Boom-bust. Starting with the Gold Rush in 1849, the Bay Area has experienced dramatic up-and-down cycles that generate tremendous new wealth for some and trouble for others. Exhibit A is the current tech boom.
KQED’s “Boomtown” series seeks to identify not only what is happening in real time in this boom but drawing out the causes and possible solutions to the conflicts and pressures between the old and the new.
Tech Bust 2.0? Maybe Not
Battle Over a Sliver of Land in Changing Oakland Neighborhood
BART Gallery Pt. 2: Take a Journey Beyond Downtown
Bay Area Affordability Crisis Spurs Young Activists to Fight for Teacher Housing
Boomtown Real Estate Angst, 1855-Style
San Francisco’s Building Boom Sparks Hiring Spree by City, State Agencies
Olis Simmons: Bay Area's Boom Not Benefiting Oakland Youth
BART Gallery Pt. 1: Take the Train to Oakland's Art Boom
Picturing the First Boom: Images of Gold Rush San Francisco
Boomtown History: From Vast Solitude to a World Rushing In
Is the Tech Boom the New Gold Rush? A History of California's Booms and Busts
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I picked up some broken glass and things like that,” says Fiona Wilmot, who moved to the neighborhood last year. Wilmot is part of a wave of new arrivals. Many came as the mortgage meltdown made homes more affordable in Oakland, especially compared with San Francisco's high prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I often see people drinking with open containers,\" says Wilmot, who lives only a few houses away from the plaza. \"After about an hour and a half, two hours, things get very loud. ... It may calm down sometimes after dark, sometimes not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Department of Public Works has received almost two dozen complaints about the plaza in the past year and a half, and that doesn’t include complaints handled by other departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address some of those issues, Moore and some supporters paid to have a portable toilet installed at the plaza. But they didn’t have a permit. In fact, the city doesn't grant permits for permanent portable toilets, according to Joe Devries, assistant to Oakland’s city administrator. So, the city has forced the toilet's removal on two occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Short of having not filled out a permit or going through any of the right procedures even for a temporary Porta-Potty ... we kinda need to see that before we could even entertain something long term,\" Devries said. \"And based on the neighbors' concerns, I don’t know that they would get it granted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10380979\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10380979\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Aunti Frances Moore led a City Hall protest last fall demanding a portable toilet at Driver Plaza.\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aunti Frances Moore led a City Hall protest last fall demanding a portable toilet at Driver Plaza. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In October, Moore and others protested outside City Hall, chanting, \"We want the Porta-Potty back!\" and holding signs saying, \"Where can we pee?\" The group has met with city officials, but thus far there are no plans for a temporary or permanent toilet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For plaza regulars like Dwight Hill, the toilet isn't really the issue. It’s about the continued existence of their longtime cultural space, in a neighborhood that dropped from 53 percent African-American in 2000 to 36 percent in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a losing thing. We’re gonna lose,“ said Hill, while digging into some of Moore's roasted potatoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why would anyone want a Porta-Potty out in front of their apartment complex, or their condo? Why would anyone want someone who ain’t got a job, ain’t generating no money, ain’t contributing nothing to society, just hanging around?” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of people out here on Driver Plaza feel that the newer, often non-black, residents have a vision for the neighborhood that doesn’t include them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stuck somewhere in the middle is Nate Williams, director at \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/genoastreet/?ref=br_tf\">Santa Fe CAN\u003c/a>, the local neighborhood association. He would like to see the space improved for the whole community, with trees, benches and tables. But when he looked into the permits and legal requirements, he put those plans on hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sometimes feels inevitable about gentrification, and there’s always gonna be tension between the newer and the older residents that are around,” Williams says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes I think those issues are much bigger than we, as residents or volunteers, can handle,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a rainy afternoon, Kedar Akbar was one of at least a half-dozen men sitting on benches and rolling office chairs. He said that when he was in fifth grade, there were some barbecues and a play structure out here. Now he comes to learn from his elders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of wisdom that is also here that you can’t get in books or you can’t Google it. Because racism isn’t just social, it’s structural. 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It may calm down sometimes after dark, sometimes not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Department of Public Works has received almost two dozen complaints about the plaza in the past year and a half, and that doesn’t include complaints handled by other departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address some of those issues, Moore and some supporters paid to have a portable toilet installed at the plaza. But they didn’t have a permit. In fact, the city doesn't grant permits for permanent portable toilets, according to Joe Devries, assistant to Oakland’s city administrator. So, the city has forced the toilet's removal on two occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Short of having not filled out a permit or going through any of the right procedures even for a temporary Porta-Potty ... we kinda need to see that before we could even entertain something long term,\" Devries said. \"And based on the neighbors' concerns, I don’t know that they would get it granted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10380979\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10380979\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Aunti Frances Moore led a City Hall protest last fall demanding a portable toilet at Driver Plaza.\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aunti Frances Moore led a City Hall protest last fall demanding a portable toilet at Driver Plaza. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In October, Moore and others protested outside City Hall, chanting, \"We want the Porta-Potty back!\" and holding signs saying, \"Where can we pee?\" The group has met with city officials, but thus far there are no plans for a temporary or permanent toilet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For plaza regulars like Dwight Hill, the toilet isn't really the issue. It’s about the continued existence of their longtime cultural space, in a neighborhood that dropped from 53 percent African-American in 2000 to 36 percent in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a losing thing. We’re gonna lose,“ said Hill, while digging into some of Moore's roasted potatoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why would anyone want a Porta-Potty out in front of their apartment complex, or their condo? Why would anyone want someone who ain’t got a job, ain’t generating no money, ain’t contributing nothing to society, just hanging around?” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of people out here on Driver Plaza feel that the newer, often non-black, residents have a vision for the neighborhood that doesn’t include them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stuck somewhere in the middle is Nate Williams, director at \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/genoastreet/?ref=br_tf\">Santa Fe CAN\u003c/a>, the local neighborhood association. He would like to see the space improved for the whole community, with trees, benches and tables. But when he looked into the permits and legal requirements, he put those plans on hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sometimes feels inevitable about gentrification, and there’s always gonna be tension between the newer and the older residents that are around,” Williams says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes I think those issues are much bigger than we, as residents or volunteers, can handle,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a rainy afternoon, Kedar Akbar was one of at least a half-dozen men sitting on benches and rolling office chairs. He said that when he was in fifth grade, there were some barbecues and a play structure out here. Now he comes to learn from his elders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of wisdom that is also here that you can’t get in books or you can’t Google it. Because racism isn’t just social, it’s structural. So we don’t have these things intact for us, and this is one of the ways, unfortunately, that it’s preserved, is through the oratory things and them telling stories. A lot of these people are from Mississippi, they’ve gone through the '60s. This is a \u003ca href=\"http://creosotejournal.com/2011/07/black-panthers-guide-to-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Panther\u003c/a> neighborhood, Nation of Islam and all of these -- and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/\" target=\"_blank\">SNCC\u003c/a> and things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Akbar said the city could at least install a water fountain to make it feel like a park. But even that would take a while to get permitted and built. Meanwhile, the porta-potty is gone and the neighborhood continues to change. 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"content": "\u003cp>Continuing our two-part tour of Oakland art galleries organized by BART stops (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/01/07/bart-gallery-pt-1-take-the-train-to-oaklands-art-boom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see Part 1 here\u003c/a>), we journey in this installment a bit farther afield, to Temescal, Eastlake and Golden Gate. By no means definitive, this guide should nonetheless provide the curious with plenty to see, if not a few new spaces to investigate. Be sure to add your favorite Oakland galleries in the comments section below and enjoy the ride!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>MacArthur BART\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10304109\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10304109\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/Sofia_Cordova_Echoes_2014.jpg\" alt=\"Sofía Cordóva, <i>Echoes of a Tumbling Throne (Odas Al Fin De Los Tiempos)</i>, 2014; Courtesy Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/Sofia_Cordova_Echoes_2014.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/Sofia_Cordova_Echoes_2014-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sofía Cordóva, \u003ci>Echoes of a Tumbling Throne (Odas Al Fin De Los Tiempos)\u003c/i>, 2014; Courtesy Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Royal NoneSuch Gallery\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>4231 Telegraph Ave.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.royalnonesuchgallery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">royalnonesuchgallery.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Royal NoneSuch Gallery (conveniently shortened to RNG) packs a whole lot of quality into its tiny, 270-square-foot space. Currently helmed by a five-person roster of artists, RNG is experiencing increased and well-deserved attention of late, with write-ups in a variety of local publications for their mixture of solo shows, conceptual pairings and immersive installations. Their experimental programming even extends to their version of a fundraising auction, in which artist-facilitated experiences replace objects. Opening Jan. 30 is \u003cem>Not Much To Look At\u003c/em>, an exhibition of “new ugly paintings” by 14 Bay Area artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10318181\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/AFterHours.SM_.jpg\" alt=\"Carrie Hott, Installation view from After Hours, 2014; Courtesy Interface Gallery, Oakland\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10318181\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/AFterHours.SM_.jpg 450w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/AFterHours.SM_-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/AFterHours.SM_-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/AFterHours.SM_-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/AFterHours.SM_-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/AFterHours.SM_-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/AFterHours.SM_-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carrie Hott, Installation view from \u003cem>After Hours\u003c/em>, 2014; Courtesy Interface Gallery, Oakland\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Interface Gallery\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>486 49th St.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.interfaceartgallery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interfaceartgallery.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>In a converted horse stall at the end of Temescal Alley, just off Telegraph and 49th Street, Interface Gallery hosts intimate shows both experimental and object-based. In a unique installation challenge, the gallery’s largest wall is floor-to-ceiling brick, prompting a level of site-specific problem-solving in each exhibition. Gallery director Suzanne L’Heureux hosts an eclectic range of makers and thinkers—from Shipping + Receiving’s \u003cb>Feral City\u003c/b> to the current atmospheric installation by Carrie Hott, the imagined life of a lamp shop after hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ashby BART\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10304238\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10304238\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/999_lazybones_jpg_640x640_q95.jpg\" alt=\"Lisa Rybovich Crallé, Tablet 1 (Moonlight Bongo), 2014; Courtesy ØGAARD, Oakland\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/999_lazybones_jpg_640x640_q95.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/999_lazybones_jpg_640x640_q95-400x298.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Rybovich Crallé, Tablet 1 (Moonlight Bongo), 2014; Courtesy ØGAARD, Oakland\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>ØGAARD\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>5861 San Pablo Ave.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.ogaard.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ogaard.org\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>A textile-focused gallery, event space and studio run by Tessa Watson out of a pristine San Pablo storefront, ØGAARD challenges notions of what actually belongs in a “textile-focused gallery” (sometimes sculptures, sometimes ceramics). It’s also a hub of creative activity; along with exhibitions that tread that delicious line between craft and art, Watson organizes workshops covering everything from loom weaving to butter knife carving about once a month. Oakland artist Alice Wiese starts off the new year with a show of embroidery work opening Jan. 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lake Merritt BART\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10304239\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10304239\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/quality-auto-service-1-IMG_4162.jpg\" alt=\"Kathy Sloane, from <b>Gardens, Garages and Garbage Cans</b>, 2014; Courtesy Random Parts, Oakland\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/quality-auto-service-1-IMG_4162.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/quality-auto-service-1-IMG_4162-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathy Sloane, from \u003cb>Gardens, Garages and Garbage Cans\u003c/b>, 2014; Courtesy Random Parts, Oakland\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Random Parts\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>1206 13th Ave.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.randomparts.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">randomparts.org\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>While Random Parts stretches the BART-able conditions of this list a bit (prepare for a 20 minute walk from the Lake Merritt stop), it’s well worth the journey to this small artist-run space. One year into their programming, they’ve hosted an artist-in-residence from Spain, facilitated a neighborhood mural, exhibited photographs of ad hoc local planters and showed drawings by Bay Area conceptual artist Lowell Darling, to name a few. Their mission, to intermingle international, local, well-known, self-taught and underexposed artists, is true to their name. Except in this case, the “random” parts are always, unexpectedly, the parts you didn’t know you were looking for. Their 2015 season starts off February with paintings by Colleen Flaherty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10304236\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10304236\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/Our-Ascent_Diptych.jpg\" alt=\"Kristine Eudey, <i>Our Ascent Yields to a Contour</i>, 2014; Courtesy the artist\" width=\"640\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/Our-Ascent_Diptych.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/Our-Ascent_Diptych-400x186.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristine Eudey, \u003ci>Our Ascent Yields to a Contour\u003c/i>, 2014; Courtesy the artist\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Backstock Gallery\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>3231 Grand Ave.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.oakcommon.com/pages/backstock-gallery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oakcommon.com/pages/backstock-gallery\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Since we’ve already strayed from the BART map, the pleasant stroll to Backstock Gallery won’t bother you one bit. Whether you choose to orbit Lake Merritt clockwise or counterclockwise, you’ll wind up just across the street from the picturesque Grand Lake Theatre on a strip full of diversions. Backstock is tucked in the two back rooms of Oak Common, a retail store with a highly curated selection of clothing, accessories, fancy soaps and plant koozies. Operating since Sept. 2013, the gallery shows local and formerly local artists (Lauren Douglas, Anzfer Farms, Simon Pyle), dedicated to the “under-represented genres” of film, video, installation and experimental work. Next up: an exhibition of photographs by recent CCA MFA alum Kristine Eudey, opening Jan. 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Anywhere!\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10304107\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10304107\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/DGW_Four-Generations-825x417.jpg\" alt=\"Doug Garth Williams, <i>Four Generations</i>, 2012; Courtesy Block Gallery\" width=\"640\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/DGW_Four-Generations-825x417.