Internet Archive - Collection: shaping_sf

Peter Berg on One Percent Free

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:12:27 GMT

Peter Berg, an original San Francisco Digger, describes how their ubiquitous poster image called "1% Free" came to be, detailing the origin of the photo, the soruce of 1% in the Hells Angels at the time, and the production and distribution of the poster itself..

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Robert Lovato and Hunts Donuts

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:25:13 GMT

Roberto Lovato, who grew up on Folsom near 25th Street during the 1970s, describes how his father was involved in the "alternative economy" centered on Hunt's Donuts at 20th and Mission, and how it benefitted his extended Salvadoran families in San Francisco and in El Salvador..

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The Recyclergy

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:49:20 GMT

For decades the San Francisco Bay Area has been a hub for the recycling movement. Despite the lack of surviving community recycling centers, the Bay Area is still home to a unique community of recyclers who push the envelope of possibilities..

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naturaldisasters-3

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:48:05 GMT

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They Back-Doored Us

Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:51:28 GMT

It depicts the Art Attack staged on Friday, June 18, 1999 called "Wall Street West is All Tied Up!" which happened on Montgomery Street between California and Pine Streets at apx. 12:25 p.m..

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Meeting Frieda Kahlo and Diego Rivera

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:33:07 GMT

Artist Pele DeLappe describes her encounter at age 15 with Frieda Rivera (Kahlo), sitting around painting and smoking cigarettes together, while Diego Rivera was painting the San Francisco Stock Exchange mural (c....

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Willie Brown Pied

Mon, 10 May 2004 16:03:23 GMT

Mayor Willie Brown is hit with 3 pies by activists of the Biotic Baking Brigade at a "Clean-up" event in Bayview/Hunter's Point..

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Lands End train ride

Mon, 10 May 2004 16:02:18 GMT

Sped-up trip eastward along the old Sutro Steam railroad from Cliff house back towards the then-empty Golden Gate..

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Sandinistas in SF

Mon, 10 May 2004 16:01:14 GMT

Alejandro Murguia, who fought in the 1978 Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, describes the role San Francisco played in the uprising..

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Shiva in GG Park

Mon, 10 May 2004 16:00:02 GMT

How a shrine to Shiva emerged in Golden Gate Park in the form of a cement pylon..

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Bike Mural

Mon, 10 May 2004 15:58:58 GMT

Artist Mona Caron describes the meaning of her mural along the newly christened Duboce Bikeway..

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Local 2 Dancing Pickets

Mon, 10 May 2004 15:57:54 GMT

Alliance for the Rank and File activists in Local 2 HERE led a strike against Zim's Coffeehouse chain..

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Steam Shovel

Mon, 10 May 2004 15:56:32 GMT

Before occupational health and safety, this is how excavation was done. A steam shovel is digging a tunnel for the SF Muni, c. 1917..

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Japanese Internment

Mon, 10 May 2004 15:55:28 GMT

scenes of Japanese-Americans being shipped out of the Fillmore on their way to "internment"..

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George Will on Islais Creek

Mon, 10 May 2004 15:54:24 GMT

Lifelong Bernal Heights resident George Will describes growing up in the marshland near the Old Clam House on Bayshore Blvd. in the 'teens..

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Digger Poem

Mon, 10 May 2004 15:53:19 GMT

"Diamond Dave" Whitaker recites his Digger poem.

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White Night Riot

Mon, 10 May 2004 15:52:09 GMT

Riot and destruction at City Hall in the wake of the slap-on-the-wrist manslaughter verdict against Dan White, murderer of Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone..

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West Portal

Mon, 10 May 2004 15:51:05 GMT

West Portal tunnel under construction, Portola Drive cutting through empty surrounding hillsides..

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Queen Isabella Pageant protest

Mon, 10 May 2004 15:50:01 GMT

A protest against the silence surrounding the original genocide in North America staged at a "Queen Isabella" pageant..

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Squatter Punx Rock the Vats

Mon, 10 May 2004 15:48:57 GMT

The old Falstaff brewery became a home to punk rockers in the early 1980s before its demolition. Here's a glimpse of an impromptu concert outside..

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Union Square

Mon, 10 May 2004 15:47:54 GMT

Dedication of Dewey Monument in Union Square, c. 1903. St. Francis Hotel visible behind scene..

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Under the Piers

Mon, 10 May 2004 15:46:51 GMT

canoeing under the piers along San Francisco's waterfront..

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Ironworkers Strike

Mon, 10 May 2004 15:45:48 GMT

A strike begins at the Union Iron Works at the foot of Potrero Hill in 1917..

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Soap Box Derby

Mon, 10 May 2004 15:44:37 GMT

The San Francisco Illegal Soapbox Society conducted races on Bernal Heights for years, and still does at unpredictable times..

