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He said she asked him about getting back on the ice, two years after she had announced her retirement from the sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DiGuglielmo said he tried to talk her out of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My heart sank a little bit because I knew what it means for an athlete who is at that level to come back,” he told KQED. “I was afraid that she wouldn’t be able to succeed and do something even better than that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liu, the youngest woman to land a triple axel in international competition and the first woman to combine a quadruple jump with a triple axel, came out of retirement in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In collaboration with coach DiGuglielmo and choreographer Massimo Scali, the team charted a star-making course at the 2026 Milan Winter Games that helped the 20-year-old, who grew up in Richmond and trained in Oakland, become the first U.S. woman to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073916/oaklands-alysa-liu-gives-the-us-its-first-womens-figure-skating-olympic-gold-in-24-years\">win an Olympic gold in her sport\u003c/a> in the last 24 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alysa has that rare confluence of hard work, excellent jump technique, excellent performance ability and an ability to not see competition as this make-or-break moment for her, [rather] that competition is an opportunity to share her art with the audience,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076106\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031026_ALYSA-LIU-OAKLAND-ICE-_GH_011-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031026_ALYSA-LIU-OAKLAND-ICE-_GH_011-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031026_ALYSA-LIU-OAKLAND-ICE-_GH_011-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031026_ALYSA-LIU-OAKLAND-ICE-_GH_011-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coach Phillip DiGuglielmo watches Haya Marie Hayes practice on March 10, 2026, at the Oakland Ice Center in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>DiGuglielmo talked about the rise of Liu’s stardom with KQED morning host \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bwatt\">Brian Watt\u003c/a>, as the city of Oakland gears up for a Thursday \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075928/alysa-liu-celebration-oakland-city-hall-free-tickets-sold-out-parking-bag-policy-no-parade\">pep rally\u003c/a> to celebrate Liu. Their conversation has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt:\u003c/strong> In what way did you notice a difference in Alysa Liu between pre- and post-retirement?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Phillip DiGuglielmo:\u003c/strong> Before she retired, she was your little model athlete. She did exactly what every coach ever asked her to. She tried as hard as she could. She succeeded at almost everything she tried. But I don’t think that we ever got to see who Alysa Liu was.[aside postID=arts_13987431 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/alysia-liu.png']Now, when she’s come back, the magic about her is that you get to see who she is as the athlete. There were around 13,000 people in the [Milano Ice Skating Arena].\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are the people she was performing for, but she was also performing for her family and for the millions of people watching on TV or Instagram or wherever they consume their media. She feels like she just wants to show her art, and it comes across in a different way than the other athletes that we have in our sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is it about her style? She’s called the queen of the triple axels, but what else is she doing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because she’s taken ownership of her sport, of her performances, of her training, it just comes from inside of her. It’s not about the coaches and not the training facility. It’s only about Alysa trying to do the best that she can, and all of our whole team supporting her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Take us back to the Winter Olympics in Milan. What moment stands out to you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alyssa in this crazy gold sequined dress that looks like she just walked out of Studio 54 in 1978. Donna Summer’s “MacArthur Park” is playing, and the whole crowd gets into that vibe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s like she is skating around, floating on the ice, doing these difficult triple combinations. The spins, the step sequences and the split jumps are all perfectly on the music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg0h9iZ1ZAg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audience feels like they are part of it. At the end, she grabs her foot and pulls it above her head, and it turns into like a disco ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She ends in this pose with her right arm up with her finger pointing straight up to the sky, No.1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Now that that has all happened, what are you hearing from her? She’s become a star known around the world. And I imagine that there’s more joy that comes with that, but also a lot of pressure.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is worried for these next few months. Being recognized on the street, everywhere she goes. She’ll be able to handle it with time, but it’s going to be a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s very busy, and she’s bringing a lot of attention to figure skating. Alysa has some new lessons to learn — how to balance this kind of attention. I don’t want to say “fame,” but maybe it is fame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Clarification: Alysa Liu has \u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DVWjM5VEl1_/?img_index=2&igsh=ZjNiYTJpdjc3M28y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said on social media\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003ci> that her family moved around a lot to various places, including Richmond. Liu has said she spent most of her life in Oakland.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#Viewthefullepisodetranscript\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Dennis O’Neill was a kid growing up in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\"> San Francisco\u003c/a>, his world largely consisted of several blocks to either side of his home. In one direction was his school, Saint Cecilia’s, and in the other was Carl Larsen Park, which had all the usual fun and games plus something a little extra special — a real Navy jet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was fantastic, I have to say,” O’Neill said. “I still remember. I’m 64 years old. I remember specifically sitting in that cockpit and being a pilot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he’s certainly not the only one. Every time a picture of the Larsen Park plane gets posted to history groups on Facebook, the comments blow up with hundreds of people fondly remembering playing on the jet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was a meeting place, after school,” O’Neill remembered. “‘Meet at the airplane.’ That was common. And when you started getting girlfriends or hanging out with girls, that was a safe place to hang out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each kid who played in Larsen Park remembers \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsidelands.org/larsen_park_jets.php\">“their plane” clearly\u003c/a>, but over a period of 35 years, there were actually three different Navy jets in that park. The last one was placed in 1975 — and the nose of it was painted with shark’s teeth. It was there the longest and was known to many as “The Shark in the Park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the plane our \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycurious.org\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> question asker, Aaron Van Lieu, played on when he was little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s some of my earliest memories,” said Van Lieu, who thinks he was 5 for 6. “My brother, dad and I we [went] there in the late 80s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067017\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron Van Lieu looks up at the Vought F-8 Crusader with Janet Doto at the Pacific Coast Air Museum in Santa Rosa on Dec. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Van Lieu remembers stopping at the park with his dad and brother as a treat after a Saturday morning spent going to open houses with his dad, who was a realtor. The jet was the kids’ reward for behaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Playing tag, but there’s a jet involved, and hide and seek,” Van Lieu reminisced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite these fond memories, Aaron also remembers watching the jet slowly fall apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12067018 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron Van Lieu looks at a display showing photos of the Vought F-8 Crusader from when it was located at Carl Larsen Park in San Francisco, and its removal from the park at the Pacific Coast Air Museum in Santa Rosa on Dec. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Little by little, the wings and parts of the jet just started falling off and disappearing,” Van Lieu said. “And then, eventually, it was kind of like this skeleton.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then one day it was gone. Aaron has spent the better part of 30 years wondering where it landed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wants to know: “What happened to the jet and why did it get taken out — aside from being covered in graffiti? I just wanna know where it went from there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How did a Navy jet end up in Larsen Park in the first place?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Larsen Park opened in 1926 after Danish immigrant and Tivoli Cafe owner Carl Larsen donated the land. At the time, the concept of a playground was fairly new. \u003ca href=\"https://savingplaces.org/stories/how-we-came-to-play-the-history-of-playgrounds/\">They came into fashion at the turn of the century \u003c/a>when people started to realize that children weren’t just mini adults, but developing beings that learned through play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kids were getting into trouble because they didn’t have enough to do in off-hours of school,” said Christopher Pollock, historian in residence for the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early days, every park had a Recreation Director who kept play equipment in their office, organized games and kept an eye on the kids when they were at the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076067\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260311-Jet-Playground-Archival-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1254\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260311-Jet-Playground-Archival-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260311-Jet-Playground-Archival-03-KQED-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260311-Jet-Playground-Archival-03-KQED-1536x963.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play on the first Larsen Park jet circa 1964. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first jet came to Larsen Park in 1958.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That period is called the jet age because we have rockets being developed,” Pollock said. “People want to go to the moon, and people started designing playground equipment to look like jet planes and rockets and things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pollock said even back then, San Francisco didn’t want to be like everywhere else. The general manager of Rec and Park at the time heard that there were surplus jets at \u003ca href=\"https://www.moffettfieldmuseum.org/\">Moffett Field \u003c/a>in Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so that becomes our very first plaything in a playground, but it’s the real thing,” Pollock said. “Our kids were going to learn the real straight skinny on stuff, not some representation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They took the engine out of the jet, put it on a truck and dragged it up the freeway to the park with a California Highway Patrol escort. But once in the park, kids were hard on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076061\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076061\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260311-Jet-Playground-Archival-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1387\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260311-Jet-Playground-Archival-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260311-Jet-Playground-Archival-01-KQED-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260311-Jet-Playground-Archival-01-KQED-1536x1065.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The third and final Larsen Park jet, a 1956 F-8 Crusader, just before being removed from the park by Pacific Coast Air Museum volunteers. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Pacific Coast Air Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“About every 10 years, these jets had to be replaced because the kids wore them down so much,” Pollock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second jet in Larsen Park came from the Alameda Naval Base and was placed in the park in 1967. But the longest tenured jet — the “Shark in the Park” our question asker loved — arrived in dramatic fashion in 1975.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> article from Jan. 15, 1975, details its route:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A marine helicopter carrying a surplus Navy fighter in its sling, flew under the Golden Gate Bridge yesterday morning — after it had cruised under the Bay Bridge. The old F-8 Crusader was taken from Alameda Naval Air Station to the parking lot of the San Francisco Zoo. … The engineless plane will be used, as was its predecessor, as a giant toy in which San Francisco children may take flights of imagination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After landing at the Zoo, workers towed the jet two and a half miles northeast, going up Sloat Boulevard and down 19th Avenue to Larsen Park. And there it stayed for 18 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by the early 1990s, the F-8 Crusader had seen better days, and city leaders were learning more about the hazards to kids that it posed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070945\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070945\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The jet play structure that replaced the Vought F-8 Crusader at Carl Larsen Park in San Francisco on Jan. 23, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When this first started, people weren’t thinking so much about safety,” Pollock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But as the years went by, safety became a much bigger issue. It was found that the paint on these jets was lead-based, and it was being discovered in later years that this was toxic to children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1993, city leaders had the Navy take the jet back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larsen Park was without a jet for 22 years. In 2015, Larsen Park playground got a makeover, and community leaders insisted that the new play structure look like a jet plane. It’s no longer the real deal, but kids still like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So, what happened to the Shark in the Park?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jim Mattison used to commute from Santa Rosa to a job in Daly City. When he was idling in traffic on 19th Avenue, he’d look over at Larsen Park and see the plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look over there, and I say, ‘What’s the city gonna do to that piece of junk? That looks terrible,’” Mattison remembered. “And it’s just the irony that 30 years later, guess what I’m doing?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired from the workforce now, and an Air Force veteran, Mattison is a volunteer at the \u003ca href=\"https://pacificcoastairmuseum.org/\">Pacific Coast Air Museum (PCAM)\u003c/a>, where the Shark in the Park ended up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-04-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-04-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-04-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-04-KQED-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Mattison, the Pacific Coast Air Museum volunteer responsible for restoring the Vought F-8 Crusader, talks to Aaron Van Lieu about the restoration process at the Pacific Coast Air Museum in Santa Rosa on Dec. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The way he tells it, San Francisco leaders were bugging the Navy to take the plane away because it was hazardous. Then, the Navy basically begged the museum to take the F-8 Crusader off their hands, promising that if they did, more aircraft might come the museum’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like to say this was the catalyst,” Mattison said. “This started our association with the Navy. We developed a really close association because we started getting more and more assets. So that’s how we wound up becoming a museum, because we took this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the museum has an impressive set of aircraft to visit at its open-air site. Some planes flew during War War II, Korea and Vietnam. They have a plane that was one of the first responders to the 9/11 attacks in New York City in 2001. Each volunteer has their favorites — often related to the branch of the military where they served.