Three years ago the California Academy Academy of Sciences was the biggest. Two years ago, Tenderloin Housing Clinic was approved for 82 Million
Today, July 31, 2012, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a record 91 million dollar contract for Tenderloin Housing Clinic. This is very possibly the biggest award in history ever given to a San Francisco city funded non profit
Here is a video from April 2012 at the Board of Supervisors with Randy Shaw saying that Tenderloin Housing Clinic is broke and can't fix the carpets.
This is probably a typo on the tape and is more likely to be UC San Diego 1974. The Grape played Santa Monica Civic the previous day and is the only show listed at the concert database for 1974. The Santa Monica show probably wasn't taped, but the poster is below
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I attended a Moby Grape show in National City (suburb of San Diego, big
sailor hangout) on August 8, 1974. I remember the date because we watched
Nixon resign on television before going to the show. They were great. It
was the line-up with Johnny Craviotto on drums and Jeff Blackburn in the
Skip spot. I remember JC singing a great version of Gone Dead Train and
Mosely rocked Goin' Down.
Also, for the very first time since it was aired 12 years ago, VH1, Where Are They Now - Moby Grape segment from 2000.
10 people died in a suitcase bombing at Stuart and Market during the Preparedness Day Parade (wiki)
The Preparedness Day Bombing was a bombing in San Francisco, California on July 22, 1916, when the city held a parade in honor of Preparedness Day, in anticipation of the United States' imminent entry into World War I. During the parade a suitcase bomb was detonated, killing ten and wounding forty[1] in the worst such attack in San Francisco's history. Two labor leaders, Thomas Mooney and Warren Billings, were convicted in separate trials and sentenced to be hanged. Rena Mooney and Israel Weinberg were acquitted.
The parade was captured on film and the aftermath just minutes after the bombing by the Hearst/Pathe news service and is on the Library of Congress youtube channel
This was a warehouse, light manufacturing with at least one Chinese garment factory a few years ago, but 527-529 Stevenson has been sold and it is currently being converted into 60-67 new apartments in Mid Market
This is between 6th and 7th and the building fronts both Stevenson and Jessie alleys. It's one of the very few new residential buildings so far in Mid Market near 6th that is being built for young urban professionals. (see the planning commission report below)
Jane Kim and the corrupt Twitterloin Housing Clinic
District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim recently had an informal meeting with residents of the Hartland Hotel at 909 Geary, which is one of Randy Shaws buildings with Tenderloin Housing Clinic
Hard to know where to begin, but some images of Mid Market in the 60's are quite shocking compared to how far downhill it went in the 80's and 90's, and 2000's
This is probably the most stunning of all. This is Market street looking west between 5th and 6th and up to 7th, 1961. You can see the Warfield sign on the right, and Kress (925 market) and Weinsteins (1035-1041 Market) department store on the left. You can see almost the same thing in the previous post from 1958 at another angle
This is one of the better street scene photos of Mid market circa 1958 from the SFMTA
The building on the left is 901 Market and this is looking up Market towards 6th street, and the block where this was taken from was demolished when BART was built and is now Hallidie plaza at Powell and Market
Mid Market really was a thriving district in the 1950's - 60's, all the way up past 7th and 8th streets