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"content": "\u003cp>Commuting on Bay Area roads is a pretty awful experience. Personal finance site \u003ca href=\"https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-cities-to-drive-in/13964/\">WalletHub recently ranked it\u003c/a> as the second worst place to drive in the country. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many have turned to using GPS-powered apps like Google Maps or Waze to prepare for slowdowns or find detours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718902/the-people-behind-the-voices-of-kqeds-traffic-reports\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tracking the roadways\u003c/a> wasn’t always this easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Early Days of Traffic Reporting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After World War II, the Bay Area became a much more sprawling place as rural areas were transformed into suburbs. 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The drivers would receive this information via their in-dash radio.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News stations also hired traffic reporters to do a more grueling job: actually sit in traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/oL9PNDGvhj0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Various stations would have a fleet, or sometimes a single car, that was radio-equipped,” says Goodwin. “They would have a reporter travel a prescribed loop and report back how long it took.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most news stations could afford their own helicopter and traffic reporters, but those days were numbered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 1970s energy crisis, it became too expensive for news stations to operate a fleet of helicopters to monitor the freeway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That led to a sharing of information,” Goodwin says. “Rather than each individual station having its own helicopter, you could have a traffic service, and that would provide information to multiple radio or television stations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11718849\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11718849\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-16-at-7.22.08-PM-800x581.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-16-at-7.22.08-PM-800x581.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-16-at-7.22.08-PM-160x116.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-16-at-7.22.08-PM-1020x740.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-16-at-7.22.08-PM-1200x871.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-16-at-7.22.08-PM-1920x1393.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic reporters once used white boards to track the commute. \u003ccite>(KRON)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>FasTrak Changes the Game\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Between 1999 and 2000, traffic data made a quantum leap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The FasTrak system introduced first at the Golden Gate Bridge, and then ultimately on the rest of the bridges, became a way to gather information,” Goodwin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its deployment of the 511 traffic information system, the MTC set up over-the-road antennae around the Bay Area that could track how long it took a car with a FasTrak transponder to get from Point A to Point B. They’d then aggregate and anonymize the data, and provide precise point-to-point travel times throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUx5B7S6Vic\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That became more effective, and more efficient, and consequently the number of traffic helicopters declined,” Goodwin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system had a flaw, though. Because it depended on cars having FasTrak tags, it worked better where more residents had FasTrak — usually in the communities closest to the toll bridges. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Travel times were least accurate in places like eastern Contra Costa County, eastern Alameda County or in the South Bay, Goodwin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FasTrak method of traffic monitoring would stick around only for a short time. By 2007, cellphones started to become increasingly outfitted with GPS capability.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Problems Navigation Apps Cause\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>These days, GPS data powers most of the sources that commuters and traffic reporters use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any app that you have turned on that has some form of geolocation — whether it’s a navigation app, whether it’s an app such as a social network, whether it’s a game — it has the ability to collect GPS data and potentially to send it to a third party,” says Alex Bayen, a UC Berkeley professor and the director of its Institute of Transportation Studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your wireless service provider could be sharing your location data or even the company that makes your car. Chances are good if you’ve got a phone in the car, you are a data point — perhaps many times over — simultaneously a provider and consumer of traffic data.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>How Do KQED’s Traffic Reporters Get Their Information?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ever wonder how traffic reporters like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718902/the-people-behind-the-voices-of-kqeds-traffic-reports\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe McConnell and Julie Deppish\u003c/a> have so much traffic information at their fingertips? These sources are their go-tos:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cad.chp.ca.gov/Traffic.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Highway Patrol Traffic Incident Website\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sigalert.com/map.asp?lat=37.65294&lon=-122.45233&z=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SigAlert\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://quickmap.dot.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Caltrans QuickMap\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.ca.gov/video/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live Traffic Cameras\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718902/the-people-behind-the-voices-of-kqeds-traffic-reports\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WATCH\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Go behind the mic with McConnell and Deppish to see how their jobs have changed over the years.\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718902/the-people-behind-the-voices-of-kqeds-traffic-reports\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/featured_image-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11718963\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/featured_image-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/featured_image-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/featured_image-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/featured_image-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/featured_image.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The move to GPS data has vastly improved the quality of traffic data. 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"content": "\u003cp>How many times have you looked at the top of a soda can or the side of a bottle, and seen a 5- or 10-cent CRV stamp? Chances are you barely considered it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003cbr>\nBut for people who gather aluminum cans and plastic bottles, that CRV inscription means \u003cem>money\u003c/em>. Enough money that \u003ca href=\"https://knpr.org/knpr/2018-09/recycling-fraud-ongoing-issue-california-states-deposit-laws\">smugglers\u003c/a> have been caught trying to bring in more than $80,000 worth of empty beverage containers from Arizona and Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The value of recyclables piqued the interest of this week’s question asker, Boyd Arnold of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was curious to learn more about people who collect cans. They are very public in their work, but are very invisible otherwise,” says Arnold. “I’m also curious about the actual economics of recycling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">In 2017, more than 18 billion aluminum, glass, PET and HDPE containers were recycled in California.\u003c/aside>\n\u003ch3>Who Recycles\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Every day, starting at 7:30 a.m., people line up at Our Planet Recycling on the edge of the Bayview district in San Francisco, pushing bins brimming with plastic bottles and aluminum cans. Many walk here on foot carrying what they can. One customer filled a beat-up RV from floor to ceiling with plastic. Others arrive with recyclables spilling out of sedans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11714229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11714229 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/BA21ABBA-73B7-4228-8B58-55793C474F69-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Customers line up with their bins of recyclables at Our Planet Recycling SF.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/BA21ABBA-73B7-4228-8B58-55793C474F69-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/BA21ABBA-73B7-4228-8B58-55793C474F69-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/BA21ABBA-73B7-4228-8B58-55793C474F69-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/BA21ABBA-73B7-4228-8B58-55793C474F69-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/BA21ABBA-73B7-4228-8B58-55793C474F69-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Customers line up with their bins of recyclables at Our Planet Recycling SF. \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When customers get to the front of the line, their recyclables are weighed. A pound of plastic bottles gets you around $1.20. Aluminum is worth as much as $2 a pound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That might not sound like a lot, but it’s enough for a handful of customers to make this their full-time job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This [has been] my work for a long time, more than 20 years,” says Darwin Laren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laren has one of those pickup trucks that’s been rigged with plywood or metal grating so he can haul more recyclables. Each day he visits about 10 different bars and restaurants around the city to pick up bottles and cans. Monday through Friday he earns about $150 to $160, and shares it with people who help him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of other customers are daily regulars, too. Willie Cobb comes to Our Planet Recycling every day, making about $10 each trip. He says it’s a helpful addition to his Supplemental Security Income checks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I go into neighborhoods and look in the dumpster,” says Cobb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11714232\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11714232 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_3562-e1545352753296-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Tony Tang with his receipt for just over 44 dollars worth of recycling.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_3562-e1545352753296-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_3562-e1545352753296-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_3562-e1545352753296-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_3562-e1545352753296-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_3562-e1545352753296-1920x2560.