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"content": "\u003cp>Every time Bay Curious listener Lauren Bresnahan takes her dog for a walk, she sees them. At the base of utility poles all over her Lake Merritt neighborhood are a collection of painted gnomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started taking notes about where they were, but then it extended my walk way too long because I was having to stop every 50 feet,” says Lauren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She came to Bay Curious because she wants to know more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>“What is the story behind the little gnome paintings all over Oakland telephone poles?”\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Artist\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The artist has always worked anonymously, but after a few emails and phone calls I got him on the phone. We’ll call him Dan in this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By maintaining anonymity, everybody gets to create their own story,” Dan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He estimates that he has put up somewhere between 5,000 and 7,000 gnomes all across Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The original thought was, let’s just do my street,” he says. But soon the project grew.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Beginning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It was 2012, and Dan was living on a hill above Lake Merritt in Oakland. He didn’t really have any painting experience, unless you count painting a house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be candid with everybody … I am the worst painter in the world,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his roommate liked to paint, and one day Dan thought he’d give it a shot and paint a gnome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who doesn’t like gnomes? That’s something all of us can appreciate,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11655279\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11655279 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"This gnome sits against it’s telephone pole along side a Liquidambar tree in an Oakland neighborhood not far from Lake Merritt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This gnome sits against a telephone pole alongside a Liquidambar tree in an Oakland neighborhood not far from Lake Merritt. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He painted one and then a few more, all on little wooden boards a few inches tall. When he finished, he thought, why not put them up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspired by graffiti he’d seen in San Francisco, he walked outside and found places to post them: the utility poles on his block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was that. Or so he thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon the neighbors started noticing. From his window, Dan could hear them talking about the gnomes. Kids from the nearby school were enchanted by them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids had each individually claimed the gnomes as their own, giving the gnomes names, and telling their parents stories about them,” says Dan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan was tickled and decided he wanted to spread the gnome magic beyond his street. So Dan painted more gnomes … many more gnomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He painted them in pretty much the same style — same beard, same hat, same belt. Then when he had a few paintings dried and finished, he’d wait for night to fall. Under the cover of darkness, he would take his dog for a walk. When he found a choice utility pole, he would kneel down and nail the gnome into place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A passerby might think he was scooping up dog poop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11655278\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11655278\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20454_160723_gnomes_bhs04-qut-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"Not all of Oakland’s gnomes are out in the open. These two sit hidden behind a rosemary plant in front of an Oakland house not far from Lake Merritt.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20454_160723_gnomes_bhs04-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20454_160723_gnomes_bhs04-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20454_160723_gnomes_bhs04-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20454_160723_gnomes_bhs04-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20454_160723_gnomes_bhs04-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20454_160723_gnomes_bhs04-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20454_160723_gnomes_bhs04-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20454_160723_gnomes_bhs04-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20454_160723_gnomes_bhs04-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not all of Oakland’s gnomes are out in the open. These two sit hidden behind a rosemary plant in front of an Oakland house not far from Lake Merritt. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First Dan covered the whole Lake Merritt neighborhood. Then he went out into the rest of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started doing Highlanders, and people in kilts, and things of that nature,” he says. “Just to add variety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He painted toadstools, girl gnomes, tattooed gnomes and firefighter gnomes with Dalmatians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within a year, there were hundreds of gnomes across Oakland. A reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle, Carolyn Jones, took notice and wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Painted-gnomes-bring-smiles-in-Oakland-4226330.php\">a story\u003c/a> about the gnomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch5>The original gnomes have inspired copycats in Oakland. One imitator has painted characters that look similar to Snow White’s seven dwarves.\u003c/h5>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Reading about the gnomes in the Chronicle got me excited,” says Dan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the article included a quote from a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. spokesman, Jason King: “We’ll be dispatching a crew to remove them. … We can’t have anything that could compromise the integrity of our equipment. … The concern is that the gnomes could inspire additional people to place things on our property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan was horrified, and gnome fans were horrified, too. Hundreds joined a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SaveTheLakeMerrittGnomes/\">Facebook group\u003c/a> in support of saving the Lake Merritt gnomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the risk of being exposed and punished for his graffiti, Dan went to City Hall to see if he could convince the company to change its stance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meetings had a rocky start. The head of the linesmen at PG&E was clear: The gnomes could be a hazard and he wanted to know where to find each and every last one so he could have them taken down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the neighbors were a powerful voice, and an Oakland city councilwoman knew how much her constituents loved the gnomes. As the meeting continued, the PG&E representatives warmed to the gnomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happened in the end is PG&E was very supportive,” says Dan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a public statement, King said, “We received a great deal of public feedback, so we’re declaring the poles gnome-man’s land. We’re not going to remove them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11655277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11655277 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20455_160723_gnomes_bhs05-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Being on the sidewalks of Oakland can sometimes be a messy spot for the gnomes. This particular one was recently visited by a local dog.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20455_160723_gnomes_bhs05-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20455_160723_gnomes_bhs05-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20455_160723_gnomes_bhs05-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20455_160723_gnomes_bhs05-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20455_160723_gnomes_bhs05-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20455_160723_gnomes_bhs05-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20455_160723_gnomes_bhs05-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20455_160723_gnomes_bhs05-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20455_160723_gnomes_bhs05-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Being on the sidewalks of Oakland can sometimes be a messy spot for the gnomes. This particular one was recently visited by a local dog. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Gnomes Today\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The gnome diaspora now reaches from Oakland all the way to Oklahoma. Dan moved there a few years ago and says he has painted thousands of gnomes that live on telephone poles across the entire state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I spend about an hour, maybe two hours a week, on this project. And you know I’m not going to change society in any way, shape or form. But I can’t help wondering what our world would be like if everybody would just pick an hour a week to do whatever they wanted for the community,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Every time Bay Curious listener Lauren Bresnahan takes her dog for a walk, she sees them. At the base of utility poles all over her Lake Merritt neighborhood are a collection of painted gnomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started taking notes about where they were, but then it extended my walk way too long because I was having to stop every 50 feet,” says Lauren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She came to Bay Curious because she wants to know more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>“What is the story behind the little gnome paintings all over Oakland telephone poles?”\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Artist\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The artist has always worked anonymously, but after a few emails and phone calls I got him on the phone. We’ll call him Dan in this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>“By maintaining anonymity, everybody gets to create their own story,” Dan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He estimates that he has put up somewhere between 5,000 and 7,000 gnomes all across Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The original thought was, let’s just do my street,” he says. But soon the project grew.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Beginning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It was 2012, and Dan was living on a hill above Lake Merritt in Oakland. He didn’t really have any painting experience, unless you count painting a house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be candid with everybody … I am the worst painter in the world,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his roommate liked to paint, and one day Dan thought he’d give it a shot and paint a gnome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who doesn’t like gnomes? That’s something all of us can appreciate,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11655279\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11655279 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"This gnome sits against it’s telephone pole along side a Liquidambar tree in an Oakland neighborhood not far from Lake Merritt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This gnome sits against a telephone pole alongside a Liquidambar tree in an Oakland neighborhood not far from Lake Merritt. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He painted one and then a few more, all on little wooden boards a few inches tall. When he finished, he thought, why not put them up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspired by graffiti he’d seen in San Francisco, he walked outside and found places to post them: the utility poles on his block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was that. Or so he thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon the neighbors started noticing. From his window, Dan could hear them talking about the gnomes. Kids from the nearby school were enchanted by them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids had each individually claimed the gnomes as their own, giving the gnomes names, and telling their parents stories about them,” says Dan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan was tickled and decided he wanted to spread the gnome magic beyond his street. So Dan painted more gnomes … many more gnomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He painted them in pretty much the same style — same beard, same hat, same belt. Then when he had a few paintings dried and finished, he’d wait for night to fall. Under the cover of darkness, he would take his dog for a walk. When he found a choice utility pole, he would kneel down and nail the gnome into place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A passerby might think he was scooping up dog poop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11655278\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11655278\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20454_160723_gnomes_bhs04-qut-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"Not all of Oakland’s gnomes are out in the open. These two sit hidden behind a rosemary plant in front of an Oakland house not far from Lake Merritt.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20454_160723_gnomes_bhs04-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20454_160723_gnomes_bhs04-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20454_160723_gnomes_bhs04-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20454_160723_gnomes_bhs04-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20454_160723_gnomes_bhs04-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20454_160723_gnomes_bhs04-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20454_160723_gnomes_bhs04-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20454_160723_gnomes_bhs04-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20454_160723_gnomes_bhs04-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not all of Oakland’s gnomes are out in the open. These two sit hidden behind a rosemary plant in front of an Oakland house not far from Lake Merritt. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First Dan covered the whole Lake Merritt neighborhood. Then he went out into the rest of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started doing Highlanders, and people in kilts, and things of that nature,” he says. “Just to add variety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He painted toadstools, girl gnomes, tattooed gnomes and firefighter gnomes with Dalmatians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within a year, there were hundreds of gnomes across Oakland. A reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle, Carolyn Jones, took notice and wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Painted-gnomes-bring-smiles-in-Oakland-4226330.php\">a story\u003c/a> about the gnomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch5>The original gnomes have inspired copycats in Oakland. One imitator has painted characters that look similar to Snow White’s seven dwarves.\u003c/h5>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Reading about the gnomes in the Chronicle got me excited,” says Dan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the article included a quote from a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. spokesman, Jason King: “We’ll be dispatching a crew to remove them. … We can’t have anything that could compromise the integrity of our equipment. … The concern is that the gnomes could inspire additional people to place things on our property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan was horrified, and gnome fans were horrified, too. 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The head of the linesmen at PG&E was clear: The gnomes could be a hazard and he wanted to know where to find each and every last one so he could have them taken down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the neighbors were a powerful voice, and an Oakland city councilwoman knew how much her constituents loved the gnomes. As the meeting continued, the PG&E representatives warmed to the gnomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happened in the end is PG&E was very supportive,” says Dan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a public statement, King said, “We received a great deal of public feedback, so we’re declaring the poles gnome-man’s land. 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"title": "America's Emperor, San Francisco's Treasure: Who Was Emperor Norton?",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you’ve taken a walking tour of San Francisco, there’s a good chance you’ve heard the name Emperor Norton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was how Bay Curious listener and Oakland resident Jennifer Jacobs first learned about the beloved San Francisco eccentric after she moved to the Bay Area from Michigan in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just like, ‘Wow, this is a whole other world. They have their own emperor here in San Francisco,’ ” Jennifer says.\u003cbr>\n[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003cbr>\nEver since, Jennifer has wanted to know more. Who was Emperor Norton? How was he seen in his own time? And why is he still remembered and revered today, almost 140 years after his death?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not much is known about Emperor Norton’s early life, according to John Lumea, president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.emperorsbridge.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emperor’s Bridge Campaign\u003c/a>, which focuses on researching Norton’s life and sharing it with the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what we do know.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The rise and fall of a Gold Rush businessman\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Emperor Norton was born Joshua Abraham Norton in 1818 to Jewish parents in present-day London. At age 2, he moved with his parents to South Africa, where his dad set up a successful ship supplies business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 21, with help from his father, Norton opened his own ship supplies business, but it went bankrupt within 18 months. Things went from bad to worse over the next few years, and by 1848, both of Norton’s parents and two of his siblings had died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, Norton left South Africa, and after a short stop in South America, landed in San Francisco in late 1849.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norton arrived in a lawless, Wild West version of San Francisco. The Gold Rush transformed a small town of a few hundred people to a bustling metropolis of 25,000 within a few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also a town of constant rebirth. People were making and losing their fortunes in the blink of an eye. The city was almost \u003ca href=\"https://thebolditalic.com/5-times-san-francisco-was-almost-destroyed-the-bold-italic-san-francisco-697dcf1177b8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">destroyed by fires\u003c/a> seven times between 1849 and 1851.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norton, who had already built and lost a business in South Africa, fit right into this boom-and-bust town. He established himself as a successful businessman selling commodities like rice and flour. He invested in real estate, erecting buildings on three of the four corners of Sansome and Jackson streets — one of the most popular intersections in town — plus plots in North Beach and a lucrative waterfront property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10981646\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10981646\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Ship-in-the-Bay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Ship-in-the-Bay.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Ship-in-the-Bay-400x321.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Ship-in-the-Bay-800x643.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco waterfront in 1851. (San Francisco Maritime Museum National Historical Park)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He made a great amount of money and was very influential,” Lumea says of Norton’s early days in the city. “He was in with all the right people, attended all the right clubs and all the right restaurants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riding high, Norton planned his next business move. With a rice famine underway in China, Norton was presented with a chance to corner the rice market by buying up a shipload of Peruvian rice. Expecting rice prices to soar, Norton went in with a couple of business partners in 1852 and staked $25,000 on the venture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then it all went wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Within a [few] days, ship after ship after ship of rice comes in, and so the bottom falls out of the market,” Lumea says. “This idea, which at one point seemed so great, now isn’t so great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal, and the subsequent years of legal wrangling, ruined Norton. By the time Norton was 38, in 1856, he was bankrupt for the second time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>An imperial transformation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After his financial ruin, Norton went quiet for a few years. He moved out of his prestigious home, and fell out of favor with some members of the social elite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He re-emerged on Sept. 17, 1859, on the pages on the San Francisco Evening Bulletin newspaper. Earlier in the day, he had walked into the paper’s offices and presented the editor with a short notice he asked to have published in that day’s edition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the peremptory request of a large majority of the citizens of these United States, I, Joshua Norton, formerly of Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, and now for the last nine years and ten months past of San Francisco, California, declare and proclaim myself Emperor of these United States,” the notice began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652849\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 411px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29665_First-Norton-Proclamation-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11652849 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29665_First-Norton-Proclamation-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The proclamation in the September 17, 1859, edition of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin that transformed Joshua Abraham Norton into Emperor Norton.\" width=\"411\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29665_First-Norton-Proclamation-qut.jpg 411w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29665_First-Norton-Proclamation-qut-160x187.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29665_First-Norton-Proclamation-qut-240x281.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29665_First-Norton-Proclamation-qut-375x439.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The proclamation in the September 17, 1859, edition of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin that transformed Joshua Abraham Norton into Emperor Norton. \u003ccite>(San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At age 41, three years after losing everything, Norton christened himself Emperor of the United States. When France’s Napoleon III invaded Mexico in 1861, Norton added “Protector of Mexico” to his imperial title.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This astonishing transformation has always fascinated Bay Curious listener Jacobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I majored in psychology, so I couldn’t help thinking he must have had some kind of a nervous breakdown or something happened in those few years,” she says. “I was thinking schizophrenia or bipolar disorder maybe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no sure answers about Norton’s mental health before or after his imperial declaration, but some people think his money troubles led him into a deep depression and that becoming Emperor Norton was a coping mechanism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652931\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11652931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/bike.jpg\" alt=\"A snarky caption is scrawled below this image of Norton on a bicycle.\" width=\"400\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/bike.jpg 522w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/bike-160x221.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/bike-240x331.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/bike-375x517.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/bike-520x717.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A snarky caption is scrawled below this image of Norton on a bicycle. \u003ccite>(California State Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s a sense in which the persona of the Emperor actually saved him in a way,” Lumea says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in his declaration, Norton called on representatives of all the states to assemble the following February to establish his empire and “to make such alterations in the existing laws of the Union to ameliorate the evils under which the country is laboring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, nobody showed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that didn’t stop Norton. He had declared himself emperor. And he was going to act like it for the next 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Emperor of the United States, Protector of Mexico\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Norton continued issuing imperial proclamations on items big, like calling for the end of presidential elections, and small, like chastising the skating rink operator who wouldn’t let him use a pair of skates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though he was Emperor of the United States, his proclamations were often very local in nature. He didn’t hesitate to call out San Francisco’s police and elected officials. Perhaps his most well-known proclamations were the ones calling for the construction of a bridge connecting Oakland and San Francisco through Yerba Buena Island — what we recognize today as the Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" ids=\"11652859,11652858,11652857,11652856\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norton also adopted an imperial wardrobe. He started with either a blue or gray military jacket, switching between the two early in his “reign” to maintain his neutrality in the ongoing Civil War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, he settled on a blue officer’s jacket furnished with large, fringed, golden shoulder epaulets. His balding head was almost always covered with a hat, most often a small military kepi or a garish beaver fur top hat with a cascade of colorful feathers pinned to the front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being emperor did not pay very well. Norton spent most of his reign subsisting off the generosity of the public and the support of a few wealthy friends from his high society days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1870, with the newly-completed transcontinental railroad bringing more tourists to San Francisco from across the country, Norton helped fill his coffers by selling “imperial bonds” for 50 cents each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652847\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Emperor_Joshua_A._Norton_I.