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Book Harlem of the West

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Pepin
  • Publisher : Chronicle Books
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780811845489
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Harlem of the West written by Elizabeth Pepin and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlem of the West reveals a forgotten slice of San Francisco history and the African-American experience on the West Coast: the thriving jazz scene of the Fillmore in the 1940s and 1950s. With archival photographs and oral accounts from the residents and musicians who experienced it, this vividly illustrated tour will delight jazz fans and history aficionados.

Book The Ghetto

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ray Hutchison
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-04-19
  • ISBN : 0429976143
  • Pages : 341 pages

Download or read book The Ghetto written by Ray Hutchison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses more general consideration of marginalized urban spaces and peoples around the globe. It considers the question: Is the formation and later dissolution of the Jewish ghetto an appropriate model for understanding the experience of other ethnic or racial populations?

Book City for Sale

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chester Hartman
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2002-10-01
  • ISBN : 0520914902
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book City for Sale written by Chester Hartman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco is perhaps the most exhilarating of all American cities--its beauty, cultural and political avant-gardism, and history are legendary, while its idiosyncrasies make front-page news. In this revised edition of his highly regarded study of San Francisco's economic and political development since the mid-1950s, Chester Hartman gives a detailed account of how the city has been transformed by the expansion--outward and upward--of its downtown. His story is fueled by a wide range of players and an astonishing array of events, from police storming the International Hotel to citizens forcing the midair termination of a freeway. Throughout, Hartman raises a troubling question: can San Francisco's unique qualities survive the changes that have altered the city's skyline, neighborhoods, and economy? Hartman was directly involved in many of the events he chronicles and thus had access to sources that might otherwise have been unavailable. A former activist with the National Housing Law Project, San Franciscans for Affordable Housing, and other neighborhood organizations, he explains how corporate San Francisco obtained the necessary cooperation of city and federal governments in undertaking massive redevelopment. He illustrates the rationale that produced BART, a subway system that serves upper-income suburbs but few of the city's poor neighborhoods, and cites the environmental effects of unrestrained highrise development, such as powerful wind tunnels and lack of sunshine. In describing the struggle to keep housing affordable in San Francisco and the seemingly intractable problem of homelessness, Hartman reveals the human face of the city's economic transformation.

Book Ten Years That Shook the City

Download or read book Ten Years That Shook the City written by Chris Carlsson and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The alliances, programs, and goals of a historic decade that continues to shape SF and the world.

Book The Chosen Ones

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nikki Jones
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2018-05-25
  • ISBN : 0520963318
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book The Chosen Ones written by Nikki Jones and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Chosen Ones, sociologist and feminist scholar Nikki Jones shares the compelling story of a group of Black men living in San Francisco’s historically Black neighborhood, the Fillmore. Against all odds, these men work to atone for past crimes by reaching out to other Black men, young and old, with the hope of guiding them toward a better life. Yet despite their genuine efforts, they struggle to find a new place in their old neighborhood. With a poignant yet hopeful voice, Jones illustrates how neighborhood politics, everyday interactions with the police, and conservative Black gender ideologies shape the men’s ability to make good and forgive themselves—and how the double-edged sword of community shapes the work of redemption.

Book Left Coast City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Edward DeLeon
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Left Coast City written by Richard Edward DeLeon and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides insight into how San Francisco's progressive coalition developed between 1975 and 1991, what stresses emerged to cause splintering within the coalition, and how it fell apart in the 1991 mayoral campaign. DeLeon analyzes the success and failures of the progressive movement as it toppled the business-dominated pro-growth regime, imposed stringent controls on growth and development, and achieved political control of city hall.

Book California  Court of Appeal  1st Appellate District   Records and Briefs

Download or read book California Court of Appeal 1st Appellate District Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170  c  of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954

Download or read book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 c of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 written by United States. Internal Revenue Service and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Artifacts

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 4 pages

Download or read book Artifacts written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Little Black Book of San Francisco  The Essential Guide to the Golden Gate City

Download or read book The Little Black Book of San Francisco The Essential Guide to the Golden Gate City written by Margaret Littman and published by Peter Pauper Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 Edition. From the Magnificent Mile to the magnificent lakefront, Chicago has it all! This pocket guidebook will walk you through the best the Windy City has to offer. Color-coded, numbered entries in the text are keyed to full-color area maps in each chapter. ''Top Picks'' direct you to not-to-be-missed attractions. Full-color spot illustrations throughout liven the text. 10 easy-to-use maps. Author Margaret Littman contributes to Moon Metro Chicago, Real City Chicago, and Chicago SHOPS.

Book San Francisco 2007

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fodor's
  • Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
  • Release : 2006-10-03
  • ISBN : 1400016932
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book San Francisco 2007 written by Fodor's and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A traveler's guide to the Bay Area recommends accommodations and restaurants, suggests walking and driving tours, and provides tips on sights, activities, and nightlife

Book Welcome to Painterland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anastasia Aukeman
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2016-08-09
  • ISBN : 0520289455
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book Welcome to Painterland written by Anastasia Aukeman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rat Bastard ProtectiveÊAssociation was an inflammatory, close-knit community of artists who livedÊand worked in aÊbuilding they dubbed Painterland in the Fillmore neighborhood of midcentury San Francisco. The artists who counted themselves among the RatÊBastardsÑwhich included Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo,ÊWallyÊHedrick, Michael McClure, and Manuel NeriÑexhibited a unique fusion of radicalism,Êprovocation, and community. Geographically isolated from a viable art market and refusingÊto conform to institutional expectations, theyÊanimated broader social andÊartistic discussions through their work and became aÊtransformative part of American culture over time. Anastasia Aukeman presents new and little-known archival material in this authorized account of these artists and their circle, a colorful cultural milieu that intersected with the broader Beat scene.

Book Live at the Fillmore East

Download or read book Live at the Fillmore East written by and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2000-10-10 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1968 to 1971 Bill Graham's Fillmore East in New York City was the East coast Mecca for the music that shaped a generation. Not only that: thanks to a visionary technical staff and unsurpassed psychedelic light shows, the Fillmore East stage was the place where rock music became rock theater. Now available in paperback, the highly acclaimed Live at the Fillmore East tells the story of its heyday with more than 200 black and white behind-the-scenes photographs and exclusive interviews. Included here are photos of the Who's premiere of Tommy in 1969; John and Yoko's surprise encore to a Frank Zappa concert; the jam between the Allman Brothers, the Grateful Dead, and Mick Fleetwood in 1970; Janis Joplin's first performance after singing with CBS records; Jimi Hendrix's New Year's Eve concerts; Van Morrison during the first-ever television taping of a rock concert in 1970; and many other defining moments of rock history "Amalie R. Rothschild's pictures bring back the entire Fillmore East experience in vivid detail. Rock and Roll was a baby back then and Bill Graham was it's midwife - he birthed the modern version of a rock and roll concert." -- Mickey Hart

Book Reality Sucks

Download or read book Reality Sucks written by Jared Reed and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas, living a humdrum life in Spokane, Washington, yearning to escape working as an accountant, borderline suicidal, leaves his life behind to pursue his dream of working in entertainment. Hollywood, full of sin, seduces Douglas, distracting him in many ways. The men in the town are quite intoxicating and he exposes some pretty explicit parts of his life while making the transition to Hollywood. Douglas finds his way to cope living with the craziness of Hollywood, but finds himself overcorrecting his life as it was in Spokane.