[aside postID=news_12074947 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260221-SUNNYSIDECONSERVATORY00252_TV-KQED.jpg']“We are not a velvet rope air museum,” Mattison said. “We encourage people to touch them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the F-8 Crusader first arrived at the museum in 1993, a crew did a ton of work to reverse some of the things San Francisco Rec and Park had done to make the plane safer for kids. Park workers had filled the body of the plane with concrete to prevent kids from crawling through it — the PCAM crew had to jackhammer it out. And, the body of the plane had been buried in the sand — another safety measure to soften the landing when kids fell off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The entire section of the fuselage where the engine and all the internal components were was filled with sand,” said Guy Crow, a PCAM volunteer who worked on the plane when it first arrived. “About seven yards of sand we scraped, swept, shoveled, vacuumed. And it took us a couple of weeks to get it all out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That original team got the plane looking presentable and painted it with the telltale shark mouth for which it was known. They even had T-shirts made up with “Shark in the Park” on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after more than two decades on display in the field at the museum, the weather had taken its toll on the F-8. Museum staff removed it from the display in 2012 and started revamping it once again in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We treat [them like] they’re full-size model airplanes,” Mattison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mattison’s team removed still more sand, fixed the rudder and reskinned the wings and flaps, patched the fuselage and gave it a new paint job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067024\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-10-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Museum visitor Michael Wilkins reads about the F-5E Tiger II at the Pacific Coast Air Museum in Santa Rosa on Dec. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I chose to paint it in the Marine Corps colors,” Mattison said. “That was the last squadron it flew out of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The F-8 Crusader was built in 1956 as a “supersonic dayfighter. It was fast. I think it was [one of] the first Navy aircraft that achieved a thousand miles an hour. It’s very maneuverable, and the pilots loved flying it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our question asker, Aaron Van Lieu, accompanied me on the trip to the museum. He remembered the jet immediately, although he said it looked bigger than he remembered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a rush and flush of emotions and memories,” he said. “I’m on top of the world, being able to see it again. ‘Cause I’ve always wondered what happened to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Pacific Coast Air Museum is open \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://pacificcoastairmuseum.org/visit-us/#hours_admin\">\u003cem>Thursday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> It’s\u003c/em> \u003cem>located at the Charles M Schulz — Sonoma County Airport, off Airport Boulevard on the corner of N. Laughlin Road. and Becker Boulevard.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Viewthefullepisodetranscript\">\u003c/a>Episode transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Things were different for San Francisco kids back in the 1960s and ’70s. For one, there was a lot more freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dennis O’Neill: \u003c/strong>In those days, there were no cars parked on the street for the most part. And there were kids everywhere. You know, there were six or seven kids on my block. My name’s Dennis O’Neill. I grew up on 18th Avenue from about 1963 to 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Dennis and the other neighborhood kids spent a lot of time at nearby Larsen Park. It’s right on busy 19th Avenue at Vicente Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dennis O’Neill: \u003c/strong>We were seven or eight. And our parents, you know, allowed us to cross 19th Avenue, the highway, on a green light and go to the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Back then, every city park had a park director. They would organize games, keep an eye on the kids and maintain play equipment. But Larsen Park also had something that made it extra special. A real Navy jet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dennis O’Neill: \u003c/strong>It felt like an actual jet landed in Larsen Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>And wow, was that jet beloved by the neighborhood kids!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dennis O’Neill: \u003c/strong>It was fantastic, I have to say. I still remember. I’m 64 years old. I remember specifically sitting in that cockpit and being a pilot, you know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Allen-Price: Our question asker this week, Aaron Van Lieu, also spent a lot of time at the plane in Larsen Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Van Lieu:\u003c/strong> It’s some of my earliest memories. My brother, dad and I were going there in the late ’80s, like ’88-’89. So I was like 4, 5, 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Over a period of 35 years, there were actually three different Navy jets in that park. The last one was placed in 1975, and the nose of it was painted with shark’s teeth. It was there the longest and was known to many as “The Shark in the Park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the plane Aaron remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Van Lieu: \u003c/strong>Playing tag, but there’s a jet involved. And hide and seek and you know, just running around it. My dad, you know, trying to explain what certain things were because for a long time the canopy was there, and you could see inside of it, and it had all the gauges and stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>But Aaron also remembers how the jet slowly started falling apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Van Lieu: \u003c/strong>Little by little, the wings and parts of the jet just started falling off and going and disappearing. So, and then eventually it was like kind of like this, like skeleton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>And then, one day, it was gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaron has spent decades wondering what happened to that jet that he loved so much. He even credits it, in small part, with his love of aviation and a short stint as a flight attendant. He wants to know:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Van Lieu: \u003c/strong>What happened to the jet, and why did it get taken out, aside from being covered in graffiti? So I just wanna know where it went from there, you know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>And, I want to know who thought a jet in a playground was a good idea in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Bay Curious editor and producer, Katrina Schwartz, always the pragmatic one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>A real fighter jet has to be one of the most expensive pieces of playground equipment ever!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So, I did a little math, and the plane cost about 2 million to build originally, which is nearly $24 million today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of pickleball\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Our modern obsessions on display at the park are a little more mundane … and a lot less expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pickleball sounds\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The near constant pop and thwack of the very popular pickleball courts has been the soundtrack to Larsen Park since they opened in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I visited with Christopher Pollock, historian in residence for the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department, to learn a little more about this park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Pollock: \u003c/strong>So Carl L Larsen is a Danish immigrant who was a cafe owner in downtown San Francisco. He owned the Tivoli Cafe and he was quite a large landowner in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Larsen gave the city a parcel of land to create a park before this west side neighborhood was even fully built. The park opened in 1926. Bisected by Vicente Street, one side had tennis courts and playground equipment and the other side had an open field and a swimming pool, now called Sava Pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Pollock: \u003c/strong>He, as a developer, certainly had the vision that San Francisco was going to grow and that things would grow to be what they are today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>At this point, playgrounds were a fairly new idea. They only came into fashion in the early 1900s as a tool to keep kids off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Pollock: \u003c/strong>Kids were getting into trouble because they didn’t have enough to do in off hours of school. Yeah, they had their playgrounds within the schools, but those were closed when school was not open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The first Navy jet came to Larsen Park in 1958. It was during the Cold War and people were obsessed with going to the moon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archival video 1: \u003c/strong>In October 1957, the world entered the Space Age. At