Jan 14
Each year, Rick Prelinger, an archivist, writer and filmmaker, puts together an electic mix of seldom-seen film footage (some of it home movies) that reveals a San Francisco that no longer exists, a rougher, more black-and-white place. Despite the Depression, Market Street in 1932 was bustling but not a single homeless person can be seen. …
May 25
This Sunday the Golden Gate Bridge celebrates 75 years as one of the world’s most beautiful and iconic bridges. San Francisco is planning a big affair: bands, lectures, parties. In 1937 construction began and the landscape of the San Francisco Bay Area (and the world) would never been the same. Each year guerrilla archivist Rick …