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/DGW_Four-Generations-825x417-400x201.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Garth Williams, \u003ci>Four Generations\u003c/i>, 2012; Courtesy Block Gallery\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>BLOCK GALLERY\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>\u003ca href=\"http://www.block-gallery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">block-gallery.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>BLOCK GALLERY could be anywhere, but chances are it’s somewhere BART friendly. This site-specific exhibition program, run by Director Lacey Haslam, negotiates alternative spaces for exhibitions, forging partnerships with local businesses and filling more than just empty storefronts with art. Most recently, Haslam organized \u003cb>Resource\u003c/b>, with the work of seven artists in eight public window spaces along Old Oakland’s Ninth Street. Prior to that, you might have noticed the text pieces by Kari Marboe alongside the Latham Memorial Fountain. Currently on view: a solo show by painter Anna Valdez inside Inspired Life Chiropractic, and a two-person exhibition with Valdez and Sacramento-based Andrew L. Rogers at Domain Apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Continuing our two-part tour of Oakland art galleries organized by BART stops (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/01/07/bart-gallery-pt-1-take-the-train-to-oaklands-art-boom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see Part 1 here\u003c/a>), we journey in this installment a bit farther afield, to Temescal, Eastlake and Golden Gate. By no means definitive, this guide should nonetheless provide the curious with plenty to see, if not a few new spaces to investigate. Be sure to add your favorite Oakland galleries in the comments section below and enjoy the ride!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>MacArthur BART\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10304109\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10304109\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/Sofia_Cordova_Echoes_2014.jpg\" alt=\"Sofía Cordóva, <i>Echoes of a Tumbling Throne (Odas Al Fin De Los Tiempos)</i>, 2014; Courtesy Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/Sofia_Cordova_Echoes_2014.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/Sofia_Cordova_Echoes_2014-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sofía Cordóva, \u003ci>Echoes of a Tumbling Throne (Odas Al Fin De Los Tiempos)\u003c/i>, 2014; Courtesy Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Royal NoneSuch Gallery\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>4231 Telegraph Ave.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.royalnonesuchgallery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">royalnonesuchgallery.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Royal NoneSuch Gallery (conveniently shortened to RNG) packs a whole lot of quality into its tiny, 270-square-foot space. Currently helmed by a five-person roster of artists, RNG is experiencing increased and well-deserved attention of late, with write-ups in a variety of local publications for their mixture of solo shows, conceptual pairings and immersive installations. Their experimental programming even extends to their version of a fundraising auction, in which artist-facilitated experiences replace objects. Opening Jan. 30 is \u003cem>Not Much To Look At\u003c/em>, an exhibition of “new ugly paintings” by 14 Bay Area artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10318181\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/AFterHours.SM_.jpg\" alt=\"Carrie Hott, Installation view from After Hours, 2014; Courtesy Interface Gallery, Oakland\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10318181\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/AFterHours.SM_.jpg 450w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/AFterHours.SM_-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/AFterHours.SM_-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/AFterHours.SM_-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/AFterHours.SM_-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/AFterHours.SM_-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/AFterHours.SM_-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carrie Hott, Installation view from \u003cem>After Hours\u003c/em>, 2014; Courtesy Interface Gallery, Oakland\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Interface Gallery\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>486 49th St.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.interfaceartgallery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interfaceartgallery.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>In a converted horse stall at the end of Temescal Alley, just off Telegraph and 49th Street, Interface Gallery hosts intimate shows both experimental and object-based. In a unique installation challenge, the gallery’s largest wall is floor-to-ceiling brick, prompting a level of site-specific problem-solving in each exhibition. Gallery director Suzanne L’Heureux hosts an eclectic range of makers and thinkers—from Shipping + Receiving’s \u003cb>Feral City\u003c/b> to the current atmospheric installation by Carrie Hott, the imagined life of a lamp shop after hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ashby BART\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10304238\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10304238\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/999_lazybones_jpg_640x640_q95.jpg\" alt=\"Lisa Rybovich Crallé, Tablet 1 (Moonlight Bongo), 2014; Courtesy ØGAARD, Oakland\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/999_lazybones_jpg_640x640_q95.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/999_lazybones_jpg_640x640_q95-400x298.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Rybovich Crallé, Tablet 1 (Moonlight Bongo), 2014; Courtesy ØGAARD, Oakland\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>ØGAARD\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>5861 San Pablo Ave.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.ogaard.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ogaard.org\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>A textile-focused gallery, event space and studio run by Tessa Watson out of a pristine San Pablo storefront, ØGAARD challenges notions of what actually belongs in a “textile-focused gallery” (sometimes sculptures, sometimes ceramics). It’s also a hub of creative activity; along with exhibitions that tread that delicious line between craft and art, Watson organizes workshops covering everything from loom weaving to butter knife carving about once a month. Oakland artist Alice Wiese starts off the new year with a show of embroidery work opening Jan. 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lake Merritt BART\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10304239\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10304239\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/quality-auto-service-1-IMG_4162.jpg\" alt=\"Kathy Sloane, from <b>Gardens, Garages and Garbage Cans</b>, 2014; Courtesy Random Parts, Oakland\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/quality-auto-service-1-IMG_4162.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/quality-auto-service-1-IMG_4162-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathy Sloane, from \u003cb>Gardens, Garages and Garbage Cans\u003c/b>, 2014; Courtesy Random Parts, Oakland\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Random Parts\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>1206 13th Ave.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.randomparts.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">randomparts.org\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>While Random Parts stretches the BART-able conditions of this list a bit (prepare for a 20 minute walk from the Lake Merritt stop), it’s well worth the journey to this small artist-run space. One year into their programming, they’ve hosted an artist-in-residence from Spain, facilitated a neighborhood mural, exhibited photographs of ad hoc local planters and showed drawings by Bay Area conceptual artist Lowell Darling, to name a few. Their mission, to intermingle international, local, well-known, self-taught and underexposed artists, is true to their name. Except in this case, the “random” parts are always, unexpectedly, the parts you didn’t know you were looking for. Their 2015 season starts off February with paintings by Colleen Flaherty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10304236\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10304236\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/Our-Ascent_Diptych.jpg\" alt=\"Kristine Eudey, <i>Our Ascent Yields to a Contour</i>, 2014; Courtesy the artist\" width=\"640\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/Our-Ascent_Diptych.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/Our-Ascent_Diptych-400x186.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristine Eudey, \u003ci>Our Ascent Yields to a Contour\u003c/i>, 2014; Courtesy the artist\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Backstock Gallery\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>3231 Grand Ave.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.oakcommon.com/pages/backstock-gallery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oakcommon.com/pages/backstock-gallery\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Since we’ve already strayed from the BART map, the pleasant stroll to Backstock Gallery won’t bother you one bit. Whether you choose to orbit Lake Merritt clockwise or counterclockwise, you’ll wind up just across the street from the picturesque Grand Lake Theatre on a strip full of diversions. Backstock is tucked in the two back rooms of Oak Common, a retail store with a highly curated selection of clothing, accessories, fancy soaps and plant koozies. Operating since Sept. 2013, the gallery shows local and formerly local artists (Lauren Douglas, Anzfer Farms, Simon Pyle), dedicated to the “under-represented genres” of film, video, installation and experimental work. Next up: an exhibition of photographs by recent CCA MFA alum Kristine Eudey, opening Jan. 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Anywhere!\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10304107\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10304107\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/DGW_Four-Generations-825x417.jpg\" alt=\"Doug Garth Williams, <i>Four Generations</i>, 2012; Courtesy Block Gallery\" width=\"640\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/DGW_Four-Generations-825x417.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/DGW_Four-Generations-825x417-400x201.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Garth Williams, \u003ci>Four Generations\u003c/i>, 2012; Courtesy Block Gallery\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>BLOCK GALLERY\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>\u003ca href=\"http://www.block-gallery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">block-gallery.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>BLOCK GALLERY could be anywhere, but chances are it’s somewhere BART friendly. This site-specific exhibition program, run by Director Lacey Haslam, negotiates alternative spaces for exhibitions, forging partnerships with local businesses and filling more than just empty storefronts with art. Most recently, Haslam organized \u003cb>Resource\u003c/b>, with the work of seven artists in eight public window spaces along Old Oakland’s Ninth Street. Prior to that, you might have noticed the text pieces by Kari Marboe alongside the Latham Memorial Fountain. Currently on view: a solo show by painter Anna Valdez inside Inspired Life Chiropractic, and a two-person exhibition with Valdez and Sacramento-based Andrew L. Rogers at Domain Apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>About a dozen volunteers -- mostly in their 20s and 30s -- are gathered around a dining table in a sleek high-rise apartment near downtown San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those eating pizza and settling in for the evening's meeting are recent college graduates, a business executive and a few real estate professionals. Several had parents who were public school teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"None of us are teachers, but everybody in this room -- a teacher has touched their life,\" explained Azalea\u003cbr>\nRenfield, 32. \"That's the common thing that keeps us all together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/186030402\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfield is the leader of this fledgling nonprofit, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.ueaah.org/\">United Educators Association for Affordable Housing (UEAAH)\u003c/a>. She said she started it because she believes teachers deserve to live in or near the communities they serve, even if it's pricy San Francisco or Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UEAAH members ultimately want to develop and oversee several teacher housing programs. For example, one would help find low-interest home loans; another would connect teachers with landlords willing to give educators a break on rent. Right now, their primary concern is boosting their tiny budget. Ready or not, though, the group is already hearing from teachers who need help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cindy's Story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy Lundberg said she was feeling pretty panicked when she first contacted UEAAH this fall. Lundberg is the mother of three girls, is separated from her husband and works at \u003ca href=\"http://graham.mvwsd.org/\">Graham Middle School\u003c/a> in Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"5iICCFdvmNNpNGuAO5HEU2HmLd0JQLhL\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average teacher salary in this district is $65,000 -- not bad in many parts of the country. But in \u003ca href=\"http://www.mountainview.gov/\">Google's hometown\u003c/a>, the median home value is $1 million and the average rent is just under $3,000 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's no rent control in Mountain View either. Lundberg said she learned that the hard way, when her apartment complex posted a note on her door informing her that her monthly rent was going up -- by about 30 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just made me cry, because I was like, 'How can someone do this to me? How can they just raise the rent that dramatically and put a little note on your door?' It just felt really cold,\" Lundberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apartment managers wouldn't negotiate, she said. But the receptionist was sympathetic and passed along a business card from Renfield's organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was starting to get panicked because I knew I had a month to get out,\" Lundberg said. \"And I was like, 'I can't find a place and maybe these guys can help me.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UEAAH volunteer Olivia Casey spoke with Lundberg about where she wanted to look and then jumped in with the search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was mainly looking at Craigslist, and I helped her look at some other places and some other websites I knew about in Mountain View,\" Casey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They ran into roadblock after roadblock: Rents were too high, landlords wouldn't negotiate and the competition for rental properties was intense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10405309\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13975_2014-11-24-21.20.44-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10405309\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13975_2014-11-24-21.20.44-scr-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rising rents in Mountain View pushed school teacher Cindy Lundberg out of her apartment complex.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13975_2014-11-24-21.20.44-scr-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13975_2014-11-24-21.20.44-scr-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13975_2014-11-24-21.20.44-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rising rents in Mountain View pushed school teacher Cindy Lundberg out of her apartment complex. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Martin Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lundberg worried that she might have to move out of the area altogether. Graham Middle School Principal Kim Thompson said, unfortunately, that's not unusual in Mountain View. A special education teacher recently left for Sacramento because she wanted to buy a house and couldn't find anything nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was a solid, solid special ed, which are hard to come by,\" Thompson said. \"It's hard on me, it's hard on kids when you find someone of top quality and they're wanting a house,\" she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Lundberg met a landlord in nearby Cupertino who agreed to negotiate a lower rent. She found the place herself but, she said, she's still really grateful for the extra help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought it was really neat that there was an organization out there that wanted to reach out to teachers like that,\" Lundberg said. \"I thought that was really, really powerful and great to see.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group admits it doesn't yet have the power to help every teacher -- it still needs a lot of money and support to make its work sustainable. Renfield said their most ambitious goal reaches far beyond the Bay Area: They want to convince Congress to give every public school teacher a basic housing stipend,\u003ca href=\"http://militarypay.defense.gov/pay/bah/index.html\"> just as it does with the military\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Texas Boomtown Tries Teacher Stipends\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, public school teachers in Midland, Texas, were facing a similar housing crunch -- although it was the booming oil and gas industry, not technology, pushing apartment rents out of reach. Unable to recruit enough new teachers, especially in math and science, the superintendent called on a group of local business and nonprofit leaders to come up with a solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They sat around a table and, almost like a poker game, the people who could make those decisions anted up,\" said Jami Owen, executive director of the Midland Education Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to a successful fundraising campaign, Midland's new teachers are now offered a choice between a $10,000 signing bonus or a one-year housing allowance of $500 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The plan is working,\" Owen said. \"We needed 400 teachers at the beginning of last year, and we had 2,500 candidates apply. We don't have to fight over math and science teachers anymore for the high schools and the secondary level.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? Check out our \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\">Boomtown series.