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652847\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Emperor_Joshua_A._Norton_I-800x1212.jpg\" alt=\"Emperor Norton in his traditional imperial outfit around 1875.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1212\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Emperor_Joshua_A._Norton_I-800x1212.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Emperor_Joshua_A._Norton_I-160x242.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Emperor_Joshua_A._Norton_I-240x364.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Emperor_Joshua_A._Norton_I-375x568.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Emperor_Joshua_A._Norton_I-520x788.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Emperor_Joshua_A._Norton_I.jpg 866w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emperor Norton in his traditional imperial outfit around 1875. \u003ccite>(Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He didn’t need much money. His lodgings on Commercial Street cost him only 50 cents a night, and he spent most of his day reading the newspapers, talking with other forty-niners in Portsmouth Square and writing proclamations at the Mechanics’ Institute Library on Post Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For lunch, Norton could go to almost any tavern in town and for the price of a drink, no more than 25 cents, get access to a full lunch spread of salmon, roast beef, tomatoes and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He really makes himself part of the life of the city,” Lumea says. “He goes to political meetings. He goes to the theater. He goes to the saloons. He makes himself a public presence. He’s in the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s newspapers saw Norton as a bit of a buffoon and regularly published fake proclamations with his name attached. So, in 1870, he started publishing his genuine proclamations almost exclusively in an African-American-owned and operated abolitionist weekly, The Pacific Appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"slideshow\" ids=\"11652840,11652839,11652838,11652837,11652836,11652835,11652834,11652833,11652832,11652831,11652830,11652829,11652828,11652827,11652826,11652825,11652824\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of Norton’s proclamations, especially those in The Pacific Appeal, were surprisingly progressive for his time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s talking about how African-Americans should have the right to attend public schools, ride public streetcars. How the Chinese should be able to have their testimony heard in court,” Lumea says. Norton also argued for the rights of Native Americans and against political corruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So he’s really making himself into an early champion of the values of fairness and tolerance and the common good that really later become a great symbol of San Francisco,” Lumea says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Le roi est mort’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jan. 8, 1880, was a cold and rainy night in San Francisco. Norton left his room on Commercial Street to walk the few short blocks to a debate at the Academy of Natural Sciences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his way there, he collapsed on the street and died of a suspected stroke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652860\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/4436597737_cae5796fb3_o-1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652860\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/4436597737_cae5796fb3_o-1-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Emperor Norton's grave, which was moved from the Masonic Cemetery in San Francisco to Colma.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/4436597737_cae5796fb3_o-1-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/4436597737_cae5796fb3_o-1-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/4436597737_cae5796fb3_o-1-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/4436597737_cae5796fb3_o-1-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/4436597737_cae5796fb3_o-1-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/4436597737_cae5796fb3_o-1-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/4436597737_cae5796fb3_o-1-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/4436597737_cae5796fb3_o-1-520x693.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/4436597737_cae5796fb3_o-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emperor Norton’s grave, which was moved from the Masonic Cemetery in San Francisco to Colma. \u003ccite>(Joshua Neff/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ten thousand people came to Norton’s funeral. The headline of his obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle read, “Le roi est mort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norton died with just a few dollars in his pockets and would have been sent to a pauper’s grave, if not for the intercession of his old friends in business, who paid for a fancy rosewood coffin adorned with silver and a burial plot in the Masonic Cemetery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though often in the official world of journalism or politics he was somewhat seen as a figure of ridicule,” Lumea says, “to the people in the streets who saw him on a day-to-day basis for 20 years, he was known as a very kind person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Norton at 200\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Almost 140 years after his death, Norton continues to captivate San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lumea started the Emperor’s Bridge Campaign in 2013 to try to get the Bay Bridge renamed for Emperor Norton, in recognition of him publishing the idea decades before it came to be. The Board of Supervisors designated February 2018 as \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/EmperorsBridge/status/960568176013541376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Emperor Norton Month,”\u003c/a> and City Hall and Coit Tower were lit up gold on Feb. 4, 2018, in honor of Norton’s 200th birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody really encompasses the spirit of San Francisco better than Emperor Norton,” says Joseph Amster, one of two men who walk the streets of San Francisco as official Emperor Norton impersonators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amster and his fellow Norton, Rick Saber, both showed up in full imperial regalia at Norton’s 200th birthday party in February at one of Norton’s favorite spots, the Mechanics’ Institute Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29664_DSC_1504-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652852\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29664_DSC_1504-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer Jacobs stands with Rick Saber (L) and Joseph Amster (R), two official Emperor Norton impersonators at Emperor Norton's 200th birthday party at the Mechanics' Institute in San Francisco on Feb. 7, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29664_DSC_1504-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29664_DSC_1504-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29664_DSC_1504-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29664_DSC_1504-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29664_DSC_1504-qut-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29664_DSC_1504-qut-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29664_DSC_1504-qut-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29664_DSC_1504-qut-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29664_DSC_1504-qut-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Jacobs stands with Rick Saber (L) and Joseph Amster (R), two official Emperor Norton impersonators, at Emperor Norton’s 200th birthday party at the Mechanics’ Institute Library in San Francisco on Feb. 7, 2018. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Guests came dressed in their 19th century finest, from Wild West leather chaps to Victorian dresses, to honor Norton. Kazuo Sayama came all the way from Japan to attend the party. He first learned about Norton decades ago while he was doing research for a book about San Francisco, and he was so enthralled by his story that he dedicated an entire book to just Norton and is working on a second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have so many presidents,” Sayama says of the United States, “but no emperor in history. But people admire him as emperor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many at the party and across the city, Norton represents the best of the Bay Area: an advocate of fairness and tolerance, a kind person and a bit of an oddball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s kind of a symbol of why this isn’t New York or why this isn’t Florida or why this isn’t Seattle,” says Tito Young, who came to the party dressed as a Wild West cowboy in brown leather chaps. “I think there’s something wonderfully eccentric about this gentleman, which I can very much identify with.”\u003cbr>\n[baycuriousbug]\u003cbr>\n“I’m glad there’s a strong personality in my family tree,” says Julie Driver, Norton’s great-great-great-great-niece. She lives in Ontario, Canada, and learned about her famous relative from her dad. “He found a way to make a name for himself after he lost his fortune, and I think that’s something that we should learn from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Jennifer Jacobs was blown away by the sustained love and attention the city continues to give Emperor Norton, and she can’t imagine it happening in any other city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is a quirky town in a lot of ways,” she says, “and he kind of embodies that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you’ve taken a walking tour of San Francisco, there’s a good chance you’ve heard the name Emperor Norton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was how Bay Curious listener and Oakland resident Jennifer Jacobs first learned about the beloved San Francisco eccentric after she moved to the Bay Area from Michigan in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just like, ‘Wow, this is a whole other world. They have their own emperor here in San Francisco,’ ” Jennifer says.\u003cbr>\n\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>\u003cbr>\nEver since, Jennifer has wanted to know more. Who was Emperor Norton? How was he seen in his own time? And why is he still remembered and revered today, almost 140 years after his death?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not much is known about Emperor Norton’s early life, according to John Lumea, president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.emperorsbridge.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emperor’s Bridge Campaign\u003c/a>, which focuses on researching Norton’s life and sharing it with the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what we do know.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The rise and fall of a Gold Rush businessman\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Emperor Norton was born Joshua Abraham Norton in 1818 to Jewish parents in present-day London. At age 2, he moved with his parents to South Africa, where his dad set up a successful ship supplies business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 21, with help from his father, Norton opened his own ship supplies business, but it went bankrupt within 18 months. Things went from bad to worse over the next few years, and by 1848, both of Norton’s parents and two of his siblings had died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, Norton left South Africa, and after a short stop in South America, landed in San Francisco in late 1849.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norton arrived in a lawless, Wild West version of San Francisco. The Gold Rush transformed a small town of a few hundred people to a bustling metropolis of 25,000 within a few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also a town of constant rebirth. People were making and losing their fortunes in the blink of an eye. The city was almost \u003ca href=\"https://thebolditalic.com/5-times-san-francisco-was-almost-destroyed-the-bold-italic-san-francisco-697dcf1177b8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">destroyed by fires\u003c/a> seven times between 1849 and 1851.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norton, who had already built and lost a business in South Africa, fit right into this boom-and-bust town. He established himself as a successful businessman selling commodities like rice and flour. He invested in real estate, erecting buildings on three of the four corners of Sansome and Jackson streets — one of the most popular intersections in town — plus plots in North Beach and a lucrative waterfront property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10981646\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10981646\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Ship-in-the-Bay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Ship-in-the-Bay.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Ship-in-the-Bay-400x321.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Ship-in-the-Bay-800x643.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco waterfront in 1851. (San Francisco Maritime Museum National Historical Park)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He made a great amount of money and was very influential,” Lumea says of Norton’s early days in the city. “He was in with all the right people, attended all the right clubs and all the right restaurants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riding high, Norton planned his next business move. With a rice famine underway in China, Norton was presented with a chance to corner the rice market by buying up a shipload of Peruvian rice. Expecting rice prices to soar, Norton went in with a couple of business partners in 1852 and staked $25,000 on the venture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then it all went wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Within a [few] days, ship after ship after ship of rice comes in, and so the bottom falls out of the market,” Lumea says. “This idea, which at one point seemed so great, now isn’t so great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal, and the subsequent years of legal wrangling, ruined Norton. 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When France’s Napoleon III invaded Mexico in 1861, Norton added “Protector of Mexico” to his imperial title.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This astonishing transformation has always fascinated Bay Curious listener Jacobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I majored in psychology, so I couldn’t help thinking he must have had some kind of a nervous breakdown or something happened in those few years,” she says. “I was thinking schizophrenia or bipolar disorder maybe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no sure answers about Norton’s mental health before or after his imperial declaration, but some people think his money troubles led him into a deep depression and that becoming Emperor Norton was a coping mechanism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652931\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11652931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/bike.jpg\" alt=\"A snarky caption is scrawled below this image of Norton on a bicycle.\" width=\"400\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/bike.jpg 522w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/bike-160x221.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/bike-240x331.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/bike-375x517.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/bike-520x717.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A snarky caption is scrawled below this image of Norton on a bicycle. \u003ccite>(California State Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s a sense in which the persona of the Emperor actually saved him in a way,” Lumea says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in his declaration, Norton called on representatives of all the states to assemble the following February to establish his empire and “to make such alterations in the existing laws of the Union to ameliorate the evils under which the country is laboring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, nobody showed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that didn’t stop Norton. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norton also adopted an imperial wardrobe. He started with either a blue or gray military jacket, switching between the two early in his “reign” to maintain his neutrality in the ongoing Civil War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, he settled on a blue officer’s jacket furnished with large, fringed, golden shoulder epaulets. His balding head was almost always covered with a hat, most often a small military kepi or a garish beaver fur top hat with a cascade of colorful feathers pinned to the front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being emperor did not pay very well. Norton spent most of his reign subsisting off the generosity of the public and the support of a few wealthy friends from his high society days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1870, with the newly-completed transcontinental railroad bringing more tourists to San Francisco from across the country, Norton helped fill his coffers by selling “imperial bonds” for 50 cents each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652847\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Emperor_Joshua_A._Norton_I.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652847\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Emperor_Joshua_A._Norton_I-800x1212.jpg\" alt=\"Emperor Norton in his traditional imperial outfit around 1875.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1212\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Emperor_Joshua_A._Norton_I-800x1212.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Emperor_Joshua_A._Norton_I-160x242.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Emperor_Joshua_A._Norton_I-240x364.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Emperor_Joshua_A._Norton_I-375x568.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Emperor_Joshua_A._Norton_I-520x788.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Emperor_Joshua_A._Norton_I.jpg 866w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emperor Norton in his traditional imperial outfit around 1875. \u003ccite>(Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He didn’t need much money. His lodgings on Commercial Street cost him only 50 cents a night, and he spent most of his day reading the newspapers, talking with other forty-niners in Portsmouth Square and writing proclamations at the Mechanics’ Institute Library on Post Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For lunch, Norton could go to almost any tavern in town and for the price of a drink, no more than 25 cents, get access to a full lunch spread of salmon, roast beef, tomatoes and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He really makes himself part of the life of the city,” Lumea says. “He goes to political meetings. He goes to the theater. He goes to the saloons. He makes himself a public presence. He’s in the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s newspapers saw Norton as a bit of a buffoon and regularly published fake proclamations with his name attached. So, in 1870, he started publishing his genuine proclamations almost exclusively in an African-American-owned and operated abolitionist weekly, The Pacific Appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of Norton’s proclamations, especially those in The Pacific Appeal, were surprisingly progressive for his time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s talking about how African-Americans should have the right to attend public schools, ride public streetcars. How the Chinese should be able to have their testimony heard in court,” Lumea says. Norton also argued for the rights of Native Americans and against political corruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So he’s really making himself into an early champion of the values of fairness and tolerance and the common good that really later become a great symbol of San Francisco,” Lumea says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Le roi est mort’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jan. 8, 1880, was a cold and rainy night in San Francisco. Norton left his room on Commercial Street to walk the few short blocks to a debate at the Academy of Natural Sciences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his way there, he collapsed on the street and died of a suspected stroke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652860\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/4436597737_cae5796fb3_o-1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652860\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/4436597737_cae5796fb3_o-1-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Emperor Norton's grave, which was moved from the Masonic Cemetery in San Francisco to Colma.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/4436597737_cae5796fb3_o-1-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/4436597737_cae5796fb3_o-1-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/4436597737_cae5796fb3_o-1-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/4436597737_cae5796fb3_o-1-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/4436597737_cae5796fb3_o-1-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/4436597737_cae5796fb3_o-1-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/4436597737_cae5796fb3_o-1-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/4436597737_cae5796fb3_o-1-520x693.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/4436597737_cae5796fb3_o-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emperor Norton’s grave, which was moved from the Masonic Cemetery in San Francisco to Colma. \u003ccite>(Joshua Neff/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ten thousand people came to Norton’s funeral. The headline of his obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle read, “Le roi est mort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norton died with just a few dollars in his pockets and would have been sent to a pauper’s grave, if not for the intercession of his old friends in business, who paid for a fancy rosewood coffin adorned with silver and a burial plot in the Masonic Cemetery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though often in the official world of journalism or politics he was somewhat seen as a figure of ridicule,” Lumea says, “to the people in the streets who saw him on a day-to-day basis for 20 years, he was known as a very kind person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Norton at 200\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Almost 140 years after his death, Norton continues to captivate San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lumea started the Emperor’s Bridge Campaign in 2013 to try to get the Bay Bridge renamed for Emperor Norton, in recognition of him publishing the idea decades before it came to be. The Board of Supervisors designated February 2018 as \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/EmperorsBridge/status/960568176013541376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Emperor Norton Month,”\u003c/a> and City Hall and Coit Tower were lit up gold on Feb. 4, 2018, in honor of Norton’s 200th birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody really encompasses the spirit of San Francisco better than Emperor Norton,” says Joseph Amster, one of two men who walk the streets of San Francisco as official Emperor Norton impersonators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amster and his fellow Norton, Rick Saber, both showed up in full imperial regalia at Norton’s 200th birthday party in February at one of Norton’s favorite spots, the Mechanics’ Institute Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29664_DSC_1504-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652852\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29664_DSC_1504-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer Jacobs stands with Rick Saber (L) and Joseph Amster (R), two official Emperor Norton impersonators at Emperor Norton's 200th birthday party at the Mechanics' Institute in San Francisco on Feb. 7, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29664_DSC_1504-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29664_DSC_1504-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29664_DSC_1504-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29664_DSC_1504-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29664_DSC_1504-qut-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29664_DSC_1504-qut-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29664_DSC_1504-qut-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29664_DSC_1504-qut-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29664_DSC_1504-qut-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Jacobs stands with Rick Saber (L) and Joseph Amster (R), two official Emperor Norton impersonators, at Emperor Norton’s 200th birthday party at the Mechanics’ Institute Library in San Francisco on Feb. 7, 2018. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Guests came dressed in their 19th century finest, from Wild West leather chaps to Victorian dresses, to honor Norton. Kazuo Sayama came all the way from Japan to attend the party. He first learned about Norton decades ago while he was doing research for a book about San Francisco, and he was so enthralled by his story that he dedicated an entire book to just Norton and is working on a second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have so many presidents,” Sayama says of the United States, “but no emperor in history. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Golden Gate Park Polo Field in San Francisco is probably best known as the home to music festivals like Outside Lands and massive concerts like those during the Summer of Love in 1967.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Cliff Bargar has been to many of those music festivals, which made him wonder if there was ever actual polo, with horses, played at its eponymous field.