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19:4519:45, 4 October 2025 Harlem of the West (hist | edit) [7,072 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Dorian Scott Gulley, 2025'' Due to its vibrant jazz scene between the 1950’s and 1970’s, San Francisco’s Fillmore district was widely regarded as the “Harlem of the West.” The district thrived as a hub for live performance and gave San Francisco residents a place to enjoy Black creativity. Many musicologists during this time, almost all White, denounce...")

22:2922:29, 3 October 2025 Peoples Temple and the Destruction of the Fillmore (hist | edit) [11,355 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Viva Donohoe, 2025'' 540px '''People's Temple at 1859 Geary in the early 1970s.''' ''Photo: California Historical Society'' The story of the People’s Temple is too often flattened into the image of one deranged man in dark sunglasses—Jim Jones, the manipulative and charismatic cult leader who deceived thousands. But rarely ar...")
21:5521:55, 3 October 2025 Anti-Zionism at SF State & UC Berkeley (hist | edit) [7,187 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Michael Souliman, 2025'' Image:Golden-Gater-2002-anti-zionist-demo.jpg '''Student newspaper at San Francisco State, 2002.''' The history of the anti-zionist movement in San Francisco shifted largely from the Jewish community in the 1940s to the Arab diaspora in the 1970s, and now support for t...")
16:2616:26, 3 October 2025 No to War After 9/11 (hist | edit) [1,307 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Unfinished History ''' Image:Dolores-Park-9-29-01-Why-is-Color-TV-making-everything-black-and-white phone.jpg '''Dolores Park, September 29, 2001.''' ''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' Just a couple of weeks after 9/11 and the attacks in New York and Washington DC, as the political class was whipping up hysteria for a belligerent response, San Franciscans turned out at Dolores Park on S...")

11:4711:47, 29 September 2025 My Lunch with Bob Knepper (hist | edit) [5,875 bytes] MattSieger (talk | contribs) (I got to have lunch with San Francisco Giant pitcher Bob Knepper.)
11:2211:22, 29 September 2025 Barry Zito and the Curveballs of Life (hist | edit) [6,127 bytes] MattSieger (talk | contribs) (Barry Zito learned to control his emotions as effectively as his curveball)

14:4814:48, 27 September 2025 Dumpville (hist | edit) [8,937 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Woody LaBounty, originally published at [https://www.sanfranciscostory.com/dumpville/ San Francisco Story]'' <big>'''When Mission Creek was San Francisco's dumping ground'''</big> Image:Wasp-1877-08-18.jpg '''“What our artist calls the ‘Filth Hotel’ at the foot of 6th and adjoining streets, is a disgrace to the city and should be immediately abolishe...")
13:3613:36, 27 September 2025 Red Sky Day (hist | edit) [6,834 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' "I was there..." ''' ''by Howard Isaac Williams'' Image:Bedroom-gloom-10-15-am-Sept-9-2020 20200909 101558.jpg '''10:15 a.m. in the Mission, the bedroom is still dark.''' ''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' <big>'''It’s My Birthday! … And the World’s Coming to an End!'''</big> On the morning of September 9, 2020, my 68th birthday, I awoke and looked toward my window to the east. I s...")

16:4616:46, 26 September 2025 Skateboarding in San Francisco (hist | edit) [23,006 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Exly Lundahl, 2025'' Image:Skateboard-mass 20200611 141818.jpg '''Skateboarders mass on Market Street, June 11, 2020, protesting the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.''' ''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' {| style="color: black; background-color: #F5DA81;" | colspan="2" | '''San Francisco has been called a “Mecca” for skateboarding,(1) and looking around...")
15:2415:24, 26 September 2025 Miné Okubo (hist | edit) [6,738 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Hayden Douglas Gunter, 2025'' Image:Miné-Okubo-works-on-her-illustration-for-the-second-Trek,-a-camp-publication.-(Courtesy-of-Japanese-American-National-Museum.jpg '''Miné Okubo works on her illustration for a camp illustration during internment.''' ''Photo: courtesy Japanese American National Museum'' Miné Okubo was a victim of the American Japanese...") originally created as "Mine Okubo"
14:5814:58, 26 September 2025 Interstate 280’s History and Technology (hist | edit) [11,563 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Yavor Litchev, 2025'' Image:I-280-next-to-Crystal-Springs-reservoir P1020514.jpg '''Interstate-280 skirts the ridge-top just east of Crystal Springs reservoir in San Mateo county.''' ''Photo: Chris Carlsson, 2015'' {| style="color: black; background-color: #F5DA81;" | colspan="2" | '''Interstate 280 is a highway that was conceived in the 1950s in order to...")