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UEAAH members ultimately want to develop and oversee several teacher housing programs. For example, one would help find low-interest home loans; another would connect teachers with landlords willing to give educators a break on rent. Right now, their primary concern is boosting their tiny budget. Ready or not, though, the group is already hearing from teachers who need help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cindy's Story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy Lundberg said she was feeling pretty panicked when she first contacted UEAAH this fall. Lundberg is the mother of three girls, is separated from her husband and works at \u003ca href=\"http://graham.mvwsd.org/\">Graham Middle School\u003c/a> in Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average teacher salary in this district is $65,000 -- not bad in many parts of the country. But in \u003ca href=\"http://www.mountainview.gov/\">Google's hometown\u003c/a>, the median home value is $1 million and the average rent is just under $3,000 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's no rent control in Mountain View either. Lundberg said she learned that the hard way, when her apartment complex posted a note on her door informing her that her monthly rent was going up -- by about 30 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just made me cry, because I was like, 'How can someone do this to me? How can they just raise the rent that dramatically and put a little note on your door?' It just felt really cold,\" Lundberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apartment managers wouldn't negotiate, she said. But the receptionist was sympathetic and passed along a business card from Renfield's organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was starting to get panicked because I knew I had a month to get out,\" Lundberg said. \"And I was like, 'I can't find a place and maybe these guys can help me.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UEAAH volunteer Olivia Casey spoke with Lundberg about where she wanted to look and then jumped in with the search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was mainly looking at Craigslist, and I helped her look at some other places and some other websites I knew about in Mountain View,\" Casey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They ran into roadblock after roadblock: Rents were too high, landlords wouldn't negotiate and the competition for rental properties was intense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10405309\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13975_2014-11-24-21.20.44-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10405309\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13975_2014-11-24-21.20.44-scr-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rising rents in Mountain View pushed school teacher Cindy Lundberg out of her apartment complex.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13975_2014-11-24-21.20.44-scr-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13975_2014-11-24-21.20.44-scr-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13975_2014-11-24-21.20.44-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rising rents in Mountain View pushed school teacher Cindy Lundberg out of her apartment complex. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Martin Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lundberg worried that she might have to move out of the area altogether. Graham Middle School Principal Kim Thompson said, unfortunately, that's not unusual in Mountain View. A special education teacher recently left for Sacramento because she wanted to buy a house and couldn't find anything nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was a solid, solid special ed, which are hard to come by,\" Thompson said. \"It's hard on me, it's hard on kids when you find someone of top quality and they're wanting a house,\" she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Lundberg met a landlord in nearby Cupertino who agreed to negotiate a lower rent. She found the place herself but, she said, she's still really grateful for the extra help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought it was really neat that there was an organization out there that wanted to reach out to teachers like that,\" Lundberg said. \"I thought that was really, really powerful and great to see.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group admits it doesn't yet have the power to help every teacher -- it still needs a lot of money and support to make its work sustainable. Renfield said their most ambitious goal reaches far beyond the Bay Area: They want to convince Congress to give every public school teacher a basic housing stipend,\u003ca href=\"http://militarypay.defense.gov/pay/bah/index.html\"> just as it does with the military\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Texas Boomtown Tries Teacher Stipends\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, public school teachers in Midland, Texas, were facing a similar housing crunch -- although it was the booming oil and gas industry, not technology, pushing apartment rents out of reach. Unable to recruit enough new teachers, especially in math and science, the superintendent called on a group of local business and nonprofit leaders to come up with a solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They sat around a table and, almost like a poker game, the people who could make those decisions anted up,\" said Jami Owen, executive director of the Midland Education Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to a successful fundraising campaign, Midland's new teachers are now offered a choice between a $10,000 signing bonus or a one-year housing allowance of $500 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The plan is working,\" Owen said. \"We needed 400 teachers at the beginning of last year, and we had 2,500 candidates apply. We don't have to fight over math and science teachers anymore for the high schools and the secondary level.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? Check out our \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\">Boomtown series.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>f you showed up in the Bay Area in the last three years or so, you know that you've moved into a world where rents and home prices appear to know no limits. The current \"up\" market has seen the median price of single-family homes sold in San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/1-million-city-S-F-median-home-price-hits-7-5626591.php\" target=\"_blank\">hit $1 million\u003c/a>. Million-dollar home sales \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/07/coldwell-banker-luxury-home-sales-rich-homebuyers\" target=\"_blank\">have become commonplace\u003c/a> in non-chic locales like Burlingame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rents have blown through the roof, too, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26733312/bay-area-apartment-rents-at-record-high\" target=\"_blank\">the Bay Area average for all apartments topping $2,200\u003c/a> last summer (and $3,400 in San Francisco, the region's most expensive market).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we all know what rapidly inflating real estate prices look like. You have to have been here a little longer, though -- at least four or five years -- to have seen the other side of this market, when prices fall. The most recent example, naturally, was during the Great Recession. Some parts of the Bay Area saw median home prices crash more than 50 percent from peak levels in 2006 before bottoming out in early 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Our city just at this time is dull except [for] Real Estate Speculations, upon which our people seem crazy.'\u003ccite>1853 comment on San Francisco property market\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Housing prices also ran up during the dot-com boom, then slumped when that bubble burst in 2001. Prices spiked in the late '80s, then fell in the early '90s when California entered a deep recession. (By way of San Francisco's Paragon Real Estate Group, here's a pretty good \u003ca href=\"http://www.paragon-re.com/3_Recessions_2_Bubbles_and_a_Baby\">review of data on the last 30 years\u003c/a> of the rising and falling tides in the housing market.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not all booms and busts in the real estate market here have been created equal. The last down cycle, triggered as it was by \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/the-giant-pool-of-money\" target=\"_blank\">subprime mortgage madness\u003c/a>, was particularly brutal. It ended in mass foreclosures and to many homeowners owing far more for their homes than they were worth after the mortgage meltdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, the current run-up in real estate prices has led to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=47040\" target=\"_blank\">an increase in evictions\u003c/a> in San Francisco. Driven largely by the Bay Area tech boom, the soaring cost of housing and rising tide of displacement in the region's core cities have prompted \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\">widespread concern\u003c/a> both about the welfare of those pushed out and what seems like the irreversible change in the character of communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, this isn't the first time high property prices have triggered displacement alarm in San Francisco. Check out \"\u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/9FfOHVu_noY\" target=\"_blank\">Boom: The Sound of Eviction\u003c/a>,\" a 2001 documentary that focuses on displacement during the dot-com bubble. And you can go a whole lot farther back than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historian Roger Lotchin, in the sexily titled but nonetheless informative \"San Francisco, 1846-1856: From Hamlet to City,\" \u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=GiAa8pLrSTIC&lpg=PA45&lr&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">traces the ups and downs \u003c/a>of the city's early real estate market:\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">The vara was a Spanish unit of measure used in California and the Southwest when they were Spanish colonies. According to \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=qjHnAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA537&ots=4WlIXFUw5x&dq=%22vara%22%20measure%20%22san%20francisco%22&pg=PA537#v=onepage&q=%22vara%22%20measure%20%22san%20francisco%22&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">sources we find\u003c/a>, the vara in San Francisco was equivalent to 2.75 feet, or 33 inches. The 50-vara lots discussed here would have would have been 50 varas square, or 137.5 feet by 137.5 feet. That's 18,906.25 square feet, just a bit over four-tenths of an acre. What would that land go for today? Well, here's \u003ca href=\"http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/19015481/719-725-Larkin-St-San-Francisco-CA/\">a listing\u003c/a> for a property on Larkin Street, in the city's Tenderloin, that's a little less than one-third the size of a 50-vara lot. It's going for $3.2 million.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Francisco's realty boom, like its commercial prosperity, began before the Gold Rush. In 1846, William Heath Davis wrote to H.D. Fitch that \"land speculations have been brisk at this place. Most of the lots ... have been taken up.\" The next year, Governor Stephen W. Kearny released the government's claim to beach and water real estate and the market surged again, with beach and water property reaching six and seven hundred dollars an acre. Some \"lots in San Francisco of 50 varas granted by the Alcalde in '44 for $15 were \"worth $1000.\" Yet even this increase was insignificant by comparison with advances stimulated by the Gold Rush. In December 1849, Thomas O. Larkin sold eight water lots and one other for $300,000. However, late 1849 marked the termination of the first \"flush times\" in real estate as speculation grew rife and a deflationary reaction set in.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lotchin says a second run-up in property prices reached its peak in December 1853: \"Lawyer John McCrackan wrote, 'Our city just at this time is dull except [for] Real Estate Speculations, upon which our people seem crazy. I drew papers of a piece of property today for my friend \"Hood\" which in 1846 cost him five dollars. It sold today for sixty thousand.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by 1855, a prolonged depression set in that knocked the bottom out of property prices. That collapse was the subject of an unsigned column in the June 20, 1855, edition of Daily Alta California. The piece is compelling for how contemporary some of the language sounds -- property speculation has been \"merely a bubble, liable to burst at any time\" -- and for its condemnation of out-of-control speculation as ruinous to the public good: \"In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community,\" it says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the moral focus of that statement is coming from a Victorian concern about the deleterious effects of speculation -- gambling, in effect -- it resonates in a present where social justice activists are fighting gentrification taking place amid crazy-seeming spikes in property prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, by way of the \u003ca href=\"http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18550620&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------#\" target=\"_blank\">California Digital Newspaper Collection\u003c/a>, is the Alta piece in full:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>Daily Alta California\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nJune 20, 1855\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the greatest evils which has ever overtaken the city of San Francisco — the greatest because the parent of many other evils -- has been the overvaluation of property. It has not been properly confined to the city, but has manifested itself all over the State, and its results are to be noted throughout the length and breadth of the land. Now that Real Estate is \"down,\" it may not be improper to say a few words concerning a subject which is of unusual interest to every permanent resident of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The available area of the pueblo of Yerba Buena for business purposes was very small. It extended only from about Pacific to California and from Montgomery to Dupont streets. We indicate the boundaries by streets which were laid out after the pueblo became the city of San Francisco. This space, although ample to accommodate the limited trade of 1846-7, proved wholly insufficient to meet the requirements of the wholesale immigration incited by the gold discovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By a natural law, the working of which never deceive, the prices of lots within the available area of the town, after those discoveries, rose enormously. Thousands of people were rushing into the State, the most of whom landed in this city. Thousands of tons of merchandise were poured in upon us, which had to find storage in town, and had to be disposed of here. Rents naturally rose to the most extravagant rate, and the price of land advanced with equal rapidity, although not in a proportionate degree. There was no telling where the thing would stop, particularly as money was most abundant, and there appeared to be no end to the immigration. So far the speculation was a legitimate one. Afterwards it assumed another character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was evident from the first that this state of things could not last forever. The capital which had been introduced into the country in the shape of merchandise was quickly turned to enlarging the limits of the city proper. Wharves were extended, and the water invaded on the one side, while hills were cut down and streets graded on the other. All this time rents still kept up, if not to their original point, at least to one which proved highly remunerative, and the immigration still continued larger. It still appeared that there was more room wanted, until at last San Francisco attained her present size. But the tide had turned, and rates at last, after a long period — unexampled, indeed, for duration in California — began to decline. They have been declining ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San Francisco is to-day out of all proportion to the State. Where we originally did not have enough room, we have now a superabundance, not merely for today or this year, but for years to come. The Real Estate speculation, which was originally a legitimate one, has for the last two or three years been merely a bubble, liable to burst at any time, and kept in a state of inflation merely by the activity of those interested in it. There is no reason why, with the present population and prospective increase of our State, fifty-vara lots two miles from the Plaza should command thousands of dollars, particularly when they are so situated as not to be available for purposes of agriculture. They should have a value, of course, and a vary considerable one. They may and do furnish legitimate objects of permanent investment for those who look forward to a return for their capital years hence ; but their intrinsic value it not to be rated by thousands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have been going too fast. We have followed out the speculative illusion to its full extent, and now we must stop. It is an indisputable fact that nearly all the prominent operators of 1852-3 are now bankrupt, and the mass of smaller men are utterly ruined. A year or two ago they thought themselves rich — they lived extravagantly, kept their horses and carriages, furnished their houses magnificently, and now — they have nothing. Seme few still hold out, and, with retrenched expenses, are wailing impatiently for a \"rise.\" They will probably be sick of heart before it is realised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this system of overvaluation has not merely ruined those engaged in Real Estate operations : it has to a certain degree debauched the whole community. Parties who saw futures in land have neglected their legitimate callings to squat on fifty-vara lots, and drag out unprofitable years waiting for a settlement of titles. A recklessness of human life has been engendered, which has told very badly on the interests of the State at large, preventing many who would have made excellent citizens from coming to these shores. It has kept rates of interest extravagantly high, thereby eating out the vitals of the republic. A disposition to speculate desperately — in other words, to gamble— not merely in land, but in everything else, hat been fostered by it, and manifests itself in the frantic effort to \"get whole,\" which have led men of high social standing to the commission of the most debasing crimes. In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Real Estate market is at present in a curious position. The asking and offering prices for land show no approximation whatever to each other. Outside lots are unsaleable except at a ruinous discount from cost prices, while in some parts of the original plat of the city rates still keep up. The lot at the corner of Washington and Montgomery streets on which Burgoyne's building stands sold, a few days since, at auction, for $39,000, or about $1000 a front foot. At the same time, fifty-vara lots on the hill, which .were valued eighteen months ago at $12,000 to $18,000, to-day only command about $2500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a singular fact, that a person owning a lot in the business part of the city, on which a brick building has been erected, can to-day borrow more money on it than it would sell for!