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Simon said the House administration had already reached out to arrange travel to its freshman orientation next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she arrives on Capitol Hill, Simon said she’ll focus not only on guarding \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">against the Trump administration’s likely extreme policies\u003c/a> but also on public transportation and safety — policy areas she’s been influencing in her home state for years. She is a former president of the BART board, which she has sat on since 2016, and served as co-chair of Gov. 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Now, the governor is \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Special_Session_Proc_Nov.pdf\">directing the Legislature\u003c/a> to meet in early December to approve new funding as the state expects to take on the White House in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has faced this challenge before, and we know how to respond,” Newsom said in a statement. “We are prepared to fight in the courts, and we will do everything necessary to ensure Californians have the support and resources they need to thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new spending could bolster the state’s Department of Justice to both defend against federal lawsuits and initiate legal action against the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter what the incoming Administration has in store, California will keep moving forward,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement. “We’ve been through this before, and we stand ready to defend your rights and protect California values. 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Gavin Newsom to serve as California’s attorney general. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During Trump’s first term in the White House, California leaders sought to stymie many of the administration’s initiatives in court. Then-Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed more than 100 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11741446/fastest-litigant-in-the-west-californias-on-verge-of-suing-trump-more-than-texas-ever-sued-obama\">lawsuits against the federal government\u003c/a> — seeking to block Trump’s travel ban against residents of many Muslim-majority countries, the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration program and the weakening of environmental regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, the push to “resist” Trump’s policies was also accompanied by a desire by Gov. Jerry Brown and leaders in the Democratic-controlled Legislature to model effective progressive governance. The legislative session in 2017, Trump’s first year in office, was one of the most productive in recent memory — with a flurry of bills passed in Sacramento to fix roads, build housing and limit greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Resistance isn’t just suing the federal government,” said Manuel Pastor, a professor of sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. “It’s also moving the needle on things people care about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pastor, who chronicled the political lessons from recent California history in his book, \u003cem>State of Resistance\u003c/em>, said the state’s experience during the first Trump term and Newsom’s own political ambitions will shape California’s response to the incoming administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Newsom is both much more aware of [what a Trump presidency could be like] and actually also has a much different set of political incentives,” Pastor added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Live 2024 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results,Follow results for every Bay Area race in the 2024 general election.' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/10/Aside-Results-California-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, lawmakers gather at the Capitol in early December for swearing-in and ceremonial tasks before reconvening in January to begin their work in earnest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D-Encino) said the governor’s early action was needed to put the state “in a position, so that if we need to, we can act quickly to file affirmative litigation…to protect fundamental rights and California values.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said it was unclear if any votes or debate on bills would actually occur before the new year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My understanding and my sense is that the goal here is to pass legislation prior to the new administration being sworn in,” he added. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the special session, the Legislature may only debate bills related to the topic outlined in the governor’s proclamation, though they are not required to approve any legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Democrats are virtually guaranteed to hold a two-thirds supermajority in both houses, the margins of Democratic control are still up in the air. In the Senate, Orange County incumbent Josh Newman trails his Republican challenger. And in the Assembly, three seats in the Inland Empire — two of which are held by Democrats — remain too close to call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans blasted Newsom’s move as premature political grandstanding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is all headline-grabbing,” said state Sen. Brian Jones (R-San Diego). “Whatever he wants to do in a so-called special session, he can do in the regular session.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The special session would be the third called by Newsom. The previous two directed the Legislature to work on bills related to gas prices — including a session that concluded last month with the passing of a bill to regulate inventory at oil refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>As election results pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>‘s victory, Berkeley mother Katie Brooks found herself wrestling with both her toddler’s bedtime routine and her own rising panic. When tears overtook her, 5-year-old daughter Lucia crawled into her lap, offering the kind of comfort that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kamala-harris\">Kamala Harris\u003c/a> supporters across the Bay Area ached for on election night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I told Lucia ‘everything would be all right,’ I was lying,” Brooks admits, her voice catching. She says that Lucia was captivated by the historical possibilities of this election. When Brooks explained that a woman had never been president before, her daughter’s disbelief reflected the hopes of many who saw Harris’ candidacy as a chance to finally shatter the highest glass ceiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013186/san-franciscans-react-trumps-win\">defeat crystallized into reality\u003c/a>, progressive mothers across the region not only mourned the unrealized prospect of a female president — they also confronted their growing fears that Trump will deliver on campaign promises to accelerate deportations, roll back environmental protections amid a climate crisis, and potentially dismantle LGBTQ+ rights. Now, on top of explaining an election loss, parents must also translate what they view as an existential threat to their communities’ core values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gail Cornwall, who is raising five children in a blended San Francisco family, finds herself grappling with how Harris’ loss sends a gut-punching message to her daughters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With Hillary’s run, I felt like the prevailing message to girls was, ‘You can be president one day,’” Cornwall says. “Now, they are hearing, ‘You can try to be president, but you’ll never win, no matter how knowledgeable, or experienced, or hardworking or charismatic you are.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Live 2024 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/president,Follow the results of the U.S. Presidential Election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/10/Aside-Results-Presidential-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cornwall admits she’s walking a tricky line with her children. “I want the kids to know they’re safe, and not much will likely change in their lives, but also to recognize what a privilege that is,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s trying to help them grasp that other children’s lives will change dramatically and that their family has a responsibility to “help minimize the impact of a Trump presidency on marginalized communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christina Balch, a Berkeley educator and mother of a 6-year-old, carries a double burden: “What do I tell my high school students? How do I guide my son?” She’s terrified to raise a boy in an environment where divisive “xenophobic, toxic, sexist” rhetoric may become increasingly normalized. “Everything I stand for as an anti-racist, feminist, ally and educator feels under threat,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps no one embodies this complex dance between fear and determination more than Kathie Moehlig, mother of a 24-year-old transgender son. Her initial spiral into shock and defeat gave way to a middle-of-the-night revelation: Her son needs her now more than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When my son transitioned 13 years ago, most people didn’t even know what that word meant. Now that is not the case,” Moehlig says, finding hope in the progress already made while acknowledging the battles ahead. “This new government hates transgender kids like mine. I have to teach my son how to thrive in the world anyway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013391\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12013391\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MomReaction01-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MomReaction01-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MomReaction01-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MomReaction01-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MomReaction01-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MomReaction01.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose Medellín (right) voted alongside her 15-year-old son in San Francisco on Nov. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rose Medellín)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Rose Medellin couldn’t bring herself to get out of bed Wednesday morning, listening to her 15-year-old son’s television playing the news in the next room. Just the night before, she had stood proudly beside him at the polls. Now, less than 12 hours later, she struggled to find words of comfort. How could she explain a world that rewards the very behavior she had taught her three sons to reject?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a touching role reversal, it was her son who comforted her as she limped to his room and crawled into bed with him. “It’s going to be OK, Mom,” he whispered, hugging her tight. “We live in California.” His attempt to find hope — to push back his mother’s tears — reflected both the weight children now carry and their youthful optimism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, Erin Gabel was speechless when her 10-year-old asked: “Why is it called a blue wall if it falls?” While her mind glitched on Humpty Dumpty references, all she could manage was, “I don’t know, buddy, but we need to figure that out for the next election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These parents (and kids) are obviously grieving but not in retreat. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cornwall admits she’s walking a tricky line with her children. “I want the kids to know they’re safe, and not much will likely change in their lives, but also to recognize what a privilege that is,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s trying to help them grasp that other children’s lives will change dramatically and that their family has a responsibility to “help minimize the impact of a Trump presidency on marginalized communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christina Balch, a Berkeley educator and mother of a 6-year-old, carries a double burden: “What do I tell my high school students? How do I guide my son?” She’s terrified to raise a boy in an environment where divisive “xenophobic, toxic, sexist” rhetoric may become increasingly normalized. “Everything I stand for as an anti-racist, feminist, ally and educator feels under threat,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps no one embodies this complex dance between fear and determination more than Kathie Moehlig, mother of a 24-year-old transgender son. Her initial spiral into shock and defeat gave way to a middle-of-the-night revelation: Her son needs her now more than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When my son transitioned 13 years ago, most people didn’t even know what that word meant. Now that is not the case,” Moehlig says, finding hope in the progress already made while acknowledging the battles ahead. “This new government hates transgender kids like mine. I have to teach my son how to thrive in the world anyway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013391\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12013391\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MomReaction01-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MomReaction01-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MomReaction01-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MomReaction01-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MomReaction01-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MomReaction01.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose Medellín (right) voted alongside her 15-year-old son in San Francisco on Nov. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rose Medellín)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Rose Medellin couldn’t bring herself to get out of bed Wednesday morning, listening to her 15-year-old son’s television playing the news in the next room. Just the night before, she had stood proudly beside him at the polls. Now, less than 12 hours later, she struggled to find words of comfort. How could she explain a world that rewards the very behavior she had taught her three sons to reject?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a touching role reversal, it was her son who comforted her as she limped to his room and crawled into bed with him. “It’s going to be OK, Mom,” he whispered, hugging her tight. “We live in California.” His attempt to find hope — to push back his mother’s tears — reflected both the weight children now carry and their youthful optimism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, Erin Gabel was speechless when her 10-year-old asked: “Why is it called a blue wall if it falls?” While her mind glitched on Humpty Dumpty references, all she could manage was, “I don’t know, buddy, but we need to figure that out for the next election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These parents (and kids) are obviously grieving but not in retreat. They are teaching their children that sometimes the most important thing isn’t winning but standing up for what’s right — even when, especially when, it feels like you’ve lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will rear adults who respect the bodies and hearts of others, treat their contemporaries with respect, and above all love who they are as humans,” says Christie Cooksey, mother of two boys in a blended Berkeley family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the victory speech many hoped to hear this week, but it might be the one children need most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003cem>Read a transcript of this episode. \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While searching for new hikes to try in San Francisco, Bay Curious listener Ryan Flynn stumbled across a pin on Google Maps for ‘The First Dynamite Factory in America.’ The pin marked a spot in Glen Canyon Park where visitors can find a weathered plaque mounted to a slab of concrete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012733\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012733\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-03-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"An image of a a plaque mounted to a slab of concrete. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-03-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-03-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-03-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-03-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-03-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-03-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A historical landmark for the Giant Powder Company sits at the entrance to Glen Canyon Park in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He wrote into Bay Curious, wanting to learn about the factory’s history. A few clicks down a history rabbit hole, and I found the woman to ask was Evelyn Rose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose is a pharmacist by training and a passionate community historian who runs the Glen Park Neighborhood History Project. She first stumbled across Glen Park’s dynamite history in the 1927 edition of the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_of_the_Explosives_Industry_in_Am/7SUaAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0\">History of the Explosives Industry in America\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It [was] a very grainy image of what they claim [was] the site of the first dynamite factory in the United States,” she said. “And as I read the caption, it says the Glen Park playground in San Francisco, and I about fell out of my chair because it’s like, ‘Oh my God, that’s like a block from my house.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That accidental discovery kickstarted a yearslong journey to uncover a hidden history and commemorate it all with a plaque.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012734\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012734\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-34-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A person with short hair stands in a shaded park.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-34-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-34-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-34-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-34-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-34-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-34-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evelyn Rose, director and founder of the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project, stands in Glen Canyon Park in San Francisco on Sept. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Before dynamite, there was nitroglycerin oil\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The story of how dynamite ended up in Glen Canyon Park tracks all the way back to its origins in Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nitroglycerin, the highly volatile chemical compound at the center of dynamite, was originally discovered by Italian chemist Ascanio Sobrero in 1846. But when the “oily substance exploded in his face and injured him, he shelved it,” Rose said. Decades later, Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel decided to build on Sobrero’s early experiments. In the 1860s Nobel started manufacturing nitroglycerin at scale and soon developed the blasting cap, a safer detonating mechanism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012741\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 235px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12012741\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-3297021-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white image of a young man in a suit.\" width=\"235\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-3297021-scaled.jpg 1898w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-3297021-800x1079.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-3297021-1020x1376.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-3297021-160x216.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-3297021-1139x1536.jpg 1139w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-3297021-1519x2048.jpg 1519w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-3297021-1920x2589.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alfred Nobel, aged 20. Private Collection. \u003ccite>(Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With blasting oil ready to go, Nobel began to search for new markets. California, with its collections of mines and railroad projects, seemed like a perfect match. While Nobel never visited the Golden State, he did have a friend in Paris with a brother, Julius Bandmann, in San Francisco. Bandmann wasted no time promoting California to Nobel as the next nitroglycerin business frontier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose said Nobel soon licensed nitroglycerin oil to Bandmann, and his company became the exclusive selling agent for it along the Pacific coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Rose’s telling of the story, that’s where things take a deadly turn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nitroglycerin oil explodes when under pressure or when exposed to spontaneous flame. If you were unfortunate enough to be on a train or ship carrying the stuff, and something went wrong, “you were likely not going to survive,” Rose said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a series of devastating explosions — including one blast at the Wells Fargo office in downtown San Francisco that catapulted body parts across the city — Nobel’s blasting oil was pulled from shelves. The state of California seized private holdings of nitroglycerin and banned its transportation within the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Nobel, it was back to the drawing board. During the course of experimentation, he knocked a beaker of nitroglycerin oil to the ground. When it didn’t explode, he realized he’d found his answer. By absorbing nitroglycerin into silica-rich clay, it “created kind of a putty, and [Nobel] realized that it completely stabilized nitroglycerin,” Rose said. He called the new substance dynamite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012745\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012745\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-600088119-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A tan box of cigar-like forms.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2521\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-600088119-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-600088119-800x788.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-600088119-1020x1004.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-600088119-160x158.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-600088119-1536x1513.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-600088119-2048x2017.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-600088119-1920x1891.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Nobel’s Extradynamit, found in the collection of Nobelmuseet Stockholm. Artist: Historic Object. \u003ccite>(Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Dynamite comes to Glen Canyon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1866, Nobel gave Bandmann an exclusive license to start manufacturing dynamite in the United States. Bandmann rallied a group of investors around the innovation and founded the Giant Powder Company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Glen Canyon Park was a pretty barren canyon full of cows. But soon enough, Giant Powder started manufacturing dynamite there. The president of the company had invested in land in Glen Canyon and leased it to the company. The factory was run by a handful of chemists and eight Chinese workers who did most of the heavy lifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003601\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003601\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240906-DYNAMITE-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Map of layout of factory.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240906-DYNAMITE-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240906-DYNAMITE-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240906-DYNAMITE-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240906-DYNAMITE-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240906-DYNAMITE-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240906-DYNAMITE-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evelyn Rose, director and founder of the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project, holds a possible layout of the Giant Powder Company at Glen Canyon Park in San Francisco on Sept. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mock-up of the factory’s layout represents years spent piecing together archival clues. Rose has outlined buildings like the shanty that housed Giant Powder Company’s Chinese workers and the pack house where dynamite was manufactured.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A massive explosion levels it all\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In November 1869, the chief chemist of Giant Powder Company, Dr. John Bussenius, sat in his cottage with his assistant, Alfred Wartenweiler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just had dinner. The door was open, so it must have been a little bit of a balmy night,” Rose said. “The Chinese workers were in their cottage having dinner, and they were about to play cards. Charles Cook, the teamster, came to the door and said, ‘Everything’s secure. The horses are stabled.’ Wartenweiler, the assistant, just happens to look out the door that faces the manufactory, and he sees a fire, and he yells, ‘Fire!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He dove for the door, Rose said, and “all of a sudden, there was this massive explosion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The explosion was so large, a home 300 yards away was nearly taken off its foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The site is obliterated,” Rose said. “The teamsters’ wagon has been thrown 150 yards away. Chinese workers were severely burned. Wartenweiler was found 50 yards away under a bunch of lumber. Diving for the door had saved his life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until later that they found the burned bodies of Cook and Bussenius.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exact cause of the explosion remains unknown, but there weren’t great safety practices at the time. As for the Chinese workers and how they fared in the aftermath of the explosion, details are sparse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is, however, brief mention of the laborer’s outcomes in the pages of the Sacramento Daily Union days after the disaster: “On the ground in the vicinity of the Chinese house were six or seven wounded Chinese men. They were taken in a wagon and conveyed to the city, and are now in a house on Commercial Street, above Kearny. Their names are Ah Chum, Ah Chow, Ah Sing, Ah Moy, Ah Gne, and Ah Choy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An expanding industry in a growing region\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When the site exploded in 1869, most remnants of America’s first dynamite factory disappeared from Glen Canyon Park. But some signs still linger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During our interview, Rose reached into her pocket and pulled out a piece of blue glass, twisted, warped and contorted. Rose believes it might be a fragment from the explosion. She shared a photo of other fragments that have been found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012750\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012750\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-13-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A person with a watch holds an image of blue-colored burned glass.\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-13-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-13-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-13-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-13-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-13-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-13-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evelyn Rose, director and founder of the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project, holds photos of burned glass she believes came from the dynamite explosion at the Giant Powder Company in 1869. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the disaster, Giant Powder Company moved to the sand dunes near what is now Golden Gate Park, pulling the dynamite industry to the outskirts of the growing city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Seth Lunine, continuing lecturer in the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley, this rapid industrial development represented a key moment in San Francisco’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The desire to circumvent patents led “to a lot of innovation in different types and classes and categories of high explosives,” Lunine said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the realm of explosives, innovation often comes hand-in-hand with disaster. Soon enough, Giant Powder Company’s new factory exploded. This — along with explosions at other SF-based factories — was the last straw for San Francisco residents. The city kicked all dynamite manufacturers out, forcing them across the Bay. (Giant Powder Company’s Berkeley factory blew up, too.