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Tang with his receipt for just over 44 dollars worth of recycling. \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People come to this center because, let’s face it, San Francisco is one of the most expensive cities in the U.S. and every cent can count. A handful of people I talked to have other jobs, like Tony Tang, who works for Kaiser Permanente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony saves his used containers and is always on the lookout for more — even collecting empties from his friends and family. After three months, he collected seven bins the size of large garbage cans. This earns him about $44.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All kinds of people gather recyclables. Workers here talk about people dropping off recyclables in nice cars and letting somebody else cash them in. There are janitors who bring in recyclables in bulk, and people who prowl the streets day and night looking for empties. While a few say they value recycling, or they see it as throwing money away if they don’t redeem the containers, most people come here because the extra cash makes a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55yXRsIX30A\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Economics of Recycling\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Here’s a quick primer on how \u003ca href=\"https://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/bevcontainer/programinfo/faq\">California Refund Value\u003c/a>, or CRV, works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s say you buy a can of soda at the store. You pay an extra 5 or 10 cents on top of the price of the soda that goes to the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund. It’s basically a pot of money from all the beverage distributors in the whole state. When you’re done with the soda, you can take that can to a recycling center and get your 5 or 10 cents back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you put your soda can in the blue bin, whoever picks up your curbside recycling gets to keep that 5 or 10 cents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that can never gets recycled, your money stays in the recycling fund and is used to subsidize the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centers like Our Planet Recycling make money by selling materials in bulk for their scrap value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s take a closer look at those values.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Aluminum\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The average cost to recycle a ton of aluminum [in 2017] was about $550 a ton. The scrap value for that aluminum was around $1,200 per ton. That means a recycling center could make around $650 per ton,” says Mark Murray, executive director of Californians Against Waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murray says companies making aluminum cans realized it’s much cheaper to recycle aluminum than mine and process the raw material, bauxite. This leads to a higher recycling rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11714235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11714235 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_3564-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Aluminum is baled at Our Planet Recycling SF.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_3564-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_3564-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_3564-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_3564-1-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_3564-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aluminum is baled at Our Planet Recycling SF. \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Glass\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The recycling process for glass takes a lot of energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Glass has what we call a negative scrap value,” says Murray. “The average scrap value of a ton of glass in 2017 was \u003cem>negative\u003c/em> $4.55.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it cost only around $100 to process glass at centers like Our Planet Recycling, they would still lose money on glass if it weren’t for subsidies from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The subsidies are funded by unclaimed money out of the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund. But because of the ways these subsidies are calculated, the state has been paying out less money in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">Most products \u003cem>can\u003c/em> be recycled, but municipalities often lack the infrastructure to deal with certain items, like paper products coated in plastic, Styrofoam and other kinds of plastic. These “recyclables” often end up in landfill.\u003c/aside>\n\u003ch2>Plastic\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are a lot of different types of plastic, but we’re going to look at PET, or polyethylene terephthalate, which is often marked with a recycle symbol surrounding the number 1. In 2017, PET made up around half of the recyclable beverage containers sold in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plastic like PET can be sold for reuse. Buyers will bring it to a factory where it’s cleaned, chopped, melted, turned into pellets and then made into something new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[In 2017] the cost of recycling PET was around $485 a ton. The scrap value was about $190 per ton,” says Murray. “The scrap value for PET plastic covers less than half of the cost of recycling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recycling of plastic is also subsidized by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, when the price of oil plummets, like it did starting at the end of 2014, it becomes cheaper to make virgin plastic than to recycle, leading to declining scrap values of PET.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716801\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11716801\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/91A43FA8-4B99-40D4-A034-0994E630D67D-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Orz Csaszar owner of Our Planet Recycling.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ors Csaszar owner of Our Planet Recycling. \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Recycling Centers Dwindle\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Profit margins are not huge for recycling centers, which factored into the closing of hundreds of recycling centers in California in the last five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1990 San Francisco had 35 recycling centers, “And other guys went out the business. Now I believe we have probably three, four or five left,” says Ors Csaszar, the CEO of Our Planet Recycling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tight margins are exacerbated by the rising costs of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a volume business. You have to have land. And you know how much rent is,” says Csaszar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not easy to find a welcoming location either. Recently Csaszar had to move his business, and was concerned about finding a suitable site. Ultimately he found a lot under Highway 101 on Bayshore Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco doesn’t have too many recycling centers because everybody is open-minded about recycling as long as it’s not close to their house,” says Csaszar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murray says recycling center closures have contributed to a decrease in California’s recycling rates. For beverage containers, CalReycycle reported it dropped from \u003ca href=\"https://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/docs/cr/bevcontainer/rates/biannualrpt/julydecrpt.pdf\">85 percent in 2013\u003c/a> to a 75 percent recycle rate in 2017. Others, though, have attributed declining rates of recycling to a strong economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>How many times have you looked at the top of a soda can or the side of a bottle, and seen a 5- or 10-cent CRV stamp? Chances are you barely considered it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nBut for people who gather aluminum cans and plastic bottles, that CRV inscription means \u003cem>money\u003c/em>. Enough money that \u003ca href=\"https://knpr.org/knpr/2018-09/recycling-fraud-ongoing-issue-california-states-deposit-laws\">smugglers\u003c/a> have been caught trying to bring in more than $80,000 worth of empty beverage containers from Arizona and Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The value of recyclables piqued the interest of this week’s question asker, Boyd Arnold of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was curious to learn more about people who collect cans. They are very public in their work, but are very invisible otherwise,” says Arnold. “I’m also curious about the actual economics of recycling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">In 2017, more than 18 billion aluminum, glass, PET and HDPE containers were recycled in California.\u003c/aside>\n\u003ch3>Who Recycles\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Every day, starting at 7:30 a.m., people line up at Our Planet Recycling on the edge of the Bayview district in San Francisco, pushing bins brimming with plastic bottles and aluminum cans. Many walk here on foot carrying what they can. One customer filled a beat-up RV from floor to ceiling with plastic. Others arrive with recyclables spilling out of sedans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11714229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11714229 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/BA21ABBA-73B7-4228-8B58-55793C474F69-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Customers line up with their bins of recyclables at Our Planet Recycling SF.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/BA21ABBA-73B7-4228-8B58-55793C474F69-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/BA21ABBA-73B7-4228-8B58-55793C474F69-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/BA21ABBA-73B7-4228-8B58-55793C474F69-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/BA21ABBA-73B7-4228-8B58-55793C474F69-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/BA21ABBA-73B7-4228-8B58-55793C474F69-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Customers line up with their bins of recyclables at Our Planet Recycling SF. \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When customers get to the front of the line, their recyclables are weighed. A pound of plastic bottles gets you around $1.20. Aluminum is worth as much as $2 a pound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That might not sound like a lot, but it’s enough for a handful of customers to make this their full-time job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This [has been] my work for a long time, more than 20 years,” says Darwin Laren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laren has one of those pickup trucks that’s been rigged with plywood or metal grating so he can haul more recyclables. Each day he visits about 10 different bars and restaurants around the city to pick up bottles and cans. Monday through Friday he earns about $150 to $160, and shares it with people who help him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of other customers are daily regulars, too. Willie Cobb comes to Our Planet Recycling every day, making about $10 each trip. He says it’s a helpful addition to his Supplemental Security Income checks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I go into neighborhoods and look in the dumpster,” says Cobb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11714232\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11714232 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_3562-e1545352753296-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Tony Tang with his receipt for just over 44 dollars worth of recycling.