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is time that we began to awaken to the real value of property here. San Francisco is not New York, a city of half a million of inhabitants, with an immense population behind it; it is a small place— an important one, it is true, and destined one day to be the central point of the Pacific, but nevertheless a small one — the entrepot for a population of less than four hundred thousand people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no reason why property in it should not rule at New York rates, and any attempt to force them up to such prices can only be a purely speculative movement which must, like all gambling— be it with dice, or cards, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1860/07/23/news/affairs-california-wholesale-defeat-frandulent-land-titles-who-peter-smith-was.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Smith titles\u003c/a> — redound to the injury of the community at large.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, the current run-up in real estate prices has led to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=47040\" target=\"_blank\">an increase in evictions\u003c/a> in San Francisco. Driven largely by the Bay Area tech boom, the soaring cost of housing and rising tide of displacement in the region's core cities have prompted \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\">widespread concern\u003c/a> both about the welfare of those pushed out and what seems like the irreversible change in the character of communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, this isn't the first time high property prices have triggered displacement alarm in San Francisco. Check out \"\u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/9FfOHVu_noY\" target=\"_blank\">Boom: The Sound of Eviction\u003c/a>,\" a 2001 documentary that focuses on displacement during the dot-com bubble. And you can go a whole lot farther back than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historian Roger Lotchin, in the sexily titled but nonetheless informative \"San Francisco, 1846-1856: From Hamlet to City,\" \u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=GiAa8pLrSTIC&lpg=PA45&lr&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">traces the ups and downs \u003c/a>of the city's early real estate market:\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">The vara was a Spanish unit of measure used in California and the Southwest when they were Spanish colonies. According to \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=qjHnAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA537&ots=4WlIXFUw5x&dq=%22vara%22%20measure%20%22san%20francisco%22&pg=PA537#v=onepage&q=%22vara%22%20measure%20%22san%20francisco%22&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">sources we find\u003c/a>, the vara in San Francisco was equivalent to 2.75 feet, or 33 inches. The 50-vara lots discussed here would have would have been 50 varas square, or 137.5 feet by 137.5 feet. That's 18,906.25 square feet, just a bit over four-tenths of an acre. What would that land go for today? Well, here's \u003ca href=\"http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/19015481/719-725-Larkin-St-San-Francisco-CA/\">a listing\u003c/a> for a property on Larkin Street, in the city's Tenderloin, that's a little less than one-third the size of a 50-vara lot. It's going for $3.2 million.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Francisco's realty boom, like its commercial prosperity, began before the Gold Rush. In 1846, William Heath Davis wrote to H.D. Fitch that \"land speculations have been brisk at this place. Most of the lots ... have been taken up.\" The next year, Governor Stephen W. Kearny released the government's claim to beach and water real estate and the market surged again, with beach and water property reaching six and seven hundred dollars an acre. Some \"lots in San Francisco of 50 varas granted by the Alcalde in '44 for $15 were \"worth $1000.\" Yet even this increase was insignificant by comparison with advances stimulated by the Gold Rush. In December 1849, Thomas O. Larkin sold eight water lots and one other for $300,000. However, late 1849 marked the termination of the first \"flush times\" in real estate as speculation grew rife and a deflationary reaction set in.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lotchin says a second run-up in property prices reached its peak in December 1853: \"Lawyer John McCrackan wrote, 'Our city just at this time is dull except [for] Real Estate Speculations, upon which our people seem crazy. I drew papers of a piece of property today for my friend \"Hood\" which in 1846 cost him five dollars. It sold today for sixty thousand.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by 1855, a prolonged depression set in that knocked the bottom out of property prices. That collapse was the subject of an unsigned column in the June 20, 1855, edition of Daily Alta California. The piece is compelling for how contemporary some of the language sounds -- property speculation has been \"merely a bubble, liable to burst at any time\" -- and for its condemnation of out-of-control speculation as ruinous to the public good: \"In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community,\" it says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the moral focus of that statement is coming from a Victorian concern about the deleterious effects of speculation -- gambling, in effect -- it resonates in a present where social justice activists are fighting gentrification taking place amid crazy-seeming spikes in property prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, by way of the \u003ca href=\"http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18550620&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------#\" target=\"_blank\">California Digital Newspaper Collection\u003c/a>, is the Alta piece in full:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>Daily Alta California\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nJune 20, 1855\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the greatest evils which has ever overtaken the city of San Francisco — the greatest because the parent of many other evils -- has been the overvaluation of property. It has not been properly confined to the city, but has manifested itself all over the State, and its results are to be noted throughout the length and breadth of the land. Now that Real Estate is \"down,\" it may not be improper to say a few words concerning a subject which is of unusual interest to every permanent resident of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The available area of the pueblo of Yerba Buena for business purposes was very small. It extended only from about Pacific to California and from Montgomery to Dupont streets. We indicate the boundaries by streets which were laid out after the pueblo became the city of San Francisco. This space, although ample to accommodate the limited trade of 1846-7, proved wholly insufficient to meet the requirements of the wholesale immigration incited by the gold discovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By a natural law, the working of which never deceive, the prices of lots within the available area of the town, after those discoveries, rose enormously. Thousands of people were rushing into the State, the most of whom landed in this city. Thousands of tons of merchandise were poured in upon us, which had to find storage in town, and had to be disposed of here. Rents naturally rose to the most extravagant rate, and the price of land advanced with equal rapidity, although not in a proportionate degree. There was no telling where the thing would stop, particularly as money was most abundant, and there appeared to be no end to the immigration. So far the speculation was a legitimate one. Afterwards it assumed another character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was evident from the first that this state of things could not last forever. The capital which had been introduced into the country in the shape of merchandise was quickly turned to enlarging the limits of the city proper. Wharves were extended, and the water invaded on the one side, while hills were cut down and streets graded on the other. All this time rents still kept up, if not to their original point, at least to one which proved highly remunerative, and the immigration still continued larger. It still appeared that there was more room wanted, until at last San Francisco attained her present size. But the tide had turned, and rates at last, after a long period — unexampled, indeed, for duration in California — began to decline. They have been declining ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San Francisco is to-day out of all proportion to the State. Where we originally did not have enough room, we have now a superabundance, not merely for today or this year, but for years to come. The Real Estate speculation, which was originally a legitimate one, has for the last two or three years been merely a bubble, liable to burst at any time, and kept in a state of inflation merely by the activity of those interested in it. There is no reason why, with the present population and prospective increase of our State, fifty-vara lots two miles from the Plaza should command thousands of dollars, particularly when they are so situated as not to be available for purposes of agriculture. They should have a value, of course, and a vary considerable one. They may and do furnish legitimate objects of permanent investment for those who look forward to a return for their capital years hence ; but their intrinsic value it not to be rated by thousands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have been going too fast. We have followed out the speculative illusion to its full extent, and now we must stop. It is an indisputable fact that nearly all the prominent operators of 1852-3 are now bankrupt, and the mass of smaller men are utterly ruined. A year or two ago they thought themselves rich — they lived extravagantly, kept their horses and carriages, furnished their houses magnificently, and now — they have nothing. Seme few still hold out, and, with retrenched expenses, are wailing impatiently for a \"rise.\" They will probably be sick of heart before it is realised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this system of overvaluation has not merely ruined those engaged in Real Estate operations : it has to a certain degree debauched the whole community. Parties who saw futures in land have neglected their legitimate callings to squat on fifty-vara lots, and drag out unprofitable years waiting for a settlement of titles. A recklessness of human life has been engendered, which has told very badly on the interests of the State at large, preventing many who would have made excellent citizens from coming to these shores. It has kept rates of interest extravagantly high, thereby eating out the vitals of the republic. A disposition to speculate desperately — in other words, to gamble— not merely in land, but in everything else, hat been fostered by it, and manifests itself in the frantic effort to \"get whole,\" which have led men of high social standing to the commission of the most debasing crimes. In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Real Estate market is at present in a curious position. The asking and offering prices for land show no approximation whatever to each other. Outside lots are unsaleable except at a ruinous discount from cost prices, while in some parts of the original plat of the city rates still keep up. The lot at the corner of Washington and Montgomery streets on which Burgoyne's building stands sold, a few days since, at auction, for $39,000, or about $1000 a front foot. At the same time, fifty-vara lots on the hill, which .were valued eighteen months ago at $12,000 to $18,000, to-day only command about $2500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a singular fact, that a person owning a lot in the business part of the city, on which a brick building has been erected, can to-day borrow more money on it than it would sell for!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is time that we began to awaken to the real value of property here. San Francisco is not New York, a city of half a million of inhabitants, with an immense population behind it; it is a small place— an important one, it is true, and destined one day to be the central point of the Pacific, but nevertheless a small one — the entrepot for a population of less than four hundred thousand people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no reason why property in it should not rule at New York rates, and any attempt to force them up to such prices can only be a purely speculative movement which must, like all gambling— be it with dice, or cards, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1860/07/23/news/affairs-california-wholesale-defeat-frandulent-land-titles-who-peter-smith-was.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Smith titles\u003c/a> — redound to the injury of the community at large.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Three San Francisco government departments and the local office for a state agency are scrambling to hire staff to keep up with the city’s steady increase in construction projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, several thousand buildings have been put up or substantially renovated throughout the city, leading San Francisco’s Planning Department, Department of Building Inspection and Fire Department along with California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, to fill positions, add jobs and recruit talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nowhere is busier than the \u003ca href=\"http://sfdbi.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Building Inspection\u003c/a>. In the 2012-13 fiscal year, the 12 months through June 30, 2013, the agency issued a record 61,000 permits for projects that ranged from new housing and office developments to plumbing and electrical upgrades. That number jumped to 65,000 in 2013-14 and is expected to hit 80,000 for the current fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a far cry from how things looked during the economic downturn when construction growth dropped in San Francisco and DBI laid off 30 percent of its staff then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the economic turnaround began, the agency started restaffing and that process continues to accelerate. The department has brought on nearly 50 people in the last six months, according to DBI spokesman, William Strawn. The agency plans to hire about 20 more inspectors, engineers, clerks and IT workers between now and the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tough Building Codes Fuel Demand for Inspectors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco happens to be in one of the world’s highest at-risk seismic zones,” Strawn says. “Our building codes are a whole lot more strict than just about any place else in the world. We keep adding people because the demand for these building projects, especially over the last couple of years, has been pretty intense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'There's a lot of building happening, and we certainly need to make sure we have all the resources in place to ensure they're safe.'\u003ccite>Supervisor London Breed\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Part of that uptick stems from the increased number of big multimillion-dollar projects in the city, including massive residential and office towers downtown. There were nearly 60 major projects in the city several years ago, city officials say, and more than 250 today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with prompting a need for more extensive inspections, those large projects are changing San Francisco's skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DBI needs to get permission from several of the city's departments to make staffing changes. Funds to pay for the added positions will come from the fees it charges construction companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increase in building permits also has prompted San Francisco’s fire marshal to ask for more staff to focus on preventing blazes at construction sites. Assistant Deputy Chief Michie Wong says she wants to add 12 people to handle inspections, review fire safety plans that construction crews develop before they build and conduct arson investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inspectors and investigators who currently work in that part of the Fire Department were the central players in handling \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/16/san-francisco-steps-up-construction-fire-safety-enforcement-wins-key-case\" target=\"_blank\">the aftermath of two major construction fires in San Francisco this year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A massive blaze in the city’s Mission Bay neighborhood last March prompted the city to implement stricter safety rules governing construction work. That fire and another at the old Renoir Hotel in the Mid-Market area in August led to citations against contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the new inspectors Wong wants would specifically deal with high-rise developments. Some of the money to pay for those new employees would come from permit fees the Fire Department receives, and some would come from the department’s budget, Wong said. Chief Joanne Hayes-White will consider a request for funding that staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Planning Department Also Staffs Up\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, the city agency that helps to shape growth and development in San Francisco recently added dozens of staff members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-planning.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Planning Department\u003c/a> has been increasing its workforce incrementally over the past few years, according to Gina Simi, the agency’s spokeswoman. The agency added three dozen positions over the last year and a half and plans to unveil its staffing proposal for the upcoming budget cycle at a Planning Commission meeting on Jan. 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/\" target=\"_blank\">Division of Occupational Safety and Health\u003c/a> is also actively recruiting inspectors in San Francisco, according to Cal/OSHA spokeswoman Julia Bernstein. The agency is trying to fill a number of vacant positions in the region and throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2014/2014-48.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Cal/OSHA announced in late May that it was targeting Bay Area construction sites to make sure they complied with state safety rules\u003c/a>. In fact, the agency launched investigations into several of the contractors involved in the Mission Bay and Renoir Hotel fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the local staffing discussions for DBI and the Planning and Fire departments will take place at City Hall in the coming months. Mayor Ed Lee's administration and the Board of Supervisors are set to start hammering out a spending plan in March. The Board of Supervisor’s Budget and Finance Committee is expected to initiate hearings then on how much to fund each city department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new president of the Board of Supervisors is receptive to the idea of adding staff to handle San Francisco’s construction boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a lot of building happening and we certainly need to make sure we have all the resources in place to ensure they're safe,” said Supervisor London Breed, elected last week to lead the board.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Often I get on a flight, and people say, “Where do you live?” And when I say Oakland you can feel them pull away from you, ever so slightly lean away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you make of this latest boom?