\u003cbr>\n[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003cbr>\n“If polo was happening, I’d probably check it out at least once,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alas, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department said there hasn’t been polo at the Polo Field in a very long time. Instead, it’s mostly home to youth and adult soccer leagues and music festivals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But fear not, polo fans. There is a thriving polo community in San Francisco. Cliff and I just had to go about 5 miles east to Dolores Park to find it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We walked up a set of stairs from 18th Street between Dolores and Church streets, across the street from Mission High School. On our left were tennis courts. And on our right was a multi-use blue court that at that moment had six people riding around on their bikes and hitting a small ball with mallets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is bike polo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/134147568\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rule book is \u003ca href=\"https://nahbpa.gitbooks.io/nah-ruleset-2017/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">17 pages long\u003c/a>, but the basics are pretty simple: teams of three play against each other, and the first team to score five goals wins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Upmeyer started playing bike polo five years ago when he was a bike courier in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was going on a bike on my regular route, and I ended up finding bike polo just down in the Mission,” Upmeyer said. “It looked interesting, so I stopped by, and not 30 seconds went by and they were like, ‘Hey, come on try this out.’ I was kind of addicted after that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652207\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29587_28275718_551906775173402_491768129_o-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652207\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29587_28275718_551906775173402_491768129_o-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Upmeyer in Folsom at the 2016 North-American Hardcourt Bike Polo championships.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29587_28275718_551906775173402_491768129_o-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29587_28275718_551906775173402_491768129_o-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29587_28275718_551906775173402_491768129_o-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29587_28275718_551906775173402_491768129_o-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29587_28275718_551906775173402_491768129_o-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29587_28275718_551906775173402_491768129_o-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29587_28275718_551906775173402_491768129_o-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29587_28275718_551906775173402_491768129_o-qut-520x780.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29587_28275718_551906775173402_491768129_o-qut.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Upmeyer in Folsom at the 2016 North American Hardcourt Bike Polo championships. \u003ccite>(Nhia Vang)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said it was “scary as hell” at first, but he eventually got the hang of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The game looks more like hockey than it does horse polo. For instance, in horse polo, players aren’t allowed to cut someone off who has the ball because it would be dangerous for both the rider and the horse. But that’s fair game in bike polo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The players even wear hockey or lacrosse gloves to protect their hands, in addition to other protective gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of us have a real job that would not like us to break our fingers, so protecting your hands is probably the most important aspect of it,” Upmeyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike polo has its \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnkbikepolo.com/History-of-Bike-Polo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">origins\u003c/a> as a grass sport founded in Ireland in the late 19th century. In 1908, it was featured as an exhibition sport in the London Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hardcourt bike polo, like what’s played in Dolores Park, got its start in Seattle in the late 20th century and quickly spread. Today, it’s played competitively all over the world, with the 2017 World Hardcourt Bike Polo Championship being played in Lexington, Kentucky, last October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Upmeyer’s money, the court in Dolores Park is one of the best in North America. It was \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/23/san-franciscos-bike-polo-league-finds-a-home-at-new-dolores-park/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">built in 2015\u003c/a> with sports like hardcourt bike polo in mind, and you can find \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/sanfranciscobikepolo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pickup games\u003c/a> here several nights a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of bike polo players are kind of renegade,” he said, “so we’re usually trying to steal a tennis court or a basketball court and it’s hard to find time. 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[I’ve made] friendships with people that I’ll hang out with for a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So should we expect to see our question asker, Cliff Bargar, pedaling into a game any time soon?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I find this a lot more interesting than horse polo, to be honest,” he said, “[but] I’m not sure yet if I’ll be back with my own bike … but I’ll definitely consider it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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For instance, in horse polo, players aren’t allowed to cut someone off who has the ball because it would be dangerous for both the rider and the horse. But that’s fair game in bike polo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The players even wear hockey or lacrosse gloves to protect their hands, in addition to other protective gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of us have a real job that would not like us to break our fingers, so protecting your hands is probably the most important aspect of it,” Upmeyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike polo has its \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnkbikepolo.com/History-of-Bike-Polo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">origins\u003c/a> as a grass sport founded in Ireland in the late 19th century. In 1908, it was featured as an exhibition sport in the London Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hardcourt bike polo, like what’s played in Dolores Park, got its start in Seattle in the late 20th century and quickly spread. 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"content": "\u003cp>Back in the day, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> listener Lisa Schwartz remembers seeing something odd in Emeryville. Nestled in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/embed?mid=1naQRXhQ-gotqrigL-juFYkJxGnNsnada&ll=37.831920800000006%2C-122.29527710000002&z=17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">armpit of The Maze\u003c/a> — across Interstate 80 from where IKEA is today — was a stretch of muddy tidal flat full of creatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a ramshackle warrior riding a horse into battle. Fifty feet away – a wooden dog playing an electric guitar. 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These forms were built with driftwood, foam, hubcaps, brooms, plastic jugs and buckets — basically, it was a lot of junk, nailed together to create something beautiful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawless space for free expression lasted for about 30 years. Enos’ mother actually announced her pregnancy to his father by building a baby buggy sculpture at the Mudflats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really kicking in the ’70s,” Enos says of the Mudflats’ visiting sculptors. “Technically, they were trespassing, but no one bothered them. Emeryville loved it, because it made them look classy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not a static space. People would borrow pieces from one sculpture to build a new one. 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Even if academically trained artists got things started, ordinary people and folk artists were the ones who kept the space alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really into this idea that people showed up in California, and they had this beautiful Italianesque landscape around them and they were like, ‘You know what this needs? A giant artichoke! You know what this needs? A giant igloo in the desert!’ ” Enos says. “Making your own world, by any means necessary, is really interesting to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent visit, the only sculptures one could see were two horses made of buckets. That’s a far cry from the dozens and dozens of sculptures that once filled the area. So what happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Land along the waterfront in Emeryville was sold, and new Miami-style condos with floor-to-ceiling windows were built next to the mudflats. For the condo’s new residents, all that junk art spoiled the epic views they’d been promised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time the sculptures started getting flattened at rapid rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a lot of conspiracy theories,” says Enos. “Some people suspect the developers themselves were dismantling the sculptures, smashing them to bits or even setting some on fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists in the Bay Area also disapproved of the sculptures. The junk and the artists were disruptive to the area’s delicate ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in 1989 came the Loma Prieta earthquake. The 6.9 magnitude earthquake damaged sections of Emeryville, including the highway that ran alongside the mudflats. A new highway was built that no longer had a clear view of the mudflats. With less of an audience, artists were further disincentivized to make work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally came the cleanup. 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Just do a quick search on the internet and you’ll find stories about \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuxtLKsVpUM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a tourist chasing after their stolen car on foot\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-wedding-photos-stolen-break-in-11301164.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a photographer who lost a couple’s wedding photos\u003c/a> or an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/olympic-skater-marisa-castelli-stolen-gear-found-12506170.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olympic skater who had her skates and costumes\u003c/a> stolen from her rental car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MarissaCastelli/status/950612460452511744\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many reports of break-ins, our question asker Elizabeth Heller wants to know:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“What is being done? What steps is the city taking to combat this problem? Or is this just a reality that happens every day?”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Inside Scoop\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most of the burglars breaking into cars are career criminals and work in organized groups the police call “crews.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"http://civilgrandjury.sfgov.org/2015_2016/2015-16_CGJ_Final_Report_Auto_Burglary_in_SF_6_20_16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016 civil grand jury report\u003c/a>, these crews are made up of two to five people. They operate in their cars, and usually have paper license plates so they can’t be tracked down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report estimates that 70 to 80 percent of all car break-ins in San Francisco are done by these crews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Willowese/status/912396177873690624\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Steven Spagnuolo works at Central Station in North Beach and spends a lot of his time chasing down car burglars. He has gotten to know how they operate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m looking for cars that we know have committed burglaries in the last couple weeks,” he says. “If we see one, we know they might not be up to no good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he goes on patrol, he’s watching for people driving slowly, looking into cars with flashlights, or cars backed into spots so they can pull out faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the thieves usually take their loot to two big open-air markets where illegal deals are made. One is in the Mid-Market neighborhood at Seventh and Market streets. The other is in the Tenderloin, at Golden Gate Avenue and Leavenworth Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If someone is caught breaking into a car, it’s a felony. If they steal something worth more than $950, that’s a second felony. Each felony carries a maximum of three years in jail, but unless someone has been caught multiple times, chances are pretty low they’ll get that sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the burglars are caught, Spagnuolo says it’s not uncommon to see them right back on the street a short time later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To crack down on these repeat offenders, the police use a strategy called “bundling,” where they track crimes someone commits over time. A case based on multiple incidents is more likely to result in a conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Spagnuolo’s efforts, the police barely make a dent in the numbers. An arrest is made in only 2 percent of the total break-ins reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11649741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1219px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11649741\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IMG_0789-e1518543410651.jpg\" alt=\"A car parked in the Temescal Neighborhood of Oakland, Calif. with a sign asking for a car thief to return a sweater.\" width=\"1219\" height=\"997\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IMG_0789-e1518543410651.jpg 1219w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IMG_0789-e1518543410651-160x131.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IMG_0789-e1518543410651-800x654.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IMG_0789-e1518543410651-1020x834.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IMG_0789-e1518543410651-1180x965.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IMG_0789-e1518543410651-960x785.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IMG_0789-e1518543410651-240x196.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IMG_0789-e1518543410651-375x307.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IMG_0789-e1518543410651-520x425.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1219px) 100vw, 1219px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car parked in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland, with a sign asking for a car thief to return a sweater. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Why The Rise?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are a few theories about why this is such a problem in San Francisco right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1) Cars are packed close together, and it’s easy to break into one car after another.\u003cbr>\n2) We have a lot of tourists who leave stuff in their cars out of necessity, or because they aren’t aware of the break-in threat.\u003cbr>\n3) The things we leave in our cars have gotten more expensive over the years. Burglars once stole CD players — now they steal laptops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/3666838524_e8a348d0b3_o-800x603.jpg\" alt=\"The crooked part of Lombard Street is a hotspot for car break ins. \" width=\"800\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/3666838524_e8a348d0b3_o-800x603.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/3666838524_e8a348d0b3_o-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/3666838524_e8a348d0b3_o-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/3666838524_e8a348d0b3_o-1180x889.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/3666838524_e8a348d0b3_o-960x723.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/3666838524_e8a348d0b3_o-240x181.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/3666838524_e8a348d0b3_o-375x283.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/3666838524_e8a348d0b3_o-520x392.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/3666838524_e8a348d0b3_o.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crooked part of Lombard Street is a hotspot for car break ins. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"http://laughingsquid.com\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Beale / Laughing Squid\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2 id=\"action\">Taking Action\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 21, District Attorney George Gascon announced he’s asking the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for $1 million to help curtail car break-ins. He also announced a website and telephone tip line to report car break-ins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascon says he wants to re-start a program that would register private surveillance cameras that could then provide evidence to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, San Francisco Police Chief William Scott disbanded a citywide serial crimes unit dedicated to car break-ins. In its place, he unveiled a new plan to designate at least one officer focused on on break-ins at each of the 12 police stations in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was happy because [serial crimes unit] wasn’t helping my neighborhoods that I serve,” says San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen. She argues the old unit focused on touristy areas around town, and wasn’t helping residential neighborhoods. “We need that focused attention at every district station.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen represents the Mission district, which saw a\u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/Public-Safety/Police-Department-Incidents/tmnf-yvry/data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> 47 percent increase in car break-ins from 2016 to 2017\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/brendanstarr/status/910327515796840448\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, the police are rolling out the plan at Taraval Station in the Sunset District. In six months, the city will hold a hearing to evaluate if it’s working.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fending for Yourself\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you really want to stop your car being broken into, maybe you should take a tip from a car burglar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cornelius, who asked that we not use his last name, broke into cars for more than 30 years. He started when he was 19 years old, and got hooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I liked it. It was easy. I always had money in my pocket. And I didn’t have to work. It would take 15 minutes for the whole day,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cornelius would throw the ceramic end of a spark plug at the middle of the car window to break it. Ceramic is denser than glass, so that’s why it breaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11649781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11649781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/20180207_160231-e1518545216548.jpg\" alt=\"A rescue safety tool designed to break your window if you are trapped inside. Sergeant Spagnuolo says the tool is commonly used by car burglars to break car windows.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rescue safety tool designed to break your window if you are trapped inside. Sgt. Spagnuolo says the tool is commonly used by car burglars to break car windows. \u003ccite>(Sergeant Steven Spagnuolo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A lot of burglars nowadays use a rescue safety tool designed to break your window if you are trapped inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the ’80s, Cornelius was making about $100 to $200 a night. Then, when he turned 27, he started stealing the whole car. He would make upward of $2,500 a night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was stealing cars to support his drug habit. He did it so often, and for so long, that he would get orders from the chop shops to steal \u003cem>certain\u003c/em> cars. And he wasn’t operating just in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be from L.A. to Baja all the way up to Mount Lassen. Never, never out of the state,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cornelius stopped stealing cars about four years ago. He says he “retired” from the business when he was caught selling drugs — twice in two days — and decided he was done being a criminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11649804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11649804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/cornelius-copy-e1518551518145.jpg\" alt=\"Cornelius broke into cars in San Francisco for more than 30 years.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cornelius broke into cars in San Francisco for more than 30 years. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, he drives a car retrofitted to protect against other car thieves, and he has a few recommendations to share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You shouldn’t be leaving nothing inside of your car in the first place, especially if you care for it,” he says. “And if you protect your windows, your car is guaranteed not to get broken into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cornelius listed three car alarm systems: the \u003ca href=\"http://www.avital.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Avital,\u003c/a> the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pythoncarsecurity.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Python\u003c/a> and the\u003ca href=\"https://www.viper.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Viper\u003c/a>. He says they can alert your phone — so you’ll know immediately if someone has broken your window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Also, never put anything in your trunk if you’re going to walk away from it because somebody is watching you,” he says. “Just like you’re looking around, somebody is also looking around … and it might be me. And that’s a bad situation altogether.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Steven Spagnuolo works at Central Station in North Beach and spends a lot of his time chasing down car burglars. He has gotten to know how they operate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m looking for cars that we know have committed burglaries in the last couple weeks,” he says. “If we see one, we know they might not be up to no good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he goes on patrol, he’s watching for people driving slowly, looking into cars with flashlights, or cars backed into spots so they can pull out faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the thieves usually take their loot to two big open-air markets where illegal deals are made. One is in the Mid-Market neighborhood at Seventh and Market streets. The other is in the Tenderloin, at Golden Gate Avenue and Leavenworth Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If someone is caught breaking into a car, it’s a felony. If they steal something worth more than $950, that’s a second felony. Each felony carries a maximum of three years in jail, but unless someone has been caught multiple times, chances are pretty low they’ll get that sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the burglars are caught, Spagnuolo says it’s not uncommon to see them right back on the street a short time later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To crack down on these repeat offenders, the police use a strategy called “bundling,” where they track crimes someone commits over time. A case based on multiple incidents is more likely to result in a conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Spagnuolo’s efforts, the police barely make a dent in the numbers. An arrest is made in only 2 percent of the total break-ins reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11649741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1219px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11649741\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IMG_0789-e1518543410651.jpg\" alt=\"A car parked in the Temescal Neighborhood of Oakland, Calif. with a sign asking for a car thief to return a sweater.\" width=\"1219\" height=\"997\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IMG_0789-e1518543410651.jpg 1219w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IMG_0789-e1518543410651-160x131.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IMG_0789-e1518543410651-800x654.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IMG_0789-e1518543410651-1020x834.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IMG_0789-e1518543410651-1180x965.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IMG_0789-e1518543410651-960x785.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IMG_0789-e1518543410651-240x196.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IMG_0789-e1518543410651-375x307.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IMG_0789-e1518543410651-520x425.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1219px) 100vw, 1219px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car parked in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland, with a sign asking for a car thief to return a sweater. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Why The Rise?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are a few theories about why this is such a problem in San Francisco right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1) Cars are packed close together, and it’s easy to break into one car after another.\u003cbr>\n2) We have a lot of tourists who leave stuff in their cars out of necessity, or because they aren’t aware of the break-in threat.\u003cbr>\n3) The things we leave in our cars have gotten more expensive over the years. Burglars once stole CD players — now they steal laptops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/3666838524_e8a348d0b3_o-800x603.jpg\" alt=\"The crooked part of Lombard Street is a hotspot for car break ins. \" width=\"800\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/3666838524_e8a348d0b3_o-800x603.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/3666838524_e8a348d0b3_o-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/3666838524_e8a348d0b3_o-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/3666838524_e8a348d0b3_o-1180x889.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/3666838524_e8a348d0b3_o-960x723.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/3666838524_e8a348d0b3_o-240x181.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/3666838524_e8a348d0b3_o-375x283.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/3666838524_e8a348d0b3_o-520x392.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/3666838524_e8a348d0b3_o.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crooked part of Lombard Street is a hotspot for car break ins. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"http://laughingsquid.com\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Beale / Laughing Squid\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2 id=\"action\">Taking Action\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 21, District Attorney George Gascon announced he’s asking the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for $1 million to help curtail car break-ins. He also announced a website and telephone tip line to report car break-ins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascon says he wants to re-start a program that would register private surveillance cameras that could then provide evidence to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, San Francisco Police Chief William Scott disbanded a citywide serial crimes unit dedicated to car break-ins. In its place, he unveiled a new plan to designate at least one officer focused on on break-ins at each of the 12 police stations in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was happy because [serial crimes unit] wasn’t helping my neighborhoods that I serve,” says San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen. She argues the old unit focused on touristy areas around town, and wasn’t helping residential neighborhoods. “We need that focused attention at every district station.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen represents the Mission district, which saw a\u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/Public-Safety/Police-Department-Incidents/tmnf-yvry/data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> 47 percent increase in car break-ins from 2016 to 2017\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Right now, the police are rolling out the plan at Taraval Station in the Sunset District. In six months, the city will hold a hearing to evaluate if it’s working.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fending for Yourself\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you really want to stop your car being broken into, maybe you should take a tip from a car burglar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cornelius, who asked that we not use his last name, broke into cars for more than 30 years. He started when he was 19 years old, and got hooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I liked it. It was easy. I always had money in my pocket. And I didn’t have to work. It would take 15 minutes for the whole day,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cornelius would throw the ceramic end of a spark plug at the middle of the car window to break it. Ceramic is denser than glass, so that’s why it breaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11649781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11649781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/20180207_160231-e1518545216548.jpg\" alt=\"A rescue safety tool designed to break your window if you are trapped inside. Sergeant Spagnuolo says the tool is commonly used by car burglars to break car windows.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rescue safety tool designed to break your window if you are trapped inside. Sgt. Spagnuolo says the tool is commonly used by car burglars to break car windows. \u003ccite>(Sergeant Steven Spagnuolo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A lot of burglars nowadays use a rescue safety tool designed to break your window if you are trapped inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the ’80s, Cornelius was making about $100 to $200 a night. Then, when he turned 27, he started stealing the whole car. He would make upward of $2,500 a night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was stealing cars to support his drug habit. He did it so often, and for so long, that he would get orders from the chop shops to steal \u003cem>certain\u003c/em> cars. And he wasn’t operating just in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be from L.A. to Baja all the way up to Mount Lassen. Never, never out of the state,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cornelius stopped stealing cars about four years ago. He says he “retired” from the business when he was caught selling drugs — twice in two days — and decided he was done being a criminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11649804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11649804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/cornelius-copy-e1518551518145.jpg\" alt=\"Cornelius broke into cars in San Francisco for more than 30 years.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cornelius broke into cars in San Francisco for more than 30 years. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, he drives a car retrofitted to protect against other car thieves, and he has a few recommendations to share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You shouldn’t be leaving nothing inside of your car in the first place, especially if you care for it,” he says. “And if you protect your windows, your car is guaranteed not to get broken into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cornelius listed three car alarm systems: the \u003ca href=\"http://www.avital.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Avital,\u003c/a> the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pythoncarsecurity.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Python\u003c/a> and the\u003ca href=\"https://www.viper.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Viper\u003c/a>. He says they can alert your phone — so you’ll know immediately if someone has broken your window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Also, never put anything in your trunk if you’re going to walk away from it because somebody is watching you,” he says. “Just like you’re looking around, somebody is also looking around … and it might be me. And that’s a bad situation altogether.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco has some seriously iconic signs — like the grand marquee above the \u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/timothysallenphotos/15425403366/in/photolist-pv6e1s-S2TQCi-byMZqm-nLYrNm-reCtLa-ec4nmW-hP8mJe-5f73Nb-fmgBXC-hP7NFE-bouLXo-WbprYk-7UNNUX-4MwFkG-hP7Rrj-87P5qP-77A9NR-qYSPDB-qvTbxi-22L5HVa-jNBcdr-ck2ebU-4d2tt8-UWW7cp-hP8qac-bsJda-km21Wu-nHtaAC-agT8hS-5dUhiP-7S1Tji-qLDbhj-WdYxc-doTxpS-5dUgGi-e2VXYP-6pMR3Q-oRbsWY-dT4pmP-hp3cEg-eWAPwG-qmiDzR-ah7aAf-5vpnaQ-rjxLfv-5P4j4x-7H7U2J-iSX49-pTZeLd-5TbhPt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Castro Theatre\u003c/a>, the impossible-to-miss martini outside the \u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/inkvision/2592275580/in/photolist-4X56dy-N2P8wr-Mc4xsw-N2P8xt-Mp59x9-7oSNFL-69JJmx-crySMs-7CLYie-okPBjN-5Fkxya-a44392-a77MdT-7h49x-72PBu6-aw2FTz-6xX5k1-b32HvP-fH52GK-72PQRg-82GXmb-7CLYen-7CLXWz-qsywy6-72PR2F-bDBGpp-61utay-3d5yDB-8vJayc-4u5Qvn-7NWVfN-72PB86-8cB6hk-72PAQ4-72PQEn-bDBG2R-72TzAo-5QsRSr-r8czt7-aaHScm-72PADp-2o8PWA-2Eam27-7NSWog-4WZNfe-dNw5AZ-2E5TaK-2Ea1X7-dNw5tz-vGeWPH\">500 Club\u003c/a> or the \u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/brianstechschulte/4374010321/in/photolist-7EvWT4-7dBcRs-9cL63U-7NrwdN-ehKbQw-btfad6-oQPbrW-bheR5T-8BaA7V-4LijgG-i5RhA-e7jfud-dFXHP-4nRTRD-81nqoA-f4Ghhi-eCW3hJ-cQ8kq-8wCeRc-nrxFky-2Sh89-6Tj8YK-CRRYEw-iSrzWg-oWUV3e-cQ8d5-CRSdNm-v4MPNZ-UZDdMo-bJDYiT-DdMHmY-iSvrcA-dwWCM7-Tdb74Q-nAAmjr-nWja9b-rS173-nWj5X5-cQ6NY-fv98tB-ox9epA-8qJECs-bX5cx-zFa2L-72UZVX-7UKQA-cQ8ir-mPx86-5uVuje-6ivnxf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Port of San Francisco sign\u003c/a> glowing above the Ferry Building. These signs have one thing in common — they’re all neon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may be hard to imagine today, but San Francisco was once full of neon signs. The city was right up there with places like New York, Los Angeles and even Las Vegas when it came to neon. Market Street alone had hundreds of signs lighting up the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every commercial corridor was just studded with neon,” says art historian and neon aficionado Al Barna. “It’s just amazing the amount of neon that San Francisco had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639023\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11639023 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Market-St-1960s-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Market-St-1960s-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Market-St-1960s-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Market-St-1960s-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Market-St-1960s.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Market-St-1960s-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Market-St-1960s-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Market-St-1960s-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Market-St-1960s-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Market-St-1960s-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Market Street in the 1960s. (Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barna and his wife, Randall Ann Homan, are the authors of \u003ca href=\"http://neonbook.xyz/\">“San Francisco Neon: Survivors and Lost Icons,”\u003c/a> a photo book dedicated to the city’s neon heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the signs were designed for pedestrian traffic, whereas in Los Angeles, they were designed to be seen from automobiles,” says Barna. “So there’s a little more intimacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within the San Francisco city limits, signs in each neighborhood had a distinct look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/bay-curious/2018/02/san-francisco-neon.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Roxie-neon-sign_compressed.jpg\" Title=\"LISTEN: San Francisco Was Once Aglow With Neon\" program=\"Bay Curious\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the Mission, the signs are bigger,” Homan explains. “You have the Mission Theater, the Roxie and the 500 Club.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cow Hollow and the Marina district are on the opposite end of the spectrum, with small signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They fit the scale of the neighborhood and buildings there,” Barna adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lights Out\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the late 1960s, interest in neon began to dim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Neon came to be seen as blight,” Homan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Movies of the era used neon signs to highlight danger. It became associated with gangsters, crime, dodgy bars and strip clubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You always think of the man standing by the window, desperate and alone, with the neon sign flashing in his face,” says Homan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only was neon seen as the light source of seedy places, but it was also viewed as expensive and polluting.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">It was in 1898 when British scientists William Ramsay and Morris Travers filled the first glass tubes with neon gas and lit it with a small electrode. Their invention would go on to give cities around the globe a special glow.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“But that’s far from the truth,” says neon artist Shawna Peterson. “If you properly dispose it, it’s not more toxic than other lights, such as fluorescent lamps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peterson is one of the few remaining neon artists left in the Bay Area. In the past decade, she and her colleagues have had a hard time accessing the materials they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are buying up old shops that people put on eBay … their old glass stock and equipment. We’re turning into hoarders of neon,” she says. “Our local distributors, that we used to buy everything from, they’re not carrying neon anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11648700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/neonsmallish-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Shawna Peterson in her Oakland workshop.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/neonsmallish-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/neonsmallish-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/neonsmallish-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/neonsmallish-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/neonsmallish-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/neonsmallish-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/neonsmallish-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/neonsmallish-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/neonsmallish-520x293.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/neonsmallish.jpg 1950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawna Peterson in her Oakland workshop. \u003ccite>(Serginho Roosblad/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This is even more frustrating to Peterson, as neon is slowing making a comeback and business is picking up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone is reverting to a historical look, a vintage look. It’s very popular now, but there’s less of us doing it, and we’re all swamped,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has changed its tune on neon signs, too. The tenant facade improvement program that once gave businesses money to remove their neon signs now gives out grants to restore signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11639020 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Black-Blue-tattoo-sign-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Black-Blue-tattoo-sign-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Black-Blue-tattoo-sign-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Black-Blue-tattoo-sign-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Black-Blue-tattoo-sign.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Black-Blue-tattoo-sign-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Black-Blue-tattoo-sign-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Black-Blue-tattoo-sign-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Black-Blue-tattoo-sign-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Black-Blue-tattoo-sign-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black & Blue Tattoo on Guerrero Street in the Mission has a smaller neon sign behind its window. (Serginho Roosblad/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Market Street will probably never again look like it did in the 1950s and ’60s, but with more businesses opting to go neon, some of that old glow is returning to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco has some seriously iconic signs — like the grand marquee above the \u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/timothysallenphotos/15425403366/in/photolist-pv6e1s-S2TQCi-byMZqm-nLYrNm-reCtLa-ec4nmW-hP8mJe-5f73Nb-fmgBXC-hP7NFE-bouLXo-WbprYk-7UNNUX-4MwFkG-hP7Rrj-87P5qP-77A9NR-qYSPDB-qvTbxi-22L5HVa-jNBcdr-ck2ebU-4d2tt8-UWW7cp-hP8qac-bsJda-km21Wu-nHtaAC-agT8hS-5dUhiP-7S1Tji-qLDbhj-WdYxc-doTxpS-5dUgGi-e2VXYP-6pMR3Q-oRbsWY-dT4pmP-hp3cEg-eWAPwG-qmiDzR-ah7aAf-5vpnaQ-rjxLfv-5P4j4x-7H7U2J-iSX49-pTZeLd-5TbhPt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Castro Theatre\u003c/a>, the impossible-to-miss martini outside the \u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/inkvision/2592275580/in/photolist-4X56dy-N2P8wr-Mc4xsw-N2P8xt-Mp59x9-7oSNFL-69JJmx-crySMs-7CLYie-okPBjN-5Fkxya-a44392-a77MdT-7h49x-72PBu6-aw2FTz-6xX5k1-b32HvP-fH52GK-72PQRg-82GXmb-7CLYen-7CLXWz-qsywy6-72PR2F-bDBGpp-61utay-3d5yDB-8vJayc-4u5Qvn-7NWVfN-72PB86-8cB6hk-72PAQ4-72PQEn-bDBG2R-72TzAo-5QsRSr-r8czt7-aaHScm-72PADp-2o8PWA-2Eam27-7NSWog-4WZNfe-dNw5AZ-2E5TaK-2Ea1X7-dNw5tz-vGeWPH\">500 Club\u003c/a> or the \u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/brianstechschulte/4374010321/in/photolist-7EvWT4-7dBcRs-9cL63U-7NrwdN-ehKbQw-btfad6-oQPbrW-bheR5T-8BaA7V-4LijgG-i5RhA-e7jfud-dFXHP-4nRTRD-81nqoA-f4Ghhi-eCW3hJ-cQ8kq-8wCeRc-nrxFky-2Sh89-6Tj8YK-CRRYEw-iSrzWg-oWUV3e-cQ8d5-CRSdNm-v4MPNZ-UZDdMo-bJDYiT-DdMHmY-iSvrcA-dwWCM7-Tdb74Q-nAAmjr-nWja9b-rS173-nWj5X5-cQ6NY-fv98tB-ox9epA-8qJECs-bX5cx-zFa2L-72UZVX-7UKQA-cQ8ir-mPx86-5uVuje-6ivnxf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Port of San Francisco sign\u003c/a> glowing above the Ferry Building. These signs have one thing in common — they’re all neon.\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 may be hard to imagine today, but San Francisco was once full of neon signs. The city was right up there with places like New York, Los Angeles and even Las Vegas when it came to neon. Market Street alone had hundreds of signs lighting up the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every commercial corridor was just studded with neon,” says art historian and neon aficionado Al Barna. “It’s just amazing the amount of neon that San Francisco had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639023\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11639023 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Market-St-1960s-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Market-St-1960s-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Market-St-1960s-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Market-St-1960s-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Market-St-1960s.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Market-St-1960s-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Market-St-1960s-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Market-St-1960s-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Market-St-1960s-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Market-St-1960s-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Market Street in the 1960s. (Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barna and his wife, Randall Ann Homan, are the authors of \u003ca href=\"http://neonbook.xyz/\">“San Francisco Neon: Survivors and Lost Icons,”\u003c/a> a photo book dedicated to the city’s neon heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the Mission, the signs are bigger,” Homan explains. “You have the Mission Theater, the Roxie and the 500 Club.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cow Hollow and the Marina district are on the opposite end of the spectrum, with small signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They fit the scale of the neighborhood and buildings there,” Barna adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lights Out\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the late 1960s, interest in neon began to dim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Neon came to be seen as blight,” Homan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Movies of the era used neon signs to highlight danger. It became associated with gangsters, crime, dodgy bars and strip clubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You always think of the man standing by the window, desperate and alone, with the neon sign flashing in his face,” says Homan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only was neon seen as the light source of seedy places, but it was also viewed as expensive and polluting.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">It was in 1898 when British scientists William Ramsay and Morris Travers filled the first glass tubes with neon gas and lit it with a small electrode. Their invention would go on to give cities around the globe a special glow.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“But that’s far from the truth,” says neon artist Shawna Peterson. “If you properly dispose it, it’s not more toxic than other lights, such as fluorescent lamps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peterson is one of the few remaining neon artists left in the Bay Area. In the past decade, she and her colleagues have had a hard time accessing the materials they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are buying up old shops that people put on eBay … their old glass stock and equipment. We’re turning into hoarders of neon,” she says. “Our local distributors, that we used to buy everything from, they’re not carrying neon anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11648700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/neonsmallish-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Shawna Peterson in her Oakland workshop.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/neonsmallish-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/neonsmallish-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/neonsmallish-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/neonsmallish-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/neonsmallish-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/neonsmallish-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/neonsmallish-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/neonsmallish-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/neonsmallish-520x293.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/neonsmallish.jpg 1950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawna Peterson in her Oakland workshop. \u003ccite>(Serginho Roosblad/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This is even more frustrating to Peterson, as neon is slowing making a comeback and business is picking up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone is reverting to a historical look, a vintage look. It’s very popular now, but there’s less of us doing it, and we’re all swamped,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has changed its tune on neon signs, too. The tenant facade improvement program that once gave businesses money to remove their neon signs now gives out grants to restore signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11639020 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Black-Blue-tattoo-sign-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Black-Blue-tattoo-sign-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Black-Blue-tattoo-sign-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Black-Blue-tattoo-sign-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Black-Blue-tattoo-sign.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Black-Blue-tattoo-sign-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Black-Blue-tattoo-sign-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Black-Blue-tattoo-sign-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Black-Blue-tattoo-sign-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Black-Blue-tattoo-sign-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black & Blue Tattoo on Guerrero Street in the Mission has a smaller neon sign behind its window. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the heart of the Tenderloin, in the parking lot of a tire shop, stands a roughly 7-foot sign atop two poles about two stories high. You might expect to see advertising for deals on tires or auto services on the sign. Instead, you’ll find inspirational quotes, truisms and sayings. And it’s been like that for more than 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642834\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11642834\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/john-160x240.jpg\" alt=\"John Angelico has been noticing the sign's sayings for years. \" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/john-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/john.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Angelico has been noticing the sign’s sayings for years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of John Angelico)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco columnist Herb Caen once called the sign at the corner of Turk and Larkin “the city’s biggest fortune cookie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This sign also piqued the interest of Bay Curious listener John Angelico of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a tire shop to have this huge marquee out front giving us something totally unrelated to the sale of tires and auto services … It’s kind of a very San Franciscan thing,” says Angelico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wanted to know:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“When did the sign get started? Who is responsible for the sign’s content, and what kind of reaction have they had over the years from the sign?”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 612px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11642277\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o.jpg\" alt=\"The sign in front of Khan and Keville.\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o.jpg 612w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sign in front of Kahn and Keville. \u003ccite>(Eric Steuer/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Message From Above\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The story begins with Hugh Keville, co-founder of the tire shop, Kahn and Keville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a gentleman, very kind, extremely dignified. Very solicitous of other people and, you know, just a very old-fashioned guy,” says Bill Brinnon, the office manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After opening the first tire shop in 1912 on Golden Gate Avenue, Keville served in World War I. While at war, he carried a small notebook for collecting quotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wrote them down to help carry me through,” Keville reportedly once said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Brinnon, Keville saw some gruesome battles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of his patrol were wiped out and in kind of gory and bloody fashion right in front of him,” Brinnon says. “He was a young man at the time and it had a big effect on him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642273\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11642273\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/180F907E-BDDB-43CF-BFA2-B64E3553BF81-1-e1516145147694-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Brannon in front of portraits of the shops co-founders. Harry Khan is on the left, Hugh Keville is on the right.\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/180F907E-BDDB-43CF-BFA2-B64E3553BF81-1-e1516145147694-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/180F907E-BDDB-43CF-BFA2-B64E3553BF81-1-e1516145147694-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/180F907E-BDDB-43CF-BFA2-B64E3553BF81-1-e1516145147694-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/180F907E-BDDB-43CF-BFA2-B64E3553BF81-1-e1516145147694-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/180F907E-BDDB-43CF-BFA2-B64E3553BF81-1-e1516145147694-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/180F907E-BDDB-43CF-BFA2-B64E3553BF81-1-e1516145147694-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/180F907E-BDDB-43CF-BFA2-B64E3553BF81-1-e1516145147694-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/180F907E-BDDB-43CF-BFA2-B64E3553BF81-1-e1516145147694-520x693.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/180F907E-BDDB-43CF-BFA2-B64E3553BF81-1-e1516145147694.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Office manager Bill Brinnon in front of portraits of the shop’s co-founders. Harry Kahn is on the left, Hugh Keville is on the right. \u003ccite>(KQED/Jessica Placzek)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After returning from war, Keville started writing the quotes he’d collected on a small blackboard inside the tire shop, next to the cashier’s window. Customers and friends liked them enough that it became a tradition. Soon he was putting up new quotes each week, and he continued the tradition even after Kahn and Keville opened a new tire shop on Turk and Larkin streets in 1934.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, a customer suggested to Keville that he move the quotes outside so more people could see them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And boy, did he.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1958, Keville had the giant sign installed in the parking lot. Its sole purpose was for presenting quotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Sign Today\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Keville is no longer around, and he passed the sign duty on to Bill Brinnon in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brinnon was the perfect fit for such an important task. He has loved language for a long time. In college he studied English and architecture. After graduation he worked in a bookstore and then a publishing company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11642231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/6135A504-88BA-4B06-A112-B06CAA4DFFB8-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Brinnon in front of the Khan and Keville's sign.