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lunine, these explosions and relocations still echo through our urban landscape today. Each move expanded “the economic geography of the Bay region,” he said. “Pulling suppliers, pulling chemical works, pulling laborers to the East Bay to create these new factories, and in doing so, sort of stretching out the economic fabric of the Bay region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While mostly invisible these days, dynamite \u003cem>is\u003c/em> part of this region’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re lucky, you might even be able to find a blue-glass souvenir in Glen Canyon Park. But please don’t go digging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I’ve been hiking around the Bay Area for more than a decade, and really make a point to try and get to new places – but I know I haven’t even discovered half the hikes this region has to offer. I often find myself turning to online guides and maps to find new trails in this outdoor haven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for San Francisco resident Ryan Flynn, the quest to find a perfect new hike took a more… explosive turn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ryan Flynn:\u003c/strong> I was just kind of looking for hikes for my wife and I to do on a weekend. So I was just on Google Maps, and I happened to see a little pin for, like, a historical marker for the first dynamite factory in the United States. And that was very surprising. So I figured I would reach out to you guys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> The pin Ryan stumbled across marks the location of California Registered Historical Landmark No. 1002. If you enter Glen Canyon Park from Elk street, you’ll see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> So it’s titled “The first dynamite factory in America. Giant powder company, under personal license of inventor Alfred Nobel, began producing dynamite here on March, 1868. On November 26, 1869 a massive explosion leveled the complexes, buildings and fences. [talking fades under…]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> For Ryan, this all came as a shock. So he sent in this question …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ryan Flynn:\u003c/strong> What is the history behind Glen Canyon Park being the first dynamite factory in the US?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I’ve run through Glen Canyon Park a few times and – safe to say – dynamite was not top of mind. But turns out, this peaceful park has a turbulent backstory dating back to the mid 19th century, when Alfred Nobel – yeah like the Nobel Peace Prize – invented dynamite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today we’ll learn how dynamite made its way to San Francisco … and why it was such a transformative product in this state. Plus, we’ll explore the stories of Chinese laborers who often had the most dangerous jobs of all in the high explosives industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One quick heads up: There are a few gory details about the aftermath of explosions in this episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re listening to Bay Curious. I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[SPONSOR MESSAGE]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> To help us answer Ryan’s question about the history of the first dynamite factory in the US, right here in SF’s Glen Canyon Park, we’ve put Bay Curious reporter Gabriela Glueck on the job. To kick off her reporting, she headed over to the park to meet up with one of the people responsible for placing that historical plaque.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[sounds of wind and birds chirping in a park]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> I see this piece kind of catch my eye in the dirt by the trail. And I lean down and pick it up, and it’s, it’s blue with kind of the shape of a candy corn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> That’s Evelyn Rose, she’s a long time Glen Park resident, pharmacist by training, and passionate neighborhood historian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> And I’m looking at it and realize, ‘Oh my gosh, this is probably a piece of melted glass from the explosion.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> For Evelyn, her dynamite journey started in the pages of an old book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> And in it is a very grainy image of what they claim is the first — the site of the first dynamite factory in the United States. And as I read the caption, it says the Glen Park playground in San Francisco, and I about fell out of my chair because it’s like, ‘Oh, my God, that’s like a block from my house.’ Had no idea….. and so it started an 11 year journey to discover the history of the dynamite factory and to get the plaque.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> The story of how dynamite made its way to Glen Canyon Park starts in 1860s Sweden… with a young inventor named Alfred Nobel. He was experimenting with nitroglycerin, a highly explosive yet highly unstable chemical compound that just too often went boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He became the first to start manufacturing the substance on an industrial scale. And when he came up with a safer way to detonate it, California businessmen began to take notice. With their hands tied up in mining and railroad building, — Nobel’s innovations were… intriguing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> And through a friend in Paris, whose brother was here in San Francisco… he licensed nitroglycerin oil to the brother of his friend, and the company was called Bandmann & Nielsen, and so they were the exclusive agent selling oil of nitroglycerin along the Pacific coast and this is about 1866.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Soon thereafter, the first crates of nitroglycerin oil arrived in San Francisco. And for California industries, the arrival of Nobel’s blasting oil was transformative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before nitroglycerin, black powder was America’s main explosive. First brought to California in the late 1840s, when miners started using it in their search for gold, the chalky powder soon became the primary blow-things-up agent in the early California mining and railroad industry. But for more than a handful of construction projects, black powder and a hand chisel just wasn’t going to cut it. And when some of those first crates of nitroglycerin oil arrived at the Central Pacific Railroad, it seemed that Californians might have struck a new kind of gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[sounds of boxes being moved and bottle clinking]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet one of the crates from that first shipment had been left behind in San Francisco… in the back room of the Wells Fargo building, among the other unclaimed freight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it was leaking….\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voice Reading Newspaper Clipping:\u003c/strong> “On Monday, 16th, in San Francisco at fifteen minutes past one o’clock, P.M., an explosion took place in the storeroom back of Wells, Fargo & Co.’s building which demolished everything within a circuit of 40 or 50 feet. The explosion was so powerful as to shake the earth like an earthquake for a circuit of a quarter of a mile…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fragments of human remains were found scattered in many places. A piece of human vertebrae was blown over the buildings on the east side of Montgomery street. A piece of skull was lying on California street, east of Leidsdorff, with other fragments of human remains, and a human arm struck the third story window of the building across the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> That’s an excerpt from the pages of The Placer Herald on April 21st, 1866. The nitroglycerin disaster left San Franciscans in a panic, killing at least 15 people and maiming even more. And countless other such explosions of Nobel’s volatile blasting oil in the United States and across the globe did nothing to settle fears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, California seized all private holdings of nitroglycerin and banned its transportation within state bounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> Scores of people were dying around the world, and Nobel became known as the demon of death, and he was a pacifist, you know, and he was devastated that he was being associated with nitroglycerin in that way. So he set out to find a safer form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> For Nobel, the quest to tame nitroglycerin was personal too. His younger brother had died in an explosion at Nobel’s nitroglycerin factory. But the question of how best to stabilize such a volatile and deadly substance was, as of yet, unanswered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> Quite by accident, when nitroglycerin oil spilled and somehow there was this clay nearby. The clay absorbed it and created kind of a putty, and he realized that completely stabilized nitroglycerin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Nobel patented that accidental discovery and named the stabilized nitroglycerin… dynamite. And that’s the story. Dynamite is born and Nobel starts cashing in, his profits from dynamite along with his guilty conscience about its deadly potential eventually motivated him to start the Nobel Prize in the hopes of shifting his legacy from one of destruction to peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as for when Dynamite made its way to Glen Canyon Park … that comes in 1868, when Nobel gave Julius Bandmann – that brother of a friend from earlier – license to start manufacturing dynamite in the States. Bandmann rallied a group of San Francisco investors around this new innovation and soon founded the Giant Powder Company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> The President was a gentleman named L L Robinson and he had invested, along with some other gentleman in the land that included Glen Canyon. He leased to the company four acres of land that today surrounds where today the Glen Park Recreation Center is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> At the time, Glen Canyon Park was pretty barren. A canyon full of cows. But soon enough, Giant Powder started manufacturing dynamite. The factory was run by a handful of chemists and eight Chinese workers who did most of the heavy lifting. And with production in full swing… competitors started cropping up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But America’s first dynamite factory didn’t last very long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[dramatic music, sounds of wind blowing]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> It’s November, 1889 and the Chief Chemist of Giant Powder Company, Dr. John Bussenius, is sitting in his cottage with his assistant, Alfred Wartenweiler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> They just had dinner, the door was open, so it must have been a little bit of a balmy night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> That’s Evelyn Rose again, Glen Park resident and neighborhood historian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> The Chinese workers were in their cottage having dinner, and they were about to play cards in the cottage. And Charles Cook, the teamster, comes to the door and says, you know, everything’s secure. The horses are stabled. And Wartenweiler, the assistant just happens to look out the door that faces the manufactory, and he sees a fire, and he yells, “Fire!” and he dived for the door… All of a sudden there was this massive explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Explosion sound]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> And a home 300 yards away was nearly taken off its foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[sounds of crackling fire and crumbling structures]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> The site is obliterated. The teamsters wagon has been thrown 150 yards away. Chinese workers were severely burned. Waltenweiler was found 50 yards away under a bunch of lumber. Diving for the door had saved his life. He was injured. But you know, survivable, and it wasn’t until later that they found the burned bodies of Cook and Bussenius. Bussenius was identified—he wore a gold watch, he always had it on, and that was the only way they could identify him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> The exact cause of the explosion remains unknown, but in general there weren’t great safety practices at the time. As for the Chinese workers and how they fared in the aftermath of the explosion, details are sparse. There is however brief mention of the laborer’s outcomes in the pages of the Sacramento Daily Union days after the disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voice Reading a Newspaper Article:\u003c/strong> “On the ground in the vicinity of the Chinese house were six or seven wounded Chinese men. They were taken in a wagon and conveyed to the city, and are now in a house on Commercial street, above Kearny. Their names are Ah Chum, Ah Chow, Ah Sing, Ah Moy, Ah Gne, and Ah Choy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> I still hope someday to find out more about them, because if we have their names, there should be something. There should be reports in perhaps Chinese newspapers from the time that somebody might be able to research and translate, because I would love to know what their outcomes were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> The story of the Chinese laborers who worked at Glen Canyon Park, producing the first dynamite in the United States, risking limb and life in that effort is one we are still working to piece together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don’t have personal testimony and there’s little individuality described in the historical record. But in the grand scheme of California industrial history, this oversight is not an anomaly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Chinese laborers stepped foot in Glen Canyon Park, Chinese Americans already had a storied history with early explosives like nitroglycerin blasting oil and black powder, as they worked to build the Central Pacific Railroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Music gently fades in]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> And while little is known about Giant Powder Company’s first Chinese workers, recent research has uncovered much about the experience of Chinese railroad workers’ use of early explosives. Understanding that story and context, can help us get a better grip on the contribution of Chinese laborers to dynamite manufacturing in the United States. Which is why I headed over to Stanford’s campus to talk with Roland Hsu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Roland Hsu:\u003c/strong> I’m Director of Research of the project at Stanford University on the Chinese railroad workers in North America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Roland has spent years digging through the archive, searching for clues in an effort to better understand the experience of Chinese laborers on the railroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Roland Hsu:\u003c/strong> So the Chinese were both, were both useful and expendable from the point of view of the construction company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Chinese immigrants originally started coming to California in the mid 19th century. They came with the Gold Rush, with hopes to strike it rich in a new and uncharted land. But they encountered hostile racism, and a lack of legal standing for land claims that made that hope an impossible dream… so they looked elsewhere for work… but they weren’t seen as choice number one for manual labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Roland Hsu:\u003c/strong> We do know that the Irish workers who were brought in quickly found this to be inhuman conditions. Dropped their pickaxes and shovels and walked off the job\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> With the clock ticking, the Central Pacific Railroad turned to Chinese labor. By the end of construction, they had hired an estimated 20,000 Chinese workers to build a railroad across America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s almost hard to explain just how challenging of a construction project this was. Railroads at that time could only really climb around a 2% grade. But this is the Sierra Nevada range we’re talking about, with its absurdly high granite faces and sheer rock cliffs. And the task was simple: Just tunnel through