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that it highlights both the division in America that has come up most perceptibly around race and some of the #BlackLivesMatter issues, but it also represents a tremendous opportunity for us to be much more thoughtful and to get it right this time. To really think differently about what does it mean as a nation to be “indivisible” and what does it mean for us to really make sure that there’s a place for everybody at the table. “Right” would look like a mixed-income opportunity: that you have neighborhoods that are not all affluent or all poor, but in fact we begin to really deliver on the American Dream and create an opportunity for people across a much broader range … to live in a neighborhood where all the benefits of a healthy community are available to everyone in our nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is this boom having any benefit for the young people you serve at Youth UpRising?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”z9UQlyDMpe4adprPJp1jaG6hKfGeamjA”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No. And that’s not just the truth in East Oakland. We work in a neighborhood that we call the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youthuprising.org/media/14552/copy%20of%20castlemont_advantage_privatepartners%20%287%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Castlemont Community\u003c/a>, at Census Tract 4097. That neighborhood really has been untouched by the boom. We have seven times the national crime rate in our neighborhood. And so the interface between crime and gentrification — or “boom,” as some people will call it more politely — isn’t often explored. But the truth is people are not running into a neighborhood where homicide is the leading cause of death. We also, though, have the cover of that to allow us an opportunity to really advance an agenda that’s a mixed-income housing, as opposed to a displacement, strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A young staff member at Youth UpRising was recently shot dead, years after turning his life around. Tell us about him and how you view his passing in light of this boom.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(He was) Born and raised in Sobrante Park, mother strung out on drugs, father completely absent. At 9 years old, really started fending for himself on the streets. And came to us six years ago, I promise you, the kind of kid you see and you cross the street. I \u003cem>promise\u003c/em> you. Very dark, very large, and looked menacing, because life had not been good to him. But as you began to love him, because love changes everything, he unfolded and became by far the best worker on our janitorial crew. …. The problem is that as you become softer, but you’re still living in a hard place, you become much more at risk. He was shot in the head in a dispute with someone else that was ultimately about $8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we should be ashamed of ourselves. As we drink our lattes and we commute back and forth with our heated seats and the comfort of what we’ve been fortunate enough to have, what is our responsibility to other Americans? And how dare we pathologize them for a failure that they were born into? That they didn’t create, but they suffer?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>But simply bringing more tech jobs to East Oakland wouldn’t solve the problem, because it would displace these struggling young people, too, right?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beauty of our economy and capitalism is that we can specialize. I just need (tech firms) to be an economic engine. Young people are dying in your backyard for a job. They’re \u003cem>dying!\u003c/em> And you have an obligation to that as a corporate citizen, as an economic member of this region. If you don’t want to hire people, let’s have a job creation strategy that’s based on procurement. Let’s onshore Oakland. Let’s bring dollars back in these communities. 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"content": "\u003cp>Want to escape the crush of First Fridays and still spend some quality time with the Oakland art scene? Whether you dwell in 94704 or 94110, a web of art spaces, from commercial galleries to nomadic projects, is just a BART ride away. So top up your Clipper card, hop on a train and take a ride to bask in the rich visual culture on the bright side of the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>12th St BART\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10280872\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 483px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/proarts.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/proarts.jpg\" alt=\"Works by Rhonda Holberton, 2014; Courtesy Pro Arts, Oakland \" width=\"483\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10280872\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/proarts.jpg 483w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/proarts-400x530.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/proarts-452x600.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Works by Rhonda Holberton, 2014; Courtesy Pro Arts, Oakland\u003cbr>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Pro Arts\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://proartsgallery.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proartsgallery.org\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>This nonprofit space looking out on Frank H. Ogawa Plaza is an important launching pad for some of the most exciting up-and-coming Bay Area artists, especially via their \u003cb>2 x 2 Solos\u003c/b> series, exhibitions not to be missed. Pro Arts provides not just exposure, but artist services (organized open studios weekends and opportunity listings) and conducts an education program, offering over 700 art classes to local youth each year. In January, Pro Arts hosts \u003cb>2015 Re-Create Art Contest\u003c/b>, Oakland’s annual recycled art competition for grade-school artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Shadow Office\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>308 15th Street\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://shadowoffice.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shadowoffice.org\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Run by the collaborative group Shipping + Receiving (a quartet of “interdisciplinary artists, writers, designers, food and drink people”), Shadow Office is a hybrid storefront space. In an all-too familiar story, the organizers were evicted from their former live-work warehouse, their building slated for demolition and future condo development. What is now Shadow Office opened up at just the right time, bringing with it the opportunity to put on experimental programming. “There is a lot of good energy on the block and we’re stoked to be part of it,” wrote Torreya Cummings last year. Their eclectic offerings have thus far included a pig roast, a ceramics sale, a free cat petting zoo and an exhibition of nautical-themed embroidery pieces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10280758\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/citylimits.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/citylimits.jpg\" alt=\"Tamra Seal, Bubbles; Courtesy City Limits Gallery, Oakland\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10280758\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/citylimits.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/citylimits-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamra Seal, \u003ci>Bubbles\u003c/i>; Courtesy City Limits Gallery, Oakland\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>City Limits\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>300 Jefferson Street\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://citylimitsgallery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">citylimitsgallery.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>This bright artist-run space perched on the edge of Jack London Square is an energetic and youthful gallery. With a brand-new flat files program and a fluid approach to exhibition making, the community around the gallery is a vibrant and optimistic one. Showcasing sculpture, painting, installations, video and photographic works, each visit to City Limits is a completely different experience. This is one of those outlier spaces most lively on opening nights or First Fridays, but co-directors Evan Reiser and Stephanie Rohlfs maintain regular Saturday hours for the weekend gallery goer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>19th St BART\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10280869\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/cringe.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/cringe.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel Yurkovich, Still from Five-Second Rule; Courtesy Aggregate Space\" width=\"640\" height=\"294\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10280869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/cringe.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/cringe-400x183.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Yurkovich, Still from \u003ci>Five-Second Rule\u003c/i>; Courtesy Aggregate Space\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Aggregate Space\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>801 W Grand Avenue\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.aggregatespace.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aggregatespace.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>This sleek warehouse gallery space is run by co-founders Conrad M. Meyers II and S D Willis with a writing residency directed by Steffi Drewes. Its street entrance does little to prepare visitors for what’s inside: 15-foot ceilings, a fabrication shop, darkroom and screening lounge replete with theater seating. Dedicated to showcasing emerging local artists across media, Aggregate Space hosts exhibitions, artist talks, chapbook releases and film screenings, maintaining a full schedule of programming with the help of curatorial interns. They’ll start the year with a juried video show, \u003cb>Cringe\u003c/b>, featuring work by 9 artists selected from over 100 submissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10280988\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 512px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/colosky.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/colosky.jpg\" alt=\"Randy Colosky, Slab #3, 2014; Courtesy of Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10280988\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/colosky.jpg 512w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/colosky-400x500.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/colosky-480x600.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randy Colosky, \u003ci>Slab #3\u003c/i>, 2014; Courtesy of Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Chandra Cerrito Contemporary\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>480 23rd Street\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://chandracerritocontemporary.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chandracerritocontemporary.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Chandra Cerrito Contemporary has come a long way from its humble 2007 beginnings on the mezzanine of Mercury 20 Gallery’s former Grand Avenue space. Actually, only two short blocks, but the current accommodations are a tad roomier. From Randy Colosky’s engineered ceramics to Amy M. Ho’s illusory architectural spaces, the gallery doesn’t shy away from thought-provoking installations. In fact, Chandra Cerrito represents an impressive number of sculptors at a time when 2D works are a safer bet for sales. Stop by for the ambitious shows and to peruse the Collectors Editions, affordable “limited edition and serial small works by gallery artists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10280749\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 474px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/judithscott.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/judithscott.jpg\" alt=\"Judith Scott, Untitled, 2003; Photo courtesy of Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland\" width=\"474\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10280749\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/judithscott.jpg 474w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/judithscott-400x540.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/judithscott-444x600.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judith Scott, \u003ci>Untitled\u003c/i>, 2003; Photo courtesy of Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Creative Growth Art Center\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>355 24th Street\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://creativegrowth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">creativegrowth.org\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Serving artists with developmental disabilities, Creative Growth provides not only resources and services to their community of talented artists, but a gallery space showcasing seven well-considered exhibitions a year. The art center just celebrated its 40th year as the “oldest and largest” organization of its kind. For anyone seeking a break from the mundane, a visit to Creative Growth provides a refreshing jolt of the unexpected: colliding colors, material experimentation, energy harnessed into exciting mark making. Serving “approximately 150 clients from around the Bay Area,” Creative Growth is a must-stop on any gallery tour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10280502\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/johansson.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/johansson.jpg\" alt=\"Jennie Ottinger, White and Tan Head, 2014; Courtesy J\" width=\"640\" height=\"642\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10280502\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/johansson.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/johansson-400x401.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/johansson-598x600.jpg 598w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/johansson-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/johansson-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/johansson-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/johansson-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/johansson-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennie Ottinger, \u003ci>White and Tan Head\u003c/i>, 2014; Courtesy Johansson Projects\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Johansson Projects\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>2300 Telegraph Avenue\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://johanssonprojects.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">johanssonprojects.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>At the corner of Telegraph and 23rd, Johansson Projects’ elegant archways provide portals for sunlight-suffused exhibitions. Always eminently professional, this commercial space puts on shows of both well-known Bay Area artists (Michael Arcega, Alicia McCarthy) and recent MFA grads whose careers are on the rise (Margo Wolowiec, Jenny Sharaf). The 2015 season opens with an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Jennie Ottinger on January 10, \u003cb>Letters to the Predator\u003c/b>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10280618\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/SylviaFein_TogetherForEver_KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/SylviaFein_TogetherForEver_KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Sylvia Fein, Together For Ever, 2013; Photo by Nick Pishvanov, courtesy of the artist and Krowswork, Oakland \" width=\"640\" height=\"483\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10280618\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/SylviaFein_TogetherForEver_KQED.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/SylviaFein_TogetherForEver_KQED-400x301.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sylvia Fein, \u003ci>Together For Ever\u003c/i>, 2013; Photo by Nick Pishvanov, courtesy of the artist and Krowswork, Oakland\u003cbr>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Krowswork\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>480 23rd Street (side street entrance)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.krowswork.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">krowswork.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Krowswork just turned five years old, a remarkable fact alone. Director Jasmine Moorhead originally focused on contemporary video and photographic work, but now brings all media into her expansive gallery space. Krowswork’s programming is especially unique in its retrospectives of under-recognized artists (including Sylvia Fein and Jack Wright) whose lives are richly intertwined with the history of Northern California art. The gallery’s rigorous academic approach produces exhibitions that are neither staid nor didactic, but deeply informative and engaging. Also, it \u003cem>must\u003c/em> be noted that Krowswork is a palindrome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Editor’s Note:\u003c/b> We corrected this post after being informed that Aggregate Space was actually closer to the 19th Street BART Station.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Want to escape the crush of First Fridays and still spend some quality time with the Oakland art scene? Whether you dwell in 94704 or 94110, a web of art spaces, from commercial galleries to nomadic projects, is just a BART ride away. So top up your Clipper card, hop on a train and take a ride to bask in the rich visual culture on the bright side of the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>12th St BART\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10280872\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 483px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/proarts.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/proarts.jpg\" alt=\"Works by Rhonda Holberton, 2014; Courtesy Pro Arts, Oakland \" width=\"483\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10280872\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/proarts.jpg 483w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/proarts-400x530.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/proarts-452x600.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Works by Rhonda Holberton, 2014; Courtesy Pro Arts, Oakland\u003cbr>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Pro Arts\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://proartsgallery.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proartsgallery.org\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>This nonprofit space looking out on Frank H. Ogawa Plaza is an important launching pad for some of the most exciting up-and-coming Bay Area artists, especially via their \u003cb>2 x 2 Solos\u003c/b> series, exhibitions not to be missed. Pro Arts provides not just exposure, but artist services (organized open studios weekends and opportunity listings) and conducts an education program, offering over 700 art classes to local youth each year. In January, Pro Arts hosts \u003cb>2015 Re-Create Art Contest\u003c/b>, Oakland’s annual recycled art competition for grade-school artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Shadow Office\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>308 15th Street\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://shadowoffice.