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Brinnon in front of the Kahn and Keville sign. \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days the sign changes roughly every four to six weeks. They come from what Brinnon is reading, “and then of course employees can bring things in, and everybody knows we do it, so they’ll say, ‘Oh, here’s a good one, you’ll like it,’ ” says Brinnon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of the feedback they receive are calls from bus riders, who pass the sign on their daily routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brinnon tells me he prefers truisms, humor and quotes that play with language, though some believe the quotes have a political bent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a little encounter last night with a passer-by and he had all kinds of ideas about what we put up there. And he thought we were too political and I don’t feel we are. So I went back and checked the records, and the quote we put out had nothing to do with politics,” says Brinnon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642437\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11642437\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign7.jpg\" alt=\"The sign in front of the tire shop, Khan and Keville. \" width=\"640\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign7.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign7-160x140.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign7-240x210.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign7-375x329.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign7-520x456.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sign in front of the tire shop, Kahn and Keville.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recently, the sign displayed a quote by Voltaire saying, “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Brinnon admits he’s concerned about the state of the nation, he says he does his best to keep his politics off the sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there are some real problems and dangers facing us. Because it’s a government based on impulse. … It’s not what we’re used to, but the corner sign is what we’re used to. We don’t change too much around here,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it could change. This store was once one of many tire shops that made up Tire Row. All the other shops have shuttered, and tech giants like Uber and Twitter have moved nearby. Brinnon knows that this tire shop may not be around much longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as the industry itself — the idea of an old stand-alone tire store where they sell nothing but tires is probably a thing of the past,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Selection Process\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I visited Brinnon two months ago, to see how the quotes get selected.\u003cbr>\nWhen I arrived, Brinnon had narrowed it down to four options:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“WE DON’T KNOW WHAT WE WANT, BUT WE ARE READY TO BITE SOMEBODY TO GET IT.” – WILL ROGERS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I CAN SEE NOT EVERYONE HAS A SEAT AT THE TABLE, IT’S TIME TO BUILD A BIGGER TABLE.” – RANDY BRYCE IRONWORKER.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“IT’S NEVER ENTIRELY HEARTENING TO LEARN THAT FASCISTS ARE ALWAYS INCOMPETENT.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“BUILD A WALL ON THE INTERNET AND MAKE RUSSIA PAY FOR IT.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, Brinnon writes them out on a piece of paper the way they’d look on the board and shows them to various employees in the shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He talks to tire technicians, office workers and the general manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one that got everyone talking was the quote about Russia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They meddled in the election, Russia did, and took my vote away!” says Ron Dhein, the general manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, that quote was on the sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642433\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign4.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11642433\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign4-800x420.jpg\" alt=\"The quote that made it through the final cut.\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign4-800x420.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign4-160x84.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign4-1020x536.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign4-1180x620.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign4-960x504.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign4-240x126.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign4-375x197.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign4-520x273.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign4.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The quote that made it through the final cut. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"http://lostinsf.com/en/wisdom-of-the-sign-at-turk-and-larkin-in-the-tenderloin\" target=\"_blank\">Lost in SF\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the heart of the Tenderloin, in the parking lot of a tire shop, stands a roughly 7-foot sign atop two poles about two stories high. You might expect to see advertising for deals on tires or auto services on the sign. Instead, you’ll find inspirational quotes, truisms and sayings. And it’s been like that for more than 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642834\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11642834\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/john-160x240.jpg\" alt=\"John Angelico has been noticing the sign's sayings for years. \" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/john-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/john.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Angelico has been noticing the sign’s sayings for years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of John Angelico)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco columnist Herb Caen once called the sign at the corner of Turk and Larkin “the city’s biggest fortune cookie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This sign also piqued the interest of Bay Curious listener John Angelico of San Francisco.\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>“For a tire shop to have this huge marquee out front giving us something totally unrelated to the sale of tires and auto services … It’s kind of a very San Franciscan thing,” says Angelico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wanted to know:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“When did the sign get started? Who is responsible for the sign’s content, and what kind of reaction have they had over the years from the sign?”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 612px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11642277\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o.jpg\" alt=\"The sign in front of Khan and Keville.\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o.jpg 612w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/5339724475_d941dc5592_o-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sign in front of Kahn and Keville. \u003ccite>(Eric Steuer/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Message From Above\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The story begins with Hugh Keville, co-founder of the tire shop, Kahn and Keville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a gentleman, very kind, extremely dignified. Very solicitous of other people and, you know, just a very old-fashioned guy,” says Bill Brinnon, the office manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After opening the first tire shop in 1912 on Golden Gate Avenue, Keville served in World War I. While at war, he carried a small notebook for collecting quotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wrote them down to help carry me through,” Keville reportedly once said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Brinnon, Keville saw some gruesome battles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of his patrol were wiped out and in kind of gory and bloody fashion right in front of him,” Brinnon says. “He was a young man at the time and it had a big effect on him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642273\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11642273\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/180F907E-BDDB-43CF-BFA2-B64E3553BF81-1-e1516145147694-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Brannon in front of portraits of the shops co-founders. Harry Khan is on the left, Hugh Keville is on the right.\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/180F907E-BDDB-43CF-BFA2-B64E3553BF81-1-e1516145147694-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/180F907E-BDDB-43CF-BFA2-B64E3553BF81-1-e1516145147694-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/180F907E-BDDB-43CF-BFA2-B64E3553BF81-1-e1516145147694-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/180F907E-BDDB-43CF-BFA2-B64E3553BF81-1-e1516145147694-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/180F907E-BDDB-43CF-BFA2-B64E3553BF81-1-e1516145147694-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/180F907E-BDDB-43CF-BFA2-B64E3553BF81-1-e1516145147694-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/180F907E-BDDB-43CF-BFA2-B64E3553BF81-1-e1516145147694-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/180F907E-BDDB-43CF-BFA2-B64E3553BF81-1-e1516145147694-520x693.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/180F907E-BDDB-43CF-BFA2-B64E3553BF81-1-e1516145147694.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Office manager Bill Brinnon in front of portraits of the shop’s co-founders. Harry Kahn is on the left, Hugh Keville is on the right. \u003ccite>(KQED/Jessica Placzek)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After returning from war, Keville started writing the quotes he’d collected on a small blackboard inside the tire shop, next to the cashier’s window. Customers and friends liked them enough that it became a tradition. Soon he was putting up new quotes each week, and he continued the tradition even after Kahn and Keville opened a new tire shop on Turk and Larkin streets in 1934.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, a customer suggested to Keville that he move the quotes outside so more people could see them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And boy, did he.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1958, Keville had the giant sign installed in the parking lot. Its sole purpose was for presenting quotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Sign Today\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Keville is no longer around, and he passed the sign duty on to Bill Brinnon in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brinnon was the perfect fit for such an important task. He has loved language for a long time. In college he studied English and architecture. After graduation he worked in a bookstore and then a publishing company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11642231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/6135A504-88BA-4B06-A112-B06CAA4DFFB8-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Brinnon in front of the Khan and Keville's sign.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Brinnon in front of the Kahn and Keville sign. \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days the sign changes roughly every four to six weeks. They come from what Brinnon is reading, “and then of course employees can bring things in, and everybody knows we do it, so they’ll say, ‘Oh, here’s a good one, you’ll like it,’ ” says Brinnon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of the feedback they receive are calls from bus riders, who pass the sign on their daily routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brinnon tells me he prefers truisms, humor and quotes that play with language, though some believe the quotes have a political bent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a little encounter last night with a passer-by and he had all kinds of ideas about what we put up there. And he thought we were too political and I don’t feel we are. So I went back and checked the records, and the quote we put out had nothing to do with politics,” says Brinnon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642437\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11642437\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign7.jpg\" alt=\"The sign in front of the tire shop, Khan and Keville. \" width=\"640\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign7.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign7-160x140.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign7-240x210.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign7-375x329.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign7-520x456.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sign in front of the tire shop, Kahn and Keville.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recently, the sign displayed a quote by Voltaire saying, “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Brinnon admits he’s concerned about the state of the nation, he says he does his best to keep his politics off the sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there are some real problems and dangers facing us. Because it’s a government based on impulse. … It’s not what we’re used to, but the corner sign is what we’re used to. We don’t change too much around here,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it could change. This store was once one of many tire shops that made up Tire Row. All the other shops have shuttered, and tech giants like Uber and Twitter have moved nearby. Brinnon knows that this tire shop may not be around much longer.\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 What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as the industry itself — the idea of an old stand-alone tire store where they sell nothing but tires is probably a thing of the past,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Selection Process\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I visited Brinnon two months ago, to see how the quotes get selected.\u003cbr>\nWhen I arrived, Brinnon had narrowed it down to four options:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“WE DON’T KNOW WHAT WE WANT, BUT WE ARE READY TO BITE SOMEBODY TO GET IT.” – WILL ROGERS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I CAN SEE NOT EVERYONE HAS A SEAT AT THE TABLE, IT’S TIME TO BUILD A BIGGER TABLE.” – RANDY BRYCE IRONWORKER.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“IT’S NEVER ENTIRELY HEARTENING TO LEARN THAT FASCISTS ARE ALWAYS INCOMPETENT.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“BUILD A WALL ON THE INTERNET AND MAKE RUSSIA PAY FOR IT.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, Brinnon writes them out on a piece of paper the way they’d look on the board and shows them to various employees in the shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He talks to tire technicians, office workers and the general manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one that got everyone talking was the quote about Russia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They meddled in the election, Russia did, and took my vote away!” says Ron Dhein, the general manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, that quote was on the sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642433\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign4.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11642433\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign4-800x420.jpg\" alt=\"The quote that made it through the final cut.\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign4-800x420.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign4-160x84.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign4-1020x536.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign4-1180x620.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign4-960x504.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign4-240x126.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign4-375x197.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign4-520x273.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/sign4.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The quote that made it through the final cut. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"http://lostinsf.com/en/wisdom-of-the-sign-at-turk-and-larkin-in-the-tenderloin\" target=\"_blank\">Lost in SF\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Update: On Sept. 25, 2018, three school board members brought forward a resolution calling for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11693522/two-s-f-school-board-commissioners-to-introduce-resolution-ending-lottery-system\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">end of the current student assignment system\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]L[/dropcap]aurel Gaddie and Lamont Lucas try to conduct life as locally as possible. They live in San Francisco’s Duboce Triangle and don’t own a car. They shop locally and walk, bike or ride public transportation when they need to get around. So when it came to finding a kindergarten for their son, Kelvin, local was a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Proximity was the most important thing and diversity was a close second,” Gaddie said. “We wanted our kids to meet kids from different communities. And third, we were hoping for a Spanish-immersion program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The schools that fit those criteria weren’t the most popular ones in San Francisco, so Gaddie felt pretty confident that she’d get something she wanted. But, to make sure, she took \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfkfiles.com/2014/11/what-are-your-best-sf-school-enrollment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some advice\u003c/a> about how to list her choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>By The Numbers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11641324\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-10-at-2.28.51-PM-160x102.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-10-at-2.28.51-PM-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-10-at-2.28.51-PM-800x510.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-10-at-2.28.51-PM-240x153.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-10-at-2.28.51-PM-375x239.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-10-at-2.28.51-PM-520x331.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-10-at-2.28.51-PM.png 863w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We analyzed 2017-2018 kindergarten assignment data to see how common parental tactics play out. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/10/s-f-s-kindergarten-lottery-do-parents-tricks-work/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See what we found.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We read a lot on the internet about how to game the system, this famous San Francisco lottery system,” Gaddie said. “And we kind of crafted our first lottery list around that. We listed 17 different schools, only a handful of which we really wanted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first-round assignment offers came out in March. “We were shocked to find we were assigned to something that was not on our list and not in our neighborhood,” Gaddie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the nightmare of many San Francisco families looking to enroll their children in public school. For many, San Francisco Unified School District’s (SFUSD) \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/en/enroll-in-sfusd-schools/how-to-apply-for-school/application-process.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">student assignment system\u003c/a> — called the lottery by many — is a mixture of overwhelming, stressful and baffling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many places around the country, where a child lives determines where he or she goes to school. San Francisco doesn’t do that because of segregated housing patterns. Creating diverse schools is a district goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your opportunity to go to a school shouldn’t be determined by your home address, just like your opportunity to go to a library or a public park shouldn’t be determined by your home address,” said Orla O’Keeffe, chief of policy and operations for SFUSD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11641272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11641272\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/McKinley-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/McKinley-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/McKinley-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/McKinley-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/McKinley.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/McKinley-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/McKinley-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/McKinley-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/McKinley-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/McKinley-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">McKinley Elementary is in Laurel Gaddie’s neighborhood and was on her list, but her son didn’t receive any of their choices in the first round of the San Francisco school lottery. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lottery as we know it today is the product of \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2015-02/as-courts-flip-flopped-on-school-integration-diversity-has-remained-elusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 40 years of trying to solve the problem\u003c/a> of segregated schools. In the 1970s, SFUSD tried bussing kids from one neighborhood to another, but parents hated that and many left the district altogether. Next the district tried a combination of parental choice and racial quotas, trying to find a balance between the autonomy parents craved and integration. But race-based admissions were \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/16/us/lawsuit-could-decide-future-desegregation-efforts-san-francisco-schools.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">challenged in court\u003c/a> and the district had to drop the quota system altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current lottery system tries to balance parental choice with the district’s goals of integrated schools. It puts the onus of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/en/enroll-in-sfusd-schools/how-to-find-a-school.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">researching and visiting schools \u003c/a>on parents, who then list their choices and submit an application to the district office in person. The district prepares student files and puts them into an algorithm programmed to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/en/enroll-in-sfusd-schools/how-to-apply-for-school/apply-for-elementary-school.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">give priority to a few select groups\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How it works\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The algorithm randomly selects a school and then looks at all the students who listed that school as a choice anywhere on their list and puts them in a pool together. The computer then fills the available spots at the school based on tiebreakers. The tiebreakers are:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Sibling preference — if the student already has a sibling at the school.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://enrollinschool.org/lookup/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Census Tract Integration Preference\u003c/a> (CTIP) — kids who live in parts of the city with the worst test scores.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attendance area — kids who live in the designated attendance area for that school.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>If there are more spots at the school after all the kids with tiebreakers have been placed, the algorithm fills the remainder randomly from the pool of people who requested it.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/01/Podcast-e1515628002599.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1078765985\">Subscribe in iTunes\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Don’t miss an episode of the \u003cstrong>\u003cem>MindShift Podcast\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This same process happens for every school until the only schools with open spots are ones that none of the remaining unassigned children listed. At this point in the process, some kids might have been tentatively assigned to more than one school because they had strong tiebreakers. This is when the algorithm takes into account where a school was ranked on the student’s list. It drops the child from every school except the highest-ranked choice. Now there are open spots again, which the algorithm fills from the group of kids who have not been assigned any school yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, the district built in something called a “swapping mechanism” on the advice of some economists who said it would help prevent parents from trying to “game the system.” During the swapping phase, the algorithm sees if there are any two children who could both be happier if they trade their spots. The district says the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/en/assets/sfusd-staff/enroll/files/Presentation_Dec_7_2017_reduced_size.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">swapping mechanism affected 10 percent of Round 1 kindergarten\u003c/a> offers in the 2017-18 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all that, there are still some unlucky kids who haven’t been assigned to a school. They didn’t get any of their choices, so the district places them in a school with open spots based on proximity to their home address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district sends the first-round assignments in March, at which point parents can either decide to enroll in the school they received or enter the second round of the lottery. People who miss the deadline can also enter in the second round, but the number of options is smaller because some portion of families took their first-round offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If parents still don’t get a school they are happy with after the second round, they can put their child on the waitlist for one school, in case a child enrolled there leaves. Some kids do get into their first-choice school at the last minute this way. If a child receives an offer off the waitlist, she has to take it, even if she’s already happy at a different school.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How do parents feel about it?