21:4921:49, 24 September 2025 Sisters, By and For Gay Women (hist | edit) [7,350 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Jacqueline Alegria, 2025'' {| style="color: black; background-color: #F5DA81;" | colspan="2" | Between 1970 and 1975, Sisters magazine served as a vital cultural and political outlet by and for gay women in San Francisco. Emerging in the early years of the modern lesbian and feminist movements, the magazine offered a platform for creative expression, community-b...")

21:2421:24, 11 September 2025 Quigleys of Golden Gate Park (hist | edit) [74,539 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Angus Macfarlane'' ''This article appeared in ''The Argonaut: Journal of the San Francisco Historical Society'', 35, No. 1 (Summer 2024). Reprinted with permission.'' 800px '''Lone Mountain Cemetery, 1866, looking west. Running along left side is Point Lobos Toll Road (Geary Blvd. today). Lone...")

12:2412:24, 5 September 2025 Candlestick Park and the Great Grass or Turf Debate (hist | edit) [6,599 bytes] MattSieger (talk | contribs) (Candlestick Park dallied with AstroTurf in the 1970s before reverting to grass)

19:4919:49, 26 August 2025 San Francisco's Magdalen Asylum (hist | edit) [10,680 bytes] Lisaruth (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Beth Winegarner, 2025'' Image:Magdalen-Asylum-from-Silver-Ave-Muybridge tf7s2010tr-FID4.jpg '''Magdalen Asylum from Silver Avenue (at Mission Road), late 19th century.''' ''Photo: Edweard Muybridge'' <h4> '''Did San Francisco’s Magdalen Asylum leave behind a mass grave?''' </h4> In Ireland, Catholic institutions called Magdalene Asylums, which imprison...")

16:4616:46, 13 August 2025 Decommissioned: Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory 1946-1969 (hist | edit) [8,655 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Exhibit ''' ''by Stacey Carter'' Image:2025 ShipY035 exhibition-promo Decommissioned.jpg [https://www.shipyardartists.com/decommissioned/ '''DECOMMISSIONED: The History of Hunters Point Shipyard'''] ''was curated by Stacey Carter at Building 101 at the HP shipyard, June 5 - August 2, 2025'' Image:W12 NRDL Bldg 815 74image.jpg '''Building 815: The Naval Radiological...") originally created as "Decommissioned: Naval Defense Radiological Laboratory 1946-1969"
16:0916:09, 13 August 2025 Decommissioned: After the War 1946-1969 (hist | edit) [4,916 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Exhibit ''' ''by Stacey Carter'' Image:2025 ShipY035 exhibition-promo Decommissioned.jpg [https://www.shipyardartists.com/decommissioned/ '''DECOMMISSIONED: The History of Hunters Point Shipyard'''] ''was curated by Stacey Carter at Building 101 at the HP shipyard, June 5 - August 2, 2025'' Image:W11 VCU NARA HPS 03 29 24 200 NavyDay Independence.jpg Image:W11 NARA...")
15:4815:48, 13 August 2025 Decommissioned: Hunters Point and the Atomic Turning Point (hist | edit) [5,803 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Exhibit ''' ''by Stacey Carter'' Image:2025 ShipY035 exhibition-promo Decommissioned.jpg [https://www.shipyardartists.com/decommissioned/ '''DECOMMISSIONED: The History of Hunters Point Shipyard'''] ''was curated by Stacey Carter at Building 101 at the HP shipyard, June 5 - August 2, 2025'' Image:USS Indianapolis (CA-35) underway at sea on 27 September 1939 (80-G-425615...")

