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San Francisco Public Library
Civic Center
San Francisco, California
Opened April 18th, 1996 (the 90th anniversary of the SF earthquake), architects Pei Cobb Freed and Partners.
“The new main” library building opened on April 18th, 1996, on the 90th anniversary of the famous San Francisco earthquake.
The San Francisco Public Library, building opened April 18, 1996 (the 90th anniversary of the 1906 earthquake and fire). Architects: Pei Cobb Freed and Partners.
This building opened on April 18th, 1996, the 90th anniversary of the great earthquake and fire. Architects James Ingo Freed and Cathy Simon. Next month is the 25th anniversary of the building’s opening.
The Golden Gate Valley branch of the San Francisco Public Library, built 1917-1918, opened May 5, 1918. The building was built with funds from Andrew Carnegie (“a Carnegie Library”). Architect: Ernest Coxhead.
A San Francisco Public Library patron takes a mid-day nap at the Main Branch. San Francisco, CA.
The San Francisco Public Library's Main Branch is one of the city's best used resources. Sandwiched between The Tenderloin and SOMA neighborhoods, it's massive structure climbs up six stories and spans over one city block. The Main Branch is a dynamic building filled with funky people and offbeat activities, for better or worse.
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The building opened on April 18th, 1996, the 90th anniversary of the great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.
Doug Schaden, a 3rd floor page at the San Francisco Public Library's Main Branch, gathers discarded books to be re shelved. San Francisco, CA.
The San Francisco Public Library's Main Branch is one of the city's best used resources. Sandwiched between The Tenderloin and SOMA neighborhoods, it's massive structure climbs up six stories and spans over one city block. The Main Branch is a dynamic building filled with funky people and offbeat activities, for better or worse.
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Here is a Commercial Atlas Street Map of San Francisco from 1925. Many of the differences between this map and current day are listed in Octoferret's 1938 Standard Oil San Francisco Street Map with the most notable difference being that in 1925 neither the Golden Gate or the Bay Bridge had been built. A couple of other differences with the 1938 map are the lack of Fleishhacker Pool (opened 1925), Kezar Stadium (opened 1925), and Seal's Stadium (opened 1931). In the 1925 map there were still significant cemeteries between the Presidio and the Panhandle, about half of which had been consumed by USF by 1938.
One natural feature to note is the creek running from south of Balboa Park to south of Bernal Heights. Although it is identified as Island creek, I believe this is one of the branches of Islais creek. The other branch ran up through Glen canyon. This branch was mostly forced into storm drains in the late 1920s to allow construction of Alemany Blvd. Speaking of Balboa Park, this map notes that it was formerly the The House of Refuge Lot
This map has a lot of detailed information about transportation infrastructure, including railroad and streetcar lines. This map shows the Roundhouse at Mariposa and Minnesota in the south end of the Southern Pacific yards at Mission Bay. It also shows the tunnel under Potrero Hill from 18th and Wisconsin to 22nd and Texas. In 1962 they were forced to fill the tunnel in because fire and cave-ins were causing sink-holes on the streets above. The map also shows the right-of-way across the Mission District from 22nd and Harrison to San Jose and Randall. From there the right-of-way becomes the path of 280.
Many of the streets depicted here did not exist, reflecting planned streets in undeveloped parts of the city. This is particularly notable in the Southeast corner of the map which anticipates the almost complete landfill reclamation and development of the South Basin between Hunter's Point and Candlestick Point. I'm not sure if this is correct, but it also looks like they were anticipating the China Basin Water Channel to be filled in as well. Other undeveloped/partially developed areas which eventually had different street layouts include the Marina (with an unnamed road north of Marina Blvd shown), Diamond Heights/Mount Davidson, and the southern Sunset, where Pine Lake and Stern Grove are omitted and McCoppin Square and Vicente Square are listed only as "Public Square".
In the greater Bay Area map in the upper right corner Yerba Buena Island is labeled Goat Island.
At San Francisco Public.. HBM! I think the warm vs cool light is one of the things that makes this picture work. What’s your opinion?
The Singapore Flyer (Chinese: 新加坡摩天观景轮 Tamil:சிங்கப்பூர் ஃப்ளையர் Malay: Pelayang Singapura) is currently the tallest Ferris wheel in the world. Described by its operators as an observation wheel, it reaches 42 stories high, with a total height of 165 m (541 ft), and is 5 m (16 ft) taller than the Star of Nanchang and 30 m (98 ft) taller than the London Eye.
Located in Singapore, on the southeast tip of the Marina Centre reclaimed land, it comprises a 150 m (492 ft) diameter wheel, built over a three-story terminal building which houses shops, bars and restaurants, and offers broad views of the city centre and beyond to about 45 km (28 mi), including the Indonesian islands of Batam and Bintan, as well as Johor, Malaysia.