it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Music, the sounds of pickaxes and loud thuds against stone]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Roland Hsu:\u003c/strong> So by hand. They’re using iron pickaxes, iron bars to just break granite rock. Four men would take a very large, heavy iron bar, slam it in unison into the face of Granite Mountain to carve out small niches, and then [were] instructed to pack it with nitroglycerin, light it and run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> If you’ve been paying attention to this story so far, you know that it doesn’t take much for nitroglycerin to go boom… and worker safety wasn’t a big conversation point in 19th century railroad construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Roland Hsu:\u003c/strong> It is a one of the more evocative stories of the experience of the Chinese who built a railroad to be…. lowered in baskets off of long ropes, you know, hundreds of feet down from the top of a sheer cliff by hand, individually cutting a notch and then packing it with they turn use the term black powder, and then pulling frantically on the rope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Chinese immigrants built the railroad, using these early explosives, but their story and contribution – much like their contribution to dynamite production in Glen Canyon Park – has largely been erased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Roland Hsu:\u003c/strong> We have celebrated the Central Pacific line, the transcontinental railroad, we’ve celebrated it on every 50 years as a tremendous feat. Only recently, on the 150th anniversary, did we finally, finally acknowledge, and not only acknowledge but celebrate that it was predominantly Chinese immigrant labor that built this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> While these stories didn’t circulate broadly until recently, tales of the railroad and early explosives did make their way through Chinese communities at the time, especially in California. And, pulling this all back to Glen Canyon Park and the eight Chinese laborers who toiled away at that first factory, we can only imagine that they would have been familiar with this history too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Roland Hsu:\u003c/strong> We are in the realm of speculation only because, consistently, their identities are obscured so we can’t look for their own personal testimony. We can piece together that the story of the experience of constructing the railroad was passed down with extensive detail to their own families, certainly back in the villages, their home villages, many testimonies that would be perpetuated by song so to the extent that They could transmit their story across the Pacific Ocean, perhaps they could transmit it all the way to Glen Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> While the factory in Glen Canyon Park lasted a few short years, the American entrance into high explosive production was just beginning. Nascent competition created new and innovative dynamite-like products and Giant Powder Company continued manufacturing Nobel’s creation… just not in Glen Canyon Park. After the initial explosion, the factory moved to the sand dunes near what is now Golden Gate Park. Then, a few years later, it exploded again, and the city kicked all dynamite manufacturers out. That forced them across the Bay, establishing the East Bay dynamite district, stretching out the economic fabric of the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As dynamite manufacturing disappeared from the city, the site of the first factory at Glen Canyon Park began to fade away in the minds and memories of its residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Park sounds fade in… birds, wind, relaxing music begins]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Today, traces of this explosive history are now long gone. The remnants of the dynamite factory are nowhere to be seen and when you walk into Glen Canyon Park, the first thing you see are baseball fields. There are kids, shin guards on, heading to soccer practice. Friends picnicking on the grass. Parents chatting on the playground benches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s nothing that might suggest a memory of anything besides peace… save for the lonesome plaque… and Evelyn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> If I’m driving by, walking by, sometimes I’ll sit on the bench and just watch people stop and look at the plaque, and they’re and you can just see them. Their heads go back, you know, they’re puzzled, like what here? And so the fact that you’re interviewing me today because of someone’s experience, just like that, I’m just thrilled you know that the plaque can commemorate that you know, and remember a tragedy did happen here. I mean, it is a recreation area today, but also that we do have this link with Nobel Prizes, you know. So going from destruction to peace, I think is an important connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> That was Reporter Gabriela Glueck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Big thanks to our question asker Ryan Flynn, and to Seth Lunine, with the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley, who was a helpful resource for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The holiday season is coming up, and for many of you that means a long car trip to visit friends or family. We’ve created a kid-friendly playlist with some of Bay Curious’s greatest hits for your listening pleasure as you drive. Find it at BayCurious.org, and we’ll drop a link in the show notes too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ryan Flynn:\u003c/strong> Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our show is produced by Amanda Font, Christopher Beale, Ana De Almeida Amaral and me, Olivia Allen-Price. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003cem>Read a transcript of this episode. \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While searching for new hikes to try in San Francisco, Bay Curious listener Ryan Flynn stumbled across a pin on Google Maps for ‘The First Dynamite Factory in America.’ The pin marked a spot in Glen Canyon Park where visitors can find a weathered plaque mounted to a slab of concrete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012733\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012733\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-03-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"An image of a a plaque mounted to a slab of concrete. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-03-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-03-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-03-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-03-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-03-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-03-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A historical landmark for the Giant Powder Company sits at the entrance to Glen Canyon Park in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He wrote into Bay Curious, wanting to learn about the factory’s history. A few clicks down a history rabbit hole, and I found the woman to ask was Evelyn Rose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose is a pharmacist by training and a passionate community historian who runs the Glen Park Neighborhood History Project. She first stumbled across Glen Park’s dynamite history in the 1927 edition of the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_of_the_Explosives_Industry_in_Am/7SUaAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0\">History of the Explosives Industry in America\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It [was] a very grainy image of what they claim [was] the site of the first dynamite factory in the United States,” she said. “And as I read the caption, it says the Glen Park playground in San Francisco, and I about fell out of my chair because it’s like, ‘Oh my God, that’s like a block from my house.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That accidental discovery kickstarted a yearslong journey to uncover a hidden history and commemorate it all with a plaque.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012734\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012734\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-34-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A person with short hair stands in a shaded park.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-34-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-34-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-34-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-34-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-34-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-34-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evelyn Rose, director and founder of the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project, stands in Glen Canyon Park in San Francisco on Sept. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Before dynamite, there was nitroglycerin oil\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The story of how dynamite ended up in Glen Canyon Park tracks all the way back to its origins in Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nitroglycerin, the highly volatile chemical compound at the center of dynamite, was originally discovered by Italian chemist Ascanio Sobrero in 1846. But when the “oily substance exploded in his face and injured him, he shelved it,” Rose said. Decades later, Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel decided to build on Sobrero’s early experiments. In the 1860s Nobel started manufacturing nitroglycerin at scale and soon developed the blasting cap, a safer detonating mechanism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012741\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 235px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12012741\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-3297021-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white image of a young man in a suit.\" width=\"235\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-3297021-scaled.jpg 1898w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-3297021-800x1079.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-3297021-1020x1376.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-3297021-160x216.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-3297021-1139x1536.jpg 1139w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-3297021-1519x2048.jpg 1519w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-3297021-1920x2589.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alfred Nobel, aged 20. Private Collection. \u003ccite>(Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With blasting oil ready to go, Nobel began to search for new markets. California, with its collections of mines and railroad projects, seemed like a perfect match. While Nobel never visited the Golden State, he did have a friend in Paris with a brother, Julius Bandmann, in San Francisco. Bandmann wasted no time promoting California to Nobel as the next nitroglycerin business frontier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose said Nobel soon licensed nitroglycerin oil to Bandmann, and his company became the exclusive selling agent for it along the Pacific coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Rose’s telling of the story, that’s where things take a deadly turn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nitroglycerin oil explodes when under pressure or when exposed to spontaneous flame. If you were unfortunate enough to be on a train or ship carrying the stuff, and something went wrong, “you were likely not going to survive,” Rose said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a series of devastating explosions — including one blast at the Wells Fargo office in downtown San Francisco that catapulted body parts across the city — Nobel’s blasting oil was pulled from shelves. The state of California seized private holdings of nitroglycerin and banned its transportation within the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Nobel, it was back to the drawing board. During the course of experimentation, he knocked a beaker of nitroglycerin oil to the ground. When it didn’t explode, he realized he’d found his answer. By absorbing nitroglycerin into silica-rich clay, it “created kind of a putty, and [Nobel] realized that it completely stabilized nitroglycerin,” Rose said. He called the new substance dynamite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012745\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012745\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-600088119-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A tan box of cigar-like forms.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2521\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-600088119-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-600088119-800x788.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-600088119-1020x1004.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-600088119-160x158.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-600088119-1536x1513.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-600088119-2048x2017.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-600088119-1920x1891.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Nobel’s Extradynamit, found in the collection of Nobelmuseet Stockholm. Artist: Historic Object. \u003ccite>(Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Dynamite comes to Glen Canyon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1866, Nobel gave Bandmann an exclusive license to start manufacturing dynamite in the United States. Bandmann rallied a group of investors around the innovation and founded the Giant Powder Company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Glen Canyon Park was a pretty barren canyon full of cows. But soon enough, Giant Powder started manufacturing dynamite there. The president of the company had invested in land in Glen Canyon and leased it to the company. The factory was run by a handful of chemists and eight Chinese workers who did most of the heavy lifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003601\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003601\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240906-DYNAMITE-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Map of layout of factory.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240906-DYNAMITE-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240906-DYNAMITE-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240906-DYNAMITE-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240906-DYNAMITE-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240906-DYNAMITE-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240906-DYNAMITE-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evelyn Rose, director and founder of the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project, holds a possible layout of the Giant Powder Company at Glen Canyon Park in San Francisco on Sept. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mock-up of the factory’s layout represents years spent piecing together archival clues. Rose has outlined buildings like the shanty that housed Giant Powder Company’s Chinese workers and the pack house where dynamite was manufactured.