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shadowoffice.org\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Run by the collaborative group Shipping + Receiving (a quartet of “interdisciplinary artists, writers, designers, food and drink people”), Shadow Office is a hybrid storefront space. In an all-too familiar story, the organizers were evicted from their former live-work warehouse, their building slated for demolition and future condo development. What is now Shadow Office opened up at just the right time, bringing with it the opportunity to put on experimental programming. “There is a lot of good energy on the block and we’re stoked to be part of it,” wrote Torreya Cummings last year. Their eclectic offerings have thus far included a pig roast, a ceramics sale, a free cat petting zoo and an exhibition of nautical-themed embroidery pieces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10280758\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/citylimits.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/citylimits.jpg\" alt=\"Tamra Seal, Bubbles; Courtesy City Limits Gallery, Oakland\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10280758\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/citylimits.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/citylimits-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamra Seal, \u003ci>Bubbles\u003c/i>; Courtesy City Limits Gallery, Oakland\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>City Limits\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>300 Jefferson Street\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://citylimitsgallery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">citylimitsgallery.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>This bright artist-run space perched on the edge of Jack London Square is an energetic and youthful gallery. With a brand-new flat files program and a fluid approach to exhibition making, the community around the gallery is a vibrant and optimistic one. Showcasing sculpture, painting, installations, video and photographic works, each visit to City Limits is a completely different experience. This is one of those outlier spaces most lively on opening nights or First Fridays, but co-directors Evan Reiser and Stephanie Rohlfs maintain regular Saturday hours for the weekend gallery goer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>19th St BART\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10280869\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/cringe.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/cringe.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel Yurkovich, Still from Five-Second Rule; Courtesy Aggregate Space\" width=\"640\" height=\"294\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10280869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/cringe.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/cringe-400x183.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Yurkovich, Still from \u003ci>Five-Second Rule\u003c/i>; Courtesy Aggregate Space\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Aggregate Space\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>801 W Grand Avenue\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.aggregatespace.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aggregatespace.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>This sleek warehouse gallery space is run by co-founders Conrad M. Meyers II and S D Willis with a writing residency directed by Steffi Drewes. Its street entrance does little to prepare visitors for what’s inside: 15-foot ceilings, a fabrication shop, darkroom and screening lounge replete with theater seating. Dedicated to showcasing emerging local artists across media, Aggregate Space hosts exhibitions, artist talks, chapbook releases and film screenings, maintaining a full schedule of programming with the help of curatorial interns. They’ll start the year with a juried video show, \u003cb>Cringe\u003c/b>, featuring work by 9 artists selected from over 100 submissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10280988\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 512px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/colosky.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/colosky.jpg\" alt=\"Randy Colosky, Slab #3, 2014; Courtesy of Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10280988\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/colosky.jpg 512w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/colosky-400x500.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/colosky-480x600.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randy Colosky, \u003ci>Slab #3\u003c/i>, 2014; Courtesy of Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Chandra Cerrito Contemporary\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>480 23rd Street\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://chandracerritocontemporary.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chandracerritocontemporary.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Chandra Cerrito Contemporary has come a long way from its humble 2007 beginnings on the mezzanine of Mercury 20 Gallery’s former Grand Avenue space. Actually, only two short blocks, but the current accommodations are a tad roomier. From Randy Colosky’s engineered ceramics to Amy M. Ho’s illusory architectural spaces, the gallery doesn’t shy away from thought-provoking installations. In fact, Chandra Cerrito represents an impressive number of sculptors at a time when 2D works are a safer bet for sales. Stop by for the ambitious shows and to peruse the Collectors Editions, affordable “limited edition and serial small works by gallery artists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10280749\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 474px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/judithscott.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/judithscott.jpg\" alt=\"Judith Scott, Untitled, 2003; Photo courtesy of Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland\" width=\"474\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10280749\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/judithscott.jpg 474w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/judithscott-400x540.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/judithscott-444x600.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judith Scott, \u003ci>Untitled\u003c/i>, 2003; Photo courtesy of Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Creative Growth Art Center\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>355 24th Street\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://creativegrowth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">creativegrowth.org\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Serving artists with developmental disabilities, Creative Growth provides not only resources and services to their community of talented artists, but a gallery space showcasing seven well-considered exhibitions a year. The art center just celebrated its 40th year as the “oldest and largest” organization of its kind. For anyone seeking a break from the mundane, a visit to Creative Growth provides a refreshing jolt of the unexpected: colliding colors, material experimentation, energy harnessed into exciting mark making. Serving “approximately 150 clients from around the Bay Area,” Creative Growth is a must-stop on any gallery tour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10280502\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/johansson.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/johansson.jpg\" alt=\"Jennie Ottinger, White and Tan Head, 2014; Courtesy J\" width=\"640\" height=\"642\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10280502\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/johansson.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/johansson-400x401.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/johansson-598x600.jpg 598w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/johansson-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/johansson-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/johansson-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/johansson-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/johansson-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennie Ottinger, \u003ci>White and Tan Head\u003c/i>, 2014; Courtesy Johansson Projects\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Johansson Projects\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>2300 Telegraph Avenue\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://johanssonprojects.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">johanssonprojects.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>At the corner of Telegraph and 23rd, Johansson Projects’ elegant archways provide portals for sunlight-suffused exhibitions. Always eminently professional, this commercial space puts on shows of both well-known Bay Area artists (Michael Arcega, Alicia McCarthy) and recent MFA grads whose careers are on the rise (Margo Wolowiec, Jenny Sharaf). 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Director Jasmine Moorhead originally focused on contemporary video and photographic work, but now brings all media into her expansive gallery space. Krowswork’s programming is especially unique in its retrospectives of under-recognized artists (including Sylvia Fein and Jack Wright) whose lives are richly intertwined with the history of Northern California art. The gallery’s rigorous academic approach produces exhibitions that are neither staid nor didactic, but deeply informative and engaging. Also, it \u003cem>must\u003c/em> be noted that Krowswork is a palindrome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "Picturing the First Boom: Images of Gold Rush San Francisco ",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>etween 1848 and 1852, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/06/boomtown-history-san-francisco-gold-rush\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco exploded\u003c/a> from a town of just over 800 people to a port city of about 35,000 people. Among those who flocked to the city, which served as immigrants' main gateway to newly discovered gold fields in the Sierra Nevada foothills, were illustrators, photographers and mapmakers, who documented the city's shockingly quick rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10399634\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839-800x596.jpg\" alt=\"Jean Jacques Vioget's 1839 map of San Francisco. (Bancroft Library)\" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839-800x596.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839-400x298.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839.jpg 1073w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean Jacques Vioget's 1839 map of San Francisco. (Bancroft Library)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> Jean Jacques Vioget, a French-born ship's captain who arrived on San Francisco Bay in 1837, was among the first to settle in the village of Yerba Buena. In 1839, Mexican officials hired Vioget to survey and map the settlement. The area he laid out is roughly bounded by today's Pacific Avenue to the north, Washington Street to the south, Grant Avenue to the west and Montgomery Street to the east. The map is oriented with west at the top; the bay would be below the map's bottom border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398868\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1-800x402.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1-800x402.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1-400x201.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> San Francisco's Portsmouth Square, also known as the Plaza, seen in a daguerrotype dated 1851. The view is toward the west, with the pictured buildings along Dupont Street (now Grant Avenue) and the heights later dubbed Nob Hill. The image was credited to a dentist named S.C. McIntyre. (Wikimedia Commons/Library of Congress)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10398867 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"high-and-dry-sf-street-1856\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Bancroft Library) \u003ccite>(Courtesy Bancroft Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> Hundreds of ships arrived in San Francisco during the Gold Rush, and many were abandoned as crews deserted to go to the gold fields. Some of the ships, like the whaling ship Niantic, were hauled ashore and incorporated into the city's earliest waterfront neighborhoods. The Niantic, shown here in a lithograph by wandering memoirist Frank Marryat, was pressed into service as a hotel near the corner of Clay and Sansome streets. The ship/hotel was destroyed during a fire that swept much of downtown in May 1851. (See: \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/safr/historyculture/nianticpainting.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Niantic: Buried Gold Rush Ship\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398871\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"(Frank Marryat/Library of Congress)\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east-400x276.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east.jpg 988w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Frank Marryat/Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> A Frank Marryat view of San Francisco looking east across the city toward the bay. Yerba Buena Island is pictured at the left, with Mount Diablo visible in the distance at center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398872\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island-800x423.jpg\" alt=\"A view of San Francisco from Yerba Buena Island. (W.H. Dougal/David Rumsey Historical Map Collection)\" width=\"800\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island-800x423.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island-400x211.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island.jpg 1369w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of San Francisco from Yerba Buena Island. (W.H. Dougal/David Rumsey Historical Map Collection)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> And here's what the rapidly growing city looked like from the shore of Yerba Buena Island in 1852.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10398865\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps.jpg\" alt=\"Wood engraving by F. Hickock. Courtesy Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps-400x215.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(F. Hickock/Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> This engraving, published in Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper in June 1856, shows a Chinese settlement on the fringe of San Francisco. In 1852, about 20,000 Chinese immigrants registered at San Francisco customs houses -- most intending to travel inland to the gold fields. California imposed a Foreign Miners Tax that May; the levy of $3 a month was explicitly directed at Chinese miners. Violence increased soon after 200 Chinese miners were robbed and four murdered at Rich Gulch that year, according to the \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldrush/peopleevents/p_chinese.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Alta California\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398919\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v-800x623.jpg\" alt=\"Lithograph on blue paper by Quirot & Co. Courtesy Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v-800x623.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v-400x311.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lithograph on blue paper by Quirot & Co. (Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> An early 1850s image of Mission Dolores, which despite San Francisco's rapid growth still lay well beyond the city's borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-e1420513175372.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398922\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco in 1857\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco in 1857. (David Rumsey Historical Map Collection)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> An 1857 map of San Francisco demonstrates the city's rapid growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10399693\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856.jpg\" alt=\"(A. Nahl/Library of Congress)\" width=\"640\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856-400x280.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(A. Nahl/Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> This is one of several line engravings created by A. Nahl in 1856 showing workers at the San Francisco Mint, built just two years prior. Workers produced $4,084,207 worth of gold coins in 1854 alone, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/mint_facilities/index.cfm?flash=yes&action=SF_facilities\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Mint.\u003c/a> The new mint quickly outgrew the small brick building and moved to new headquarters at Fifth and Mission streets -- today's \"Old Mint\" -- in 1874.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10398863 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy the Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom-400x305.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(A. Nahl/Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> Women worked at mints throughout the United States during the mid-1850s. \u003ca href=\"http://www.us-coin-values-advisor.com/us-philadelphia-mint.html\" target=\"_blank\">By 1860\u003c/a>, women at the Philadelphia Mint earned 11 cents an hour and often worked 10 hours a day. San Francisco's mint was originally a branch of the Philadelphia Mint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>etween 1848 and 1852, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/06/boomtown-history-san-francisco-gold-rush\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco exploded\u003c/a> from a town of just over 800 people to a port city of about 35,000 people. Among those who flocked to the city, which served as immigrants' main gateway to newly discovered gold fields in the Sierra Nevada foothills, were illustrators, photographers and mapmakers, who documented the city's shockingly quick rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10399634\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839-800x596.jpg\" alt=\"Jean Jacques Vioget's 1839 map of San Francisco. (Bancroft Library)\" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839-800x596.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839-400x298.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839.jpg 1073w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean Jacques Vioget's 1839 map of San Francisco. (Bancroft Library)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> Jean Jacques Vioget, a French-born ship's captain who arrived on San Francisco Bay in 1837, was among the first to settle in the village of Yerba Buena. In 1839, Mexican officials hired Vioget to survey and map the settlement. The area he laid out is roughly bounded by today's Pacific Avenue to the north, Washington Street to the south, Grant Avenue to the west and Montgomery Street to the east. The map is oriented with west at the top; the bay would be below the map's bottom border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398868\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1-800x402.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1-800x402.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1-400x201.