that time, a multistage rocket took off from Russia – Sputnik 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archival video 2: \u003c/strong>More and more teenagers are giving up rock and roll for Rocket Rolls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Pollock: \u003c/strong>People want to go to the moon, and so it becomes a very popular kind of thing that people started designing playground equipment to look like jet planes and rockets and things like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Space exploration was a national obsession. But you know, San Francisco, it had to approach the trend a little differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Pollock: \u003c/strong>There was surplus jet down at Moffat Field in Mountain View and that it could be had for a song. It just had to be brought to San Francisco. So that becomes our very first plaything in a playground, but it’s the real thing. Our kids were going to learn, you know, the real straight skinny on stuff, not some representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>It’s easy to forget that back then, San Francisco was a Navy town. The city was surrounded by Naval stations and there were jets like this one in playgrounds in Bayview, Sunnyvale and San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as any parent knows, kids are hard on stuff. Even military grade materials were no match for their grubby little hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Pollock: \u003c/strong>About every 10 years these jets had to be replaced because the kids wore them down so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The \u003cem>second\u003c/em> jet in Larsen Park came from the Alameda Naval Base and was placed in the park in 1967. But the longest tenured jet — the “shark in the park” our question asker loved — arrived in dramatic fashion eight years later, in 1975.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newspaper read: \u003c/strong>A marine helicopter carrying a surplus Navy fighter in its sling, flew under the Golden Gate Bridge yesterday morning — after it had cruised under the Bay Bridge. The old F-8 Crusader was taken from Alameda Naval Air Station to the parking lot of the San Francisco Zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>They then towed the jet two and a half miles northeast … going up Sloat Boulevard and down 19th Avenue to Larsen Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newspaper read: \u003c/strong>The engineless plane will be used, as was its predecessor, as a giant toy in which San Francisco children may take flights of imagination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>And there it stayed, delighting generations of children … for 18 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Pollock:\u003c/strong> When this first started, people weren’t thinking so much about safety, but as the years went by, safety became a much bigger issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The first two planes were propped up, with ladders to climb into the cockpits. Kids would crawl on the wings, fall off and break arms and legs. And, the metal was sharp — many a kid got a nasty gash playing on the jets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Pollock: \u003c/strong>Not only that but it was found that the paint on these jets was lead-based and it was being discovered in later years that this was toxic to children. It was decided in 1993 to remove the last of the three jets. And so we were without a jet for a very long time in this park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>After 22 jetless years, Larsen Park got an all new playground in 2015, one complete with a play structure that looks like a jet. It may not be the \u003cem>real\u003c/em> thing, but kids still like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the shark in the park was removed, it was a hunk of junk. The wings were gone, the nose ripped off and it was covered in graffiti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Van Lieu: \u003c/strong>My last memory of it is being like a skeleton. So I would hope that it was maybe fixed a little bit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>It was in that forlorn state that Aaron, our question asker, last saw the plane. Until I met up with him at the Pacific Coast Air Museum to show him what had become of it. That’s coming up, after this short break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sponsor Message\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Aaron Van Lieu has always wondered what happened to the jet in San Francisco’s Larsen Park that made such an impression on him as a child. And it turns out, its new home isn’t too far away, at the Pacific Coast Air Museum in Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Janet Doto: \u003c/strong>OK, we ready?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>I guess so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Janet Doto: \u003c/strong>All right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Aaron and I meet up at the museum and hop in a golf cart for a quick tour with Janet Doto, an Airforce veteran and volunteer here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Janet Doto: \u003c/strong>These are the two top gun aircraft, the F-14 Tomcat and then the F-18 Viper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Van Lieu: \u003c/strong>The Tomcat was one of my favorite jets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Janet Dotto:\u003c/strong> Oh, it’s a beautiful jet. My favorite’s the F4, but yeah, I’m partial. 23 years in the Air Force, you can’t love a navy aircraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The museum is a small but mighty operation. Almost all outdoors, they have 37 restored aircraft. One plane fought in WWII, another was a first responder to the 911 attacks and of course, parked out on the tarmac they’ve got the Shark in the Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Janet Doto: \u003c/strong>And there she is, the F-8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Van Lieu: \u003c/strong>This one right here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Janet Doto: \u003c/strong>That’s the one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Van Lieu: \u003c/strong>Whoa!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Is it how you remember it looking?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Van Lieu: \u003c/strong>Yeah, very much. Yeah, the canopy, it actually looks bigger than I remember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Janet Doto: \u003c/strong>That’s probably because there’s more of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Laughter\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>This F-8 jet is the very one that generations of San Francisco kids played on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mattison: \u003c/strong>Aaron, okay, I’m Jim Mattison. I’m the crew chief. And I’m proud to say I’m responsible for how this came out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Jim is also an Air Force veteran and volunteer. But his memories of the Shark in the Park go way back to when he used to be stuck in traffic on 19th Avenue, commuting to Daly City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mattison: \u003c/strong>I look over there, and I say, What’s the city gonna do to that piece of junk? That looks terrible. And it’s just the irony that 30 years later, guess what I’m doing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Jim and his team have lovingly restored this 1956 F-8. The paint scheme is mostly gray with accents of red and navy blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mattison: \u003c/strong>I chose to paint it in the Marine Corps colors. Why? Because that was the last squadron it flew out of. And this was such an amazing paint scheme, I saw that and thought, I know what I want to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The Navy basically begged the museum to take the plane. San Francisco officials wanted the dangerous eyesore gone, especially because by the 90s, the Navy’s presence in the Bay Area had waned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mattison: \u003c/strong>They got a big crane and a low boy truck. Dug it out of the sand, took it apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>And like so many jets before it, put it on a truck and drove it up to Santa Rosa\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mattison: \u003c/strong>And then just like a model airplane, put it all back together. My teammate, he was working on the belly. And every once in a while, he’s busy banging and drilling holes. He’d get a face full of Larson Park sand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The museum initially didn’t want to take this plane, but now, it’s one of the most popular attractions. Many visitors who remember playing on the F-8 as kids never knew much about what the jet did before it became playground equipment. That history is something Jim is passionate about sharing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mattison: \u003c/strong>This was designed as a supersonic day fighter for the Navy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>It would land on incredibly short runways … just 500 feet … on floating aircraft carriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mattison: \u003c/strong>And it was fast. Very maneuverable and the pilots loved flying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz in scene: \u003c/strong>I’m curious, Aaron, what do you think now that you’ve seen it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Van Lieu: \u003c/strong>There’s been a rush and flush of emotions and and memories, you know. I’m on top of the world being able to see it again, really. ‘Cause I’ve always wondered what happened to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>And if you remember playing on this jet and have always wondered what happened to it … the Pacific Coast Air Museum is waiting for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>That was Bay Curious editor and producer, Katrina Schwartz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can still play on some real Navy equipment if you go to Lincoln and 45th Avenue Playground in Golden Gate Park. There’s a blue boat there that was donated by the Navy … and it’s the real deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are you loving having more Bay Curious episodes in your podcast feed? If so, you can get even more Bay Curious in your life via the Bay Curious newsletter! Head to our website to sign up. As always, at \u003ca href=\"http://baycurious.org\">BayCurious.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BC is made in SF at member-supported KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our show is made by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien, Ethan Toven-Lindsey and everyone at team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Cleared for takeoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each kid who played in Larsen Park remembers \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsidelands.org/larsen_park_jets.php\">“their plane” clearly\u003c/a>, but over a period of 35 years, there were actually three different Navy jets in that park. The last one was placed in 1975 — and the nose of it was painted with shark’s teeth. It was there the longest and was known to many as “The Shark in the Park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the plane our \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycurious.org\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> question asker, Aaron Van Lieu, played on when he was little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s some of my earliest memories,” said Van Lieu, who thinks he was 5 for 6. “My brother, dad and I we [went] there in the late 80s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067017\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron Van Lieu looks up at the Vought F-8 Crusader with Janet Doto at the Pacific Coast Air Museum in Santa Rosa on Dec. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Van Lieu remembers stopping at the park with his dad and brother as a treat after a Saturday morning spent going to open houses with his dad, who was a realtor. The jet was the kids’ reward for behaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Playing tag, but there’s a jet involved, and hide and seek,” Van Lieu reminisced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite these fond memories, Aaron also remembers watching the jet slowly fall apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12067018 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron Van Lieu looks at a display showing photos of the Vought F-8 Crusader from when it was located at Carl Larsen Park in San Francisco, and its removal from the park at the Pacific Coast Air Museum in Santa Rosa on Dec. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Little by little, the wings and parts of the jet just started falling off and disappearing,” Van Lieu said. “And then, eventually, it was kind of like this skeleton.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then one day it was gone. Aaron has spent the better part of 30 years wondering where it landed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wants to know: “What happened to the jet and why did it get taken out — aside from being covered in graffiti? I just wanna know where it went from there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How did a Navy jet end up in Larsen Park in the first place?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Larsen Park opened in 1926 after Danish immigrant and Tivoli Cafe owner Carl Larsen donated the land. At the time, the concept of a playground was fairly new. \u003ca href=\"https://savingplaces.org/stories/how-we-came-to-play-the-history-of-playgrounds/\">They came into fashion at the turn of the century \u003c/a>when people started to realize that children weren’t just mini adults, but developing beings that learned through play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kids were getting into trouble because they didn’t have enough to do in off-hours of school,” said Christopher Pollock, historian in residence for the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early days, every park had a Recreation Director who kept play equipment in their office, organized games and kept an eye on the kids when they were at the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076067\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260311-Jet-Playground-Archival-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1254\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260311-Jet-Playground-Archival-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260311-Jet-Playground-Archival-03-KQED-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260311-Jet-Playground-Archival-03-KQED-1536x963.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play on the first Larsen Park jet circa 1964. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first jet came to Larsen Park in 1958.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That period is called the jet age because we have rockets being developed,” Pollock said. “People want to go to the moon, and people started designing playground equipment to look like jet planes and rockets and things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pollock said even back then, San Francisco didn’t want to be like everywhere else. The general manager of Rec and Park at the time heard that there were surplus jets at \u003ca href=\"https://www.moffettfieldmuseum.org/\">Moffett Field \u003c/a>in Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so that becomes our very first plaything in a playground, but it’s the real thing,” Pollock said. “Our kids were going to learn the real straight skinny on stuff, not some representation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They took the engine out of the jet, put it on a truck and dragged it up the freeway to the park with a California Highway Patrol escort. But once in the park, kids were hard on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076061\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076061\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260311-Jet-Playground-Archival-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1387\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260311-Jet-Playground-Archival-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260311-Jet-Playground-Archival-01-KQED-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260311-Jet-Playground-Archival-01-KQED-1536x1065.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The third and final Larsen Park jet, a 1956 F-8 Crusader, just before being removed from the park by Pacific Coast Air Museum volunteers. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Pacific Coast Air Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“About every 10 years, these jets had to be replaced because the kids wore them down so much,” Pollock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second jet in Larsen Park came from the Alameda Naval Base and was placed in the park in 1967. But the longest tenured jet — the “Shark in the Park” our question asker loved — arrived in dramatic fashion in 1975.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> article from Jan. 15, 1975, details its route:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A marine helicopter carrying a surplus Navy fighter in its sling, flew under the Golden Gate Bridge yesterday morning — after it had cruised under the Bay Bridge. The old F-8 Crusader was taken from Alameda Naval Air Station to the parking lot of the San Francisco Zoo. … The engineless plane will be used, as was its predecessor, as a giant toy in which San Francisco children may take flights of imagination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After landing at the Zoo, workers towed the jet two and a half miles northeast, going up Sloat Boulevard and down 19th Avenue to Larsen Park. And there it stayed for 18 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by the early 1990s, the F-8 Crusader had seen better days, and city leaders were learning more about the hazards to kids that it posed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070945\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070945\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The jet play structure that replaced the Vought F-8 Crusader at Carl Larsen Park in San Francisco on Jan. 23, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When this first started, people weren’t thinking so much about safety,” Pollock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But as the years went by, safety became a much bigger issue. It was found that the paint on these jets was lead-based, and it was being discovered in later years that this was toxic to children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1993, city leaders had the Navy take the jet back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larsen Park was without a jet for 22 years. In 2015, Larsen Park playground got a makeover, and community leaders insisted that the new play structure look like a jet plane. It’s no longer the real deal, but kids still like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So, what happened to the Shark in the Park?