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_3562-e1545352753296-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_3562-e1545352753296-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_3562-e1545352753296-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_3562-e1545352753296-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_3562-e1545352753296-1920x2560.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Tang with his receipt for just over 44 dollars worth of recycling. \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People come to this center because, let’s face it, San Francisco is one of the most expensive cities in the U.S. and every cent can count. A handful of people I talked to have other jobs, like Tony Tang, who works for Kaiser Permanente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony saves his used containers and is always on the lookout for more — even collecting empties from his friends and family. After three months, he collected seven bins the size of large garbage cans. This earns him about $44.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All kinds of people gather recyclables. Workers here talk about people dropping off recyclables in nice cars and letting somebody else cash them in. There are janitors who bring in recyclables in bulk, and people who prowl the streets day and night looking for empties. While a few say they value recycling, or they see it as throwing money away if they don’t redeem the containers, most people come here because the extra cash makes a difference.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/55yXRsIX30A'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/55yXRsIX30A'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>The Economics of Recycling\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Here’s a quick primer on how \u003ca href=\"https://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/bevcontainer/programinfo/faq\">California Refund Value\u003c/a>, or CRV, works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s say you buy a can of soda at the store. You pay an extra 5 or 10 cents on top of the price of the soda that goes to the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund. It’s basically a pot of money from all the beverage distributors in the whole state. When you’re done with the soda, you can take that can to a recycling center and get your 5 or 10 cents back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you put your soda can in the blue bin, whoever picks up your curbside recycling gets to keep that 5 or 10 cents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that can never gets recycled, your money stays in the recycling fund and is used to subsidize the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centers like Our Planet Recycling make money by selling materials in bulk for their scrap value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s take a closer look at those values.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Aluminum\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The average cost to recycle a ton of aluminum [in 2017] was about $550 a ton. The scrap value for that aluminum was around $1,200 per ton. That means a recycling center could make around $650 per ton,” says Mark Murray, executive director of Californians Against Waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murray says companies making aluminum cans realized it’s much cheaper to recycle aluminum than mine and process the raw material, bauxite. 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Rent control has been good for keeping people in San Francisco, but it has not been good for allowing new people into the city.\u003c/strong> One major study found rent control in San Francisco pushed rents up 7 percent citywide over the past few decades, while another found that getting rid of rent control would be the worst thing for preserving affordability for those currently living in the city. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677380/is-rent-control-working-and-should-we-have-more-or-less-of-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/karlthefog\">@KarltheFog\u003c/a> is named after a 2003 Tim Burton movie.\u003c/strong> The anonymous creator of the Twitter handle told SF Weekly that they saw similarities between San Francisco's fog and the giant Karl, who everyone was afraid of because they thought he would kill or eat them, when in fact he was just hungry and lonely. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11682057/how-the-bay-areas-fog-came-to-be-named-karl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. You can stand on Alameda Island and be in San Francisco at the same time.\u003c/strong> Part of the old Alameda Naval Air Station was built on landfill that crossed over the county line in the middle of the bay, and two local women took the government to court claiming ownership of the land dating back to the king of Spain in 1820. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702058/why-is-part-of-alameda-island-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. It takes three days for water to get from Hetch Hetchy to San Francisco taps.\u003c/strong> Along the way, it goes through a hydroelectric dam that generates electricity that helps power San Francisco schools as well as Muni light-rail vehicles, streetcars and trolley coaches. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11674188/hetch-hetchy-waters-epic-journey-from-mountains-to-tap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. Frank Lloyd Wright designed a second Bay Bridge that was never built.\u003c/strong> Wright dubbed it the \"Butterfly Bridge,\" and it would have had a hanging garden at its center. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11642644/the-beautiful-bay-bridge-frank-lloyd-wright-never-got-to-build\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7. California is actually named after a fictional island ruled by a group of black warrior women.\u003c/strong> Also, San Ramon wasn't named for an actual saint, and Berkeley was named for a slave owner. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11674280/map-how-75-bay-area-places-got-their-names\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8. California is the only state in the country where motorcycles can legally drive between lanes of traffic or \"lane split.\"\u003c/strong> But it is legal and even expected in much of the rest of the world. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680481/10-things-you-need-to-know-to-understand-lane-splitting-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9. There really are more dogs than children in San Francisco.\u003c/strong> In fact, San Francisco has the lowest percentage of children of any major city, according to U.S. census data. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11669269/are-there-really-more-dogs-than-children-in-s-f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10. There are specific policies that have prevented the Tenderloin from becoming as unaffordable as the rest of San Francisco.\u003c/strong> They include nonprofit land ownership, height restrictions, and protections for SROs and historic landmarks. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665527/why-hasnt-the-tenderloin-gentrified-like-the-rest-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11. You're more likely to win an Oscar, be born with 11 toes or get hit by a car than be bitten by a shark off California's coast.\u003c/strong> Abalone divers are most at risk with a 1 in 1.44 million chance of being attacked. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657595/how-worried-should-you-be-about-shark-attacks-on-the-california-coast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>12. The California Department of Parks and Recreation invented a \"curse\" on the ghost town of Bodie.\u003c/strong> A park ranger spread the myth that if you took anything from Bodie, you would be cursed in hopes of discouraging sticky-fingered visitors. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11640709/how-this-ghost-towns-curse-backfired-on-park-rangers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>13. 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There were once hundreds of Native American shellmounds throughout the Bay Area.\u003c/strong> Almost all of these important ceremonial Ohlone sites have been flattened or destroyed, and replaced with furniture stores, fast food restaurants and other modern creations. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704679/there-were-once-more-than-425-shellmounds-in-the-bay-area-where-did-they-go\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>But wait there's more!\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Here are a few other stories that we loved about the Bay Area this year:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It's possible to ride every single Muni line in one day.\u003c/strong> But, as the San Francisco Chronicle's Heather Knight and Peter Hartlaub found out during their #TotalMuni2018 expedition, it will take 18 hours. \u003cem>Experience the sojourn in real time from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Live-updates-from-TotalMuni2018-12873525.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">live blog\u003c/a>, read the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Total-Muni-2018-a-reminder-of-how-amazing-SF-and-12886667.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">narrative version \u003c/a>or listen to the four-part series on \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/episode/5HgPvSK9pBVYRBpcv4JguC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Big Event podcast.\u003c/a> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The abandoned pink building on the corner of MacArthur Boulevard and Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Oakland has a lot of stories to tell.\u003c/strong> Our friends at the \"\u003ca href=\"https://eastbayyesterday.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Bay Yesterday\u003c/a>\" podcast dug in on how this one building sheds light on the struggles of African-American-owned businesses, the Occupy movement and The Town's exploding real estate market. \u003cem>Listen to the full episode \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/user-736747354/this-strange-monument-the-story-behind-one-of-oaklands-most-prominent-abandoned-buildings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Humboldt County invented/introduced the world to Bigfoot.\u003c/strong> Mike McPhate of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiasun.co/\">California Sun newsletter\u003c/a> marked the legend's 60th anniversary with a look back at its origin and then denunciation from a Humboldt County forest worker, and how that hasn't stopped people (including Jane frigging Goodall) from still believing. \u003cem>Read the full story \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiasun.co/stories/when-california-introduced-bigfoot-to-the-world/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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California is actually named after a fictional island ruled by a group of black warrior women.\u003c/strong> Also, San Ramon wasn't named for an actual saint, and Berkeley was named for a slave owner. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11674280/map-how-75-bay-area-places-got-their-names\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8. California is the only state in the country where motorcycles can legally drive between lanes of traffic or \"lane split.