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some parents feel this lottery system is \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/17/anxious-parents-try-to-game-system-in-san-francisco-school-lottery/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overly complicated and stressful \u003c/a>to families, but for others, CTIP is the only way that their children can access better schools. Raquel Knighten lives in the Bayview, but sends her kids to Rooftop, a highly coveted school on Twin Peaks. Her two kids ride a school bus to get there every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knighten wishes the schools in her neighborhood were better, so that she didn’t feel forced to send her kids far away. She’d like the luxury other parents seem to have, choosing schools based on language programs or a focus on the arts. She’s just glad her kids aren’t going to an underperforming school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of anxiety, but I think overall, it’s a much better feeling than, ‘Your child has to go to this school.’ And you have no options,” Knighten said. She’s frustrated with parents who complain about the lottery without considering what that choice means to other families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of parents are selfish,” Knighten said. “They only think about things and worry about stuff when it applies to their children. And they don’t care how it affects other people’s children. I think overall as parents we should be concerned about every child getting an adequate education because every generation goes to the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s glad the school district makes an effort to prioritize diversity at its schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just think we have to teach each other to be more accepting, and you can’t do that if you’re not around people who don’t look like you,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knighten chose Rooftop because she had heard from other parents that it was one of the best schools in the city. But parents are making very individual choices about where to send their kids based on geography, work schedules, after-school programming, start times, language programs and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heather Dobbins missed the first-round deadline when her son, Keegan, was applying to kindergarten. Keegan was assigned a school Dobbins didn’t want, so she put him in private school. That didn’t work out and Dobbins ended up home-schooling her son for several months. She entered the public school lottery again for first grade and got the same school — Cobb Elementary. This time she gave it a chance and her son loves it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now we know, look for the schools that have what you need, rather than the top 10 schools on everybody’s list,” Dobbins. She admits in her initial kindergarten search she was close-minded about what a “good” school looks like, but her experience at Cobb has taught her that lots of schools can offer a good fit. But she hasn’t changed her mind about one thing — she still hates the lottery system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a burden on every parent, and I’m amazed that more kids don’t go unenrolled,” Dobbins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other parents had a variety of opinions about the lottery. Some didn’t think it was that big a deal — just turn the forms in on time. Others, similar to Raquel Knighten, know that where they live gives them a preference in the lottery, and were weighing choices carefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mink Lincoln-Price has been very worried about how her African-American sons will fare in school. She’s watches the news and sees the reports about how schools are failing black boys. When she visits schools, she’s looking to make sure the leadership understands that this achievement gap is a problem. She wants to hear that principals are actively addressing implicit bias on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me it’s really about the academics,” Lincoln-Price said. “Of course I would like them to go to a school where they could have friends that look like them, but of course you can make friends with anybody. Because honestly if they do go to a school with a majority of the kids that look like them, most likely there won’t be any money at that school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11641267\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11641267 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Mink-Lincoln-Price-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Mink-Lincoln-Price-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Mink-Lincoln-Price-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Mink-Lincoln-Price-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Mink-Lincoln-Price.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Mink-Lincoln-Price-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Mink-Lincoln-Price-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Mink-Lincoln-Price-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Mink-Lincoln-Price-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Mink-Lincoln-Price-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mink Lincoln-Price has been visiting schools to find out how principals plan to address the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/black-student-achievement-focus-sfusd-superintendents-first-three-months-office/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">achievement gap for black boys\u003c/a>. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sadly, she’s right. All schools get state funding based on the number of students enrolled, so schools with fewer students get less money. Of course, it’s not as simple as that. California’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/08/will-new-funding-formula-move-schools-towards-education-equity/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">funding formula\u003c/a> portions out more money for schools that serve low-income children, English language learners, and foster kids. But at schools with wealthier parents, it’s not uncommon for the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) to \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2014-02/how-budget-cuts-and-PTA-fundraising-undermined-equity-in-san-francisco-public-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raise hundreds of thousands of dollars\u003c/a> to support the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is the lottery making schools more diverse?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the district’s attempt to give families living in parts of the city with low test scores a preference in the school lottery, parents’ choices seem to be patterned. That could be due to the logistics of getting a child to school, but it also could be a sign some parents lack information about the various options around the city. The district makes an attempt to reach out widely with information and nonprofit groups do as well, but often parents get information from one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bilingual and Spanish-immersion programs often draw Latino families who want to be able to help their kids with homework and be able to confer with the teacher. Many parents want a school that’s close to home in case there are emergencies. And few elementary school parents are eager to put their 5-year-olds on Muni buses to attend school across town. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/en/transportation/school-bus-schedules.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">district runs several buses\u003c/a> on routes designed to give students more access, but seats are limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/10/s-f-s-kindergarten-lottery-do-parents-tricks-work/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED’s analysis of 2017-2018 kindergarten assignment data \u003c/a>shows that almost 60 percent of students attend a school out of their ZIP code — so there’s a lot of moving around. But those numbers varied greatly by geography. For example, 75 percent of kids living in the Outer Richmond stayed there for school, while 87 percent of kids in the Bayview left their ZIP code. And even when students leave their ZIP code, they may not be going far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not all going across town,” said O’Keeffe. “In many cases it’s just kind of the next few neighborhoods that they’re going to school to, like the Excelsior, or Vis Valley, the Mission, stuff like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, although San Francisco’s choice system does give some kids a way out of their neighborhoods, it isn’t doing a great job of desegregating the district’s schools overall. Choice patterns are just as segregated as housing patterns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Choice is complex and it is time-consuming and it does create angst and it’s not currently creating diversity,” O’Keeffe said. “I do think, though, that student assignment alone will never solve for this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she says the district is committed to trying. The school board is considering a number of changes to the student assignment process, including doing away with the swapping mechanism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re concerned that it’s complicated and difficult to understand and that it encourages families to list schools they don’t want as a strategy to get a choice,” O’Keeffe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A choice system like this one benefits parents who have the time and wherewithal to seek out information, and the ability to have their children attend the schools they like, even if it’s a difficult commute. O’Keeffe knows this, but says there’s no easy solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’ve got choice patterns that are racially isolated, how can choice solve it? And if you’ve got residential patterns that are racially isolated, how can neighborhoods solve it?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Update: On Sept. 25, 2018, three school board members brought forward a resolution calling for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11693522/two-s-f-school-board-commissioners-to-introduce-resolution-ending-lottery-system\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">end of the current student assignment system\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">L\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>aurel Gaddie and Lamont Lucas try to conduct life as locally as possible. They live in San Francisco’s Duboce Triangle and don’t own a car. They shop locally and walk, bike or ride public transportation when they need to get around. So when it came to finding a kindergarten for their son, Kelvin, local was a priority.\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 What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Proximity was the most important thing and diversity was a close second,” Gaddie said. “We wanted our kids to meet kids from different communities. And third, we were hoping for a Spanish-immersion program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The schools that fit those criteria weren’t the most popular ones in San Francisco, so Gaddie felt pretty confident that she’d get something she wanted. But, to make sure, she took \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfkfiles.com/2014/11/what-are-your-best-sf-school-enrollment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some advice\u003c/a> about how to list her choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>By The Numbers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11641324\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-10-at-2.28.51-PM-160x102.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-10-at-2.28.51-PM-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-10-at-2.28.51-PM-800x510.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-10-at-2.28.51-PM-240x153.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-10-at-2.28.51-PM-375x239.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-10-at-2.28.51-PM-520x331.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-10-at-2.28.51-PM.png 863w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We analyzed 2017-2018 kindergarten assignment data to see how common parental tactics play out. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/10/s-f-s-kindergarten-lottery-do-parents-tricks-work/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See what we found.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We read a lot on the internet about how to game the system, this famous San Francisco lottery system,” Gaddie said. “And we kind of crafted our first lottery list around that. We listed 17 different schools, only a handful of which we really wanted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first-round assignment offers came out in March. “We were shocked to find we were assigned to something that was not on our list and not in our neighborhood,” Gaddie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the nightmare of many San Francisco families looking to enroll their children in public school. For many, San Francisco Unified School District’s (SFUSD) \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/en/enroll-in-sfusd-schools/how-to-apply-for-school/application-process.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">student assignment system\u003c/a> — called the lottery by many — is a mixture of overwhelming, stressful and baffling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many places around the country, where a child lives determines where he or she goes to school. San Francisco doesn’t do that because of segregated housing patterns. Creating diverse schools is a district goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your opportunity to go to a school shouldn’t be determined by your home address, just like your opportunity to go to a library or a public park shouldn’t be determined by your home address,” said Orla O’Keeffe, chief of policy and operations for SFUSD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11641272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11641272\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/McKinley-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/McKinley-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/McKinley-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/McKinley-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/McKinley.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/McKinley-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/McKinley-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/McKinley-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/McKinley-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/McKinley-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">McKinley Elementary is in Laurel Gaddie’s neighborhood and was on her list, but her son didn’t receive any of their choices in the first round of the San Francisco school lottery. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lottery as we know it today is the product of \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2015-02/as-courts-flip-flopped-on-school-integration-diversity-has-remained-elusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 40 years of trying to solve the problem\u003c/a> of segregated schools. In the 1970s, SFUSD tried bussing kids from one neighborhood to another, but parents hated that and many left the district altogether. Next the district tried a combination of parental choice and racial quotas, trying to find a balance between the autonomy parents craved and integration. But race-based admissions were \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/16/us/lawsuit-could-decide-future-desegregation-efforts-san-francisco-schools.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">challenged in court\u003c/a> and the district had to drop the quota system altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current lottery system tries to balance parental choice with the district’s goals of integrated schools. It puts the onus of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/en/enroll-in-sfusd-schools/how-to-find-a-school.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">researching and visiting schools \u003c/a>on parents, who then list their choices and submit an application to the district office in person. The district prepares student files and puts them into an algorithm programmed to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/en/enroll-in-sfusd-schools/how-to-apply-for-school/apply-for-elementary-school.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">give priority to a few select groups\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How it works\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The algorithm randomly selects a school and then looks at all the students who listed that school as a choice anywhere on their list and puts them in a pool together. The computer then fills the available spots at the school based on tiebreakers. The tiebreakers are:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Sibling preference — if the student already has a sibling at the school.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://enrollinschool.org/lookup/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Census Tract Integration Preference\u003c/a> (CTIP) — kids who live in parts of the city with the worst test scores.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attendance area — kids who live in the designated attendance area for that school.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>If there are more spots at the school after all the kids with tiebreakers have been placed, the algorithm fills the remainder randomly from the pool of people who requested it.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/01/Podcast-e1515628002599.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1078765985\">Subscribe in iTunes\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Don’t miss an episode of the \u003cstrong>\u003cem>MindShift Podcast\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This same process happens for every school until the only schools with open spots are ones that none of the remaining unassigned children listed. At this point in the process, some kids might have been tentatively assigned to more than one school because they had strong tiebreakers. This is when the algorithm takes into account where a school was ranked on the student’s list. It drops the child from every school except the highest-ranked choice. Now there are open spots again, which the algorithm fills from the group of kids who have not been assigned any school yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, the district built in something called a “swapping mechanism” on the advice of some economists who said it would help prevent parents from trying to “game the system.” During the swapping phase, the algorithm sees if there are any two children who could both be happier if they trade their spots. The district says the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/en/assets/sfusd-staff/enroll/files/Presentation_Dec_7_2017_reduced_size.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">swapping mechanism affected 10 percent of Round 1 kindergarten\u003c/a> offers in the 2017-18 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all that, there are still some unlucky kids who haven’t been assigned to a school. They didn’t get any of their choices, so the district places them in a school with open spots based on proximity to their home address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district sends the first-round assignments in March, at which point parents can either decide to enroll in the school they received or enter the second round of the lottery. People who miss the deadline can also enter in the second round, but the number of options is smaller because some portion of families took their first-round offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If parents still don’t get a school they are happy with after the second round, they can put their child on the waitlist for one school, in case a child enrolled there leaves. Some kids do get into their first-choice school at the last minute this way. If a child receives an offer off the waitlist, she has to take it, even if she’s already happy at a different school.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How do parents feel about it?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some parents feel this lottery system is \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/17/anxious-parents-try-to-game-system-in-san-francisco-school-lottery/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overly complicated and stressful \u003c/a>to families, but for others, CTIP is the only way that their children can access better schools. Raquel Knighten lives in the Bayview, but sends her kids to Rooftop, a highly coveted school on Twin Peaks. Her two kids ride a school bus to get there every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knighten wishes the schools in her neighborhood were better, so that she didn’t feel forced to send her kids far away. She’d like the luxury other parents seem to have, choosing schools based on language programs or a focus on the arts. She’s just glad her kids aren’t going to an underperforming school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of anxiety, but I think overall, it’s a much better feeling than, ‘Your child has to go to this school.’ And you have no options,” Knighten said. She’s frustrated with parents who complain about the lottery without considering what that choice means to other families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of parents are selfish,” Knighten said. “They only think about things and worry about stuff when it applies to their children. And they don’t care how it affects other people’s children. I think overall as parents we should be concerned about every child getting an adequate education because every generation goes to the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s glad the school district makes an effort to prioritize diversity at its schools.\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>“I just think we have to teach each other to be more accepting, and you can’t do that if you’re not around people who don’t look like you,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knighten chose Rooftop because she had heard from other parents that it was one of the best schools in the city. 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But she hasn’t changed her mind about one thing — she still hates the lottery system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a burden on every parent, and I’m amazed that more kids don’t go unenrolled,” Dobbins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other parents had a variety of opinions about the lottery. Some didn’t think it was that big a deal — just turn the forms in on time. Others, similar to Raquel Knighten, know that where they live gives them a preference in the lottery, and were weighing choices carefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mink Lincoln-Price has been very worried about how her African-American sons will fare in school. She’s watches the news and sees the reports about how schools are failing black boys. When she visits schools, she’s looking to make sure the leadership understands that this achievement gap is a problem. 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All schools get state funding based on the number of students enrolled, so schools with fewer students get less money. Of course, it’s not as simple as that. California’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/08/will-new-funding-formula-move-schools-towards-education-equity/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">funding formula\u003c/a> portions out more money for schools that serve low-income children, English language learners, and foster kids. But at schools with wealthier parents, it’s not uncommon for the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) to \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2014-02/how-budget-cuts-and-PTA-fundraising-undermined-equity-in-san-francisco-public-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raise hundreds of thousands of dollars\u003c/a> to support the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is the lottery making schools more diverse?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the district’s attempt to give families living in parts of the city with low test scores a preference in the school lottery, parents’ choices seem to be patterned. That could be due to the logistics of getting a child to school, but it also could be a sign some parents lack information about the various options around the city. The district makes an attempt to reach out widely with information and nonprofit groups do as well, but often parents get information from one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bilingual and Spanish-immersion programs often draw Latino families who want to be able to help their kids with homework and be able to confer with the teacher. Many parents want a school that’s close to home in case there are emergencies. And few elementary school parents are eager to put their 5-year-olds on Muni buses to attend school across town. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/en/transportation/school-bus-schedules.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">district runs several buses\u003c/a> on routes designed to give students more access, but seats are limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/10/s-f-s-kindergarten-lottery-do-parents-tricks-work/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED’s analysis of 2017-2018 kindergarten assignment data \u003c/a>shows that almost 60 percent of students attend a school out of their ZIP code — so there’s a lot of moving around. But those numbers varied greatly by geography. For example, 75 percent of kids living in the Outer Richmond stayed there for school, while 87 percent of kids in the Bayview left their ZIP code. And even when students leave their ZIP code, they may not be going far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not all going across town,” said O’Keeffe. “In many cases it’s just kind of the next few neighborhoods that they’re going to school to, like the Excelsior, or Vis Valley, the Mission, stuff like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, although San Francisco’s choice system does give some kids a way out of their neighborhoods, it isn’t doing a great job of desegregating the district’s schools overall. Choice patterns are just as segregated as housing patterns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Choice is complex and it is time-consuming and it does create angst and it’s not currently creating diversity,” O’Keeffe said. “I do think, though, that student assignment alone will never solve for this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she says the district is committed to trying. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Update: On Sept. 25, 2018, three school board members brought forward a resolution calling for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11693522/two-s-f-school-board-commissioners-to-introduce-resolution-ending-lottery-system\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">end of the current student assignment system\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re living in San Francisco without kids, you may never have thought about the public schools before. But for parents, the San Francisco school lottery looms large. This complex and confusing process has driven parents out of the city. And some of those who stay have horror stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get their child into a public kindergarten, parents enter a lottery that blends their choices with a mysterious algorithm designed to give every child the opportunity to attend the school of their choice. A kindergartner here could be assigned to any of the city’s 72 elementary schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>How the San Francisco School Lottery Works, And How It Doesn’t\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11641324\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/school-lottery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"223\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s complicated school lottery system offers opportunity that isn’t always realized. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/11/how-the-san-francisco-school-lottery-works-and-how-it-doesnt-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the story.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Entering the lottery starts with a lot of handwringing: Parents have to rank their favorite schools and submit the list in person at the district office. With this much at stake, there are a lot of theories on how parents can build these lists to get their kids into their top-choice schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED News analyzed how those parental choices impacted school assignment and enrollment, using anonymized data provided by the San Francisco Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"http://download.biglocalnews.org/20171103_KQED_KinderAssignmentData_201718.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download the data\u003c/a> yourself. Please let us know what you find at \u003ca href=\"mailto:baycurious@kqed.org\">baycurious@kqed.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Good News: The Odds Are in Your Favor\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>We found that the majority of students, 61 percent, enrolled in their first-choice school, 77 percent enrolled in one of their top five choices and 80 percent in one of their top 10 choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many parents said that one of their big fears was being assigned a random school, one they didn’t list. However, only 3 percent of children received a random school in the first round of assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Gaming Techniques\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While 80 percent is a pretty good chance, it does mean that a fifth of students will not get one of their top 10 choices. There’s a lot of advice out there from parents, organizations and the school district on how to ensure your kid will get into the right school for you. We analyzed some of the most popular techniques to see how they stood up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Note: Each school year is different, and the school district does sometimes tweak the algorithm based on school board policies. So these findings apply to students who applied for the 2017-2018 school year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listing a Lot of Schools\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot of playground chatter, as well as online blogs, saying that listing a lot of schools is one way to success. The vast majority of people list 10 schools or less, about 75 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some people listed far more schools than 10. Several even listed more schools than are available to attend, up to 92. But we found this system doesn’t necessarily improve the odds of enrolling in one of your top-choice schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We found that, of people who listed more than 10 schools, 39 percent received their first choice, 62 percent received one of their top five choices and 67 percent received one of their top 10 choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurel Gaddie’s son, Kelvin, goes to Sanchez Elementary School; her daughter will be entering the lottery this year. When applying to kindergarten for Kelvin, Gaddie listed a lot of schools based on advice from parent blogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first looked at our list of 17 [schools] I thought, this is absurd, but hopefully it will result in us getting our top choice. It didn’t,” Gaddie says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED asked the San Francisco Unified School District about our findings. However, it did not respond to our requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listing the Same School Multiple Times\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also found that many parents listed the same school several times in their lottery applications. However, this technique did not appear to have any significant impact either way on how likely those students were to enroll in their top choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listing Schools for Swapping\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before everyone receives their first-round school assignment, the algorithm “swaps” schools. Basically, the algorithm looks out across all the tentatively assigned students to see if any two could both receive a higher ranked choice if they swapped places. Then the algorithm transfers the two assignments, so Student A gets Student B’s assignment and vice versa. The district says \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/en/assets/sfusd-staff/enroll/files/Presentation_Dec_7_2017_reduced_size.pdf\">10 percent of first-round assignments were affected\u003c/a> by the swapping mechanism in 2017-18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This has led some parents to list schools that they think other parents may want in hopes that, during the swapping phase, they could get one of their higher choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The strategy is, you fill out your top 10 schools and then you put all the other schools, even if of course you’re not going to go there,” said Jenny Williams, a parent who just went through the school assignment process. “You get the extra piece of paper and you put them all on there. Every school — which is ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams didn’t use this strategy, but she heard plenty about it from other parents as she went through the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED could not tell from the data provided whether this technique is effective. However, the school district is considering dropping the swapping mechanism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re concerned that it’s complicated and difficult to understand, and that it encourages families to list schools they don’t want as a strategy to get a choice,” says Orla O’Keeffe, executive director of policy and operations for the SFUSD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neighborhood Schools\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One factor we know the algorithm considers is whether the child lives in the school’s attendance area. This has left parents wondering where they should rank the schools closest to them. The data we received does not show how requests are weighted by the system. However, a majority of students enrolled in schools out of their ZIP codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We did find that some ZIP codes seem harder to leave than others. Students in areas like the Outer Richmond are more likely to attend schools in their ZIP codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Most Requested Schools\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The top 10 most requested schools, in order:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Clarendon Elementary School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>West Portal Elementary School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Grattan Elementary School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rooftop Elementary School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lawton Alternative School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sunset Elementary School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>George Peabody Elementary School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Claire B. Lilienthal Elementary School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Alvarado Elementary School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jefferson Elementary School\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>School by School\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Below you can select different schools to see how they compare in terms of applicants and enrollees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 4,611 children entered the 2017-2018 San Francisco Unified School District kindergarten lottery. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Update: On Sept. 25, 2018, three school board members brought forward a resolution calling for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11693522/two-s-f-school-board-commissioners-to-introduce-resolution-ending-lottery-system\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">end of the current student assignment system\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re living in San Francisco without kids, you may never have thought about the public schools before. But for parents, the San Francisco school lottery looms large. This complex and confusing process has driven parents out of the city. And some of those who stay have horror stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get their child into a public kindergarten, parents enter a lottery that blends their choices with a mysterious algorithm designed to give every child the opportunity to attend the school of their choice. A kindergartner here could be assigned to any of the city’s 72 elementary schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>How the San Francisco School Lottery Works, And How It Doesn’t\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11641324\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/school-lottery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"223\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s complicated school lottery system offers opportunity that isn’t always realized. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/11/how-the-san-francisco-school-lottery-works-and-how-it-doesnt-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the story.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Entering the lottery starts with a lot of handwringing: Parents have to rank their favorite schools and submit the list in person at the district office. With this much at stake, there are a lot of theories on how parents can build these lists to get their kids into their top-choice schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED News analyzed how those parental choices impacted school assignment and enrollment, using anonymized data provided by the San Francisco Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"http://download.biglocalnews.org/20171103_KQED_KinderAssignmentData_201718.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download the data\u003c/a> yourself. Please let us know what you find at \u003ca href=\"mailto:baycurious@kqed.org\">baycurious@kqed.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Good News: The Odds Are in Your Favor\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>We found that the majority of students, 61 percent, enrolled in their first-choice school, 77 percent enrolled in one of their top five choices and 80 percent in one of their top 10 choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many parents said that one of their big fears was being assigned a random school, one they didn’t list. However, only 3 percent of children received a random school in the first round of assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Gaming Techniques\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While 80 percent is a pretty good chance, it does mean that a fifth of students will not get one of their top 10 choices. There’s a lot of advice out there from parents, organizations and the school district on how to ensure your kid will get into the right school for you. We analyzed some of the most popular techniques to see how they stood up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Note: Each school year is different, and the school district does sometimes tweak the algorithm based on school board policies. So these findings apply to students who applied for the 2017-2018 school year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listing a Lot of Schools\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot of playground chatter, as well as online blogs, saying that listing a lot of schools is one way to success. The vast majority of people list 10 schools or less, about 75 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some people listed far more schools than 10. Several even listed more schools than are available to attend, up to 92. But we found this system doesn’t necessarily improve the odds of enrolling in one of your top-choice schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We found that, of people who listed more than 10 schools, 39 percent received their first choice, 62 percent received one of their top five choices and 67 percent received one of their top 10 choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurel Gaddie’s son, Kelvin, goes to Sanchez Elementary School; her daughter will be entering the lottery this year. When applying to kindergarten for Kelvin, Gaddie listed a lot of schools based on advice from parent blogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first looked at our list of 17 [schools] I thought, this is absurd, but hopefully it will result in us getting our top choice. It didn’t,” Gaddie says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED asked the San Francisco Unified School District about our findings. However, it did not respond to our requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listing the Same School Multiple Times\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also found that many parents listed the same school several times in their lottery applications. However, this technique did not appear to have any significant impact either way on how likely those students were to enroll in their top choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listing Schools for Swapping\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before everyone receives their first-round school assignment, the algorithm “swaps” schools. Basically, the algorithm looks out across all the tentatively assigned students to see if any two could both receive a higher ranked choice if they swapped places. Then the algorithm transfers the two assignments, so Student A gets Student B’s assignment and vice versa. The district says \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/en/assets/sfusd-staff/enroll/files/Presentation_Dec_7_2017_reduced_size.pdf\">10 percent of first-round assignments were affected\u003c/a> by the swapping mechanism in 2017-18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This has led some parents to list schools that they think other parents may want in hopes that, during the swapping phase, they could get one of their higher choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The strategy is, you fill out your top 10 schools and then you put all the other schools, even if of course you’re not going to go there,” said Jenny Williams, a parent who just went through the school assignment process. “You get the extra piece of paper and you put them all on there. Every school — which is ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams didn’t use this strategy, but she heard plenty about it from other parents as she went through the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED could not tell from the data provided whether this technique is effective. However, the school district is considering dropping the swapping mechanism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re concerned that it’s complicated and difficult to understand, and that it encourages families to list schools they don’t want as a strategy to get a choice,” says Orla O’Keeffe, executive director of policy and operations for the SFUSD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neighborhood Schools\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One factor we know the algorithm considers is whether the child lives in the school’s attendance area. This has left parents wondering where they should rank the schools closest to them. The data we received does not show how requests are weighted by the system. However, a majority of students enrolled in schools out of their ZIP codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We did find that some ZIP codes seem harder to leave than others. Students in areas like the Outer Richmond are more likely to attend schools in their ZIP codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Most Requested Schools\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The top 10 most requested schools, in order:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Clarendon Elementary School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>West Portal Elementary School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Grattan Elementary School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rooftop Elementary School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lawton Alternative School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sunset Elementary School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>George Peabody Elementary School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Claire B. Lilienthal Elementary School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Alvarado Elementary School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jefferson Elementary School\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>School by School\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Below you can select different schools to see how they compare in terms of applicants and enrollees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 4,611 children entered the 2017-2018 San Francisco Unified School District kindergarten lottery. Parents can select multiple schools, and they made more than 45,000 unique choices. So, while some of the application numbers may seem incredibly high, keep in mind that there are a lot of applications, compared to enrollments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, not every child who enters the lottery enrolls. 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"content": "\u003cp>Suburbia: The very word conjures up rows and rows of cookie-cutter houses, laid out on a vast, grim grid of blah. At the time they were built, after World War II, the nation was desperate for new housing. But \u003ci>some\u003c/i> of those homes are considered architectural treasures today, especially if they were made by one\u003ci> particular\u003c/i> Silicon Valley real estate developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Birth of the Eichler\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Let’s travel back in time to the 1940s, when a Bay Area businessman named Joseph Eichler rented the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eichlernetwork.com/article/bazett-house-hillsborough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bazett house\u003c/a> in Hillsborough, designed by rock star architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Eichler fell in love. He hired the Wright-loving architecture firm of Anshen and Allen to make him something along the same lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Eichler started thinking about making homes for other people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635825\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28401_Bazett-house-1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Bazett house of Hillsborough was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. After renting it, Joseph Eichler was so impressed, he launchd into a new career as a design-savvy tract house developer.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28401_Bazett-house-1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28401_Bazett-house-1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28401_Bazett-house-1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28401_Bazett-house-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28401_Bazett-house-1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28401_Bazett-house-1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28401_Bazett-house-1-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28401_Bazett-house-1-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28401_Bazett-house-1-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bazett house of Hillsborough was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. After renting it, Joseph Eichler was so impressed, he launchd into a new career as a design-savvy tract house developer. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Weinstein)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He was looking around for something to do. A lot of people at that time from other professions were going into homebuilding,” says David Weinstein, who writes for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eichlernetwork.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eichler Network\u003c/a>, a website for Eichler enthusiasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eichler’s vision developed gradually, and the homes he built initially in Sunnyvale weren’t much to look at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His very first subdivisions don’t look like Eichlers at all,” Weinstein says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then Robert Anshen convinced Eichler to use architects and designers for his \u003ci>tract houses\u003c/i>, too — something that \u003ca href=\"http://www.eichlernetwork.com/blog/dave-weinstein/why-joe-wouldn%E2%80%99t-%E2%80%98scrap-architects%E2%80%99\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most developers\u003c/a> were not doing at the time. That’s what pushed Eichler homes onto a different plane of development: the people he had working for him. If that makes him sound a little like Steve Jobs at Apple, well, that would be an apt comparison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635769\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635769\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-7.19.28-AM-800x507.png\" alt=\"Ads like this one enticed young families to scrimp and save for something better than your average tract house.\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-7.19.28-AM-800x507.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-7.19.28-AM-160x101.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-7.19.28-AM-1020x646.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-7.19.28-AM-1180x748.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-7.19.28-AM-960x608.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-7.19.28-AM-240x152.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-7.19.28-AM-375x238.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-7.19.28-AM-520x329.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-7.19.28-AM.png 1269w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ads like this one enticed young families to scrimp and save for something better than your average tract house. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Page & Turnbull)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They were always innovating, coming up with new ways for space arrangement. It’s really the spirit of Silicon Valley. These were experimental houses,” says Weinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 1949 and 1974, when Eichler died, his group built roughly 11,000 homes in California, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll find them north, east and south of San Francisco, but Palo Alto is home to more Eichlers than anyplace else: \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/56865\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 2,700 houses\u003c/a>, packing the tightly curving streets and cul-de-sacs Eichler preferred because they encourage people to hang out with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of Palo Alto’s Eichler neighborhoods, Green Gables and Greenmeadow, are historic districts listed in the National Register of Historic Places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11635763\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/6a00d8341c796653ef01156ed30e77970c.jpg\" alt=\"As blogger Stephen Coles points out on The Midcentury Modernist, when the Pixar team wanted an mid-century modern home for Bob and Helen Parr in “The Incredibles,” they opted for an Eichler. \" width=\"500\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/6a00d8341c796653ef01156ed30e77970c.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/6a00d8341c796653ef01156ed30e77970c-160x67.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/6a00d8341c796653ef01156ed30e77970c-240x101.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/6a00d8341c796653ef01156ed30e77970c-375x158.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As blogger Stephen Coles points out on The Mid-Century Modernist, when the Pixar team wanted a midcentury modern home for Bob and Helen Parr in “The Incredibles,” they opted for an Eichler. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Pixar Animation Studios)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The Eichler Look\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>From the outside, Eichlers appear modest, crisp, angular. But step inside, and your attention is drawn to floor-to-ceiling windows that look out onto the backyard, taking full advantage of California’s year-round sunshine. You know that phrase “indoor/outdoor living”? This is that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The openness, the airiness, looking up from a window and seeing the sky when you’re in the house,” says Bonnie Borton, an Eichler owner who moved in right after the neighborhood in Palo Alto was built in 1959-1960.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635765\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28399_Photo-Sep-06-11-12-12-AM-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior of Edita Donnelly's remodeled Eichler home in Palo Alto.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28399_Photo-Sep-06-11-12-12-AM-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28399_Photo-Sep-06-11-12-12-AM-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28399_Photo-Sep-06-11-12-12-AM-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28399_Photo-Sep-06-11-12-12-AM-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28399_Photo-Sep-06-11-12-12-AM-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28399_Photo-Sep-06-11-12-12-AM-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28399_Photo-Sep-06-11-12-12-AM-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28399_Photo-Sep-06-11-12-12-AM-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28399_Photo-Sep-06-11-12-12-AM-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exterior of Edita Donnelly’s remodeled Eichler home in Palo Alto. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If your parents — or grandparents — subscribed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sunset.com/home-garden/idea-houses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>Sunset Magazine\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, you’ve seen an Eichler, because for more than two decades, Sunset’s vision of the California Dream House looked like an Eichler: open floor plans, clean lines stretching in every direction. It’s a style that has come to be known as midcentury modern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even today, when people buy Eichlers and remodel them, they often use Sunset for inspiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639898\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11639898\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Photo-Oct-04-2-11-25-PM-800x572.jpg\" alt='Eichler homes makes the most of \"indoor/outdoor living.