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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...")
18:40, 18 December 2023Ccarlssontalkcontribs created page Greyhound Bus Strike 1983(Created page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>''' ''by Chris Fillmer, originally published in the magazine ''Ideas & Action'' in 1984.'' Image:Greyhound-Strike-1983-mass-picketing-on-7th-street-IMG00073.jpg '''Mass picketing on 7th Street outside of the Greyhound Bus Terminal between Mission and Stevenson Alley, November 1983.''' ''All photos: Chris Carlsson'' Image:Greyhound-bus-during-1983-strike-IMG00072...")
13:12, 5 November 2023Ccarlssontalkcontribs deleted page 703 San Bruno Avenue(content was: "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>''' ''by Paul DeLucchi, originally written in 1993, then revised and illustrated in 2021.'' Image:1905-Hagen-family.jpg '''Elsie, Rudolph, Dora and Auguste Hagen, about 1905''' ''All photos courtesy Paul DeLucchi, except where noted.'' {| style="color: black; background-color: #F5DA81;" | colspan="2" | '''Rudolph Frederick Hagen, the man who built the house at 703 San Br...")
17:02, 2 November 2023Ccarlssontalkcontribs created page Oral History: Calvin Welch(Created page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Oral History</font></font> </font>''' Seven edited excerpts from a longer oral history with Calvin Welch conducted on July 12, 2023 by Chris Carlsson for Shaping San Francisco. Calvin Welch describes his early childhood visits to San Francisco in the 1950s, going to SF State College in the mid-1960s, returning to the Haight at the beginning of the 1970s and getting involved with housing politics. His acerbic...")
13:16, 18 October 2023Ccarlssontalkcontribs created page Hall of Shame 1982 Action Handbook(Created page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Primary Source</font></font> </font>''' <big>'''2012 Introduction'''</big> ''In 1982, the Abalone Alliance organized a tour of the city's corporations that had nuclear power and weapons links. Over a thousand activists toured the corporations in downtown. As part of the action, an 8 page action manual was put together. It included maps and information about corporations from Bechtel, PG&E, Wells Fargo and m...")
14:30, 10 October 2023Ccarlssontalkcontribs created page Diego Rivera Reconciles Art and Science(Created page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>''' ''by Will Maynez'' ''Excerpted from a longer post at the [https://riveramural.org/newsletter/ "Friends of Diego"] Newsletter, September 2023.'' Image:Diego-Lawrence-and-Emmy-Lou.jpg '''Ernest O. Lawrence, Diego, and Emmy Lou Packard at UCB’s Rad Lab''' ''Photo: [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7665919 National Archives]'' The few “degrees of separation”...")
10:52, 2 October 2023Ccarlssontalkcontribs created page St. Luke's Hospital: A Closer Look(Created page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>''' ''by Woody LaBounty'' ''Originally published at [https://www.opensfhistory.org/osfhcrucible/2018/03/10/st-lukes-hospital-a-closer-look/ OpenSFHistory], March 2018'' Image:St Lukes 1890s View northwest across Valencia to St. Luke's Hospital. The first building in this complex was the two-story Main Building with attached one-story wards, at left, set well back from...")
22:38, 29 September 2023Ccarlssontalkcontribs created page Housing Justice is Abolition Justice: Berkeley Renters Strike of 1970(Created page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>''' ''by Sarah Weaver, 2023'' ''Reposted with permission from [https://freedomarchives.org/the-berkeley-renters-strike-of-1970/ Freedom Archives]'' Image:Tenant power.jpg ''I started my internship experience at the Freedom Archives with an interest and academic background in local organizing struggles against resource capitalism, focally grounded in prior research...")
23:07, 26 September 2023Ccarlssontalkcontribs created page 16th Street at the Bay(Created page with "'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>''' Image:Whale-bone-drying-A12.232pl.jpg '''In 1890, baleen from the jaws of whales dries in the Arctic Oil Works yard along 16th Street at the bay. After drying it was cut into stays for corsets, collars and umbrellas, as well as for buggy whips.''' ''Image: Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA'' Image:16th...")
21:56, 26 September 2023Ccarlssontalkcontribs created page Messenger War, Messenger Peace???(Created page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>"I was there..."</font></font> </font>''' ''by Aaron Hackett and Natasha Dedrick, originally published in ''Citysplinter'', Fall 2000'' 340px|right <big>'''TURMOIL 2000</big>''' This has not been a terribly relaxing year for the managers and owners of San Francisco same-day courier companies. Nor has it been without occasional and even recurring delivery service b...")