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jim Mattison used to commute from Santa Rosa to a job in Daly City. When he was idling in traffic on 19th Avenue, he’d look over at Larsen Park and see the plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look over there, and I say, ‘What’s the city gonna do to that piece of junk? That looks terrible,’” Mattison remembered. “And it’s just the irony that 30 years later, guess what I’m doing?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired from the workforce now, and an Air Force veteran, Mattison is a volunteer at the \u003ca href=\"https://pacificcoastairmuseum.org/\">Pacific Coast Air Museum (PCAM)\u003c/a>, where the Shark in the Park ended up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-04-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-04-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-04-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-04-KQED-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Mattison, the Pacific Coast Air Museum volunteer responsible for restoring the Vought F-8 Crusader, talks to Aaron Van Lieu about the restoration process at the Pacific Coast Air Museum in Santa Rosa on Dec. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The way he tells it, San Francisco leaders were bugging the Navy to take the plane away because it was hazardous. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We are not a velvet rope air museum,” Mattison said. “We encourage people to touch them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the F-8 Crusader first arrived at the museum in 1993, a crew did a ton of work to reverse some of the things San Francisco Rec and Park had done to make the plane safer for kids. Park workers had filled the body of the plane with concrete to prevent kids from crawling through it — the PCAM crew had to jackhammer it out. And, the body of the plane had been buried in the sand — another safety measure to soften the landing when kids fell off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The entire section of the fuselage where the engine and all the internal components were was filled with sand,” said Guy Crow, a PCAM volunteer who worked on the plane when it first arrived. “About seven yards of sand we scraped, swept, shoveled, vacuumed. And it took us a couple of weeks to get it all out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That original team got the plane looking presentable and painted it with the telltale shark mouth for which it was known. They even had T-shirts made up with “Shark in the Park” on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after more than two decades on display in the field at the museum, the weather had taken its toll on the F-8. Museum staff removed it from the display in 2012 and started revamping it once again in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We treat [them like] they’re full-size model airplanes,” Mattison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mattison’s team removed still more sand, fixed the rudder and reskinned the wings and flaps, patched the fuselage and gave it a new paint job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067024\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251212-JET-PLAYGROUND-MD-10-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Museum visitor Michael Wilkins reads about the F-5E Tiger II at the Pacific Coast Air Museum in Santa Rosa on Dec. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I chose to paint it in the Marine Corps colors,” Mattison said. “That was the last squadron it flew out of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The F-8 Crusader was built in 1956 as a “supersonic dayfighter. It was fast. I think it was [one of] the first Navy aircraft that achieved a thousand miles an hour. It’s very maneuverable, and the pilots loved flying it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our question asker, Aaron Van Lieu, accompanied me on the trip to the museum. He remembered the jet immediately, although he said it looked bigger than he remembered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a rush and flush of emotions and memories,” he said. “I’m on top of the world, being able to see it again. ‘Cause I’ve always wondered what happened to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Pacific Coast Air Museum is open \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://pacificcoastairmuseum.org/visit-us/#hours_admin\">\u003cem>Thursday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> It’s\u003c/em> \u003cem>located at the Charles M Schulz — Sonoma County Airport, off Airport Boulevard on the corner of N. Laughlin Road. and Becker Boulevard.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Viewthefullepisodetranscript\">\u003c/a>Episode transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Things were different for San Francisco kids back in the 1960s and ’70s. For one, there was a lot more freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dennis O’Neill: \u003c/strong>In those days, there were no cars parked on the street for the most part. And there were kids everywhere. You know, there were six or seven kids on my block. My name’s Dennis O’Neill. I grew up on 18th Avenue from about 1963 to 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Dennis and the other neighborhood kids spent a lot of time at nearby Larsen Park. It’s right on busy 19th Avenue at Vicente Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dennis O’Neill: \u003c/strong>We were seven or eight. And our parents, you know, allowed us to cross 19th Avenue, the highway, on a green light and go to the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Back then, every city park had a park director. They would organize games, keep an eye on the kids and maintain play equipment. But Larsen Park also had something that made it extra special. A real Navy jet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dennis O’Neill: \u003c/strong>It felt like an actual jet landed in Larsen Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>And wow, was that jet beloved by the neighborhood kids!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dennis O’Neill: \u003c/strong>It was fantastic, I have to say. I still remember. I’m 64 years old. I remember specifically sitting in that cockpit and being a pilot, you know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Allen-Price: Our question asker this week, Aaron Van Lieu, also spent a lot of time at the plane in Larsen Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Van Lieu:\u003c/strong> It’s some of my earliest memories. My brother, dad and I were going there in the late ’80s, like ’88-’89. So I was like 4, 5, 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Over a period of 35 years, there were actually three different Navy jets in that park. The last one was placed in 1975, and the nose of it was painted with shark’s teeth. It was there the longest and was known to many as “The Shark in the Park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the plane Aaron remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Van Lieu: \u003c/strong>Playing tag, but there’s a jet involved. And hide and seek and you know, just running around it. My dad, you know, trying to explain what certain things were because for a long time the canopy was there, and you could see inside of it, and it had all the gauges and stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>But Aaron also remembers how the jet slowly started falling apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Van Lieu: \u003c/strong>Little by little, the wings and parts of the jet just started falling off and going and disappearing. So, and then eventually it was like kind of like this, like skeleton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>And then, one day, it was gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaron has spent decades wondering what happened to that jet that he loved so much. He even credits it, in small part, with his love of aviation and a short stint as a flight attendant. He wants to know:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Van Lieu: \u003c/strong>What happened to the jet, and why did it get taken out, aside from being covered in graffiti? So I just wanna know where it went from there, you know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>And, I want to know who thought a jet in a playground was a good idea in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Bay Curious editor and producer, Katrina Schwartz, always the pragmatic one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>A real fighter jet has to be one of the most expensive pieces of playground equipment ever!