalkcontribs created page I Was a Typesetter!(Created page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>"I was there..."</font></font> </font>''' ''by Chris Carlsson, 2024'' 400px|right '''Typesetting on a Compugraphic Jr., fonts (film strips) hanging behind me, c. 1984.''' I learned to type in the 9th grade at Claremont Junior High in Oakland in 1971. Every day we’d spend an hour on old, heavy, dirty manual typewriters, repeatedly pounding the keys of the QWERTY...")
00:32, 2 January 2024Ccarlssontalkcontribs created page Working at Play—Playing at Work(Created page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Primary Source</font></font> </font>''' Image:Playnig-at-work sign.jpg In mid-1983, the Commmittee for Full Enjoyment made one of its earliest appearances in San Francisco. Consisting of an assorted crew of radicals, some associated with ''Processed World'' magazine, they embarked on a theatrical intervention in the Financial District. It was called "Working at Play—Playing at Work...")
00:20, 2 January 2024Ccarlssontalkcontribs deleted page Department of Alienation(content was: "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Primary Source</font></font> </font>''' ''By the POINT-BLANK! Collective, July 1, 1973'' :"Even though the construction of the future and its completion for all times is not our task, what we have to accomplish at this time is all the more clear: relentless criticism of all existing conditions, relentless in the sense that the criticism is not afraid of its findings and just as little afraid of the conflict with th...")
21:36, 22 December 2023Ccarlssontalkcontribs created page Block the Boat in Solidarity with Gaza(Created page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>I was there . . .</font></font> </font>''' ''by Jim Haber, December 2023, originally published at [https://connection.kehillasynagogue.org/jews-occupy-federal-building-for-gaza/ Kehilla Synagogue newsletter]. Image:Block-the-boat-3nov23.jpg '''The ship being blockaded at the Port of Oakland, November 3, 2023.''' ''Photo by Jim Haber'' I awoke the morning of Friday, November 3 to a phone alert that a s...")
21:29, 22 December 2023Ccarlssontalkcontribs created page Jews Occupy Oakland Federal Building for Gaza(Created page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>I Was there . . .</font></font> </font>''' ''by Jim Haber, December 2023, originally published at [https://connection.kehillasynagogue.org/jews-occupy-federal-building-for-gaza/ Kehilla Synagogue newsletter]. 800px '''Jim Haber at the Dellums Federal Building in Oakland on November 13.''' ''Photo by Jim Haber'' Jews across the country and around the world are seeing imag...")