23:0423:04, 9 April 2024diffhist+5,188 N
That Office!: A Year's Worth of Journals About Working and Not-Working
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22:3822:38, 9 April 2024diffhist+7,411 N
Buy 'Em and Sell 'Em at Solem
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22:1422:14, 8 April 2024diffhist+16,988 N
It Reached Out and Touched Me—Five Weeks at PacTel
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22:0422:04, 8 April 2024diffhist+15,789 N
Once More Unto the Bridge, Dear Friend
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22:3622:36, 5 April 2024diffhist+34,099 N
Down in the Valley
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13:0513:05, 28 March 2024diffhist+1,410 N
Talks: 2024 Videos
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22:3422:34, 16 March 2024diffhist+16,269 N
Esprit de Corpse
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22:1322:13, 16 March 2024diffhist+11,905 N
A Teaching Temp Talks Back
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22:0622:06, 16 March 2024diffhist+5,697 N
Help, I'm Doing Hard Time in the Federal (or state or county or city) Bureaucracy
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12:2912:29, 12 March 2024diffhist+17,439 N
45 Westpoint: A World of Possibilities
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00:0000:00, 6 March 2024diffhist+7,661 N
I Live in the Past: The Rent is Cheaper!
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23:3823:38, 5 March 2024diffhist+11,305 N
My Life in the Search Engine
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15:0815:08, 5 March 2024diffhist+17,490 N
Disappeared of Silicon Valley
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23:5323:53, 4 March 2024diffhist+22,045 N
On the Bleeding Edge
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23:4523:45, 4 March 2024diffhist+11,008 N
Trauma Tango
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22:2122:21, 29 February 2024diffhist+16,851 N
Temporary Coding
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22:0522:05, 29 February 2024diffhist+17,825 N
Making of a Bad Attitude
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21:3121:31, 29 February 2024diffhist+6,128 N
Safe with the Gaping Maw
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23:3823:38, 28 February 2024diffhist+14,640 N
Lose Jobs Now! Ask Me How!
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23:2323:23, 28 February 2024diffhist+13,148 N
I Take a Polygraph Test
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23:1023:10, 28 February 2024diffhist+16,652 N
Work Sickness at the Health Factory
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22:5522:55, 28 February 2024diffhist+7,501 N
863-AIDS
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22:4522:45, 28 February 2024diffhist+9,935 N
Charley Brown's—Where Everything is Prime?
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22:2122:21, 28 February 2024diffhist+23,675 N
Them That's Not
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22:0622:06, 28 February 2024diffhist+24,864 N
A Day in the Life of Employee 85292
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23:4223:42, 27 February 2024diffhist+19,472 N
It Takes a Janitor . . .
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23:2923:29, 27 February 2024diffhist+7,608 N
Horrors of Pooper-Scooper U.
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22:5922:59, 27 February 2024diffhist+13,348 N
Get Hot! A Messenger Tale of Toil
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22:5422:54, 7 February 2024diffhist+7,477 N
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..."
22:2222:22, 7 February 2024diffhist+10,226 N
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..."
17:3017:30, 20 January 2024diffhist+3,807 N
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..."current
17:0917:09, 20 January 2024diffhist+2,234 N
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..."current
22:5522:55, 16 January 2024diffhist+1,405 N
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..."
22:2822:28, 16 January 2024diffhist+8,429 N
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..."current
15:3015:30, 14 January 2024diffhist+21,385 N
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..."
18:0318:03, 12 January 2024diffhist+12,044 N
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..."
00:3200:32, 2 January 2024diffhist+7,048 N
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..."
21:3621:36, 22 December 2023diffhist+2,974 N
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..."
21:2921:29, 22 December 2023diffhist+8,639 N
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..."
18:4018:40, 18 December 2023diffhist+16,095 N
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..."