\"\u003c/strong> But it is legal and even expected in much of the rest of the world. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680481/10-things-you-need-to-know-to-understand-lane-splitting-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9. 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"content": "\u003cp>Every December, about 17,000 people gather on the streets of San Francisco for what has become one of the city’s preeminent drinking holidays: SantaCon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ll see people wearing some version of the Santa costume, and they’ll just be going from bar to bar in big groups of Santas,” says Alyssa Poe of Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She first stumbled upon SantaCon on a Saturday in December a few years ago, while visiting San Francisco with a friend. Ever since, she’s wondered where the event came from, and how it became a phenomenon that’s now celebrated in cities like London, Melbourne and Tokyo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though New York City can lay claim to having the biggest SantaCon these days, it got its start in San Francisco. This year, the event takes place on Dec. 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious takes a look back to when it first began with this timeline from reporter Sonia Paul, who first wrote about \u003ca href=\"https://harpers.org/blog/2017/12/searching-for-santacon/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SantaCon for Harper’s Magazine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Santacon/Santarchy Timeline\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>1977\u003c/b>: \u003ca href=\"http://www.suicideclub.com/\">The Suicide Club\u003c/a>, a secret society focused on creating experiences for people to face their fears, is founded in San Francisco. The group’s events include both daredevil urban adventures and infiltration into groups like the California Nazi Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11708167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/6169505292_29575350b6_b-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"In 1977 the Suicide Club cut up refrigerator boxes and slid down the letters above South San Francisco.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/6169505292_29575350b6_b-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/6169505292_29575350b6_b-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/6169505292_29575350b6_b-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/6169505292_29575350b6_b.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 1977 the Suicide Club cut up refrigerator boxes and slid down the letters above South San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Thomas Hawk/flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Late 1977\u003c/b>: One of the Suicide Club’s founders, Gary Warne, comes across a \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=reYDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=solvognen+danish+christmas&source=bl&ots=wVj2kmXBwW&sig=dseDyDZMB5yJAYEzafASHTOmQkI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwixtrao5vLeAhUJi1QKHcLbDyUQ6AEwEnoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false\">Mother Jones article\u003c/a> about \u003ci>Solvognen\u003c/i>, a Danish anarchist theatre group that demonstrated in 1974 against the greed and consumerism associated with Christmas. Warne suggests a Suicide Club event where members would dress up as Santa, but no one acts on it, and the idea is forgotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708168\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11708168\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_9769-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"John Law stands behind a book about the Cacophony Society.\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_9769-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_9769-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_9769-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_9769-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_9769-1920x2560.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Law stands behind a book about the Cacophony Society. \u003ccite>(Sonia Paul/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>1986\u003c/b>: The Cacophony Society is born as a more expansive and less intense version of the Suicide Club. It calls itself “a randomly gathered network of individuals united in the pursuit of experiences beyond the pale of mainstream society.” Cacophony Society gatherings revolve around subversive pranks and bizarre events, like throwing a formal party in the laundromat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>1987\u003c/b>: Rob Schmitt, the founder of SantaCon, moves to the Bay Area from Minnesota. He soon becomes involved with the Cacophony Society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Fall 1994\u003c/b>: While making costumes for a Cacophony event at his friend’s house, Rob Schmitt sees a postcard of people dressed as Santa playing pool in a gay bar. The sender of the postcard participated in the first themed camp at Burning Man, Christmas Camp. Rob gets an idea: What if the Cacophony Society threw an event where people could dress up as Santa and go around the streets of San Francisco? He is not aware of \u003ci>Solvognen\u003c/i> or Gary Warne’s idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He takes his idea to a Cacophony Society meeting, where some people dismiss it, but a few are interested. They hold a planning meeting at Specs’ Twelve Adler Museum Cafe. They figure out where they can buy Santa suits and decide to rent a bus to shuttle the Santas around the city. Rob secures free passes to ride the cable car and informs workers at Emporium-Capwell, a now-defunct department store, that he’ll be bringing a bunch of Santas over on a Tuesday night in late December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dec. 20, 1994:\u003c/b> The first SantaCon — or Cheap Suit Santas as it was called — is held in San Francisco. Thirty-eight participants dressed in Santa suits meet at the Embarcadero, where a skating rink is set up for the holidays. They get into a snowball fight with ice shavings before marching into a local hotel shouting “ho, ho, ho.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11708187 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.47-PM-e1543263397708-800x579.png\" alt=\"Rob Schmitt rented a bus for the Cheap Suit Santas to roam the streets of San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.47-PM-e1543263397708-800x579.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.47-PM-e1543263397708-160x116.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.47-PM-e1543263397708-1020x739.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.47-PM-e1543263397708-1200x869.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.47-PM-e1543263397708.png 1428w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bus of Cheap Suit Santas ready to hit the streets of San Francisco at the second SantaCon in 1995. \u003ccite>(Peter Field)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A bus takes the Santas around the city, where they crash company Christmas parties, but the more memorable stops are a kiddie carnival located at the top of Emporium-Capwell, a debutante ball and a unionized strip club called the Lusty Lady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11708194 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.21.12-PM-e1543263872823-800x579.png\" alt=\"Santas headed into the Lusty Lady, a unionized strip club.\" width=\"800\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.21.12-PM-e1543263872823-800x579.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.21.12-PM-e1543263872823-160x116.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.21.12-PM-e1543263872823-1020x738.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.21.12-PM-e1543263872823-1200x868.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.21.12-PM-e1543263872823.png 1426w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santas headed into the Lusty Lady, a unionized strip club. \u003ccite>(Peter Field)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Late that night, John Law, one of the co-founders of Burning Man who was also a member of the Cacophony Society, has his friends pretend to hang him from steel scaffolding in the middle of the street (he is wearing a body harness underneath his Santa suit that enables this).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says his premise for participating in the event is more along the lines of \u003ci>Solvognen’s\u003c/i> sentiment about Christmas — he feels modern-day Christmas has become an example of what he calls “middle-class hypocrisy,” and this hanging is meant to be a street-theater protest against that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11708189 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.11.57-PM-800x1097.png\" alt=\"John Law hangs from a light wearing a harness underneath his suit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1097\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.11.57-PM-800x1097.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.11.57-PM-160x219.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.11.57-PM-1020x1399.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.11.57-PM-875x1200.png 875w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.11.57-PM.png 1038w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Law hangs from a light wearing a harness underneath his suit. \u003ccite>(Peter Field)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>December 1995: \u003c/b>SantaCon returns, and more than 100 people take part in this year’s event. With more people, more alcohol and more boldness among participants, it takes on a more rambunctious tone. At the end of the night, John Law has his friends hang him from a street lamp for another street-theater protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11708195 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.32-PM-1-800x1105.png\" alt=\"Santas at the second Cacophony Society Cheap Suit Santas event.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1105\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.32-PM-1-800x1105.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.32-PM-1-160x221.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.32-PM-1-1020x1409.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.32-PM-1-868x1200.png 868w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.32-PM-1.png 1032w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santas at the second Cacophony Society Cheap Suit Santas event. \u003ccite>(Peter Field)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>December 1996:\u003c/b> The Portland chapter of the Cacophony Society brings SantaCon up north for its own version of the event. A website, Santarchy.com (a fusion of “Santa” and “anarchy”) helps advertise the event. With the rise of the internet, more people find out about SantaCon and bring it to their city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>1997 onward\u003c/b>: SantaCon grows into an annual tradition in different cities around the world and becomes known as a pub crawl. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Every December, about 17,000 people gather on the streets of San Francisco for what has become one of the city’s preeminent drinking holidays: SantaCon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ll see people wearing some version of the Santa costume, and they’ll just be going from bar to bar in big groups of Santas,” says Alyssa Poe of Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She first stumbled upon SantaCon on a Saturday in December a few years ago, while visiting San Francisco with a friend. Ever since, she’s wondered where the event came from, and how it became a phenomenon that’s now celebrated in cities like London, Melbourne and Tokyo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though New York City can lay claim to having the biggest SantaCon these days, it got its start in San Francisco. This year, the event takes place on Dec. 