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The Van Ness Temples of Culture Celebrate 90 Years - SFHS January 2023 Program
With author James Haas
Building a municipal opera house was the goal of many San Francisco leaders. It took twenty years, was proposed at several locations, had funding problems, morphed into a War Memorial and a Veterans Building, and generated much controversy-your typical San Francisco story. On October 15, 1932, the War Memorial Opera House opened to a gala performance of Tosca and has been a grand home for San Francisco culture ever since.
James Haas is a native San Franciscan and a retired lawyer. For nearly forty years he has endeavored to improve and complete San Francisco’s magnificent Civic Center. During those years he found that few people knew the significance or history of Civic Center. Consequently, he wrote The San Francisco Civic Center, A History of the Design, Controversies and Realization of a City Beautiful Masterpiece, published by the University of Nevada Press (you can purchase a copy at the SFHS website: sfhistory.org/shop-sfhs/books-for-sale/). He lives in an apartment overlooking the City Hall dome.
This program was live-streamed on January 10, 2023 from the SFHS Museum in San Francisco. Please subscribe to our channel to learn more about the history of San Francisco:
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Unspeakable Vice: Queer North Beach Before the Castro - Shawn Sprockett. SFHS October 2022 Program
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Join Shawn Sprockett for a lecture on San Francisco’s original “gayborhood,” North Beach. Before the Castro, Pride, or the Rainbow Flag, the beginnings of modern queer identity and activism was formed in the old Barbary Coast. Learn how movements are made as folks across the LGBTQIA spectrum found commonality under threat of police raids and surges of moral panic. We’ll revive more than a dozen...
Yerba Buena Cove: A History of Smuggling, with Carlina Ospina - SFHS September 2022 Program
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During Spanish-California and Mexican-California, Yerba Buena Cove was a well-known secret for smugglers. Before the town of Yerba Buena was established, smugglers knew to anchor their ships in San Francisco Bay to trade/sell all kinds of merchandise, including clothing, fabric, jewelry, alcohol, food, musical instruments, furniture-anything Californios wanted or needed from around the world. C...
Thirsty in Early San Francisco: A Very Localized Search for Water - SFHS Program with Joel Pomerantz
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In the first couple years of early San Francisco, there were few creeks in the vicinity. The ones that did flow were quickly scooped up, claimed by pushy speculators who then sold the water. Joel will help you understand how settlers of the town got their water as San Francisco grew into a city. We’ll explore how the water challenges that residents faced wove into the stories of the water sourc...
The 1906 Earthquake and the People in Chinatown, with John Freeman - SFHS April 2022 Program
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John Freeman's presentation begins with the devastation of the city and goes on to describe the effects of the earthquake and fire on the Chinese community here. He talks about how people thought the fire would not reach Chinatown. He also explains what the city politicians wanted to do with the Chinatown land-and how the Chinese responded. John Freeman is president of the SFHS programs committ...
The San Francisco Historical Society - Become a Member Today!
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The San Francisco Historical Society exists to uncover, preserve, and present, in engaging ways, the colorful and diverse history of our city from its earliest days to the present. Membership is open to anyone with an interest in the story of one of the world’s great cities: San Francisco. All members receive the following basic benefits: * Panorama - the Society’s quarterly newsletter announci...
SFHS March 2022 Program - Reimagining Chinese American Women in Early 20th Century San Francisco
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White Devil, American Daughter Authors Julia Flynn Siler and Jasmin Darznik discuss how they’ve pushed past silences and stereotypes to render a more vivid portrait of Chinese American women in San Francisco. What are the possibilities and limits of nonfiction to recover lost and hidden stories? How can fiction meaningfully contribute to our understanding of history? The conversation between Si...
The Buried Ships in San Francisco, with Richard Everett - SFHS February 2022 Program
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For decades, San Francisco was the biggest, bawdiest, and roughest port in the entire West. When the Gold Rush began, almost a thousand ships from all over the world came to San Francisco. Many of them burned in the infamous 1851 fire, leaving their hulls and cargoes to be buried by the sand hills of the early city. Richard tells the story of the past 40 years of these ships being unearthed, an...