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A massive explosion levels it all\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In November 1869, the chief chemist of Giant Powder Company, Dr. John Bussenius, sat in his cottage with his assistant, Alfred Wartenweiler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just had dinner. The door was open, so it must have been a little bit of a balmy night,” Rose said. “The Chinese workers were in their cottage having dinner, and they were about to play cards. Charles Cook, the teamster, came to the door and said, ‘Everything’s secure. The horses are stabled.’ Wartenweiler, the assistant, just happens to look out the door that faces the manufactory, and he sees a fire, and he yells, ‘Fire!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He dove for the door, Rose said, and “all of a sudden, there was this massive explosion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The explosion was so large, a home 300 yards away was nearly taken off its foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The site is obliterated,” Rose said. “The teamsters’ wagon has been thrown 150 yards away. Chinese workers were severely burned. Wartenweiler was found 50 yards away under a bunch of lumber. Diving for the door had saved his life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until later that they found the burned bodies of Cook and Bussenius.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exact cause of the explosion remains unknown, but there weren’t great safety practices at the time. As for the Chinese workers and how they fared in the aftermath of the explosion, details are sparse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is, however, brief mention of the laborer’s outcomes in the pages of the Sacramento Daily Union days after the disaster: “On the ground in the vicinity of the Chinese house were six or seven wounded Chinese men. They were taken in a wagon and conveyed to the city, and are now in a house on Commercial Street, above Kearny. Their names are Ah Chum, Ah Chow, Ah Sing, Ah Moy, Ah Gne, and Ah Choy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An expanding industry in a growing region\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When the site exploded in 1869, most remnants of America’s first dynamite factory disappeared from Glen Canyon Park. But some signs still linger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During our interview, Rose reached into her pocket and pulled out a piece of blue glass, twisted, warped and contorted. Rose believes it might be a fragment from the explosion. She shared a photo of other fragments that have been found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012750\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012750\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-13-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A person with a watch holds an image of blue-colored burned glass.\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-13-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-13-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-13-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-13-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-13-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240906-Dynamite-13-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evelyn Rose, director and founder of the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project, holds photos of burned glass she believes came from the dynamite explosion at the Giant Powder Company in 1869. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the disaster, Giant Powder Company moved to the sand dunes near what is now Golden Gate Park, pulling the dynamite industry to the outskirts of the growing city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Seth Lunine, continuing lecturer in the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley, this rapid industrial development represented a key moment in San Francisco’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The desire to circumvent patents led “to a lot of innovation in different types and classes and categories of high explosives,” Lunine said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the realm of explosives, innovation often comes hand-in-hand with disaster. Soon enough, Giant Powder Company’s new factory exploded. This — along with explosions at other SF-based factories — was the last straw for San Francisco residents. The city kicked all dynamite manufacturers out, forcing them across the Bay. (Giant Powder Company’s Berkeley factory blew up, too.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lunine, these explosions and relocations still echo through our urban landscape today. Each move expanded “the economic geography of the Bay region,” he said. “Pulling suppliers, pulling chemical works, pulling laborers to the East Bay to create these new factories, and in doing so, sort of stretching out the economic fabric of the Bay region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While mostly invisible these days, dynamite \u003cem>is\u003c/em> part of this region’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re lucky, you might even be able to find a blue-glass souvenir in Glen Canyon Park. But please don’t go digging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I’ve been hiking around the Bay Area for more than a decade, and really make a point to try and get to new places – but I know I haven’t even discovered half the hikes this region has to offer. I often find myself turning to online guides and maps to find new trails in this outdoor haven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for San Francisco resident Ryan Flynn, the quest to find a perfect new hike took a more… explosive turn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ryan Flynn:\u003c/strong> I was just kind of looking for hikes for my wife and I to do on a weekend. So I was just on Google Maps, and I happened to see a little pin for, like, a historical marker for the first dynamite factory in the United States. And that was very surprising. So I figured I would reach out to you guys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> The pin Ryan stumbled across marks the location of California Registered Historical Landmark No. 1002. If you enter Glen Canyon Park from Elk street, you’ll see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> So it’s titled “The first dynamite factory in America. Giant powder company, under personal license of inventor Alfred Nobel, began producing dynamite here on March, 1868. On November 26, 1869 a massive explosion leveled the complexes, buildings and fences. [talking fades under…]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> For Ryan, this all came as a shock. So he sent in this question …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ryan Flynn:\u003c/strong> What is the history behind Glen Canyon Park being the first dynamite factory in the US?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I’ve run through Glen Canyon Park a few times and – safe to say – dynamite was not top of mind. But turns out, this peaceful park has a turbulent backstory dating back to the mid 19th century, when Alfred Nobel – yeah like the Nobel Peace Prize – invented dynamite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today we’ll learn how dynamite made its way to San Francisco … and why it was such a transformative product in this state. Plus, we’ll explore the stories of Chinese laborers who often had the most dangerous jobs of all in the high explosives industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One quick heads up: There are a few gory details about the aftermath of explosions in this episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re listening to Bay Curious. I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[SPONSOR MESSAGE]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> To help us answer Ryan’s question about the history of the first dynamite factory in the US, right here in SF’s Glen Canyon Park, we’ve put Bay Curious reporter Gabriela Glueck on the job. To kick off her reporting, she headed over to the park to meet up with one of the people responsible for placing that historical plaque.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[sounds of wind and birds chirping in a park]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> I see this piece kind of catch my eye in the dirt by the trail. And I lean down and pick it up, and it’s, it’s blue with kind of the shape of a candy corn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> That’s Evelyn Rose, she’s a long time Glen Park resident, pharmacist by training, and passionate neighborhood historian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> And I’m looking at it and realize, ‘Oh my gosh, this is probably a piece of melted glass from the explosion.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> For Evelyn, her dynamite journey started in the pages of an old book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> And in it is a very grainy image of what they claim is the first — the site of the first dynamite factory in the United States. And as I read the caption, it says the Glen Park playground in San Francisco, and I about fell out of my chair because it’s like, ‘Oh, my God, that’s like a block from my house.’ Had no idea….. and so it started an 11 year journey to discover the history of the dynamite factory and to get the plaque.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> The story of how dynamite made its way to Glen Canyon Park starts in 1860s Sweden… with a young inventor named Alfred Nobel. He was experimenting with nitroglycerin, a highly explosive yet highly unstable chemical compound that just too often went boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He became the first to start manufacturing the substance on an industrial scale. And when he came up with a safer way to detonate it, California businessmen began to take notice. With their hands tied up in mining and railroad building, — Nobel’s innovations were… intriguing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> And through a friend in Paris, whose brother was here in San Francisco… he licensed nitroglycerin oil to the brother of his friend, and the company was called Bandmann & Nielsen, and so they were the exclusive agent selling oil of nitroglycerin along the Pacific coast and this is about 1866.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Soon thereafter, the first crates of nitroglycerin oil arrived in San Francisco. And for California industries, the arrival of Nobel’s blasting oil was transformative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before nitroglycerin, black powder was America’s main explosive. First brought to California in the late 1840s, when miners started using it in their search for gold, the chalky powder soon became the primary blow-things-up agent in the early California mining and railroad industry. But for more than a handful of construction projects, black powder and a hand chisel just wasn’t going to cut it. And when some of those first crates of nitroglycerin oil arrived at the Central Pacific Railroad, it seemed that Californians might have struck a new kind of gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[sounds of boxes being moved and bottle clinking]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet one of the crates from that first shipment had been left behind in San Francisco… in the back room of the Wells Fargo building, among the other unclaimed freight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it was leaking….\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voice Reading Newspaper Clipping:\u003c/strong> “On Monday, 16th, in San Francisco at fifteen minutes past one o’clock, P.M., an explosion took place in the storeroom back of Wells, Fargo & Co.’s building which demolished everything within a circuit of 40 or 50 feet. The explosion was so powerful as to shake the earth like an earthquake for a circuit of a quarter of a mile…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fragments of human remains were found scattered in many places. A piece of human vertebrae was blown over the buildings on the east side of Montgomery street. A piece of skull was lying on California street, east of Leidsdorff, with other fragments of human remains, and a human arm struck the third story window of the building across the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> That’s an excerpt from the pages of The Placer Herald on April 21st, 1866. The nitroglycerin disaster left San Franciscans in a panic, killing at least 15 people and maiming even more. And countless other such explosions of Nobel’s volatile blasting oil in the United States and across the globe did nothing to settle fears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, California seized all private holdings of nitroglycerin and banned its transportation within state bounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> Scores of people were dying around the world, and Nobel became known as the demon of death, and he was a pacifist, you know, and he was devastated that he was being associated with nitroglycerin in that way. So he set out to find a safer form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> For Nobel, the quest to tame nitroglycerin was personal too. His younger brother had died in an explosion at Nobel’s nitroglycerin factory. But the question of how best to stabilize such a volatile and deadly substance was, as of yet, unanswered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> Quite by accident, when nitroglycerin oil spilled and somehow there was this clay nearby. The clay absorbed it and created kind of a putty, and he realized that completely stabilized nitroglycerin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Nobel patented that accidental discovery and named the stabilized nitroglycerin… dynamite. And that’s the story. Dynamite is born and Nobel starts cashing in, his profits from dynamite along with his guilty conscience about its deadly potential eventually motivated him to start the Nobel Prize in the hopes of shifting his legacy from one of destruction to peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as for when Dynamite made its way to Glen Canyon Park … that comes in 1868, when Nobel gave Julius Bandmann – that brother of a friend from earlier – license to start manufacturing dynamite in the States. Bandmann rallied a group of San Francisco investors around this new innovation and soon founded the Giant Powder Company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> The President was a gentleman named L L Robinson and he had invested, along with some other gentleman in the land that included Glen Canyon. He leased to the company four acres of land that today surrounds where today the Glen Park Recreation Center is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> At the time, Glen Canyon Park was pretty barren. A canyon full of cows. But soon enough, Giant Powder started manufacturing dynamite. The factory was run by a handful of chemists and eight Chinese workers who did most of the heavy lifting. And with production in full swing… competitors started cropping up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But America’s first dynamite factory didn’t last very long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[dramatic music, sounds of wind blowing]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> It’s November, 1889 and the Chief Chemist of Giant Powder Company, Dr. John Bussenius, is sitting in his cottage with his assistant, Alfred Wartenweiler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> They just had dinner, the door was open, so it must have been a little bit of a balmy night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> That’s