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Mayor Angelo Rossi on Strike

Mon, 10 May 2004 15:43:33 GMT

Mayor Angelo Rossi appeals to San Franciscans to allow business to proceed, while most of the city is on strike in July 1934..

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Post-Quake scenes

Mon, 10 May 2004 15:42:27 GMT

Footage taken about a month after the massive earthquake and fire of 1906..

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Sea Lions at Pier 39

Mon, 10 May 2004 15:41:22 GMT

Sea Lions cavort on piers facing San Francisco's Pier 39..

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Panama-Pacific International Exposition

Mon, 10 May 2004 15:40:19 GMT

panoramic view of the PPIE on San Francisco's northern edge, 1915, as broadcast in a 1930s newsreel..

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Feast Day Procession Potrero Hill

Mon, 10 May 2004 15:39:06 GMT

footage of Catholic Feast Day parade on Potrero Hill, April 25, 1937..

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Seal Rock Pacific Ocean

Mon, 10 May 2004 15:37:28 GMT

Seal Rock off the Cliff House, the ocean roaring around it..

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Corruption in Local 2

Mon, 10 May 2004 15:35:48 GMT

A rank and file member of Local 2 denounces the rampant corruption and anti-democratic practices of the union leadership under Joe Belardi..

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Telegraph Hil from Bay

Wed, 05 May 2004 16:10:02 GMT

shot from a canoe off Pier 33 looking up at Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill..

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Tom Mooney in San Quentin

Wed, 05 May 2004 16:08:59 GMT

Tom Mooney, filmed by his defense team in San Quentin, appeals for a new trial or a death sentence, rather than the endless years in jail... he had already been in jail for 16 years. Excerpt from "The Strange Case of Tom Mooney"..

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Preparedness Day cartoon

Wed, 05 May 2004 16:07:56 GMT

Animation dramatizing the choice between "prosperity" and "anarchy, sedition, and lawlessness" in 1916.

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Mission Creek

Wed, 05 May 2004 16:06:51 GMT

canoe ride into Mission Creek before the freeway was reconfigured or Mission Bay was built..

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Wed, 05 May 2004 16:05:49 GMT

Ferlinghetti in his Potrero Hill home in 1965, ruminating on San Francisco.

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Teddy Roosevelt in SF

Wed, 05 May 2004 15:59:41 GMT

Difficult to discern, but President Teddy Roosevelt is in a procession heading up Van Ness in this short clip..

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Arrests at HUAC in City Hall

Wed, 05 May 2004 15:58:38 GMT

scenes of students being washed down rotunda stairs in SF City Hall during mass arrests at HUAC hearings, May 1960..

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Crowds at Ocean Beach

Wed, 05 May 2004 15:57:35 GMT

Turn of the 19th century crowds at Ocean Beach.

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Cliff House from Ocean Beach

Wed, 05 May 2004 15:56:33 GMT

3 seconds of the Cliff House from Ocean Beach, people milling about on the beach in the foreground..

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Processed World street vending

Wed, 05 May 2004 15:55:31 GMT

Lucius Cabins, Helen Highwater and Linda Thomas hawking Processed World magazine at Market and Montgomery in the summer of 1982..

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Harvey Milk's Last Words

Wed, 05 May 2004 15:54:28 GMT

Harvey Milk's last words, delivered posthumously, recorded in case of his assassination... excerpted from The Life and Times of Harvey Milk..

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I-Hotel Riot

Wed, 05 May 2004 15:36:00 GMT

Hundreds of police attack the I-Hotel on Kearny in 1977 to evict the remaining tenants..

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Mud People

Tue, 04 May 2004 19:50:42 GMT

Mud people descend on downtown San Francisco... the only rules? No walking and no talking! Merry mayhem ensues..

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Herb Mills on the old waterfront

Tue, 04 May 2004 19:49:35 GMT

Herb Mills, former secretary-treasurer of ILWU Local 10, describes the lost landscape and culture of the old waterfront in San Francisco..

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Herb Mills on the Hiring Hall

Tue, 04 May 2004 14:20:28 GMT

Herb Mills, former secretary-treasurer of ILWU Local 10, describes the importance of the Hiring Hall to the culture and politics of longshoring..

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Pickups at Finocchio's

Tue, 04 May 2004 14:19:21 GMT

Harry Hay describes the pickup scene at the North Beach bar Finocchio's in the early 1930s..

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Gay Sex before Zippers

Tue, 04 May 2004 14:18:12 GMT

Harry Hay describes gay sex when BVD's were still predominant underwear, before zippers in the 1930s... men would meet at Presidio guardhouse and go into the bushes..

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Gulf War protests

Tue, 04 May 2004 14:17:03 GMT

scenes from demonstrations against the 1991 Gulf War in San Francisco..

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Waterfront Strike

Tue, 04 May 2004 14:15:58 GMT

silent footage of strikers marching, parading along waterfront, cops on horseback, scenes of the Embarcadero.

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