SFHS January 2022 Program - Gold Rush and Comstock Lode Money Struck at 608 Commercial Street
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In 2019, the San Francisco Historical Society relocated its headquarters to 608 Commercial Street. This property was the original site of the United States Assay Office starting in early 1852 and housed the first San Francisco Mint from 1854 to 1874. In its role as Assay Office and Branch Mint, 608 Commercial Street saw an astonishing quantity of gold and silver struck into coins. Today, some o...
Maps of SF Jim Schein SFHS NOV PROGRAM
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In this presentation map historian Jim Schein shares rare maps of San Francisco’s early days and describe how early settlers envisioned their city, mapped its features, and began to change the contours of the land to shape the city to come. * Note: there are some sound and video issues with the recording of the live presentation at our museum, but we feel the material is worth sharing with a wi...
SFHS October Program - Weaving The Web: Building San Francisco’s Communications Infrastructures
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Rick Prelinger uses photos, news clips, ephemera, film, and audio to describe the development of telephones, radio, TV, and police and fire communications in San Francisco. This is not overly technical but is geared to lay people. This fascinating talk is filled with rich detail, including the “Human Telephone” woman at the PPIE. Rick Prelinger is co-founder (with Megan Prelinger) of the Prelin...
The San Francisco Historical Society - Become a Member Today!
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The San Francisco Historical Society - Become a Member Today!
Integrating San Francisco’s Grocery Stores and Chain Stores, 1962-1964
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Integrating San Francisco’s Grocery Stores and Chain Stores, 1962-1964
African American History in the First Century of California, with Jesse Warr
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African American History in the First Century of California, with Jesse Warr
Black Pioneers in San Francisco’s Early Days, with author and educator Crawford Killian
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Black Pioneers in San Francisco’s Early Days, with author and educator Crawford Killian
The City by the Bay and the Trial of Tokyo Rose, presented by Mike Weedall.
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The City by the Bay and the Trial of Tokyo Rose, presented by Mike Weedall.
San Francisco's Crystal Palace with Lorri Ungaretti - an SFHS Program
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San Francisco's Crystal Palace with Lorri Ungaretti - an SFHS Program
SFHS Monthly Program: Woodward's Gardens with Gloria Lenhart
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SFHS Monthly Program: Woodward's Gardens with Gloria Lenhart
SFHS Presentation - Jim Schein on the Natural Topography of Early San Francisco
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SFHS Presentation - Jim Schein on the Natural Topography of Early San Francisco
SFHS Presents Bernard Zakheim's Murals at UCSF Toland Hall, San Francisco
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SFHS Presents Bernard Zakheim's Murals at UCSF Toland Hall, San Francisco
San Francisco Historical Society 2020 Fracchia Prize Awards Ceremony
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San Francisco Historical Society 2020 Fracchia Prize Awards Ceremony
SFHS Presents Jim Schein - Author of Gold Mountain, Big City
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SFHS Presents Jim Schein - Author of Gold Mountain, Big City
Arnold Genthe - SFHS Presentation by San Francisco historian Gloria Lenhart
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Arnold Genthe - SFHS Presentation by San Francisco historian Gloria Lenhart
San Francisco's Lost Department Stores - by author Anne Evers Hitz
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San Francisco's Lost Department Stores - by author Anne Evers Hitz
San Francisco Historical Society Presents: Bret Harte and the Gold Rush with Chris O'Sullivan
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San Francisco Historical Society Presents: Bret Harte and the Gold Rush with Chris O'Sullivan
SFHS Presents: The History of Saint Ignatius Church in San Francisco - with Peter Devine
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SFHS Presents: The History of Saint Ignatius Church in San Francisco - with Peter Devine
SFHS presents Sutro's Glass Palace with John Martini
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SFHS presents Sutro's Glass Palace with John Martini
Golden Gate Park: A Celebration in Photographs - Ron Henggeler
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Golden Gate Park: A Celebration in Photographs - Ron Henggeler
Sunken Ships, Hidden Treasures - A Romp Into Gold Rush History
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Sunken Ships, Hidden Treasures - A Romp Into Gold Rush History

