COMBINING a year of exciting archival discoveries with evergreen favorites from past years, this feature-length program shows San Francisco’s people, neighborhoods, infrastructures and celebrations from the early 20th century through the 1980s. New sequences this year run the gamut from the noirish streets of downtown San Francisco in the 1940s to life in the lively Mission, Richmond, Sunset, Bernal Heights and Ingleside Terrace districts.
ALSO IN THE WORKS: Bits of San Francisco bohemia, psychedelia and punk; newly discovered footage of the late, lamented Sky Tram and the unlamented Bayside Motel and Embarcadero Freeway; workers horsing around on the Rainier Beer loading dock in 1937; transit infrastructure; snowball fights; a hobo by the zoo; newly discovered amateur Cinemascope footage from the 1950s; the building of I-280; San Francisco’s publicly owned electrical generation system; San Francisco’s cemeteries emptied of their dead; and many intimate glimpses of family life in Latinx, Filipino, Chinese, Japanese, African American, and European communities in San Francisco.
AS ALWAYS, the audience makes the soundtrack! Come prepared to identify places, people and events, to ask questions and to engage in spirited real-time repartee with fellow audience members
RSVP HERE
Doors Open and Reception Starts: 6:30pm
Show Begins: 7:30pm
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
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How beautiful old photos are
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I just love the magic of web archive, it sends me back in history
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it is great there are people who are willing to donate books so those who cannot purchase books still have access to some of the greatest writings
I visit this here, it sends me back in history.
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Just wondering–is this okay for teens? I’d love to share more of SF’s history with my 13-year-old, but wasn’t sure if the reception beforehand made it an adult-only event.
Yes! All ages are welcome.
Thank you very much
I just love the magic of web archive. Good thing, thank you very much