22:2022:20, 10 August 2025 Decommissioned: The Giant Crane 1947 (hist | edit) [4,762 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Exhibit ''' ''by Stacey Carter'' Image:2025 ShipY035 exhibition-promo Decommissioned.jpg [https://www.shipyardartists.com/decommissioned/ '''DECOMMISSIONED: The History of Hunters Point Shipyard'''] ''was curated by Stacey Carter at Building 101 at the HP shipyard, June 5 - August 2, 2025'' Image:DeYoungOpen2023 Carter ShipLift HPS Dark.jpg '''Gantry Crane Ship Lift,...")
21:5721:57, 10 August 2025 Decommissioned: A Mighty Shipyard 1941-1947 (hist | edit) [6,261 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Exhibit ''' ''by Stacey Carter'' Image:2025 ShipY035 exhibition-promo Decommissioned.jpg [https://www.shipyardartists.com/decommissioned/ '''DECOMMISSIONED: The History of Hunters Point Shipyard'''] ''was curated by Stacey Carter at Building 101 at the HP shipyard, June 5 - August 2, 2025'' Image:OldViewOverNewView flat.jpg '''Yellow line indicates original shape of...")
21:1321:13, 10 August 2025 Decommissioned: Navy Takes Notice 1908 (hist | edit) [4,795 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Exhibit ''' ''by Stacey Carter'' Image:2025 ShipY035 exhibition-promo Decommissioned.jpg '''DECOMMISSIONED: The History of Hunters Point Shipyard''' ''was curated by Stacey Carter at Building 101 at the HP shipyard, June 5 - August 2, 2025'' <big>'''Great White Fleet Gets Record-Setting Service'''</big> In June 1908, the U.S. Navy’s Great White Fleet arrived in San Fra...")

15:1715:17, 9 August 2025 Copaganda: The Recall of DA Chesa Boudin (hist | edit) [25,616 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''Copyright © 2025 by Alec Karakatsanis. This excerpt originally appeared in ''Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News'', published by The New Press. Reprinted here with permission.'' Image:Chesa-voting-in-2019-Monthly-Review-online.jpg '''Chesa Boudin voting in 2019 when he won to become San Francisco's District Attorney.''' ''Photo: Monthly R...")

18:4018:40, 30 July 2025 Block 3706: Journey to a New City (hist | edit) [13,369 bytes] DGrayson (talk | contribs) ({| style="color: black; background-color: #F5DA81;" | colspan="2" | '''A story of how the evolution of a single block reflects larger, dramatic change in the city.''' |} ))

21:4721:47, 14 July 2025 Small Places Close To Home (hist | edit) [36,476 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' "I was there..." ''' ''A photo essay by Ken Stein… With a little help from Eleanor Roosevelt'' '''''All photos © by Ken Stein / All Rights Reserved''''' ''In a recent PBS American Masters episode “Janis Ian: Breaking Silence,” Ian said of her archives, “What I wanted them to do was to communicate a life, not my life, but the life of the times I lived in.” So it is very much i...")

23:1223:12, 10 July 2025 When Doctors are Silenced, People Die (hist | edit) [18,170 bytes] Ccarlsson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' I was there . . . ''' ''by Dr. Rupa Marya'' Image:Rupa-in-city-hall-by-John-Avalos cropped.jpg '''Dr. Rupa Marya in City Hall in San Francisco, 2025.''' ''Photo: John Avalos'' In May 2025, after 23 years of service, [https://theintercept.com/2025/06/05/gaza-israel-san-francisco-ucsf-doctor-professor/ I was fired from my position] as a Professor of Medicine at the University of Cal...")

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