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So, I did a little math, and the plane cost about 2 million to build originally, which is nearly $24 million today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of pickleball\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Our modern obsessions on display at the park are a little more mundane … and a lot less expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pickleball sounds\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The near constant pop and thwack of the very popular pickleball courts has been the soundtrack to Larsen Park since they opened in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I visited with Christopher Pollock, historian in residence for the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department, to learn a little more about this park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Pollock: \u003c/strong>So Carl L Larsen is a Danish immigrant who was a cafe owner in downtown San Francisco. He owned the Tivoli Cafe and he was quite a large landowner in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Larsen gave the city a parcel of land to create a park before this west side neighborhood was even fully built. The park opened in 1926. Bisected by Vicente Street, one side had tennis courts and playground equipment and the other side had an open field and a swimming pool, now called Sava Pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Pollock: \u003c/strong>He, as a developer, certainly had the vision that San Francisco was going to grow and that things would grow to be what they are today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>At this point, playgrounds were a fairly new idea. They only came into fashion in the early 1900s as a tool to keep kids off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Pollock: \u003c/strong>Kids were getting into trouble because they didn’t have enough to do in off hours of school. Yeah, they had their playgrounds within the schools, but those were closed when school was not open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The first Navy jet came to Larsen Park in 1958. It was during the Cold War and people were obsessed with going to the moon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archival video 1: \u003c/strong>In October 1957, the world entered the Space Age. At that time, a multistage rocket took off from Russia – Sputnik 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archival video 2: \u003c/strong>More and more teenagers are giving up rock and roll for Rocket Rolls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Pollock: \u003c/strong>People want to go to the moon, and so it becomes a very popular kind of thing that people started designing playground equipment to look like jet planes and rockets and things like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Space exploration was a national obsession. But you know, San Francisco, it had to approach the trend a little differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Pollock: \u003c/strong>There was surplus jet down at Moffat Field in Mountain View and that it could be had for a song. It just had to be brought to San Francisco. So that becomes our very first plaything in a playground, but it’s the real thing. Our kids were going to learn, you know, the real straight skinny on stuff, not some representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>It’s easy to forget that back then, San Francisco was a Navy town. The city was surrounded by Naval stations and there were jets like this one in playgrounds in Bayview, Sunnyvale and San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as any parent knows, kids are hard on stuff. Even military grade materials were no match for their grubby little hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Pollock: \u003c/strong>About every 10 years these jets had to be replaced because the kids wore them down so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The \u003cem>second\u003c/em> jet in Larsen Park came from the Alameda Naval Base and was placed in the park in 1967. But the longest tenured jet — the “shark in the park” our question asker loved — arrived in dramatic fashion eight years later, in 1975.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newspaper read: \u003c/strong>A marine helicopter carrying a surplus Navy fighter in its sling, flew under the Golden Gate Bridge yesterday morning — after it had cruised under the Bay Bridge. The old F-8 Crusader was taken from Alameda Naval Air Station to the parking lot of the San Francisco Zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>They then towed the jet two and a half miles northeast … going up Sloat Boulevard and down 19th Avenue to Larsen Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newspaper read: \u003c/strong>The engineless plane will be used, as was its predecessor, as a giant toy in which San Francisco children may take flights of imagination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>And there it stayed, delighting generations of children … for 18 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Pollock:\u003c/strong> When this first started, people weren’t thinking so much about safety, but as the years went by, safety became a much bigger issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The first two planes were propped up, with ladders to climb into the cockpits. Kids would crawl on the wings, fall off and break arms and legs. And, the metal was sharp — many a kid got a nasty gash playing on the jets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Pollock: \u003c/strong>Not only that but it was found that the paint on these jets was lead-based and it was being discovered in later years that this was toxic to children. It was decided in 1993 to remove the last of the three jets. And so we were without a jet for a very long time in this park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>After 22 jetless years, Larsen Park got an all new playground in 2015, one complete with a play structure that looks like a jet. It may not be the \u003cem>real\u003c/em> thing, but kids still like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the shark in the park was removed, it was a hunk of junk. The wings were gone, the nose ripped off and it was covered in graffiti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Van Lieu: \u003c/strong>My last memory of it is being like a skeleton. So I would hope that it was maybe fixed a little bit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>It was in that forlorn state that Aaron, our question asker, last saw the plane. Until I met up with him at the Pacific Coast Air Museum to show him what had become of it. That’s coming up, after this short break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sponsor Message\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Aaron Van Lieu has always wondered what happened to the jet in San Francisco’s Larsen Park that made such an impression on him as a child. And it turns out, its new home isn’t too far away, at the Pacific Coast Air Museum in Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Janet Doto: \u003c/strong>OK, we ready?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>I guess so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Janet Doto: \u003c/strong>All right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Aaron and I meet up at the museum and hop in a golf cart for a quick tour with Janet Doto, an Airforce veteran and volunteer here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Janet Doto: \u003c/strong>These are the two top gun aircraft, the F-14 Tomcat and then the F-18 Viper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Van Lieu: \u003c/strong>The Tomcat was one of my favorite jets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Janet Dotto:\u003c/strong> Oh, it’s a beautiful jet. My favorite’s the F4, but yeah, I’m partial. 23 years in the Air Force, you can’t love a navy aircraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The museum is a small but mighty operation. Almost all outdoors, they have 37 restored aircraft. One plane fought in WWII, another was a first responder to the 911 attacks and of course, parked out on the tarmac they’ve got the Shark in the Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Janet Doto: \u003c/strong>And there she is, the F-8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Van Lieu: \u003c/strong>This one right here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Janet Doto: \u003c/strong>That’s the one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Van Lieu: \u003c/strong>Whoa!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Is it how you remember it looking?