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Photo-Oct-04-2-11-25-PM-800x572.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Photo-Oct-04-2-11-25-PM-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Photo-Oct-04-2-11-25-PM-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Photo-Oct-04-2-11-25-PM-1920x1374.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Photo-Oct-04-2-11-25-PM-1180x844.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Photo-Oct-04-2-11-25-PM-960x687.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Photo-Oct-04-2-11-25-PM-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Photo-Oct-04-2-11-25-PM-375x268.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Photo-Oct-04-2-11-25-PM-520x372.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eichler homes makes the most of “indoor/outdoor living.” \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We replaced everything,” says Edita Donnelly of Palo Alto, who wanted her Eichler to look even more “Eichler-esque” if you will, than it was when she bought it. That is to say, she did things like raise the ceiling in the living room, and she added sliding glass doors to every room in the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We designed it so that every room has access to the outside, and I think that idea came from a \u003ci>Sunset Magazine\u003c/i> model house for me,” Donnelly says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28398_Photo-Sep-06-11-14-28-AM-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Floor-to-ceiling windows in Edita Donnelly's Palo Alto living room draw the eye to the backyard. This is what "indoor/outdoor" living means.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28398_Photo-Sep-06-11-14-28-AM-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28398_Photo-Sep-06-11-14-28-AM-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28398_Photo-Sep-06-11-14-28-AM-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28398_Photo-Sep-06-11-14-28-AM-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28398_Photo-Sep-06-11-14-28-AM-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28398_Photo-Sep-06-11-14-28-AM-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28398_Photo-Sep-06-11-14-28-AM-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28398_Photo-Sep-06-11-14-28-AM-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28398_Photo-Sep-06-11-14-28-AM-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Floor-to-ceiling windows in Edita Donnelly’s Palo Alto living room draw the eye to the backyard. This is what “indoor/outdoor” living means. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>They Used to Be Affordable\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Bonnie Borton bought her Eichler in 1960, she paid $19,500. Let that sink in for a moment. Today in Palo Alto, one of these homes can sell for up to $3 million. Eichlers in less affluent cities aren’t quite as pricey, but it’s all a far cry from the days when these homes were sold to people in the middle class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Lovely side note: Eichler also had a nondiscrimination policy and insisted on selling to people of all ethnicities and religions — a progressive attitude that wasn’t matched by many other tract home developers at the time.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in even wealthier neighborhoods, like Atherton and Hillsborough, some people have bought the property and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eichlernetwork.com/article/slipping-away\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bulldozed the Eichler\u003c/a> to make way for something bigger, newer, \u003ci>whatever\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in recent years, a number of Eichler-rich neighborhoods in Silicon Valley have developed \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/pln/special_projects/eichler_neighborhood_design_guidelines_.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">design guidelines\u003c/a>, zoning overlays or even historic districts in an attempt to keep their neighborhoods aesthetically cohesive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-6.23.20-AM-800x529.png\" alt=\"Palo Alto is home to more Eichlers than anyplace else: more than 2,700 homes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-6.23.20-AM-800x529.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-6.23.20-AM-160x106.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-6.23.20-AM-1020x675.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-6.23.20-AM-1180x781.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-6.23.20-AM-960x635.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-6.23.20-AM-240x159.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-6.23.20-AM-375x248.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-6.23.20-AM-520x344.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-6.23.20-AM.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palo Alto is home to more Eichlers than anyplace else: more than 2,700 homes. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Page & Turnbull)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People who like the Eichlers aren’t saying the wealthy shouldn’t have big houses. They should just do it someplace else,” Weinstein says drolly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Thompson, another Palo Alto Eichler owner, explains that something as ostensibly simple as adding another story can negatively affects the neighbors, even if tastefully done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because our homes have these floor-to-ceiling windows in the primary living areas, in the master bedroom, in the kitchen, in the living room. Most people don’t have blinds,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Eichlers are only one story. If you have to install drapes or blinds to block the neighbor’s view, you lose that “indoor/outdoor” space you bought your house to enjoy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the flip side, you might be thinking: Why would someone who can \u003ci>afford\u003c/i> to buy an Eichler in Silicon Valley these days \u003ci>want\u003c/i> to buy one? After all, they’re modestly sized, aging tract homes — some of which now come with zoning restrictions. I asked Thompson, who moved from Seattle to Palo Alto with her husband about eight years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635770\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11635770 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28396_Photo-Oct-04-2-14-22-PM-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Indoor atriums like this one in the home of Dorene Loew and Jennifer Brown of Palo function as a second living room, outdoors. Californians may take it for granted, but for those who move here, this is jaw-droppingly desirable.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28396_Photo-Oct-04-2-14-22-PM-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28396_Photo-Oct-04-2-14-22-PM-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28396_Photo-Oct-04-2-14-22-PM-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28396_Photo-Oct-04-2-14-22-PM-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28396_Photo-Oct-04-2-14-22-PM-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28396_Photo-Oct-04-2-14-22-PM-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28396_Photo-Oct-04-2-14-22-PM-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28396_Photo-Oct-04-2-14-22-PM-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28396_Photo-Oct-04-2-14-22-PM-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indoor atriums like this one in the home of Dorene Loew and Jennifer Brown of Palo function as a second living room, outdoors. Californians may take it for granted, but for those who move here, this is jaw-droppingly desirable. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Most people, if they move here from elsewhere, they downsize, because the cost of living is so much more expensive. So we downsized into a smaller house than we had in Seattle. However, we gained access to a large atrium, a front yard, a backyard that we could use for most months out of the year. So we really don’t miss the extra space,” Thompson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the years, Thompson adds, it’s the neighbors they’ve come to appreciate most: the block parties, book clubs, not to mention shared Rolodexes of plumbers, electricians and interior decorators who specialize in Eichlers. “This is something that doesn’t exist as much anymore in this country. You don’t just buy a home. You’re buying into a community!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be fair, a lot of tract developers thought they were building communities back in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. What’s different about Eichlers? Distinctive design and that definite sense, if you live in one, that you’re living the California Dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Special thanks to Palo Alto real estate agent \u003ca href=\"http://Desireedocktor.com\">Desiree Docktor\u003c/a> for her invaluable help in producing this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635771\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28397_Photo-Sep-06-11-13-53-AM-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"If you sense a Japanese aesthetic to Eichlers, you're not imagining things. Joseph Eichler was originally inspired by a rock star American architect who loved Japanese art and design, Frank Lloyd Wright.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28397_Photo-Sep-06-11-13-53-AM-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28397_Photo-Sep-06-11-13-53-AM-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28397_Photo-Sep-06-11-13-53-AM-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28397_Photo-Sep-06-11-13-53-AM-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28397_Photo-Sep-06-11-13-53-AM-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28397_Photo-Sep-06-11-13-53-AM-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28397_Photo-Sep-06-11-13-53-AM-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28397_Photo-Sep-06-11-13-53-AM-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28397_Photo-Sep-06-11-13-53-AM-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you sense a Japanese aesthetic to Eichlers, you’re not imagining things. Joseph Eichler was originally inspired by a rock star American architect who loved Japanese art and design, Frank Lloyd Wright. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Suburbia: The very word conjures up rows and rows of cookie-cutter houses, laid out on a vast, grim grid of blah. At the time they were built, after World War II, the nation was desperate for new housing. But \u003ci>some\u003c/i> of those homes are considered architectural treasures today, especially if they were made by one\u003ci> particular\u003c/i> Silicon Valley real estate developer.\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\u003ch3>Birth of the Eichler\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Let’s travel back in time to the 1940s, when a Bay Area businessman named Joseph Eichler rented the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eichlernetwork.com/article/bazett-house-hillsborough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bazett house\u003c/a> in Hillsborough, designed by rock star architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Eichler fell in love. He hired the Wright-loving architecture firm of Anshen and Allen to make him something along the same lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Eichler started thinking about making homes for other people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635825\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28401_Bazett-house-1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Bazett house of Hillsborough was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. After renting it, Joseph Eichler was so impressed, he launchd into a new career as a design-savvy tract house developer.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28401_Bazett-house-1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28401_Bazett-house-1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28401_Bazett-house-1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28401_Bazett-house-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28401_Bazett-house-1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28401_Bazett-house-1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28401_Bazett-house-1-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28401_Bazett-house-1-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28401_Bazett-house-1-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bazett house of Hillsborough was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. After renting it, Joseph Eichler was so impressed, he launchd into a new career as a design-savvy tract house developer. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Weinstein)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He was looking around for something to do. A lot of people at that time from other professions were going into homebuilding,” says David Weinstein, who writes for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eichlernetwork.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eichler Network\u003c/a>, a website for Eichler enthusiasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eichler’s vision developed gradually, and the homes he built initially in Sunnyvale weren’t much to look at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His very first subdivisions don’t look like Eichlers at all,” Weinstein says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then Robert Anshen convinced Eichler to use architects and designers for his \u003ci>tract houses\u003c/i>, too — something that \u003ca href=\"http://www.eichlernetwork.com/blog/dave-weinstein/why-joe-wouldn%E2%80%99t-%E2%80%98scrap-architects%E2%80%99\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most developers\u003c/a> were not doing at the time. That’s what pushed Eichler homes onto a different plane of development: the people he had working for him. If that makes him sound a little like Steve Jobs at Apple, well, that would be an apt comparison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635769\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635769\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-7.19.28-AM-800x507.png\" alt=\"Ads like this one enticed young families to scrimp and save for something better than your average tract house.\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-7.19.28-AM-800x507.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-7.19.28-AM-160x101.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-7.19.28-AM-1020x646.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-7.19.28-AM-1180x748.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-7.19.28-AM-960x608.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-7.19.28-AM-240x152.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-7.19.28-AM-375x238.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-7.19.28-AM-520x329.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-7.19.28-AM.png 1269w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ads like this one enticed young families to scrimp and save for something better than your average tract house. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Page & Turnbull)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They were always innovating, coming up with new ways for space arrangement. It’s really the spirit of Silicon Valley. These were experimental houses,” says Weinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 1949 and 1974, when Eichler died, his group built roughly 11,000 homes in California, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll find them north, east and south of San Francisco, but Palo Alto is home to more Eichlers than anyplace else: \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/56865\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 2,700 houses\u003c/a>, packing the tightly curving streets and cul-de-sacs Eichler preferred because they encourage people to hang out with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of Palo Alto’s Eichler neighborhoods, Green Gables and Greenmeadow, are historic districts listed in the National Register of Historic Places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11635763\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/6a00d8341c796653ef01156ed30e77970c.jpg\" alt=\"As blogger Stephen Coles points out on The Midcentury Modernist, when the Pixar team wanted an mid-century modern home for Bob and Helen Parr in “The Incredibles,” they opted for an Eichler. \" width=\"500\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/6a00d8341c796653ef01156ed30e77970c.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/6a00d8341c796653ef01156ed30e77970c-160x67.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/6a00d8341c796653ef01156ed30e77970c-240x101.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/6a00d8341c796653ef01156ed30e77970c-375x158.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As blogger Stephen Coles points out on The Mid-Century Modernist, when the Pixar team wanted a midcentury modern home for Bob and Helen Parr in “The Incredibles,” they opted for an Eichler. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Pixar Animation Studios)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The Eichler Look\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>From the outside, Eichlers appear modest, crisp, angular. But step inside, and your attention is drawn to floor-to-ceiling windows that look out onto the backyard, taking full advantage of California’s year-round sunshine. You know that phrase “indoor/outdoor living”? This is that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The openness, the airiness, looking up from a window and seeing the sky when you’re in the house,” says Bonnie Borton, an Eichler owner who moved in right after the neighborhood in Palo Alto was built in 1959-1960.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635765\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28399_Photo-Sep-06-11-12-12-AM-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior of Edita Donnelly's remodeled Eichler home in Palo Alto.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28399_Photo-Sep-06-11-12-12-AM-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28399_Photo-Sep-06-11-12-12-AM-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28399_Photo-Sep-06-11-12-12-AM-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28399_Photo-Sep-06-11-12-12-AM-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28399_Photo-Sep-06-11-12-12-AM-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28399_Photo-Sep-06-11-12-12-AM-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28399_Photo-Sep-06-11-12-12-AM-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28399_Photo-Sep-06-11-12-12-AM-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28399_Photo-Sep-06-11-12-12-AM-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exterior of Edita Donnelly’s remodeled Eichler home in Palo Alto. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If your parents — or grandparents — subscribed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sunset.com/home-garden/idea-houses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>Sunset Magazine\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, you’ve seen an Eichler, because for more than two decades, Sunset’s vision of the California Dream House looked like an Eichler: open floor plans, clean lines stretching in every direction. It’s a style that has come to be known as midcentury modern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even today, when people buy Eichlers and remodel them, they often use Sunset for inspiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639898\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11639898\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Photo-Oct-04-2-11-25-PM-800x572.jpg\" alt='Eichler homes makes the most of \"indoor/outdoor living.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Photo-Oct-04-2-11-25-PM-800x572.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Photo-Oct-04-2-11-25-PM-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Photo-Oct-04-2-11-25-PM-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Photo-Oct-04-2-11-25-PM-1920x1374.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Photo-Oct-04-2-11-25-PM-1180x844.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Photo-Oct-04-2-11-25-PM-960x687.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Photo-Oct-04-2-11-25-PM-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Photo-Oct-04-2-11-25-PM-375x268.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Photo-Oct-04-2-11-25-PM-520x372.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eichler homes makes the most of “indoor/outdoor living.” \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We replaced everything,” says Edita Donnelly of Palo Alto, who wanted her Eichler to look even more “Eichler-esque” if you will, than it was when she bought it. That is to say, she did things like raise the ceiling in the living room, and she added sliding glass doors to every room in the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We designed it so that every room has access to the outside, and I think that idea came from a \u003ci>Sunset Magazine\u003c/i> model house for me,” Donnelly says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28398_Photo-Sep-06-11-14-28-AM-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Floor-to-ceiling windows in Edita Donnelly's Palo Alto living room draw the eye to the backyard. This is what "indoor/outdoor" living means.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28398_Photo-Sep-06-11-14-28-AM-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28398_Photo-Sep-06-11-14-28-AM-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28398_Photo-Sep-06-11-14-28-AM-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28398_Photo-Sep-06-11-14-28-AM-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28398_Photo-Sep-06-11-14-28-AM-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28398_Photo-Sep-06-11-14-28-AM-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28398_Photo-Sep-06-11-14-28-AM-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28398_Photo-Sep-06-11-14-28-AM-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28398_Photo-Sep-06-11-14-28-AM-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Floor-to-ceiling windows in Edita Donnelly’s Palo Alto living room draw the eye to the backyard. This is what “indoor/outdoor” living means. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>They Used to Be Affordable\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Bonnie Borton bought her Eichler in 1960, she paid $19,500. Let that sink in for a moment. Today in Palo Alto, one of these homes can sell for up to $3 million. Eichlers in less affluent cities aren’t quite as pricey, but it’s all a far cry from the days when these homes were sold to people in the middle class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Lovely side note: Eichler also had a nondiscrimination policy and insisted on selling to people of all ethnicities and religions — a progressive attitude that wasn’t matched by many other tract home developers at the time.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in even wealthier neighborhoods, like Atherton and Hillsborough, some people have bought the property and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eichlernetwork.com/article/slipping-away\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bulldozed the Eichler\u003c/a> to make way for something bigger, newer, \u003ci>whatever\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in recent years, a number of Eichler-rich neighborhoods in Silicon Valley have developed \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/pln/special_projects/eichler_neighborhood_design_guidelines_.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">design guidelines\u003c/a>, zoning overlays or even historic districts in an attempt to keep their neighborhoods aesthetically cohesive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-6.23.20-AM-800x529.png\" alt=\"Palo Alto is home to more Eichlers than anyplace else: more than 2,700 homes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-6.23.20-AM-800x529.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-6.23.20-AM-160x106.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-6.23.20-AM-1020x675.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-6.23.20-AM-1180x781.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-6.23.20-AM-960x635.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-6.23.20-AM-240x159.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-6.23.20-AM-375x248.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-6.23.20-AM-520x344.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-6.23.20-AM.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palo Alto is home to more Eichlers than anyplace else: more than 2,700 homes. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Page & Turnbull)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People who like the Eichlers aren’t saying the wealthy shouldn’t have big houses. They should just do it someplace else,” Weinstein says drolly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Thompson, another Palo Alto Eichler owner, explains that something as ostensibly simple as adding another story can negatively affects the neighbors, even if tastefully done.\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 What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because our homes have these floor-to-ceiling windows in the primary living areas, in the master bedroom, in the kitchen, in the living room. Most people don’t have blinds,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Eichlers are only one story. If you have to install drapes or blinds to block the neighbor’s view, you lose that “indoor/outdoor” space you bought your house to enjoy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the flip side, you might be thinking: Why would someone who can \u003ci>afford\u003c/i> to buy an Eichler in Silicon Valley these days \u003ci>want\u003c/i> to buy one? After all, they’re modestly sized, aging tract homes — some of which now come with zoning restrictions. I asked Thompson, who moved from Seattle to Palo Alto with her husband about eight years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635770\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11635770 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28396_Photo-Oct-04-2-14-22-PM-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Indoor atriums like this one in the home of Dorene Loew and Jennifer Brown of Palo function as a second living room, outdoors. 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Californians may take it for granted, but for those who move here, this is jaw-droppingly desirable. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Most people, if they move here from elsewhere, they downsize, because the cost of living is so much more expensive. So we downsized into a smaller house than we had in Seattle. However, we gained access to a large atrium, a front yard, a backyard that we could use for most months out of the year. So we really don’t miss the extra space,” Thompson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the years, Thompson adds, it’s the neighbors they’ve come to appreciate most: the block parties, book clubs, not to mention shared Rolodexes of plumbers, electricians and interior decorators who specialize in Eichlers. “This is something that doesn’t exist as much anymore in this country. You don’t just buy a home. 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