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @Tad-gf7gx
    @Tad-gf7gx День тому

    Are you fucking kidding me with this shit fuckin video

  • @ContinentsEdge
    @ContinentsEdge 4 дні тому

    I worked in the wonderful City of Paris department when Madame Verdier was the owner. It was a marvelous building that was razed and then replaced by the very lamentable Neumann Marcus store. designed I believe by Philip Johnson. What a treasure it was and what a desecration that it was torn down. I would stand at the edge of the round rotunda balcony and look down on the glove department staffed by ancient, but very elegant, ladies who fitted long gloves on equally elegant customers.. The world does not get better. This elegance was open to me a young girl from a working class background.

  • @philosopher4279
    @philosopher4279 4 дні тому

    Ah, Thats a lot of “ahs”

  • @fboness368
    @fboness368 12 днів тому

    That was a wonderful presentation. Thanks!

  • @-oiiio-3993
    @-oiiio-3993 16 днів тому

    All of this time no one saw any previous constructions of 'ancient Tartarians' or anyone else.

  • @harrylarkin8690
    @harrylarkin8690 23 дні тому

    11

  • @StevenTorrey
    @StevenTorrey Місяць тому

    The garbled vocalization stops @4:43...

  • @jeanettesdaughter
    @jeanettesdaughter Місяць тому

    Americas most gorgeous city. Too bad it’s just a place for the rich and the homeless now. Family life gone. Not when I grew up there. No more Black cultural presence because the people have been pushed out and all of us were NOT poor on public assistance. We moved to the suburbs or out of state. Not our loss but the city of SF lost gems when we left. And stop calling us blacks, we are Black people or African Americans. Thank you.

  • @user-dt7im3up6w
    @user-dt7im3up6w Місяць тому

    No Mexican California before 1849??????

    • @sluttycouncil7059
      @sluttycouncil7059 Місяць тому

      Yeah, Baja (lower) California. Aren't you paying attention?

  • @humarquezn1
    @humarquezn1 Місяць тому

    1st on the list....Steal land from Mexico

  • @rawlsrules
    @rawlsrules Місяць тому

    As of yet, I do not understand the references to Point Lobos relative to San Francisco, the "line of sight", and Pacifica?

  • @samsprague2846
    @samsprague2846 Місяць тому

    San Francisco is one of those cities you can fall in love with . With NY it takes a while. With SF, it's love at first sight.

  • @danlowe8684
    @danlowe8684 Місяць тому

    The Millenium Tower engineers only dropped one anchor.

  • @pailinmurphy2768
    @pailinmurphy2768 Місяць тому

    Who found the Bay Area? Oh no let’s just ignore the all the natives that lived there for millenia

    • @sluttycouncil7059
      @sluttycouncil7059 Місяць тому

      Let' ignore all the natives in Europe that all the foreign invaders want to displace.

  • @unikuadam6035
    @unikuadam6035 Місяць тому

    The city was already built out when we got there ! Stop the CHARADE!

  • @jamesmckee9246
    @jamesmckee9246 2 місяці тому

    Oh yeah’s got a great tier first half of this season

    • @jamesmckee9246
      @jamesmckee9246 Місяць тому

      I never wrote this comment and I never posted it

  • @user-zr7zv6sx2y
    @user-zr7zv6sx2y 2 місяці тому

    My brother and I, born in San Francisco, moved to San Carlos when in was 3 in 1960..but every year we went to the Emporium rooftop Christmas, and visited Santa.. and when my kids were little in the 90s we Got to bring them there once , great memories ...still have my Santa photo, my Brother and I, I was about 4, on Santa's Lap there.. one of my prized possessions

  • @ANDREA-yt9dn
    @ANDREA-yt9dn 2 місяці тому

    This is white history. Im white, but this is such an insult! Its not true at all that there was nothing here. There was an an entire tribe, Ramaytush, part of the Ohlone people, or Costanoan (depending on who you ask) that had occupied the Sf and Monterey Bay. Native Californians should be angry at this false history.

    • @sluttycouncil7059
      @sluttycouncil7059 Місяць тому

      BOO HOO! Did he hurt your feelings, Precious?

    • @glorioskey
      @glorioskey 14 днів тому

      What an ignorant comment. ​@@sluttycouncil7059

  • @lindakay9552
    @lindakay9552 2 місяці тому

    I think LONG before the Spsnish ever figured out how to get here by crossing the Atlantic, I have high reason to suspect that Asians had found us centuries sooner, probably through Siberia. To anyone with ADHD, this video is tollerable of you play it at 1.23x speed.

    • @thetooginator153
      @thetooginator153 Місяць тому

      If the Native Siberians had a written language, and managed to preserve their writings, things would have been MUCH different (IMHO). It’s very difficult to know the history of California before the Spanish and Russians settled here because the Spanish and Russians had writing. I believe some Central and South American cultures had writing, but I don’t think it’s been translated. There are still ancient European written languages that haven’t been deciphered, but most of them have been. Unfortunately, most of the writing was either accounting or tributes to leaders - not much history. And the writings we DO have are mostly thanks to Christian monks and Islamic scholars who copied texts century after century. We may yet discover writings made by the original Americans AND AI might be able to translate it!

  • @MrSHILOHGREY
    @MrSHILOHGREY 2 місяці тому

    This is some white people shit

  • @whatsitlike6392
    @whatsitlike6392 2 місяці тому

    My grandmother answered the phones at the Emporium when I was a kid. I think she did this for about 10 years in the early 70's. You are the first person to mention the rides on the roof. Someone told me I was remembering Stonestown but I kept thinking it was downtown. Wasn't there a Ferris Wheel up there? I was young so my memory may be incorrect.

