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Unfinished History

Vacant lot in the Western Addition A-2 redevelopment zone along Geary Blvd.

Photo: Aero Photographers, courtesy San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

Map of A-1 and A-2 Redevelopment Project Areas

Map: San Francisco Redevelopment Agency

Aerial shot of Western Addition A-1 in 1961

photo: Ed Brady

Aerial of the Fillmore in the early 1970s.

Photo: SFRDA via SF Public Library, aaz-0828

Redevelopment was started early in WWII when future planning commissioners Morgan Gunst and Julia Porter formed the SF Planning and Housing Association (SFPHA). SFPHA published a number of influential studies, including the 1945 Blight and Taxes, which first identified the Western Addition as a prime candidate for urban renewal, citing its poor health statistics, high delinquency rates and packing it with racially loaded metaphors: "[The Western Addition] is not white. It is gray, brown, and an indeterminate shade of dirty black ... it is an unfortunate blot," unlike the Marina District, which the same report described as "clean and bright".

Family on porch in Western Addition, c. 1959.

Photo: Kurt Bank

Geary and Fillmore, 1959. Note the sign for Crocker Anglo Bank, visible also from behind in next photo below.

Photo: SFMemory.org sfm015-00295

Clearing the neighborhood.

Photo: Ernest Burden

Destruction of the Fillmore, early 1960s.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library, aac-1901

Its desirable location, just to the west of the Civic Center and the city's commercial core, south of the oldest, richest neighborhood, and home to several major hospitals and churches made it "potentially worth far more, for it is in the heart of a growing city, and anyone can see its latent value." (B&T). These latent values could only be acquired through co-opting opposition, opening the door to speculators.

--Chris Carlsson

Foster Klieser Building on Eddy between Steiner and Pierce, early 1960s.

Photo: Aero Photographers, courtesy San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

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+'''Vacant lot in the Western Addition A-2 redevelopment zone along Geary Blvd.'''
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+'''Map of A-1 and A-2 Redevelopment Project Areas'''
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-Redevelopment was started early in WWII when future planning commissioners Morgan Gunst and Julia Porter formed the SF Planning and Housing Association (SFPHA). SFPHA published a number of influential studies, including the 1945 ''Blight and Taxes'', which first identified the Western Addition as a prime candidate for urban renewal, citing its poor health statistics, high delinquency rates and packing it with racially loaded metaphors: "[The Western Addition] is not white. It is gray, brown, and an indeterminate shade of dirty black ... it is an unfortunate blot," unlike the Marina District, which the same report described as "clean and bright".
+[[Image:Aerial Fillmore early 1970s SFRDA aaz-0828 for web.jpg|792px]]
+'''Aerial of the Fillmore in the early 1970s.'''
+''Photo: SFRDA via SF Public Library, aaz-0828''
+Redevelopment was started early in WWII when future planning commissioners Morgan Gunst and Julia Porter formed the SF Planning and Housing Association (SFPHA). SFPHA published a number of influential studies, including the 1945 ''Blight and Taxes'', which first identified the Western Addition as a prime candidate for urban renewal, citing its poor health statistics, high delinquency rates and packing it with racially loaded metaphors: "[The Western Addition] is not white. It is gray, brown, and an indeterminate shade of dirty black ... it is an unfortunate blot," unlike the Marina District, which the same report described as "clean and bright".
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 ''Photo: Kurt Bank''
-Its desirable location, just to the west of the Civic Center and the city's commercial core, south of the oldest, richest neighborhood, and home to several major hospitals and churches made it "potentially worth far more, for it is in the heart of a growing city, and anyone can see its latent value." (B&T). These latent values could only be acquired through [[Aframer1$wablues$patronage itm.html|co-opting opposition]], opening the door to [[Aframer1$wablues$speculators itm.html|speculators]].
+[[Image:Geary and Fillmore 1959 sfm015-00295.jpg|800px]]
+'''Geary and Fillmore, 1959. Note the sign for Crocker Anglo Bank, visible also from behind in next photo below.'''
+''Photo: SFMemory.org sfm015-00295''
+[[Image:Fillmore-wreckage-Ernest-Burden.jpg]]
+'''Clearing the neighborhood.'''
+''Photo: Ernest Burden''
+[[Image:Aac-1901 for web.jpg|800px]]
+'''Destruction of the Fillmore, early 1960s.'''
+''Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library, aac-1901''
+Its desirable location, just to the west of the Civic Center and the city's commercial core, south of the oldest, richest neighborhood, and home to several major hospitals and churches made it "potentially worth far more, for it is in the heart of a growing city, and anyone can see its latent value." (B&T). These latent values could only be acquired through [[Redevelopment and Patronage Politics|co-opting opposition]], opening the door to [[Western Addition Speculators sidebar|speculators]].
 ''--Chris Carlsson''
+[[Image:WA Foster Klieser Bldg-now MLK Housing.jpg|720px]]
+'''Foster Klieser Building on Eddy between Steiner and Pierce, early 1960s.'''
+''Photo: Aero Photographers, courtesy San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library''
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