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious takes a look back to when it first began with this timeline from reporter Sonia Paul, who first wrote about \u003ca href=\"https://harpers.org/blog/2017/12/searching-for-santacon/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SantaCon for Harper’s Magazine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Santacon/Santarchy Timeline\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>1977\u003c/b>: \u003ca href=\"http://www.suicideclub.com/\">The Suicide Club\u003c/a>, a secret society focused on creating experiences for people to face their fears, is founded in San Francisco. The group’s events include both daredevil urban adventures and infiltration into groups like the California Nazi Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11708167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/6169505292_29575350b6_b-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"In 1977 the Suicide Club cut up refrigerator boxes and slid down the letters above South San Francisco.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/6169505292_29575350b6_b-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/6169505292_29575350b6_b-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/6169505292_29575350b6_b-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/6169505292_29575350b6_b.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 1977 the Suicide Club cut up refrigerator boxes and slid down the letters above South San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Thomas Hawk/flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Late 1977\u003c/b>: One of the Suicide Club’s founders, Gary Warne, comes across a \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=reYDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=solvognen+danish+christmas&source=bl&ots=wVj2kmXBwW&sig=dseDyDZMB5yJAYEzafASHTOmQkI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwixtrao5vLeAhUJi1QKHcLbDyUQ6AEwEnoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false\">Mother Jones article\u003c/a> about \u003ci>Solvognen\u003c/i>, a Danish anarchist theatre group that demonstrated in 1974 against the greed and consumerism associated with Christmas. Warne suggests a Suicide Club event where members would dress up as Santa, but no one acts on it, and the idea is forgotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708168\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11708168\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_9769-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"John Law stands behind a book about the Cacophony Society.\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_9769-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_9769-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_9769-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_9769-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_9769-1920x2560.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Law stands behind a book about the Cacophony Society. \u003ccite>(Sonia Paul/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>1986\u003c/b>: The Cacophony Society is born as a more expansive and less intense version of the Suicide Club. It calls itself “a randomly gathered network of individuals united in the pursuit of experiences beyond the pale of mainstream society.” Cacophony Society gatherings revolve around subversive pranks and bizarre events, like throwing a formal party in the laundromat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>1987\u003c/b>: Rob Schmitt, the founder of SantaCon, moves to the Bay Area from Minnesota. He soon becomes involved with the Cacophony Society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Fall 1994\u003c/b>: While making costumes for a Cacophony event at his friend’s house, Rob Schmitt sees a postcard of people dressed as Santa playing pool in a gay bar. The sender of the postcard participated in the first themed camp at Burning Man, Christmas Camp. Rob gets an idea: What if the Cacophony Society threw an event where people could dress up as Santa and go around the streets of San Francisco? He is not aware of \u003ci>Solvognen\u003c/i> or Gary Warne’s idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He takes his idea to a Cacophony Society meeting, where some people dismiss it, but a few are interested. They hold a planning meeting at Specs’ Twelve Adler Museum Cafe. They figure out where they can buy Santa suits and decide to rent a bus to shuttle the Santas around the city. Rob secures free passes to ride the cable car and informs workers at Emporium-Capwell, a now-defunct department store, that he’ll be bringing a bunch of Santas over on a Tuesday night in late December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dec. 20, 1994:\u003c/b> The first SantaCon — or Cheap Suit Santas as it was called — is held in San Francisco. Thirty-eight participants dressed in Santa suits meet at the Embarcadero, where a skating rink is set up for the holidays. They get into a snowball fight with ice shavings before marching into a local hotel shouting “ho, ho, ho.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11708187 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.47-PM-e1543263397708-800x579.png\" alt=\"Rob Schmitt rented a bus for the Cheap Suit Santas to roam the streets of San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.47-PM-e1543263397708-800x579.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.47-PM-e1543263397708-160x116.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.47-PM-e1543263397708-1020x739.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.47-PM-e1543263397708-1200x869.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.47-PM-e1543263397708.png 1428w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bus of Cheap Suit Santas ready to hit the streets of San Francisco at the second SantaCon in 1995. \u003ccite>(Peter Field)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A bus takes the Santas around the city, where they crash company Christmas parties, but the more memorable stops are a kiddie carnival located at the top of Emporium-Capwell, a debutante ball and a unionized strip club called the Lusty Lady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11708194 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.21.12-PM-e1543263872823-800x579.png\" alt=\"Santas headed into the Lusty Lady, a unionized strip club.\" width=\"800\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.21.12-PM-e1543263872823-800x579.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.21.12-PM-e1543263872823-160x116.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.21.12-PM-e1543263872823-1020x738.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.21.12-PM-e1543263872823-1200x868.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.21.12-PM-e1543263872823.png 1426w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santas headed into the Lusty Lady, a unionized strip club. \u003ccite>(Peter Field)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Late that night, John Law, one of the co-founders of Burning Man who was also a member of the Cacophony Society, has his friends pretend to hang him from steel scaffolding in the middle of the street (he is wearing a body harness underneath his Santa suit that enables this).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says his premise for participating in the event is more along the lines of \u003ci>Solvognen’s\u003c/i> sentiment about Christmas — he feels modern-day Christmas has become an example of what he calls “middle-class hypocrisy,” and this hanging is meant to be a street-theater protest against that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11708189 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.11.57-PM-800x1097.png\" alt=\"John Law hangs from a light wearing a harness underneath his suit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1097\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.11.57-PM-800x1097.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.11.57-PM-160x219.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.11.57-PM-1020x1399.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.11.57-PM-875x1200.png 875w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.11.57-PM.png 1038w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Law hangs from a light wearing a harness underneath his suit. \u003ccite>(Peter Field)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>December 1995: \u003c/b>SantaCon returns, and more than 100 people take part in this year’s event. With more people, more alcohol and more boldness among participants, it takes on a more rambunctious tone. At the end of the night, John Law has his friends hang him from a street lamp for another street-theater protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11708195 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.32-PM-1-800x1105.png\" alt=\"Santas at the second Cacophony Society Cheap Suit Santas event.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1105\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.32-PM-1-800x1105.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.32-PM-1-160x221.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.32-PM-1-1020x1409.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.32-PM-1-868x1200.png 868w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-26-at-12.12.32-PM-1.png 1032w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santas at the second Cacophony Society Cheap Suit Santas event. \u003ccite>(Peter Field)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>December 1996:\u003c/b> The Portland chapter of the Cacophony Society brings SantaCon up north for its own version of the event. A website, Santarchy.com (a fusion of “Santa” and “anarchy”) helps advertise the event. With the rise of the internet, more people find out about SantaCon and bring it to their city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>1997 onward\u003c/b>: SantaCon grows into an annual tradition in different cities around the world and becomes known as a pub crawl. New York, London, Los Angeles and Tokyo are just a few of the cities where SantaCon now takes place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11708197 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-158391987-800x556.jpg\" alt=\"Revellers in Santa costumes gather around Nelson's Column during a 'Santacon' in Trafalgar Square in central London.\" width=\"800\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-158391987-800x556.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-158391987-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-158391987-1020x709.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-158391987-1200x834.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-158391987-1920x1334.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Revelers in Santa costumes gather around Nelson’s Column during a SantaCon in Trafalgar Square in central London. \u003ccite>(LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>You don’t have to be a cyclist in the Bay Area to appreciate that bike theft is rampant. Walking around, you might notice broken U-locks next to bike racks where someone’s ride vanished. Or skeletal bike frames that are still locked up, but the wheels, seat, and anything else that wasn’t welded in place have all been picked clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/46121-BLA.BikeTheft.052413.