The final capsule was installed on 2 October 2007, the wheel started rotating on February 11, 2008 and it officially opened to the public on March 1, 2008.[2] Tickets for rides on the first 3 nights were sold out for S$ 8,888 Singapore dollars (US$6,271)(£3,150.83GBP), an auspicious number in Chinese culture. The grand opening for the Flyer was held on 15 April 2008.
Each of the 28 air-conditioned capsules is capable of holding 28 passengers, and a complete rotation of the wheel takes approximately 37 minutes. Initially rotating in a counter-clockwise direction when viewed from Marina Centre, its direction was changed on 4 August 2008 under the advice of Feng shui masters.
The Singapore Flyer was first conceived by Patrick MacMahon of Melchers Project Management (MPM), a subsidiary of German company Melchers, in the early 2000s. Formal planning commenced in 2002, MPM and Orient & Pacific Management (O&P) formed a new company, Singapore Flyer Pte Ltd (SFPL), as the developer with MPM holding a 75% stake and the rest by O&P. The project was formally announced and endorsed by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on 27 June 2003, formalising the understanding between the developer and STB with regard to the land-acquisition process. As stipulated in the MOU, the STB will purchase the plot of land in Marina Centre from the Singapore Land Authority, and lease it to Singapore Flyer Pte Ltd for 30 years with an option to extend the lease by another 15 years. In addition, the land will be rent-free during the construction phase of the project. In July 2003, Jones Lang LaSalle was appointed as the real estate advisor. Takenaka and Mitsubishi were selected as the main contractors, and Arup as the structural engineer.
Early designs showed a 169 m (554 ft) high wheel similar to the London Eye, drawing criticisms that it lacked originality. The developers pointed out that the design wasn't finalised and was merely for conceptualisation purposes though the final project changed little from the early designs. The project was to grind almost to a halt subsequently when the developers faced difficulties in sourcing for funds to build the wheel. Original plans to complete the wheel by the end of 2005 were thus postponed indefinitely, and there were reports (but denied by the STB) that the tourism board has set an ultimatum date on 31 March 2005 for the developer to iron out its financial issues and to keep the development going.
By September 2005, the project was revived when funds were successfully sourced from two German banks. Collin William Page, a subsidiary of ABN AMRO, will provide equity to a maximum of S$100 million, with a further S$140 million coming from Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank. With the injection of S$240 million, the largest single foreign investment in the Singaporean entertainment industry, the wheel was slated to begin construction by the end of the month.The stakeholders then were AAA Equity Holdings, MPM and O&P.
In August 2007, Mr. Florian Bollen, Chairman SFPL, raised his stake in the Singapore Flyer from 60% to 90% through acquisition of MPM’s 30% stake. The deal was done via AAA Equity Holdings, a private investment vehicle headed by Mr Bollen. O&P, which spearheaded the project development management, owns the remaining 10%.
The attraction was expected to draw about 2.5 million visitors in its first year of operation, giving investors a net yield of about 13.4%. About 50% of visitors were expected to be foreign tourists, helping to generate about S$94 million in tourism receipts in its opening year. The expected visitorship figure was deemed ambitious by some however, but the STB and the wheel's investors were upbeat over its long-term prospects.
Adval Brand Group, its master ticketing distributor, guaranteed a minimum of 8 million euros in ticket receipts per year for its investors, which was based on an annual visitorship of 600,000.
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Sitting at Customs after arriving from LGW in a snow storm. I nearly achieved frost bite in my ears and hands for this one.
After our rehearsals were over, Rob, Steve, Allen, and I headed out to capture some of Singapore at night. This huge ferris wheel is very similar to the London Eye and I think it was put in to pull tourists to another area of the city. Actually, I have no idea why its there. We never went on it as we were too busy snapping away.
Off to China in the AM to 2 days...More about it on the blog at www.mdsimages.blogspot.com
a leftover misprint of Sally's coffee shop landed in a gray collage master board, with some blue added to this piece :D
from the SFPL exhibit "Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria"
Accompanying card reads "Lousie Lawrence, a biological male who lived as a woman, began organizing San Francisco's transgender community in the 1940's."
Read more about Louise Lawrence here
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with rock names
here sflib1.sfpl.org:82/record=b1014070 and here www.cardcow.com/images/set262/card00343_fr.jpg
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Image from San Francisco Public Library's time-travelicious online photo archive. Photo taken on August 12, 1953. The concrete stalls were built in 1951; except for the cars, the market looks more or less the same today.
Original caption:
"TEN YEARS OLD--The teeming Farmers Market celebrates its 10th birthday today, with a record of having handled 118,000 tons of crops since its founding. Low fees from farmers selling their produce here support the market, at Alemany-blvd near Bayshore-blvd, and paid for the concrete sales docks and wooden shelter shown here."
Exterior of The Black Hawk on the corner of Turk and Hyde, the day after the raid raid for violation of liquor law. Front entrance has sign posted “Young Adults Under 21 Please Use 216 Hyde Entrance.”
San Francisco Police Department Photograph Bureau Negatives / Bureau of Accident Investigation and Prevention, San Francisco Police Department Records.
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