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> San Francisco's Portsmouth Square, also known as the Plaza, seen in a daguerrotype dated 1851. The view is toward the west, with the pictured buildings along Dupont Street (now Grant Avenue) and the heights later dubbed Nob Hill. The image was credited to a dentist named S.C. McIntyre. (Wikimedia Commons/Library of Congress)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10398867 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"high-and-dry-sf-street-1856\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Bancroft Library) \u003ccite>(Courtesy Bancroft Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> Hundreds of ships arrived in San Francisco during the Gold Rush, and many were abandoned as crews deserted to go to the gold fields. Some of the ships, like the whaling ship Niantic, were hauled ashore and incorporated into the city's earliest waterfront neighborhoods. The Niantic, shown here in a lithograph by wandering memoirist Frank Marryat, was pressed into service as a hotel near the corner of Clay and Sansome streets. The ship/hotel was destroyed during a fire that swept much of downtown in May 1851. (See: \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/safr/historyculture/nianticpainting.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Niantic: Buried Gold Rush Ship\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398871\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"(Frank Marryat/Library of Congress)\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east-400x276.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east.jpg 988w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Frank Marryat/Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> A Frank Marryat view of San Francisco looking east across the city toward the bay. Yerba Buena Island is pictured at the left, with Mount Diablo visible in the distance at center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398872\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island-800x423.jpg\" alt=\"A view of San Francisco from Yerba Buena Island. (W.H. Dougal/David Rumsey Historical Map Collection)\" width=\"800\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island-800x423.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island-400x211.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island.jpg 1369w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of San Francisco from Yerba Buena Island. (W.H. Dougal/David Rumsey Historical Map Collection)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> And here's what the rapidly growing city looked like from the shore of Yerba Buena Island in 1852.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10398865\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps.jpg\" alt=\"Wood engraving by F. Hickock. Courtesy Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps-400x215.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(F. Hickock/Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> This engraving, published in Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper in June 1856, shows a Chinese settlement on the fringe of San Francisco. In 1852, about 20,000 Chinese immigrants registered at San Francisco customs houses -- most intending to travel inland to the gold fields. California imposed a Foreign Miners Tax that May; the levy of $3 a month was explicitly directed at Chinese miners. Violence increased soon after 200 Chinese miners were robbed and four murdered at Rich Gulch that year, according to the \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldrush/peopleevents/p_chinese.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Alta California\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398919\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v-800x623.jpg\" alt=\"Lithograph on blue paper by Quirot & Co. Courtesy Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v-800x623.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v-400x311.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lithograph on blue paper by Quirot & Co. (Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> An early 1850s image of Mission Dolores, which despite San Francisco's rapid growth still lay well beyond the city's borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-e1420513175372.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398922\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco in 1857\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco in 1857. (David Rumsey Historical Map Collection)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> An 1857 map of San Francisco demonstrates the city's rapid growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10399693\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856.jpg\" alt=\"(A. Nahl/Library of Congress)\" width=\"640\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856-400x280.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(A. Nahl/Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> This is one of several line engravings created by A. Nahl in 1856 showing workers at the San Francisco Mint, built just two years prior. Workers produced $4,084,207 worth of gold coins in 1854 alone, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/mint_facilities/index.cfm?flash=yes&action=SF_facilities\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Mint.\u003c/a> The new mint quickly outgrew the small brick building and moved to new headquarters at Fifth and Mission streets -- today's \"Old Mint\" -- in 1874.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10398863 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy the Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom-400x305.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(A. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>y now, the Bay Area has seen the arrival of hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of young seekers like Richard Henry Dana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana was a college undergraduate who left school in a crisis, taking a radical course in his search for answers about who he was and what he might become. His path led him from what appeared to be a safe life at Harvard, the scion of an established Massachusetts family, to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in coming to the West Coast, his quest found at least partial fulfillment. He tested himself physically in the journey, found himself adept at a difficult occupation, discovered exotic cultures and even picked up a new language, Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I suspect that many of us share a little bit of that story. We've come here looking for education, work, love, a change of scenery, a place where we might more fully know ourselves and give the genius we believe lives inside us a chance to breathe a little.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'If California ever becomes a prosperous country, this bay will be the centre of its prosperity.'\u003ccite>Richard Henry Dana\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That much we might have in common with Richard Henry Dana. But his experience was essentially different from that of the throngs, including us, who have come anticipating a place of striking beauty, diverse culture and rich opportunity. Whatever we actually find, most of us have arrived ready to be enchanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was hardly that way for the 20-year-old Dana, who had shipped out as a common sailor on a trading voyage to an unknown coast. Here were his impressions of his arrival in December 1835, when his ship sailed through the yet-to-be-named Golden Gate to drop anchor off yet-to-be-named San Francisco:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"BBV56SkjV9joNruaCgvFX89vACuWlokU\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vast solitude, the stillness of nature, a lonely harbor and a virtually deserted landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana's ship lay at anchor in Yerba Buena Cove, just offshore of the present-day Financial District, for more than three weeks. \"But during our whole stay,\" he said, \"not a sail came or went.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except for the \"ruinous\" Presidio and Mission Dolores, each several miles from the anchorage, \"there were no other human habitations except that an enterprising Yankee years in advance of his time had put up … a shanty of rough boards.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana saw possibilities nonetheless, as he also wrote in \"\u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=aVKPZQbKev4C\" target=\"_blank\">Two Years Before the Mast\u003c/a>,\" his memoir of the trip:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If California ever becomes a prosperous country, this bay will be the centre of its prosperity. The abundance of wood and water, the extreme fertility of its shores, the excellence of its climate, which is as near to being perfect as any in the world, and its facilities for navigation, affording the best anchoring grounds in the whole western coast of America, all fit it for a place of great importance.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399555\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 345px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/richardhenrydana.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10399555\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/richardhenrydana.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Henry Dana as he appeared shortly after his account of sailing to California, Two Years Before the Mast, was published. (Library of Congress)\" width=\"345\" height=\"423\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Henry Dana as he appeared shortly after his account of sailing to California, \u003cem>Two Years Before the Mast\u003c/em>, was published. (Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, everything Dana saw was about to change, first in a trickle, then in a torrent. Drawn by reports of California's agricultural and trading prospects, the little village of Yerba Buena grew to about 20 homes by 1841. In January 1847, when the settlement changed its name to San Francisco, it was a town of several hundred people. A year later, when a carpenter and millwright named James Marshall picked gold out of the American River east of Sacramento, the settlement had 800 people or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And gold changed everything. First it emptied out San Francisco, as the predominantly male population dropped everything to rush to the American River. Then it filled the city back up again the following year as tens of thousands of \"Argonauts\" swarmed through the city to hunt for treasure. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgpop.htm\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco's population\u003c/a> neared 25,000 in 1849 and 36,000 by 1852.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What did the city look like during this population explosion? Here's a rather romantic description from \u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=SO9ibkwWXMAC\" target=\"_blank\">Bayard Taylor\u003c/a>, a New York reporter who landed in San Francisco in the latter half of 1849:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The appearance of San Francisco at night from the water is unlike anything I ever beheld. The houses are mostly of canvas, which is made transparent by the lamps within, and transforms them in the darkness to dwellings of solid light. Seated on the slopes of its three hills, the tents pitched among the chapparal to the very summits it gleams like an amphitheatre of fire. Here and there shine out brilliant points from the decoy lamps of the gaming houses; and through the indistinct murmur of the streets comes by fits the sound of music from their hot and crowded precincts.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Of course, hundreds of witnesses attest that the city in the making was also crowded, disorganized, filthy and vermin-ridden. It was expensive, rife with out-of-control property speculation, and full of all the familiar vices, most notably gambling houses. It was prone to burning down, with half a dozen blazes sweeping parts of the city in the first few years of the Gold Rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, that was San Francisco, becoming the archetype of the American boomtown (a term, by the way, that did not come into use until the 1880s).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like other towns during other booms, it proved to be an economically unstable place that was at first almost wholly dependent on the continuing extraction of gold and expansion of population to move ahead. The city suffered several small downturns during its first few years before declining gold shipments knocked the bottom out of the speculative economy in 1854 and 1855.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the newspapers in town, the Daily Alta California, published an essay in June 1855 that surveyed the wreckage of the real estate market and talked about its deeper causes and costs:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It is an indisputable fact that nearly all the prominent operators of 1852-3 are now bankrupt, and the mass of smaller men are utterly ruined. A year or two ago they thought themselves rich — they lived extravagantly, kept their horses and carriages, furnished their houses magnificently, and now — they have nothing. Some few still hold out, and, with retrenched expenses, are waiting impatiently for a \"rise.\" They will probably be sick at heart before it is realized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this system of overvaluation has not merely ruined those engaged in Real Estate operations: It has to a certain degree debauched the whole community. Parties who saw futures in land have neglected their legitimate callings to squat ... and drag out unprofitable years waiting for a settlement of titles. A recklessness of human life has been engendered, which has told very badly on the interests of the State at large, preventing many who would have made excellent citizens from coming to these shores. It has kept rates of interest extravagantly high, thereby eating out the vitality of the republic. A disposition to speculate desperately — in other words, to gamble — not merely in land, but in everything else, has been fostered by it, and manifests itself in the frantic effort to \"get whole\" which have led men of high social standing to the commission of the most debasing Crimes. In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The city would not be down for long, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>o, we've been poring over Richard Henry Dana, Bayard Taylor and some of the many other tellings and retellings of San Francisco Bay Area and California history with the aim of putting together a narrative of the booms and busts that started with the Gold Rush, why and how they have happened, and what makes each of those ups and downs unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes -- that's an epic ambition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First off, look at the sweep and complexity of the subject. For instance: One of the very finest attempts to tackle this regional history, \"\u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=xlE4hwWVqqwC\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in Perspective\u003c/a>,\" by a Southern California urban planner and UC Berkeley scholar named \u003ca href=\"http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb0h4n99rb&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00069&toc.depth=1&toc.id=\" target=\"_blank\">Mel Scott\u003c/a>, starts with a discussion of what the local landscape looked like during the last Ice Age. One big difference from today: no San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"stU2yGdY4FyadpEOH021b1tsAfRb6Nqz\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point after the glaciers retreated and the bay appeared, people make their appearance: the native Californians, Spanish explorers and their missions, the arrival of the Anglos, Yankees and immigrants from every quarter of the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then you've got the Gold Rush, which extracted hundreds of millions of dollars in gold from the Sierra Nevada foothills in less than a decade. You've got San Francisco's rapid growth, from 800 residents to about 25,000 in little more than a year, and the city's rapid rise to power as a financial, manufacturing and shipping center. And you've got the entire region's continuing industrial and urban development through war, peace and natural calamity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a story that rolls from the birth of local manufacturing at San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"http://www.pier70sf.org/history/p70_history.html\" target=\"_blank\">Union Iron Works\u003c/a> to the creation of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/giannini_hi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bank of America\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-controller-hails-Twitter-tax-break-as-5851498.php\" target=\"_blank\">the Twitter tax break\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, skipping across chronological bullet points barely hints at the hard parts of the region's history: not just the recurring reversals in regional fortunes -- the bust years, when they've occurred -- but the human, environmental and, some would argue, moral costs of the boom times. Those themes, which touch on the genocide carried out against California's native people to the despoiling of nature to the gentrification of the Bay Area's core cities in our time, are vast and now command wide attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \"\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=UKFaw7g0NS4C\" target=\"_blank\">Imperial San Francisco\u003c/a>,\" historian Gray Brechin interprets the rise of San Francisco and institutions from the local media to the University of California as the ruthless and spectacularly effective extension of a national policy that sought to subjugate not only our region, California and the West, but the entire Pacific basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398922\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-e1420513175372.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10398922\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-400x276.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco in 1857\" width=\"400\" height=\"276\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco in 1857\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>(Brechin is also making a larger point about the tendency of cities everywhere to colonize and extract the wealth of a surrounding domain. But his unsparingly acid tone is kind of fun. At one point, he summarizes the reality of the individual Gold Rush miner as an affair of \"primitive technology and rampant alcoholism and violence ... with backbreaking labor, lice, worms, and dysentery.\" Funny -- I don't remember that verse in \"\u003ca href=\"http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/songs/childrens/clemtinemp3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">My Darling Clementine\u003c/a>.