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">analysis\u003c/a> estimated that in 2012 there were more than 4,000 actual, attempted or unreported bike thefts in San Francisco, with some $4.6 million worth of bikes taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this episode of Bay Curious (listen using the play button above), we unpack two questions — what the San Francisco Police Department is doing about bike theft, and what happens after bikes or bicycle parts are stolen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, reporter Daniel Potter learned several surprising facts. Here are his top 10:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Some bike thieves are handy with power tools.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMaybe you already knew a cheap cable lock is no match for a sturdy pair of bolt cutters. Or that metal U-locks can sometimes be defeated using car jacks. But in the arms race between thieves and deterrents, a power tool called a cordless angle grinder is hard to beat. In a spray of sparks, this handheld electric saw can slice through metal — meaning even a decent U-lock might not be enough. Alas, there’s a tool for everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Organized crime is a factor.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBike thieves operate on different levels. Some are low-level opportunists — they’ll grab a saddle or an unsecured wheel to make a quick buck. Others are much more sophisticated. They have not only power tools but also trucks, and places to store bikes that may end up for sale online — or in other cities. It’s not unheard of for bikes stolen in the Bay Area to turn up in Los Angeles or Portland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Box Dog Bikes, in San Francisco’s Mission District, \u003ca href=\"https://hoodline.com/2018/08/burglars-swipe-most-of-box-dog-bikes-bicycle-inventory-wednesday-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">knows this kind of crime firsthand\u003c/a>. In August, burglars broke into the store overnight and hauled away 21 bikes valued at more than $40,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bikes-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Box Dog Bikes in San Francisco was burglarized in August 2017, and dozens of bicycles were taken.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11708773\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bikes-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bikes-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bikes-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bikes-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bikes-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bikes-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bikes-520x293.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bikes.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Box Dog Bikes in San Francisco was burglarized in August 2017, and dozens of bicycles were taken. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Box Dog Bikes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Even so, bike thefts in S.F. are trending down.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nComparing the first nine months of 2018 to the same period last year, San Francisco police say bike thefts dropped 23 percent, from 572 to 441.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could be thanks partly to outside factors, like the proliferation of bike-rental kiosks and scooters that enable people to risk their own bikes less. But police chalk it up to expanded foot patrols warding off some would-be thieves, along with newly centralized investigations aimed at stopping higher-level theft rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Stolen bikes are often swapped, then swapped again.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn some circles, bikes aren’t just a practical mode of transportation, but also a kind of currency. An intact bike is like a large bill that can be broken up into smaller denominations in the form of parts, and later reconstituted as a different ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means stolen bikes and parts tend to change hands early and often — potentially complicating police work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Hot bikes go for pennies on the dollar.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA bike that would retail for over $1,000 often goes for a lot less when it’s stolen. That’s partly because bike thieves may be eager to offload hot property for quick cash (see #4 above) and also because the bikes are often reconfigured in order to sell parts separately — or to hastily disguise a stolen frame, say, with a new paint job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When athlete Canaan Vallejos’ stolen bike turned up on Craigslist, he managed to get it back — minus the racks and expensive saddle, which had been replaced with a seat so cheap he told me “they wouldn’t put that thing on a Huffy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. Websites like \u003ca href=\"https://bikeindex.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bike Index\u003c/a> help people recover their stolen bikes.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThousands of bikes have been returned to their proper owners thanks to people volunteering their time and keeping an eye out for bikes reported stolen in their area. With help from a tipster using Bike Index, Robin Lee, one of this week’s question-askers, managed to track down a customized mountain bike that was stolen out of her garage. (The police helped get it back, and SFPD recommends calling 911 if you have eyes on someone with your stolen bike.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7. SFPD has a warehouse full of stolen bikes whose original owners can’t be found.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAn analysis found that in 2012, SFPD recovered 864 stolen bikes, but only 142 went home with their owners — about 16 percent. Asked if she could ballpark the current number of recovered bikes in storage, Public Information Officer Giselle Linnane told me “hundreds, yeah — at least.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says police often simply don’t have contact information for owners or a way to track them down — and that filing a police report improves your chances of getting your bike back. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>You don’t have to be a cyclist in the Bay Area to appreciate that bike theft is rampant. Walking around, you might notice broken U-locks next to bike racks where someone’s ride vanished. Or skeletal bike frames that are still locked up, but the wheels, seat, and anything else that wasn’t welded in place have all been picked clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/46121-BLA.BikeTheft.052413.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">analysis\u003c/a> estimated that in 2012 there were more than 4,000 actual, attempted or unreported bike thefts in San Francisco, with some $4.6 million worth of bikes taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this episode of Bay Curious (listen using the play button above), we unpack two questions — what the San Francisco Police Department is doing about bike theft, and what happens after bikes or bicycle parts are stolen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, reporter Daniel Potter learned several surprising facts. Here are his top 10:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Some bike thieves are handy with power tools.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMaybe you already knew a cheap cable lock is no match for a sturdy pair of bolt cutters. Or that metal U-locks can sometimes be defeated using car jacks. But in the arms race between thieves and deterrents, a power tool called a cordless angle grinder is hard to beat. In a spray of sparks, this handheld electric saw can slice through metal — meaning even a decent U-lock might not be enough. Alas, there’s a tool for everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Organized crime is a factor.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBike thieves operate on different levels. Some are low-level opportunists — they’ll grab a saddle or an unsecured wheel to make a quick buck. Others are much more sophisticated. They have not only power tools but also trucks, and places to store bikes that may end up for sale online — or in other cities. It’s not unheard of for bikes stolen in the Bay Area to turn up in Los Angeles or Portland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Box Dog Bikes, in San Francisco’s Mission District, \u003ca href=\"https://hoodline.com/2018/08/burglars-swipe-most-of-box-dog-bikes-bicycle-inventory-wednesday-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">knows this kind of crime firsthand\u003c/a>. In August, burglars broke into the store overnight and hauled away 21 bikes valued at more than $40,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bikes-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Box Dog Bikes in San Francisco was burglarized in August 2017, and dozens of bicycles were taken.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11708773\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bikes-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bikes-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bikes-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bikes-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bikes-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bikes-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bikes-520x293.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bikes.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Box Dog Bikes in San Francisco was burglarized in August 2017, and dozens of bicycles were taken. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Box Dog Bikes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Even so, bike thefts in S.F. are trending down.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nComparing the first nine months of 2018 to the same period last year, San Francisco police say bike thefts dropped 23 percent, from 572 to 441.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could be thanks partly to outside factors, like the proliferation of bike-rental kiosks and scooters that enable people to risk their own bikes less. But police chalk it up to expanded foot patrols warding off some would-be thieves, along with newly centralized investigations aimed at stopping higher-level theft rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Stolen bikes are often swapped, then swapped again.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn some circles, bikes aren’t just a practical mode of transportation, but also a kind of currency. An intact bike is like a large bill that can be broken up into smaller denominations in the form of parts, and later reconstituted as a different ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means stolen bikes and parts tend to change hands early and often — potentially complicating police work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Hot bikes go for pennies on the dollar.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA bike that would retail for over $1,000 often goes for a lot less when it’s stolen. That’s partly because bike thieves may be eager to offload hot property for quick cash (see #4 above) and also because the bikes are often reconfigured in order to sell parts separately — or to hastily disguise a stolen frame, say, with a new paint job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When athlete Canaan Vallejos’ stolen bike turned up on Craigslist, he managed to get it back — minus the racks and expensive saddle, which had been replaced with a seat so cheap he told me “they wouldn’t put that thing on a Huffy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. Websites like \u003ca href=\"https://bikeindex.