Evelyn Rose again, Glen Park resident and neighborhood historian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> The Chinese workers were in their cottage having dinner, and they were about to play cards in the cottage. And Charles Cook, the teamster, comes to the door and says, you know, everything’s secure. The horses are stabled. And Wartenweiler, the assistant just happens to look out the door that faces the manufactory, and he sees a fire, and he yells, “Fire!” and he dived for the door… All of a sudden there was this massive explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Explosion sound]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> And a home 300 yards away was nearly taken off its foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[sounds of crackling fire and crumbling structures]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> The site is obliterated. The teamsters wagon has been thrown 150 yards away. Chinese workers were severely burned. Waltenweiler was found 50 yards away under a bunch of lumber. Diving for the door had saved his life. He was injured. But you know, survivable, and it wasn’t until later that they found the burned bodies of Cook and Bussenius. Bussenius was identified—he wore a gold watch, he always had it on, and that was the only way they could identify him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> The exact cause of the explosion remains unknown, but in general there weren’t great safety practices at the time. As for the Chinese workers and how they fared in the aftermath of the explosion, details are sparse. There is however brief mention of the laborer’s outcomes in the pages of the Sacramento Daily Union days after the disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voice Reading a Newspaper Article:\u003c/strong> “On the ground in the vicinity of the Chinese house were six or seven wounded Chinese men. They were taken in a wagon and conveyed to the city, and are now in a house on Commercial street, above Kearny. Their names are Ah Chum, Ah Chow, Ah Sing, Ah Moy, Ah Gne, and Ah Choy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> I still hope someday to find out more about them, because if we have their names, there should be something. There should be reports in perhaps Chinese newspapers from the time that somebody might be able to research and translate, because I would love to know what their outcomes were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> The story of the Chinese laborers who worked at Glen Canyon Park, producing the first dynamite in the United States, risking limb and life in that effort is one we are still working to piece together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don’t have personal testimony and there’s little individuality described in the historical record. But in the grand scheme of California industrial history, this oversight is not an anomaly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Chinese laborers stepped foot in Glen Canyon Park, Chinese Americans already had a storied history with early explosives like nitroglycerin blasting oil and black powder, as they worked to build the Central Pacific Railroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Music gently fades in]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> And while little is known about Giant Powder Company’s first Chinese workers, recent research has uncovered much about the experience of Chinese railroad workers’ use of early explosives. Understanding that story and context, can help us get a better grip on the contribution of Chinese laborers to dynamite manufacturing in the United States. Which is why I headed over to Stanford’s campus to talk with Roland Hsu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Roland Hsu:\u003c/strong> I’m Director of Research of the project at Stanford University on the Chinese railroad workers in North America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Roland has spent years digging through the archive, searching for clues in an effort to better understand the experience of Chinese laborers on the railroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Roland Hsu:\u003c/strong> So the Chinese were both, were both useful and expendable from the point of view of the construction company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Chinese immigrants originally started coming to California in the mid 19th century. They came with the Gold Rush, with hopes to strike it rich in a new and uncharted land. But they encountered hostile racism, and a lack of legal standing for land claims that made that hope an impossible dream… so they looked elsewhere for work… but they weren’t seen as choice number one for manual labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Roland Hsu:\u003c/strong> We do know that the Irish workers who were brought in quickly found this to be inhuman conditions. Dropped their pickaxes and shovels and walked off the job\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> With the clock ticking, the Central Pacific Railroad turned to Chinese labor. By the end of construction, they had hired an estimated 20,000 Chinese workers to build a railroad across America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s almost hard to explain just how challenging of a construction project this was. Railroads at that time could only really climb around a 2% grade. But this is the Sierra Nevada range we’re talking about, with its absurdly high granite faces and sheer rock cliffs. And the task was simple: Just tunnel through it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Music, the sounds of pickaxes and loud thuds against stone]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Roland Hsu:\u003c/strong> So by hand. They’re using iron pickaxes, iron bars to just break granite rock. Four men would take a very large, heavy iron bar, slam it in unison into the face of Granite Mountain to carve out small niches, and then [were] instructed to pack it with nitroglycerin, light it and run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> If you’ve been paying attention to this story so far, you know that it doesn’t take much for nitroglycerin to go boom… and worker safety wasn’t a big conversation point in 19th century railroad construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Roland Hsu:\u003c/strong> It is a one of the more evocative stories of the experience of the Chinese who built a railroad to be…. lowered in baskets off of long ropes, you know, hundreds of feet down from the top of a sheer cliff by hand, individually cutting a notch and then packing it with they turn use the term black powder, and then pulling frantically on the rope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Chinese immigrants built the railroad, using these early explosives, but their story and contribution – much like their contribution to dynamite production in Glen Canyon Park – has largely been erased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Roland Hsu:\u003c/strong> We have celebrated the Central Pacific line, the transcontinental railroad, we’ve celebrated it on every 50 years as a tremendous feat. Only recently, on the 150th anniversary, did we finally, finally acknowledge, and not only acknowledge but celebrate that it was predominantly Chinese immigrant labor that built this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> While these stories didn’t circulate broadly until recently, tales of the railroad and early explosives did make their way through Chinese communities at the time, especially in California. And, pulling this all back to Glen Canyon Park and the eight Chinese laborers who toiled away at that first factory, we can only imagine that they would have been familiar with this history too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Roland Hsu:\u003c/strong> We are in the realm of speculation only because, consistently, their identities are obscured so we can’t look for their own personal testimony. We can piece together that the story of the experience of constructing the railroad was passed down with extensive detail to their own families, certainly back in the villages, their home villages, many testimonies that would be perpetuated by song so to the extent that They could transmit their story across the Pacific Ocean, perhaps they could transmit it all the way to Glen Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> While the factory in Glen Canyon Park lasted a few short years, the American entrance into high explosive production was just beginning. Nascent competition created new and innovative dynamite-like products and Giant Powder Company continued manufacturing Nobel’s creation… just not in Glen Canyon Park. After the initial explosion, the factory moved to the sand dunes near what is now Golden Gate Park. Then, a few years later, it exploded again, and the city kicked all dynamite manufacturers out. That forced them across the Bay, establishing the East Bay dynamite district, stretching out the economic fabric of the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As dynamite manufacturing disappeared from the city, the site of the first factory at Glen Canyon Park began to fade away in the minds and memories of its residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Park sounds fade in… birds, wind, relaxing music begins]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Today, traces of this explosive history are now long gone. The remnants of the dynamite factory are nowhere to be seen and when you walk into Glen Canyon Park, the first thing you see are baseball fields. There are kids, shin guards on, heading to soccer practice. Friends picnicking on the grass. Parents chatting on the playground benches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s nothing that might suggest a memory of anything besides peace… save for the lonesome plaque… and Evelyn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evelyn Rose:\u003c/strong> If I’m driving by, walking by, sometimes I’ll sit on the bench and just watch people stop and look at the plaque, and they’re and you can just see them. Their heads go back, you know, they’re puzzled, like what here? And so the fact that you’re interviewing me today because of someone’s experience, just like that, I’m just thrilled you know that the plaque can commemorate that you know, and remember a tragedy did happen here. I mean, it is a recreation area today, but also that we do have this link with Nobel Prizes, you know. So going from destruction to peace, I think is an important connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> That was Reporter Gabriela Glueck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Big thanks to our question asker Ryan Flynn, and to Seth Lunine, with the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley, who was a helpful resource for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The holiday season is coming up, and for many of you that means a long car trip to visit friends or family. We’ve created a kid-friendly playlist with some of Bay Curious’s greatest hits for your listening pleasure as you drive. Find it at BayCurious.org, and we’ll drop a link in the show notes too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ryan Flynn:\u003c/strong> Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our show is produced by Amanda Font, Christopher Beale, Ana De Almeida Amaral and me, Olivia Allen-Price. Extra support from Jen, Chien, Katie Sprenger, Maha Sanad, Holly Kernan and the whole KQED family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a great week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>Dozens of people gathered in at least three cities across the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> on Wednesday to express their discontent following former President Donald Trump’s reelection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley, about two dozen protesters and counterprotesters rallied at UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza. In San José, about 100 people took to the streets and marched, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/11/06/anti-trump-protestors-gather-in-san-jose-berkeley/\">the \u003cem>East Bay Times\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a>. In San Francisco, several dozen gathered at Harvey Milk Plaza for a candlelight vigil and rally organized by the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club and members of a queer dodgeball group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Flashman, a child and family therapist, helped organize the vigil. It was similar to the one she had planned in Oakland following Trump’s first election in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the most healing space I could find,” Flashman said of the 2016 vigil. “It ended up being really large, and it became my memory of that night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flashman said she didn’t want her only memory of Trump’s second presidential victory to be of election returns favoring him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t want last night to be my memory of his win,” she said. “I wanted a new memory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demonstrations were far more muted than in 2016, when thousands rallied in cities across the Bay Area, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/10/oakland-30-arrested-in-anti-trump-protests/\">at least 30 were arrested\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attendees at Harvey Milk Plaza on Wednesday lit candles, played music and took turns using a microphone to voice their feelings about the prospects of another Trump presidency. Some expressed anger, others cried, but most focused on hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) took to the mic to warn about the possibility of continued Republican attacks on reproductive rights, LGBTQ people and immigrants in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be organized and prepared to fight back,” Weiner said, echoing a call to action Vice President Kamala Harris delivered earlier in the day during her concession speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a time to throw up our hands. This is a time to roll up our sleeves,” Harris said at a rally in Washington, D.C. “This is a time to organize, to mobilize and to stay engaged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12013355\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241106-HarveyMilkElectionVigil-10-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241106-HarveyMilkElectionVigil-10-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241106-HarveyMilkElectionVigil-10-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241106-HarveyMilkElectionVigil-10-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241106-HarveyMilkElectionVigil-10-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241106-HarveyMilkElectionVigil-10-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241106-HarveyMilkElectionVigil-10-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jace Ritchey (center) hugs Jes Distad during a candlelight vigil at Harvey Milk Plaza in San Francisco on Nov. 6, 2024, organized by the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club for the community to come together after the election. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As of Wednesday evening, Trump had garnered 295 Electoral College votes compared to Harris’ 226. Republicans also took control of the U.S. Senate, with 52 seats compared to Democrats’ 44. Four seats remain undecided, according to the \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the U.S. House of Representatives, there were 39 seats yet to be called. Republicans had 206, compared to Democrats’ 190. California will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012387/california-will-help-decide-control-of-congress-but-multiple-seats-too-close-to-call\">help decide control of Congress\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, many residents on Wednesday expressed feelings of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013186/san-franciscans-react-trumps-win\">shock, dejection and disbelief\u003c/a> at Trump’s decisive victory, while others were relieved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California was called early in favor of Harris. She garnered more than 57% of the vote, compared to Trump’s 40%. In San Francisco, the tally was swayed even more heavily in her favor, with about 80% of voters going for Harris compared to less than 17% for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Bay Rep. Ro Khanna urged the Democratic Party to install new leadership after what he called a “colossal defeat,” saying voters “want the old faces out.”[aside label=\"Live 2024 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results,Follow results for every Bay Area race in the 2024 general election.' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/10/Aside-Results-California-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s time for people to gracefully step aside, who’ve been responsible for this loss and who’ve held on in some cases too long,” he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013301/democrats-need-new-leaders-after-colossal-defeat-rep-ro-khanna-says\">told KQED\u003c/a>. “And it’s time to let a new generation lead this party back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victoria McGaughey, a 19-year-old trans woman, stumbled upon Wednesday evening’s vigil in San Francisco and decided to speak. She said she receives her hormone replacement therapy and gender care from county providers and was worried those benefits could end under a second Trump term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Donald Trump coming into power and wanting to take all of those things away,” McGaughey said. “I might not be able to access those things anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the first election when she could vote, McGaughey said she didn’t plan on disengaging from politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to keep up the fight and stay together because that’s the only way that we’re ever going to see change,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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California was called early in favor of Harris, and in San Francisco, the votes counted so far show that 80% of voters are going for Harris, with less than 17% for former President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I got beat up,” San Francisco resident Chris O’Dowd said. “It just seems like it’s a new era and it’s an uncomfortable future for a lot of people, including myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Dowd usually votes for the Green Party but decided at the last minute to cast his ballot for Harris. Environmental issues are at the top of his mind, and he thought the Biden-Harris administration had made “incremental changes” in policies like green energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012773\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONDAY-91-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONDAY-91-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONDAY-91-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONDAY-91-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONDAY-91-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONDAY-91-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONDAY-91-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kamala Harris cutout stands near the entrance to the Democratic headquarters in San Francisco on Nov. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With Trump taking the White House, O’Dowd worries the environment will take a back seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like half the country doesn’t hear the other half, and that is not a great place to be,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, like Victoria Mendoza, this election hits close to home. This was her first time voting in a U.S. election after immigrating from Mexico with her mom in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just sad to see because this country has done so much for us in many ways. And now I just feel like it’s just going back in time,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza, who has a 7-month-old daughter, said she’s especially worried about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012326/californian-votes-really-matter-what-the-election-could-mean-for-reproductive-health\">fate of reproductive rights\u003c/a> under a second Trump term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12013071 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GETTYIMAGES-2182527291-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GETTYIMAGES-2182527291-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GETTYIMAGES-2182527291-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GETTYIMAGES-2182527291-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GETTYIMAGES-2182527291-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GETTYIMAGES-2182527291-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GETTYIMAGES-2182527291-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during an election night event at the West Palm Beach Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Nov. 6, 2024. 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Immigrants are the working backbone of the U.S., she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love this country, and we do good things for it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elected officials and activists also reacted strongly to Trump’s return to office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/david-chiu\">David Chiu\u003c/a>, whose office filed dozens of lawsuits and briefs against the last Trump administration, said officials were preparing to fight back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009071\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3HARRIS2019-03-SS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3HARRIS2019-03-SS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3HARRIS2019-03-SS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3HARRIS2019-03-SS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3HARRIS2019-03-SS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3HARRIS2019-03-SS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3HARRIS2019-03-SS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Assemblymember Phil Ting, current San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu, then-Sen. 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Lifelong resident Karla Morales, whose grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Nicaragua, was relieved Trump won. She especially appreciated his stance on immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Live 2024 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/president,Follow the results of the U.S. Presidential Election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/10/Aside-Results-Presidential-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see people from my country coming into the country now and they’re burning the American flag, they’re demanding this and that,” she said. “That’s not how it works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales cited numerous unfounded conspiracy theories that have been pushed by Trump and allies, including that Democrats are allowing immigrants to enter illegally to vote in their favor and that Democrats stole the 2020 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Trump’s second term, Morales said she’s looking forward to him “cleaning house” by deporting people who are in the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s win was also a relief for Bayview resident Arturo Hernandez, who voted for him based on his promise to stop the war in Ukraine, as well as for economic reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, the economy is really bad right now. Everything is so expensive,” he said in an interview in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, though, San Franciscans — who inhabit one of the most progressive enclaves of a reliably blue state — seemed defeated and subdued. That’s in contrast to the reaction to Trump’s 2016 win, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11168447/photos-days-of-protest-in-the-bay-area-after-the-election\">touched off a week of mass protests\u003c/a> and even some violent riots across the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012421/law-enforcement-schools-bay-area-prepare-post-election-turmoil\">were preparing for that possibility\u003c/a> again, but so far, it doesn’t seem likely. Some demonstrations were in the works, including a Wednesday evening candlelight vigil in the city’s Harvey Milk Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Mission resident and graduate student Gabriella Maldonado is leaning on her friends and family for support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen a lot of group texts, like, ‘Sending love, take care of yourself today,’” she said. “That’s kind of all I think we have right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/adahlstromeckman\">Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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In District 1, fewer than 40 votes separate Supervisor Connie Chan and Marjan Philhour, a local business owner who narrowly lost to Chan in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board of Supervisors District 5 candidate Bilal Mahmood speaks during a press conference about his strategy to end open-air drug markets in San Francisco on April 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although Supervisor Myrna Melgar leads in District 7, she is in a much tighter race than she anticipated — only about 700 votes, or 3 percentage points, ahead of challenger Matt Boschetto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston’s District 5, which spans the Tenderloin, Western Addition, Fillmore and Hayes Valley neighborhoods, has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012416/san-franciscos-elections-big-money-against-progressive-incumbents\">the most expensive\u003c/a> — and high-profile — of the six supervisor races this election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Preston, who picked up prominent endorsements from Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and Sen. 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GrowSF, a moderate political action committee, poured money into a campaign against his reelection focused on blaming him for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997837/yimby-lawsuit-over-sf-supervisor-dean-prestons-housing-record-is-thrown-out\">a lack of new housing\u003c/a> and calling him soft on the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997174/sfs-top-district-5-candidates-outline-bold-plans-to-tackle-drug-crisis-in-tenderloin\">drug and homelessness crises\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look at the priorities of Dean [Preston] and myself,” Mahmood told KQED. “We were both talking about wanting to build more housing, but the fundamental difference was that Dean [Preston] has a track record and a reputation for being ideologically obstinate and very divisive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston said in a statement on Wednesday that the race is still too close to call, and he pointed to the GrowSF and other moderate influences working against him throughout the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We ran a truly grassroots campaign, neighbor to neighbor, and are proud to have been able to match vote-for-vote a two-year disinformation campaign funded by tech and real estate billionaires,” the statement reads. “We are hopeful that the late vote will cut our way and are looking forward to the next set of returns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In District 1, a similar story is playing out, though the margins so far are thinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Live 2024 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco,San Francisco: Stay informed with the latest results for elected leaders and measures passed' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/10/Aside-Results-Local-Elections-San-Francisco-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race is a rematch between Chan and Philhour, who lost by just over 100 votes in 2020. This time around, Philhour is leading by only 35 votes. She said in a statement that with “thousands of ballots left to count,” she would be waiting for the city’s elections department to make an updated announcement on Thursday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is Philhour’s third run for the seat in District 1, which stretches from the Richmond District and Sea Cliff to the University of San Francisco. The local business owner has campaigned on bringing a more moderate perspective, including support for a “fully funded” police department and cracking down on homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While labor groups showed strong financial support for Chan, GrowSF also spent on a campaign to “Clear Out Connie Chan.” The group endorsed none of the incumbent candidates for supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar, representing the Inner Sunset and much of the city’s west side, is in a closer-than-expected race against Boschetto. She \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/11/05/san-francisco-election-2024-live-results/\">told\u003c/a>\u003cem> The San Francisco Standard \u003c/em>at her election night watch party that she didn’t think anyone of note would run against her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had prepared for a real race, but I didn’t think I was going to have to run one,” she said. “I left it all on the table. I feel good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boschetto had endorsements from GrowSF and another moderate political group, TogetherSF Action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incumbent Mayor London Breed is also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012353/daniel-lurie-leads-as-early-results-for-san-franciscos-mayors-race-come-in\">at risk of being ousted\u003c/a> unless she can make up significant ground in later vote drops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the apparent anti-incumbent wave threatens the progressive wing’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11787512/after-sf-progressives-win-big-a-shift-in-dynamics-at-city-hall\">Board of Supervisors majority gained in 2019\u003c/a>, before San Francisco’s official Democratic Party this spring voted in a new majority-moderate leadership board, one progressive candidate is faring well. In District 9, which covers the Mission District, Jackie Fielder is leading in early returns to fill the seat vacated by termed-out progressive Supervisor Hillary Ronen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Wednesday morning, Fielder held a firm lead with 57% of the votes after ranked choice tallying, followed by moderate opponent Trevor Chandler with nearly 43% of votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Department of Elections plans to post its next round of updated results and begin calling some of the outstanding races on Thursday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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In District 1, fewer than 40 votes separate Supervisor Connie Chan and Marjan Philhour, a local business owner who narrowly lost to Chan in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board of Supervisors District 5 candidate Bilal Mahmood speaks during a press conference about his strategy to end open-air drug markets in San Francisco on April 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although Supervisor Myrna Melgar leads in District 7, she is in a much tighter race than she anticipated — only about 700 votes, or 3 percentage points, ahead of challenger Matt Boschetto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston’s District 5, which spans the Tenderloin, Western Addition, Fillmore and Hayes Valley neighborhoods, has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012416/san-franciscos-elections-big-money-against-progressive-incumbents\">the most expensive\u003c/a> — and high-profile — of the six supervisor races this election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Preston, who picked up prominent endorsements from Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and Sen. 