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You'll find a critical but more nuanced view of the good and bad in the Gold Rush from \"\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=F3SnmtdZsbEC\" target=\"_blank\">Rooted in Barbarous Soil\u003c/a>,\" a volume of essays on the state's founding era edited by Kevin Starr, the pre-eminent historian of California. In his introduction, Starr acknowledges the \"racist criminality\" that characterized the era's treatment of the native population and the denial of liberty and justice to Gold Rush immigrants of color, and he insists that \"we cannot exempt ourselves from continuities and responsibilities of prejudice down to our own time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he also argues that despite the repressive behavior of the state's Anglo-American settlers, the gathering of people here from all over the world sparked a sort of revolution in diversity that in the long run has led to a wide range of accomplishments in arts and sciences and even in the modern struggle for social justice. Starr writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"For some, the Gold Rush is a panorama of delusion, aggression, lies and deceit, broken promises and empty dreams. For those who think this way, those long-ago years continue today in masked but still damaging forms. ... Yet for those who believe that the California experiment, which is part of the larger American experiment, is of lasting value, the sins of the Gold Rush, while not denied or even forgiven, can be held in equipoise, in mitigating judgment, against all that the Gold Rush positively achieved. ... Such positive results do not excuse the sins of the past; yet they do provide a hope that what has been accomplished has been, on balance, worth at least some of the terrible cost.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So: We have a big, complex topic that has been studied and written about incessantly, and often competently, for more than 150 years. What can we add?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of things, we hope. For starters, an impressionistic, well-focused sense of what happened at key points in the Bay Area's history of booms and busts. Beyond that, some visual aids that suggest the evolution of the Bay Area and the face of both prosperity and hard times here over the past century and a half. Also, we'll point to some of the many excellent sources -- from early, first-person accounts to later analytical histories -- that lend deeper insight into our history of booms and busts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We'd love to hear about your favorite reads, too.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was hardly that way for the 20-year-old Dana, who had shipped out as a common sailor on a trading voyage to an unknown coast. Here were his impressions of his arrival in December 1835, when his ship sailed through the yet-to-be-named Golden Gate to drop anchor off yet-to-be-named San Francisco:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vast solitude, the stillness of nature, a lonely harbor and a virtually deserted landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana's ship lay at anchor in Yerba Buena Cove, just offshore of the present-day Financial District, for more than three weeks. \"But during our whole stay,\" he said, \"not a sail came or went.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except for the \"ruinous\" Presidio and Mission Dolores, each several miles from the anchorage, \"there were no other human habitations except that an enterprising Yankee years in advance of his time had put up … a shanty of rough boards.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana saw possibilities nonetheless, as he also wrote in \"\u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=aVKPZQbKev4C\" target=\"_blank\">Two Years Before the Mast\u003c/a>,\" his memoir of the trip:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If California ever becomes a prosperous country, this bay will be the centre of its prosperity. The abundance of wood and water, the extreme fertility of its shores, the excellence of its climate, which is as near to being perfect as any in the world, and its facilities for navigation, affording the best anchoring grounds in the whole western coast of America, all fit it for a place of great importance.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399555\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 345px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/richardhenrydana.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10399555\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/richardhenrydana.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Henry Dana as he appeared shortly after his account of sailing to California, Two Years Before the Mast, was published. (Library of Congress)\" width=\"345\" height=\"423\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Henry Dana as he appeared shortly after his account of sailing to California, \u003cem>Two Years Before the Mast\u003c/em>, was published. (Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, everything Dana saw was about to change, first in a trickle, then in a torrent. Drawn by reports of California's agricultural and trading prospects, the little village of Yerba Buena grew to about 20 homes by 1841. In January 1847, when the settlement changed its name to San Francisco, it was a town of several hundred people. A year later, when a carpenter and millwright named James Marshall picked gold out of the American River east of Sacramento, the settlement had 800 people or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And gold changed everything. First it emptied out San Francisco, as the predominantly male population dropped everything to rush to the American River. Then it filled the city back up again the following year as tens of thousands of \"Argonauts\" swarmed through the city to hunt for treasure. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgpop.htm\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco's population\u003c/a> neared 25,000 in 1849 and 36,000 by 1852.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What did the city look like during this population explosion? Here's a rather romantic description from \u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=SO9ibkwWXMAC\" target=\"_blank\">Bayard Taylor\u003c/a>, a New York reporter who landed in San Francisco in the latter half of 1849:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The appearance of San Francisco at night from the water is unlike anything I ever beheld. The houses are mostly of canvas, which is made transparent by the lamps within, and transforms them in the darkness to dwellings of solid light. Seated on the slopes of its three hills, the tents pitched among the chapparal to the very summits it gleams like an amphitheatre of fire. Here and there shine out brilliant points from the decoy lamps of the gaming houses; and through the indistinct murmur of the streets comes by fits the sound of music from their hot and crowded precincts.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Of course, hundreds of witnesses attest that the city in the making was also crowded, disorganized, filthy and vermin-ridden. It was expensive, rife with out-of-control property speculation, and full of all the familiar vices, most notably gambling houses. It was prone to burning down, with half a dozen blazes sweeping parts of the city in the first few years of the Gold Rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, that was San Francisco, becoming the archetype of the American boomtown (a term, by the way, that did not come into use until the 1880s).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like other towns during other booms, it proved to be an economically unstable place that was at first almost wholly dependent on the continuing extraction of gold and expansion of population to move ahead. The city suffered several small downturns during its first few years before declining gold shipments knocked the bottom out of the speculative economy in 1854 and 1855.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the newspapers in town, the Daily Alta California, published an essay in June 1855 that surveyed the wreckage of the real estate market and talked about its deeper causes and costs:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It is an indisputable fact that nearly all the prominent operators of 1852-3 are now bankrupt, and the mass of smaller men are utterly ruined. A year or two ago they thought themselves rich — they lived extravagantly, kept their horses and carriages, furnished their houses magnificently, and now — they have nothing. Some few still hold out, and, with retrenched expenses, are waiting impatiently for a \"rise.\" They will probably be sick at heart before it is realized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this system of overvaluation has not merely ruined those engaged in Real Estate operations: It has to a certain degree debauched the whole community. Parties who saw futures in land have neglected their legitimate callings to squat ... and drag out unprofitable years waiting for a settlement of titles. A recklessness of human life has been engendered, which has told very badly on the interests of the State at large, preventing many who would have made excellent citizens from coming to these shores. It has kept rates of interest extravagantly high, thereby eating out the vitality of the republic. A disposition to speculate desperately — in other words, to gamble — not merely in land, but in everything else, has been fostered by it, and manifests itself in the frantic effort to \"get whole\" which have led men of high social standing to the commission of the most debasing Crimes. In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The city would not be down for long, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>o, we've been poring over Richard Henry Dana, Bayard Taylor and some of the many other tellings and retellings of San Francisco Bay Area and California history with the aim of putting together a narrative of the booms and busts that started with the Gold Rush, why and how they have happened, and what makes each of those ups and downs unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes -- that's an epic ambition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First off, look at the sweep and complexity of the subject. For instance: One of the very finest attempts to tackle this regional history, \"\u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=xlE4hwWVqqwC\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in Perspective\u003c/a>,\" by a Southern California urban planner and UC Berkeley scholar named \u003ca href=\"http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb0h4n99rb&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00069&toc.depth=1&toc.id=\" target=\"_blank\">Mel Scott\u003c/a>, starts with a discussion of what the local landscape looked like during the last Ice Age. One big difference from today: no San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point after the glaciers retreated and the bay appeared, people make their appearance: the native Californians, Spanish explorers and their missions, the arrival of the Anglos, Yankees and immigrants from every quarter of the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then you've got the Gold Rush, which extracted hundreds of millions of dollars in gold from the Sierra Nevada foothills in less than a decade. You've got San Francisco's rapid growth, from 800 residents to about 25,000 in little more than a year, and the city's rapid rise to power as a financial, manufacturing and shipping center. And you've got the entire region's continuing industrial and urban development through war, peace and natural calamity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a story that rolls from the birth of local manufacturing at San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"http://www.pier70sf.org/history/p70_history.html\" target=\"_blank\">Union Iron Works\u003c/a> to the creation of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/giannini_hi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bank of America\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-controller-hails-Twitter-tax-break-as-5851498.php\" target=\"_blank\">the Twitter tax break\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, skipping across chronological bullet points barely hints at the hard parts of the region's history: not just the recurring reversals in regional fortunes -- the bust years, when they've occurred -- but the human, environmental and, some would argue, moral costs of the boom times. Those themes, which touch on the genocide carried out against California's native people to the despoiling of nature to the gentrification of the Bay Area's core cities in our time, are vast and now command wide attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \"\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=UKFaw7g0NS4C\" target=\"_blank\">Imperial San Francisco\u003c/a>,\" historian Gray Brechin interprets the rise of San Francisco and institutions from the local media to the University of California as the ruthless and spectacularly effective extension of a national policy that sought to subjugate not only our region, California and the West, but the entire Pacific basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398922\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-e1420513175372.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10398922\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-400x276.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco in 1857\" width=\"400\" height=\"276\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco in 1857\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>(Brechin is also making a larger point about the tendency of cities everywhere to colonize and extract the wealth of a surrounding domain. But his unsparingly acid tone is kind of fun. At one point, he summarizes the reality of the individual Gold Rush miner as an affair of \"primitive technology and rampant alcoholism and violence ... with backbreaking labor, lice, worms, and dysentery.\" Funny -- I don't remember that verse in \"\u003ca href=\"http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/songs/childrens/clemtinemp3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">My Darling Clementine\u003c/a>.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You'll find a critical but more nuanced view of the good and bad in the Gold Rush from \"\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=F3SnmtdZsbEC\" target=\"_blank\">Rooted in Barbarous Soil\u003c/a>,\" a volume of essays on the state's founding era edited by Kevin Starr, the pre-eminent historian of California. In his introduction, Starr acknowledges the \"racist criminality\" that characterized the era's treatment of the native population and the denial of liberty and justice to Gold Rush immigrants of color, and he insists that \"we cannot exempt ourselves from continuities and responsibilities of prejudice down to our own time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he also argues that despite the repressive behavior of the state's Anglo-American settlers, the gathering of people here from all over the world sparked a sort of revolution in diversity that in the long run has led to a wide range of accomplishments in arts and sciences and even in the modern struggle for social justice. Starr writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"For some, the Gold Rush is a panorama of delusion, aggression, lies and deceit, broken promises and empty dreams. For those who think this way, those long-ago years continue today in masked but still damaging forms. ... Yet for those who believe that the California experiment, which is part of the larger American experiment, is of lasting value, the sins of the Gold Rush, while not denied or even forgiven, can be held in equipoise, in mitigating judgment, against all that the Gold Rush positively achieved. ... Such positive results do not excuse the sins of the past; yet they do provide a hope that what has been accomplished has been, on balance, worth at least some of the terrible cost.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So: We have a big, complex topic that has been studied and written about incessantly, and often competently, for more than 150 years. What can we add?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of things, we hope. For starters, an impressionistic, well-focused sense of what happened at key points in the Bay Area's history of booms and busts. Beyond that, some visual aids that suggest the evolution of the Bay Area and the face of both prosperity and hard times here over the past century and a half. Also, we'll point to some of the many excellent sources -- from early, first-person accounts to later analytical histories -- that lend deeper insight into our history of booms and busts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He says he does not feel like his interests as an individual are a priority for the company, nor does he feel protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can only trust a process to a certain extent,” Carrigan says. “Nobody is taking care of you in this business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As someone with aspirations to be self-employed — an entrepreneur of some kind — Carrigan is drawn to the sharing economy. There seem to be all kinds of possibilities for people, like running errands on TaskRabbit, providing services through Fiverr, or cleaning houses for Handy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrigan started by trying to rent out his apartment on Airbnb, but he stopped because he was worried about getting evicted. So now he is driving for Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/01/HarnettSharingEcoStruggles2014.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrigan says he drives to pay his bills. He was laid off from his previous job and wanted flexibility while he figured out what to do next. At first it seemed great, and he thought he could do it for a few years. But now he says he has realized there is not enough stability because as a driver he is replaceable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re part of a pool, you are really part of a pool,” Carrigan says, “so if suddenly companies could pay much less to drivers, and there were still drivers willing to drive for that rate, they would. And the rates are going lower and lower and lower.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lyft Says It’s Listening\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft says it listens to drivers, and that it has recently improved the tipping system. In the summer, Lyft let drivers keep all their earnings. But now it takes a 20 percent commission on each fare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft representative Katie Dally told KQED via email:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lyft’s commission is 20 percent of each trip cost — and drivers keep 100 percent of tips from passengers. Lyft is also the only ridesharing platform to offer drivers an opportunity to earn a percentage of their weekly earnings as a bonus. The more drivers drive, the more they can earn, up to 20 percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, if they drive enough, they earn back the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrigan says he makes between $25 and $31 an hour, and that is before insurance, gas, taxes and car upkeep. It is less than I made a year ago, and Carrigan says the income continues to fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10382936\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS13765_Dan-Carrigan.JPG.jpg-alt_209.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10382936\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS13765_Dan-Carrigan.JPG.jpg-alt_209-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Carrigan drives for Lyft to help pay the bills. 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