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bike Index\u003c/a> help people recover their stolen bikes.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThousands of bikes have been returned to their proper owners thanks to people volunteering their time and keeping an eye out for bikes reported stolen in their area. With help from a tipster using Bike Index, Robin Lee, one of this week’s question-askers, managed to track down a customized mountain bike that was stolen out of her garage. (The police helped get it back, and SFPD recommends calling 911 if you have eyes on someone with your stolen bike.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7. SFPD has a warehouse full of stolen bikes whose original owners can’t be found.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAn analysis found that in 2012, SFPD recovered 864 stolen bikes, but only 142 went home with their owners — about 16 percent. Asked if she could ballpark the current number of recovered bikes in storage, Public Information Officer Giselle Linnane told me “hundreds, yeah — at least.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says police often simply don’t have contact information for owners or a way to track them down — and that filing a police report improves your chances of getting your bike back. Bikes that can’t be returned are eventually given to charity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8. There are many ways to help protect your bike …\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSome perfectly reasonable bike commuters use not one but two U-locks, and safeguard their wheels using cables or locking skewers. There are also companies that sell heavy chains, tracking devices and even a lock that \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/21/bike-lock-developed-that-makes-thieves-immediately-vomit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sprays noxious fumes\u003c/a> if it’s cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One person I met for this story moved all the furniture out of her bedroom except the bed so her bike could sleep behind the same door she does. Another locks up her bikes in her garage with a camera pointing at them, so she can look in on them when she wakes up worried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708782\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bike-frame2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Lonely frame\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11708782\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bike-frame2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bike-frame2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bike-frame2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bike-frame2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/bike-frame2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The frame is locked, but every part that once made this a bike is now gone—the wheels, seat, chain, handlebars, and pedals have all been stripped away. 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"content": "\u003cp>In San Francisco, the houses are quite cozy — sometimes mere inches apart. We can hear our neighbors’ wailing babies, their band practice and even their showers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This design is pretty common in cities across the country, but Friedel Pretorius, this week’s Bay Curious question asker, couldn’t help noticing it here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like walking around San Francisco and just observing all the different houses,” says Friedel. “And I noticed that a lot of the buildings in San Francisco are really close together, like less than a foot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants to know why they are so close and how they ended up this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s always rot and maintenance that old houses need, and I just wonder how are they built and how are they maintained,” Friedel says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfhistory.org/board-of-directors/#c-fracchia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Fracchia\u003c/a> has the answer. He’s the founder of the\u003ca href=\"https://sfhistory.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, \u003c/a>and has written several books on San Francisco history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I meet him in the Jackson Square area, just north of the Transamerica Pyramid, where some of the city’s oldest buildings still stand. His bushy white eyebrows peek out from circular rimmed glasses that give him a scholarly look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705856\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11705856 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"This house once stood at 1916 Sacramento Street and was built in 1878. The parlors on each floor were 15 and a half feet wide and the staircase was about five feet wide. Today, apartments occupy this lot.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This house, called the H. W. Newbauer House, once stood at 1916 Sacramento St. and was built in 1878. The parlors on each floor were 15 and a half feet wide and the staircase was about 5 feet wide. Today, apartments occupy this lot. \u003ccite>(Quarterly Architectural News, October 1879)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So you notice every one of these is on a lot next to each other, basically back to back,” says Fracchia. “There are no side yards or gardens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re looking at a series of brick buildings, two to three stories tall, very plain. He tells me this tight style of building was common in old European settlements, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ancient towns and cities had a wall around them. So you wanted to compress your real estate as much as you can,” says Fracchia, offering Paris in the Middle Ages as an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tells me cities were designed this way to protect against invaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask him how San Francisco made this idea its own, and he ushers me into a nearby private dining club he’s a member of, to show me some framed paintings of what the city looked like before it was a city … before it became squished together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s the one I really wanted to show you,” he says. “You notice there are just a handful of buildings over here. So very few buildings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11702207 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Close1-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Fracchia points to a drawing of San Francisco before the Gold Rush. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We are looking at a painting dated from 1846 to 1847. It’s right before the Gold Rush and right after the U.S. took over California from Mexico. At that point, there’s not really much to the city — it’s mostly sand dunes and it looks like peaceful, rolling countryside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with so few people, there was a city council. They convinced the federal government to give them the land San Francisco sits on. And then, Fracchia says, they started divvying that land up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They did this late in 1846, when they hired O’Farrell to do the survey,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jasper O’Farrell was an Irish-born surveyor. \u003ca href=\"https://www.revolvy.com/page/Jasper-O%27Farrell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">O’Farrell Street in San Francisco is named after him.\u003c/a> He designed ranchos and other towns in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he was given the job, there are about, let’s say, 500 people in the settlement of Yerba Buena,” says Fracchia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702219\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11702219 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Close2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Fracchia in front of a photo of San Francisco’s original waterfront. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>O’Farrell had no idea what the future held for this little settlement and he had to guess how big the city would become. With little direction from the city council, he was given free rein to design it however he fancied. He started with a grid — a format already in place by the Mexican settlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fracchia then points out another drawing of an early map of the city with streets running perpendicular to one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The map has a bunch of teeny boxes, and each box represents a city block. Each of those blocks is divided into six smaller lots called varas — a Spanish unit of measurement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After O’Farrell finalized his map, the city started auctioning off these varas. The ones South of Market were going for cheap: $12.67. But those close to downtown were pricey: $50 to $100 per vara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as they are auctioning them off, the Gold Rush happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of a sudden, there’s a huge demand to cram together an exploding population. A lot of people need to fit into not much space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The varas got subdivided into smaller lots, some less than 25 feet wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very typical real estate operation in large U.S. cities,” says Fracchia. “You can get more money by splitting the lots up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 25 feet is not that much space. Another local historian, William Kostura, says that it was just enough room for a parlor and a staircase. So in most cases, houses were built to take up the entire lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To build these houses, the walls had to be built first, on the ground, and then lifted into place using a system of levers and pulleys. This still happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the unique building techniques, Fracchia says the small lots also influenced the architecture of the buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That gave way to the shape of San Francisco flats or houses. You know, a long narrow corridor called a railroad flat. Little rooms off that. You don’t have any kind of expansion,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705855\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11705855 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0367-1-e1542057187557-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0367-1-e1542057187557-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0367-1-e1542057187557-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0367-1-e1542057187557-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0367-1-e1542057187557-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0367-1-e1542057187557.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This house once stood at 1916 Sacramento St. and was built in 1878. The parlors on each floor were 15½ feet wide and the staircase was about 5 feet wide. Today, apartments occupy this lot. \u003ccite>(Quarterly Architectural News, October 1879)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A lot of these houses were often built with small gaps separating them — like 1 or 2 feet — to allow light to come in through the side walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maintaining those walls can get tricky.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do you fix a house when you can’t get to the side?