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That led to a torrent of spending and campaigning across key swing districts in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011642/how-the-diploma-divide-is-reshaping-politics-in-a-key-california-house-race\">the Central Valley and Southern California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, Republicans lead in six of the seven most competitive seats. David Binder, a longtime Democratic pollster, said early returns suggest the GOP may have succeeded in making gains with Latino voters who hold outsized electoral sway in many of the most competitive California districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There does seem to have been a movement of Latinos, especially Latino men, toward the Republican Party,” he said. “Does that put some of those Central Valley contested seats into Republican hands?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katie Porter, an outgoing Orange County representative, said she is holding out optimism that Democrats can still flip multiple seats in California as more results arrive in the coming days. In 2022, some California House races remained deadlocked weeks after Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think [Wednesday] and Thursday and Friday, as we count that late-dropped-off ballot, we’re going to see Democrats have a more solid lead,” Porter said late Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s where results stand in the state’s seven most competitive seats, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings\">the Cook Political Report\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 13:\u003c/strong> In a district spanning from Merced to Madera in the state’s Central Valley, incumbent Republican John Duarte leads Democrat Adam Gray 51% to 49%, with the Associated Press estimating 52% of the vote has been counted. The race is a rematch of 2022, when Duarte, a farmer and businessman, defeated Gray, a former state legislator, by just 564 votes. Both candidates sought to appeal to voters with moderate voting records: Duarte voted against Republican legislation to restrict immigration and build a border wall, while Gray opposed gun control and emission reduction legislation in the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Live 2024 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results,Follow results for every Bay Area race in the 2024 general election.' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/10/Aside-Results-California-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 22:\u003c/strong> The Central Valley’s other swing district, around Bakersfield, featured \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007594/democrats-are-hoping-to-flip-this-central-valley-house-seat-it-wont-be-easy\">another rematch from the 2022 midterms\u003c/a>. Incumbent Republican David Valadao leads Democrat Rudy Salas, a former state assemblymember, 55% to 45%, with an estimated 56% of ballots counted in the district, according to the AP. Valadao was one of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. In a campaign focused heavily on cost-of-living issues, Salas touted his vote against a 2017 increase in California’s gas tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 27:\u003c/strong> Republican Congressman Mike Garcia is outpacing Democrat George Whitesides, the former CEO of Virgin Galactic, 51% to 49%, with the AP estimating 68% of the vote counted. Garcia has been a top target of Democrats since winning office in 2020, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010811/balance-of-power-democrats-are-hoping-an-aerospace-executive-can-beat-a-republican-navy-combat-pilot\">the former fighter pilot had beaten back previous challenges\u003c/a> despite the Democratic leanings of the district, which covers the Santa Clarita and Antelope valleys. Whitesides was able to spend more than $1 million of his own money on the campaign, but in the closing weeks of the race, Republicans hammered him for his previous support of embattled Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon, who lost his reelection bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 41:\u003c/strong> In Riverside County, Republican Ken Calvert narrowly outpaces Democrat Will Rollins 50.5% to 49.5%, with just over 69% of the vote counted. Rollins, a former federal prosecutor and formidable fundraiser, challenged Calvert after losing to the longtime incumbent in 2022. Rollins and allies \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009362/riverside-rematch-will-help-decide-which-party-controls-the-house\">attacked Calvert for self-dealing and corruption\u003c/a>, but faced new headwinds from the growing support in the Coachella Valley for Trump, who visited the area in the closing weeks of the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 45:\u003c/strong> In Orange County, Republican Michelle Steel is running ahead of Democrat Derek Tran, 52.5% to 47.5%, which AP estimates reflects 66% of the vote. The election saw more spending from outside groups than any House contest in the country, as super PACs poured more than $34 million into the race. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008573/asian-american-voters-are-key-in-this-orange-county-congressional-race\">The district is centered on Westminster and Garden Grove\u003c/a>, home to large Vietnamese-American communities, which Democrats hoped would propel Tran, a U.S. Army veteran and son of Vietnamese refugees, to victory over Steel, a battle-tested campaigner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 47:\u003c/strong> In \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009870/dave-min-scott-baugh-vie-for-competitive-orange-county-house-seat\">the only open seat among California’s most competitive contests\u003c/a>, Republican Scott Baugh leads Democrat Dave Min 51% to 49%, with an estimated 71% of the vote in. The two were running to succeed Porter, who opted to run for the U.S. Senate instead of seeking a fourth term in the House. The district’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011642/how-the-diploma-divide-is-reshaping-politics-in-a-key-california-house-race\">strong base of highly educated, suburban residents\u003c/a> put abortion front and center in the race, with Min supporting federal protections and Baugh opposing them. Polling showed that Min’s arrest for a DUI in 2023 stuck in the minds of voters, particularly after it was repeatedly highlighted by one of Min’s Democratic primary opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 49:\u003c/strong> In the brightest early news for Democrats, incumbent Mike Levin leads Republican Matt Gunderson, an auto dealership owner, 51% to 49%, with 70% of the vote counted in the coastal district that includes parts of Orange and San Diego counties. Levin was elected in the Democrats’ 2018 “Blue Wave” but faced a strong challenge from Gunderson, whose vocal pro-choice stance stymied a strong issue for Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:15 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, voters appear likely to recall \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sheng-thao\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012651/alameda-county-district-attorney-pamela-price\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda\">latest results\u003c/a> show that about 65% of voters favored each respective recall, which would pass with a majority vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In each race, the \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em> estimates that less than 40% of votes have been counted, and the Alameda County registrar’s office said elections staff don’t plan to tabulate any more votes on Wednesday — instead, they’re collecting mail-in and drop box ballots, and confirming provisional ballots. Registrar Tim Dupuis said his office plans to provide another update by the end of Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an election watch party in Oakland on Tuesday night, Thao was defiant even as early voting results came in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked by a reporter for her reaction to the returns, she replied tersely: “Next question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pressed to respond, she said she remained optimistic that she could hold onto her office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oaklanders are going to see through the millionaire person who actually funded this recall,” she said. “We also know that Oaklanders, we vote late just like myself. I just dropped off my ballot. And so those votes have yet to be counted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she would wait until the Registrar of Voters certifies the election results, which then need to be certified by the city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Live 2024 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda,Alameda County: Stay informed with the latest results for elected leaders and measures passed' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/10/Aside-Results-Local-Elections-Alameda-County-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then once it’s certified, I will leave office immediately,” she said. “So, we’re looking at [a] December timeline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criticism of Thao has been amplified by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/lastoaklandasgame\">loss of the Oakland A’s\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009486/oaklands-finances-significant-risk-report-warns-coliseum-sale-raises-questions\">sale of the city’s portion of the Coliseum\u003c/a>, the firing of former Oakland Police Chief \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974985/former-oakland-police-chief-leronne-armstrong-sues-city-for-wrongful-termination\">LeRonne Armstrong\u003c/a>, the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992752/oakland-budget-talks-drag-on-as-council-faces-huge-deficit-last-minute-changes\">looming fiscal crisis\u003c/a> and a June \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991242/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">FBI raid\u003c/a> of Thao’s home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an NAACP election night watch party, Cynthia Adams, president of the organization’s Oakland chapter, was unequivocal in her support for the recall, placing much of the blame for the city’s woes at Thao’s feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is dying right about now,” Adams said. “Even though we might have people saying and feeling that it’s not. But it is dying, and we need hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though still in support of the recall, Oakland resident Charla Blackmon was more forgiving, saying she thought Thao was in over her head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The job is beyond her,” Blackmon said. “She may have the education, she may have some of the experience, but she does not know how to execute the information that she has.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Oakland voters recall Thao, the City Council president would normally serve as interim mayor until the city holds a special election to select a replacement. But Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas holds that office and is running for Alameda County’s Board of Supervisors. If that happens, there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005081/heres-why-a-recall-of-oaklands-mayor-is-on-the-ballot-and-what-happens-if-its-successful\">a number of possible scenarios\u003c/a> for who would assume Thao’s place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Nikkiforallofus/status/1854297936013971470\">statement on Wednesday afternoon\u003c/a>, Fortunato Bas said that while thousands of ballots likely remained to be counted, she was preparing for a mayoral transition as “it appears the voters have spoken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My duty is to ensure a transparent, responsible and orderly transition of leadership that is beyond reproach,” she said. “I am working closely with our City Attorney to plan a smooth transition and process of selecting Oakland’s next leadership.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Price, her supporters stood by her Tuesday night as election results came in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our voters elected her to office, and we need to let her do her job,” said LaNiece Jones, executive director of Black Women Organized for Political Action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price hasn’t spoken publicly yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Buffet Fortuna in San Leandro, where supporters of the recall were gathered Tuesday night, cheers erupted after the initial results were posted. Hosted by Save Alameda For Everyone (SAFE), the room was packed with family members of people killed in Alameda County as photos of their loved ones lined the walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erika Galavis, whose two nephews, Angel and Jazzy, both Berkeley residents, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927541/humble-and-joyous-berkeley-high-community-mourns-teenage-brothers-killed-in-weekend-house-party-shooting-oakcrime\">were killed at a house party in North Oakland in 2022\u003c/a>, echoed a sentiment shared among many of Price’s detractors: that her election led to turnover in the office, causing confusion, frustration and feelings of abandonment. In her nephew Angel’s case, Galavis said Price didn’t press charges on two of the suspects because they were minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s not doing her job, and she’s letting a lot of criminals go,” Galavis said. “I want her to leave the office so we can get a little bit more justice for the victims right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initial returns may still change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/dcronin\">Dana Cronin\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/afinney\">Annelise Finney\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ahall\">Alex Hall\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ebaldassari\">Erin Baldassari \u003c/a>contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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