  • @anderander5662
    @anderander5662 2 місяці тому

    Now tell us how they ruined the city in the last 30 years...

    • @joekulik999
      @joekulik999 Місяць тому

      WHO is "they", Dummy ??? Have you figured that out yet ??? 😮

    • @jw77019
      @jw77019 Місяць тому

      Ruined? Most people would love to be there. Every city has problems because capitalism always causes extreme wealth and poverty.

    • @billybob1620
      @billybob1620 Місяць тому

      Mcomplete and total corruption mixed with complete and total incompetence

  • @suzit5084
    @suzit5084 2 місяці тому

    I was a Christmas wrapper at the White House. Bought my first Louis Vuitton purse at I. Magnin for $199. Design hasn't changed so now handbag is $4,000. Bought my wedding dress at Joseph Magnin. Loved Emporium bargain basement and cafeteria. Christmas was special on the Emporium rooftop. Loved Woolworth's both upstairs and downstairs cafeteria. Used to eat at Blums's and Mannings too. Bought our first black and white T.V. at Hales Department Store. There was Leed's and Lerner's store and Kress store on Market Street. All gone.😭

  • @mariagoosen7342
    @mariagoosen7342 2 місяці тому

    Very interesting history of San Fransisco. Thank you for sharing it.

  • @melbaker9495
    @melbaker9495 2 місяці тому

    The story of the HMS Setleg is really interesting. The closest Alcatraz came to firing on a foreign ship in October of 1963.

  • @jasonmarshall7983
    @jasonmarshall7983 4 місяці тому

    Six hundred to 8 hundred years old,,easy

  • @jasonmarshall7983
    @jasonmarshall7983 4 місяці тому

    All this sounds plausible, but I firmly believe San Francisco is 1600 years old and they always knew about the gold. There's nothing new under the sun. We didn't build this city after. We came out here to mine for gold no way

    • @Steve-hj6xv
      @Steve-hj6xv Місяць тому

      So who purchased 440 underwater lots and why did the Irish Americans have to move all of that sand? And, how do you know it was the Asians and not the African c who discovered, founded and named San Francisco, San Francisco?

    • @2degucitas
      @2degucitas Місяць тому

      I'm interested in your view of history. Do tell.

    • @user-go6fe2lg8c
      @user-go6fe2lg8c Місяць тому

      What in your research has given you the firm belief that San Francisco was founded in the year 424 CE? 1600 years old, really? And, who is "they" in your reference to knowing about the gold?

  • @austinmitchell563
    @austinmitchell563 4 місяці тому

    Many old maps show California as an island 16 1700s this could be an explanation

    • @jasonmarshall7983
      @jasonmarshall7983 4 місяці тому

      I think the island of california must have existed it obviously sank. It's really hard to tell with the baja , california , but it had to have sunk into the ocean as hard as I does to believe

  • @missourigal
    @missourigal 4 місяці тому

    I remember the City of Paris and Ransohoff and the White House. My father was the head a advertising at Weinsteins in 60s?

  • @missourigal
    @missourigal 4 місяці тому

    yes yes yes I. Magnin bathroom...and as a child roof rides at Emporium at Stonestown.

  • @mm5478
    @mm5478 4 місяці тому

    Does anyone remember a dept store on Ocean decades ago? Think it was called Get or Goetz. We used to buy all of our Catholic school uniforms at that store. At the western end of the store on the second floor was the toy department. Does anyone recall the store?

  • @martinsto8190
    @martinsto8190 4 місяці тому

    1:06:43 This also should have been the perfect time for the city to preserve and control the existing rivers south of san francisco. it really would have prevented future fires from raising most of the city and allowed residents clean affordable drinking water instead of importing it.

    • @user-eb5cb6ud1p
      @user-eb5cb6ud1p 4 місяці тому

      FWIW - I think you mean "raze". VERY different. 😃

  • @andrewsteger9449
    @andrewsteger9449 6 місяців тому

    Does anyone know the years of business for The Hastings Clothing Co.? I think final location was on Post and Grant?

  • @bluepearlgirl-emelie
    @bluepearlgirl-emelie 6 місяців тому

    Fantastic presentation. I could listen to you talk about these old maps of the city for hours! Our little city has grown up so much in just a few tens of tens of years! Thank you!