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ben Ladomirak from\u003ca href=\"http://www.teevan.com/about-us/team/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Teevan \u003c/a>works on all sorts of houses in San Francisco, and he tells me he’s done everything imaginable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is nothing that exists on a home that we haven’t done,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He comes across houses that are super close together all the time, but he says “none are wide enough that you could get a person in there. I mean, I might be able to get a tiny person that’s not me. But all jokes aside, you can’t get in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that means that he can’t paint them — which causes problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UV damages the paint, which then makes the paint peel, which then makes the wood split and crack, which lets the water in, and it’s really water that does the damage,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This doesn’t happen that often because most walls are shaded from the sun. But when it does happen, it’s a big deal. If Ben thinks the wall is rotted out and the building might fall down, he has to do something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only way we’ll be able to deal with it is from the inside of your house. We cannot get to it from the outside,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imagine everything on the wall being stripped down, all the sheetrock out, and you have the vertical studs that you can see. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In San Francisco, the houses are quite cozy — sometimes mere inches apart. We can hear our neighbors’ wailing babies, their band practice and even their showers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This design is pretty common in cities across the country, but Friedel Pretorius, this week’s Bay Curious question asker, couldn’t help noticing it here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like walking around San Francisco and just observing all the different houses,” says Friedel. “And I noticed that a lot of the buildings in San Francisco are really close together, like less than a foot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants to know why they are so close and how they ended up this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s always rot and maintenance that old houses need, and I just wonder how are they built and how are they maintained,” Friedel says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfhistory.org/board-of-directors/#c-fracchia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Fracchia\u003c/a> has the answer. He’s the founder of the\u003ca href=\"https://sfhistory.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, \u003c/a>and has written several books on San Francisco history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I meet him in the Jackson Square area, just north of the Transamerica Pyramid, where some of the city’s oldest buildings still stand. His bushy white eyebrows peek out from circular rimmed glasses that give him a scholarly look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705856\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11705856 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"This house once stood at 1916 Sacramento Street and was built in 1878. The parlors on each floor were 15 and a half feet wide and the staircase was about five feet wide. Today, apartments occupy this lot.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This house, called the H. W. Newbauer House, once stood at 1916 Sacramento St. and was built in 1878. The parlors on each floor were 15 and a half feet wide and the staircase was about 5 feet wide. Today, apartments occupy this lot. \u003ccite>(Quarterly Architectural News, October 1879)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So you notice every one of these is on a lot next to each other, basically back to back,” says Fracchia. “There are no side yards or gardens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re looking at a series of brick buildings, two to three stories tall, very plain. He tells me this tight style of building was common in old European settlements, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ancient towns and cities had a wall around them. So you wanted to compress your real estate as much as you can,” says Fracchia, offering Paris in the Middle Ages as an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tells me cities were designed this way to protect against invaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask him how San Francisco made this idea its own, and he ushers me into a nearby private dining club he’s a member of, to show me some framed paintings of what the city looked like before it was a city … before it became squished together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s the one I really wanted to show you,” he says. “You notice there are just a handful of buildings over here. So very few buildings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11702207 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Close1-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Fracchia points to a drawing of San Francisco before the Gold Rush. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We are looking at a painting dated from 1846 to 1847. It’s right before the Gold Rush and right after the U.S. took over California from Mexico. At that point, there’s not really much to the city — it’s mostly sand dunes and it looks like peaceful, rolling countryside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with so few people, there was a city council. They convinced the federal government to give them the land San Francisco sits on. And then, Fracchia says, they started divvying that land up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They did this late in 1846, when they hired O’Farrell to do the survey,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jasper O’Farrell was an Irish-born surveyor. \u003ca href=\"https://www.revolvy.com/page/Jasper-O%27Farrell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">O’Farrell Street in San Francisco is named after him.\u003c/a> He designed ranchos and other towns in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he was given the job, there are about, let’s say, 500 people in the settlement of Yerba Buena,” says Fracchia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702219\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11702219 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Close2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Fracchia in front of a photo of San Francisco’s original waterfront. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>O’Farrell had no idea what the future held for this little settlement and he had to guess how big the city would become. With little direction from the city council, he was given free rein to design it however he fancied. He started with a grid — a format already in place by the Mexican settlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fracchia then points out another drawing of an early map of the city with streets running perpendicular to one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The map has a bunch of teeny boxes, and each box represents a city block. Each of those blocks is divided into six smaller lots called varas — a Spanish unit of measurement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After O’Farrell finalized his map, the city started auctioning off these varas. The ones South of Market were going for cheap: $12.67. But those close to downtown were pricey: $50 to $100 per vara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as they are auctioning them off, the Gold Rush happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of a sudden, there’s a huge demand to cram together an exploding population. A lot of people need to fit into not much space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The varas got subdivided into smaller lots, some less than 25 feet wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very typical real estate operation in large U.S. cities,” says Fracchia. “You can get more money by splitting the lots up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 25 feet is not that much space. Another local historian, William Kostura, says that it was just enough room for a parlor and a staircase. So in most cases, houses were built to take up the entire lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To build these houses, the walls had to be built first, on the ground, and then lifted into place using a system of levers and pulleys. This still happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the unique building techniques, Fracchia says the small lots also influenced the architecture of the buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That gave way to the shape of San Francisco flats or houses. You know, a long narrow corridor called a railroad flat. Little rooms off that. You don’t have any kind of expansion,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705855\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11705855 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0367-1-e1542057187557-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0367-1-e1542057187557-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0367-1-e1542057187557-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0367-1-e1542057187557-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0367-1-e1542057187557-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0367-1-e1542057187557.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This house once stood at 1916 Sacramento St. and was built in 1878. The parlors on each floor were 15½ feet wide and the staircase was about 5 feet wide. Today, apartments occupy this lot. \u003ccite>(Quarterly Architectural News, October 1879)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A lot of these houses were often built with small gaps separating them — like 1 or 2 feet — to allow light to come in through the side walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maintaining those walls can get tricky.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do you fix a house when you can’t get to the side?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ben Ladomirak from\u003ca href=\"http://www.teevan.com/about-us/team/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Teevan \u003c/a>works on all sorts of houses in San Francisco, and he tells me he’s done everything imaginable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is nothing that exists on a home that we haven’t done,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He comes across houses that are super close together all the time, but he says “none are wide enough that you could get a person in there. I mean, I might be able to get a tiny person that’s not me. But all jokes aside, you can’t get in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that means that he can’t paint them — which causes problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UV damages the paint, which then makes the paint peel, which then makes the wood split and crack, which lets the water in, and it’s really water that does the damage,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This doesn’t happen that often because most walls are shaded from the sun. But when it does happen, it’s a big deal. If Ben thinks the wall is rotted out and the building might fall down, he has to do something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only way we’ll be able to deal with it is from the inside of your house. We cannot get to it from the outside,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imagine everything on the wall being stripped down, all the sheetrock out, and you have the vertical studs that you can see. 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