...Fertig, a.k.a. Sister Boom Boom, worked here at the reception desk for the Sports Center. Sister Boom Boom, who ran for the San Francisco Board of Supervisor
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...s' School, the Workers' Theater, International Labor Defense, the Workers' Sports Club, the San Francisco Film and Photo League, and a strike kitchen where f
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...it featured federal government intervention into the realm of professional sports. Something about baseball’s records potentially being tainted by perceive
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...scussion ranged widely, from science to religion, from food to drink, from sports to shopping, from sex to death.
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...cation, or a particular ethnic group you don't see represented, or college sports, or the Military, or a thorough treatment of anti-war movements through tim
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...come another illustrious chapter in what many consider America’s paramount sports rivalry. That heritage had started in New York City when the Giants played
...ke his first major league hit a game winning one. He had given the veteran sports announcer Russ Hodges a chance to use his broadcast skills to showcase the
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...eights district,” while some residents pleaded for a clubhouse and outdoor sports programs for youth.
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...rom Sept. 10, 1930, offers a four-page spread, featuring stories mainly on sports and general prison life. High quality black and white illustrations are str
...e, and prison policy issues, coverage of arts and culture, editorials, and sports — a particularly popular section for men in prison.(16) The paper “give
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...rapport with potential respondents: praise their plants, or mention their sports teams if they have insignia on their t-shirt.''
...Sunnydale Ave. A shiny new car was at the curb. Next to the gate, bags of sports equipment were on the sidewalk, waiting to be loaded into the open trunk. I
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...on, which is conveniently left out of common renditions of the song before sports events. Protesters also tore down a statue of Ulysses S. Grant, union army
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While the suggestions were pouring in, the sports writers continued with their ad hoc appellations: Uncle Harris’ Team, Fri
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...Field. With its large seating capacity, Ewing was the main venue for field sports (soccer, rugby, football and lacrosse) for the city’s high schools, colle
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...dom--or at least one denied to the bulk of young San Francisco Chinese. He sports a pipe and quite probably is a stand-in for the painter himself, who regula
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...ive-person nonprofit corporation that at one point was intended to build a sports arena in Yerba Buena Center. He also based his power on relationships culti
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...he rest of the city may view Candlestick Park as a major piece of Bay Area sports history and a landmark in the city, those who lived in the shadow of the co
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...looked at their vulvas and cervix, examined their breasts. Others took up sports and recreational activities on their own. How women lived in their bodies,
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...nation. Still today, the first clip and subsequent journalism that earned sports reporter Al Michaels an Emmy nomination for his hard news coverage can be v
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...or the earthquake instantaneously, even providing coverage on ESPN, an all sports cable network.(15)(16) Meanwhile, the Goodyear blimp captain noticed helico
...ll focused on the earthquake. However, the World Series was not forgotten. Sports portions of television broadcasts and newspapers covered the debate between
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...n limit of the city's eastern flank. New condominiums, malls, offices, and sports facilities will occupy much of what little is left of the city's last major
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I soon learned how to carry on a sports conversation without knowing a thing about the players but giving the impre
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...peaks to each other, except about the most unimportant things--yesterday's sports results, the latest TV programs, elections and so on.
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...rking fish industry on the northern waterfront. Herring, salmon, crab, and sports fishing are the primary businesses of the remaining fishing fleet, though t
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...d is on the third floor of this building. He put cell biology, tree books, sports, Elizabethan poetry, cookery, model trains, and pets all in the same group,
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...for, we can reappropriate and redefine the meaning of our engagement with sports, athletes, and the political world they increasingly intersect.
...rage in that era gave as much or more attention to college as professional sports. The professional teams that became the NBA in 1949 were all clustered in t
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...ce buildings. Much of that ambitious agenda has been accomplished, and the sports stadium now also looms as inevitable. One obvious prerequisite to South-of-
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...ter Magowan slowly ramping up to a new plan for a huge [[Pac Bell Ballpark|sports/entertainment complex]] on the bayshore near China Basin. (CC, 6/95)'''''
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...department. It spends millions on artificial grass for Candlestick Park (a sports arena). The city is willing to hit the man on the street for millions of do
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...rther south, a trade school that became the Mission campus of City College sports glass-block silo stairwells, in the streamlined moderne style that prefigur
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Next year, a band of publicists headed by Curley Grieve, ''S.F. Examiner'' sports editor, beat the drums and called the natives to pass this bond issue propo
...ds and other works and properties to be used for baseball, football, other sports, dramatic productions and other lawful uses as a recreation center."''</blo
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...ave taken over the planning functions of our City ... Convention halls and sports arenas have their place. But the loss of millions of square feet of industr
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...then Title IX, the 1972 law requiring gender equity in education including sports programs. Young feminists, studying the statistics, were painfully aware th
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The cylinder-shaped building sports an impressive dome along with classical motifs, suggesting that the builder
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...he request of many of the subscribers who are impatient to see some of the sports for which the grounds are intended. The games will commence at 12 o'clock w
...Grounds of Messrs. Hatton & Kohler, yesterday, to witness the out-of-door sports and participate in the opening of this new place of out-door amusement. The
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...le Style, a popular style at various times in SF. The building to the left sports a faux Mansard roof, a common design feature of buildings inspired by the S
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...le enchilada, which was the first and only time I participated in a formal sports team. From here on it was the “concrete and asphalt” jungle for me. I g
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...only place for miles around that was open for business. In this Chronicle Sports Section front-page photo, Jim was actually bemoaning a 49ers touchdown—no
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'''The bear hunt.''' ''“The king of all sports in California is the bear-hunt. . . Each rider now uncoiled his lasso from
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...returned to China where he spent the rest of his life as a journalist, and sports editor, and published several books including his memoir. Julian Schuman, '
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...which small groups of neighborhood friends played card games, listened to sports events, and participated in similar group activities on a regular basis. It
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...of Seals fans, and the decades of use the facility provided San Francisco sports enthusiasts after the Seals left.