  • @PGDragon350z
    @PGDragon350z 7 місяців тому

    She not Africa or African American that America indian copper color race the real indian of all of North America there are not so-called black people or nergo or African-American we are the real American indian and the fool or the one who are calling us as a people that

  • @lordvonmanor6915
    @lordvonmanor6915 7 місяців тому

    There is no documented history of a Queen Califia outside of the United States therefore this story is false. Califia literally means Pole and was the original name of Poland Germany and yes they were Black at this timeline. When Europe settled Amerika they placed names like New Amsterdam, New England, New Spain and there was California "New Poland Germany".🧐 To say there was no slavery is California is false because the Polish Serfs were shipped there by Russia. Secondly to say there was no Black population in San Francisco is the biggest lie I've ever heard because San Francisco was owned by a Mulatte named Governer Pio Pico and several other Blacks before him.🧐 Also there was a freed slave from Hayti also owned San Francisco at one point.

  • @optitom9033
    @optitom9033 9 місяців тому

    Does anyone remember which department store had a downstairs restaurant that offered up the most delicious french onion soup

  • @optitom9033
    @optitom9033 9 місяців тому

    One of the darkest days of San Francisco is when progressive liberal carpetbaggers from Maryland Nancy Pelosi Her and money hungry gutter snipes destroyed one of America's greatest cities

  • @optitom9033
    @optitom9033 9 місяців тому

    As a third generation Californian its sad to see how the worthless progressive liberal movement that hijacked our Democrat party moved in and destroyed San Francisco In my younger years we'd travel from Palos Verdes in southern California to San Francisco each november so mom could do all her Christmas shopping at the Paris department store, Macy's and gumps sometimes having dinner at the pink poodle french restaurant or little Joe's. Mom and dad always went to the Buena vista for irish coffees and got sour dough bread before the drive home. Any caring San Franciscans guttsie enough to throw out the creeps and criminals. Oh and we always stayed at the Stanford Court ( is it still there?)

  • @smojo85
    @smojo85 10 місяців тому

    Amazing presentation! So much history and beautifully presented. Thank you ❤

  • @abelparris1662
    @abelparris1662 10 місяців тому

    Excellent information, sir

  • @thestevedoughtyshow27
    @thestevedoughtyshow27 10 місяців тому

    On the north side of union street just west of Grant Avenue was a bar called the blue bar, this would have been 60 to 64. The SFPD would round up the gays in the bar and cart them off to jail, it seems the Italians on telegraph hill didn't like what was going on in their neighborhood.

  • @maliwilliams7262
    @maliwilliams7262 11 місяців тому

    STOP Saying "AFRICAN_AMERICAN"!! It's INSULTING to Me..WTFCK UP!!!

  • @royalbloodlines1
    @royalbloodlines1 Рік тому

    This Jesse Warr guy gotta be one of the smartest dumdazz I've every seem. All he doing is regurgitating the same bs history these European colonizers indoctrinated him with thriugh there degree system. He believes all this bs even when it dont makes sense he still just go along with it.

  • @royalbloodlines1
    @royalbloodlines1 Рік тому

    🚨 Bullshyt Alert 🚨 Africa America was NOT even a term used to classify our people in the 1800s or even the early 1900s. These mfas star calling that us bullshyt in the late 1980s i believe it was 1988.

  • @royalbloodlines1
    @royalbloodlines1 Рік тому

    🚨 Bullshyt Alert 🚨 "Black" people near sutters mill owning homes for generations. I thought they were slaves how the hell can they own land or homes? More bullshyt!

  • @royalbloodlines1
    @royalbloodlines1 Рік тому

    🚨 Bullshyt Alert 🚨Oregon Black Exclusion Law 1849. Well what about before 1849? Also the law stated they had to leave Oregon, so how did they get there in the 1St place if they supposed to be Africa slave...how would they know to go there? How would they know how to cultivate the land? This bs you telling us dont even make sense while your telling us.

  • @royalbloodlines1
    @royalbloodlines1 Рік тому

    🚨 Bullshyt Alert 🚨When you hear a so-called historian talk about Slavery & they start talking about black Africans being brought to America. Is some bullshyt. Slavery was told in Reverse. They slaves that came her were Slavs and others Europeans. We are not Africans. We are the Copper Colored America Race!

  • @richardpaschal2218
    @richardpaschal2218 Рік тому

    I recall decades ago near the Embarcadero Center buildings during site preparation for a new building one of the Gold Rush ships was uncovered.

  • @claudiasiefer8495
    @claudiasiefer8495 Рік тому

    I STILL miss The BIG E ! (and now Nordstrom is leaving us!) There is no longer a desire to visit Downtown. I am a native daughter and miss the wonderful shopping and people-watching of Department stores. Yep the Woolworth's lunch counter. Thx for mentioning Podesta Baldocchi and Blum's.