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..."
17:0217:02, 2 November 2023diffhist+1,418 N
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..."current
13:1613:16, 18 October 2023diffhist+9,965 N
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..."
14:3014:30, 10 October 2023diffhist+4,753 N
Diego Rivera, Technology, and Communism
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”..."
10:5210:52, 2 October 2023diffhist+4,849 N
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..."
22:3822:38, 29 September 2023diffhist+14,147 N
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..."
23:0723:07, 26 September 2023diffhist+1,813 N
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..."
21:5621:56, 26 September 2023diffhist+15,874 N
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..."
22:3922:39, 23 September 2023diffhist+2,526 N
Henry Casebolt, Transit Inventor
Created page with "'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>''' Image:Mansion-in-Cow-Hollow 20221116 233612934.jpg '''This is the original Casebolt Mansion at 2727 Pierce Street. When it was built in the 1860s Pierce Street was a dirt path descending to Washerwoman's Lagoon.''' ''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' '''From the May, 1895 ''Street Railway Journal'', page 312''': Image:Henry casebolt 001...."
21:3621:36, 18 September 2023diffhist+16,193 N
Growing Up ‘Red’ in 1950s San Francisco
Created page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>"I was there..."</font></font> </font>''' ''by Tom Powell'' 350px|right '''ABC Warfare Defense, US Bureau of Naval Personnel.''' ''This is a textbook; it is a fully illustrated how-to manual on preparing for germ war with illustrations, diagrams, and sample exams. It was reprinted in 2001 from the 1960 edition. It blurs the lines between offensive and defensive weapons..."
21:1521:15, 18 September 2023diffhist+7,942 N
Bill Powell Exposes Post-WWII US-Japan Germ War Deal
Created page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>''' ''by Tom Powell'' Image:Powells-on-street 1940.jpg The mistrial ended the immediate ordeal for my parents and gave them their lives back. Bill and Sylvia Powell settled into a much calmer life following the dismissal of the sedition charges. Sylvia went to work for the San Francisco Unified School District as an elementary school secretary. Bill continued the re..."