...eld began on March 5, 1906, when Cal Ewing ended two decades as an Oakland sports fixture with his purchase of the San Francisco Seals. The $42,500 transacti
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...0s through the 1940s, the Mission Armory served as San Francisco’s primary sports venue, eventually earning the nickname the Madison Square Garden of the Wes
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...s festivities in the Square which included rides, bands, carolers, choirs, sports demonstrations, live theater, and dancers - all on a voluntary basis. In 19
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...as constant conflict with her boss whose vision for de Fremery emphasized sports over leadership development.(15) This was not an isolated dynamic; West Oak
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...ciate’s degree from the College of San Mateo, where his focus shifted from sports writing to political science and public policy. Zona would take him to clas
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...way? The last stall in line in every men's room is always the one with the Sports section of the ''Ex-Chron'' and usually the one with the sticky copy of ''C
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...ons for the former Army commissary to accommodate the large retail outlet, Sports Basement. Similarly, not much work was required for the former airplane han
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...The cars of the couples doing victory laps included new SUVs, a Jag, a BMW sports car, and other fancy new cars. These were mostly well-employed, comfortable
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...n Francisco Examiner “The Low Down” column of February 12, 1947, long-time sports writer Prescott Sullivan recalled how he and a young Edmund G. “Pat” Br
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...e San Francisco League for Servicemen, which provided musical instruments, sports equipment, toiletries, wheelchairs, and crucial hospital and medical suppli
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...something like a worried little girl in her voice. Driving home in his new sports car, Chuahan tells me that Sepanerath's a L'racist bitch" who just wants to
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...he war Magnavox built public address systems for factories, hospitals, and sports stadiums nationwide. Magnavox built the first public address system used in
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...the San Francisco Prosperity Plan to transform the area into a convention, sports, and office complex. Discussion ebbed and flowed during the 1950s, but by t
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.... Tourism is shut down. Hotels are empty. Entertainment is closed down, no sports, no concerts, no museums. A happy side effect of all this is that AirBnB is
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...located just east of the marsh near the beach, the other buried under the Sports Basement (a big retail store),” Scolari said. Archaeological evidence ind
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...meticulously detailed; book reviews and sometimes a chess column appeared; sports events at Jackson Park and The Potrero Hill Recreation Center on Arkansas S
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...conjured, could he have watched this thousand or two of sea lions at their sports.
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The people resisted the repressions. Thenceforth, they called their May sports, the “Robin Hood Games.” Capering about with sprigs of hawthorn in thei
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...ssed attorneys, merchants and clerks.” Also present were “concessionaires, sports, hoodlums, and men about town.” While the press reported that the “room
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...ers’ Schools, John Reed Clubs, bookstores, libraries, soup kitchens, Labor Sports Unions, workers’ theatre groups, and Film & Photo Leagues, Workers’ Cen
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...an extremely chill temperament, who loved to read National Geographic and Sports Illustrated on a daily basis and study boxing matches at home. It is unbeli
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...fe” until a few weeks ago? How will the waning interest in celebrities, in sports, in compulsive shopping, all be rekindled? What if the thrill is really gon
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...most white Americans, were dazzled by high visibility of blacks in music, sports local newscasting and situation comedies, believing that the civil rights m
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...soccer on the weekends. “I played the Friday night league with team Mayan Sports Club, and Sunday mornings with team La Ceiba.” He’s also never been muc
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...went back to his home in Bristol and helped a bunch of friends at a local sports club start the [http://www.brh.org.uk/site/ Bristol Radical History Group],
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...wo political operatives stand behind a ballot box. A simian-faced Irishman sports the label "Democratic Demagogue," while protruding from the pocket of his w
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...mergence of rugged masculinity was accompanied by an increased interest in sports and wilderness experiences; the elevation of science, business, and realism
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...t blocked the original vision of the SFRA, which would have built a modern sports arena or stadium surrounded by highrise offices along with the planned conv
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...as machines and machine parts, furniture, glassware, dishes and ceramics, sports equipment, clothing, and relatively exotic or “specialty” food products
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...t for the transformation of the city. The new convention centers, museums, sports stadiums, and skyscrapers that the SFRA once dreamed of have all been const
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...m of the 1980s, and came to fruition a decade later. Downtown San Jose now sports a bevy of gleaming new skyscrapers and civic buildings. All this has been p
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