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Van Lieu: \u003c/strong>Yeah, very much. Yeah, the canopy, it actually looks bigger than I remember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Janet Doto: \u003c/strong>That’s probably because there’s more of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Laughter\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>This F-8 jet is the very one that generations of San Francisco kids played on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mattison: \u003c/strong>Aaron, okay, I’m Jim Mattison. I’m the crew chief. And I’m proud to say I’m responsible for how this came out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Jim is also an Air Force veteran and volunteer. But his memories of the Shark in the Park go way back to when he used to be stuck in traffic on 19th Avenue, commuting to Daly City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mattison: \u003c/strong>I look over there, and I say, What’s the city gonna do to that piece of junk? That looks terrible. And it’s just the irony that 30 years later, guess what I’m doing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Jim and his team have lovingly restored this 1956 F-8. The paint scheme is mostly gray with accents of red and navy blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mattison: \u003c/strong>I chose to paint it in the Marine Corps colors. Why? Because that was the last squadron it flew out of. And this was such an amazing paint scheme, I saw that and thought, I know what I want to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The Navy basically begged the museum to take the plane. San Francisco officials wanted the dangerous eyesore gone, especially because by the 90s, the Navy’s presence in the Bay Area had waned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mattison: \u003c/strong>They got a big crane and a low boy truck. 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Dorfman found Public Defender Mano Raju had not followed the court’s lawful order to accept dozens of new criminal cases over January and February of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raju said his office is overwhelmed by the high volume of cases, and that it would be “unethical” to take on clients if their office could not provide due process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a huge amount of work to do in being an effective public defender, and we have an ethical obligation to make sure we can provide constitutionally effective representation to all of our clients,” Raju told KQED before the hearing. “If we continue to take every single case that comes in, that’s impossible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the public defender, there has been a 78% increase in active misdemeanor cases and a 56% increase in active felony cases since early 2019 — a period Raju says has also transformed what it takes to defend a single case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure 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privately-contracted attorneys to represent those defendants, but their caseloads also ballooned, and they have said they will no longer accept new appointments.[aside postID=news_12028351 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2195560285-1020x680.jpg']Raju’s office points to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2559-1.html\">recent study \u003c/a>of public defender workloads, which concluded that excessive workloads violate court ethics and compromise the judicial system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using those standards, the office determined it needs 36 additional attorneys and dozens of support staff just to reach constitutional compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061089/jenkins-san-francisco-superior-court-is-complicit-in-dereliction-of-duty\">previously criticized the office’s stance\u003c/a>, lashing out at the public defender’s “dereliction of duty” as a 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Public defender offices in Los Angeles, San Diego, Alameda, Contra Costa and Sacramento counties have all declared some form of limited unavailability of new cases in recent years, according to Raju.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kory DeClark, an attorney representing Raju and Gonzalez, said the office’s refusals reflect a principled effort to safeguard clients’ rights. He said that threatening the city’s top defense officials with contempt only moves the system further from a workable solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorfman said jail time would not be appropriate, and that he was still deciding whether Raju’s actions are one continuous contempt or separate instances of it. That decision will determine what fines will come as a result of the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Raju said his office will appeal the judge’s decision.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/lklivans\">\u003cem>Laura Klivans\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Raju’s office points to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2559-1.html\">recent study \u003c/a>of public defender workloads, which concluded that excessive workloads violate court ethics and compromise the judicial system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using those standards, the office determined it needs 36 additional attorneys and dozens of support staff just to reach constitutional compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061089/jenkins-san-francisco-superior-court-is-complicit-in-dereliction-of-duty\">previously criticized the office’s stance\u003c/a>, lashing out at the public defender’s “dereliction of duty” as a tactic to extract more funding from city leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court has also pushed back, suggesting the office has capacity to accept new cases — a position Raju disputes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Weisberg, co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, said that while the situation is unusual, it is not unheard of, and that public defender offices in other states have pursued similar legal standoffs when caseloads became unmanageable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not unusual for public defenders to seek some kind of legal relief when they claim that their caseloads are too high,” Weisberg told KQED. “This is really, in a sense, a threat to go on strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061152\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061152\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-24_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-24_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-24_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-24_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins speaks at a rally outside City Hall on Monday, Oct. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Similar standoffs have played out across California. Public defender offices in Los Angeles, San Diego, Alameda, Contra Costa and Sacramento counties have all declared some form of limited unavailability of new cases in recent years, according to Raju.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kory DeClark, an attorney representing Raju and Gonzalez, said the office’s refusals reflect a principled effort to safeguard clients’ rights. He said that threatening the city’s top defense officials with contempt only moves the system further from a workable solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorfman said jail time would not be appropriate, and that he was still deciding whether Raju’s actions are one continuous contempt or separate instances of it. That decision will determine what fines will come as a result of the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Raju said his office will appeal the judge’s decision.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/lklivans\">\u003cem>Laura Klivans\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7858210&GUID=73DF6CC5-C865-4168-B284-4E9B0B35C1AA\">has agreed to pay $500,000\u003c/a> to a family that sued for wrongful death and elder abuse after their relative died following his transfer out of Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement was approved by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday and comes after an overhaul of Laguna Honda, a safety net hospital for low-income patients with complex medical needs, which lost its certification in 2022 after failing a series of safety inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While working to regain good standing, state and federal regulators \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939793/were-down-to-the-wire-again-feds-to-decide-this-week-if-laguna-honda-must-resume-patient-transfers\">forced the hospital to prepare for potential closure\u003c/a> and some residents were discharged or transferred to other skilled nursing facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several people died shortly after moving, which some nursing home watchdogs have attributed to a detrimental disruption in care during the relocation process, known as transfer trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They thought it was necessary to keep Laguna Honda from being shut down by the state. But in fact, what they were doing was more harmful,” said Teresa Palmer, an advocate with the social justice organization Gray Panthers who worked as a physician at Laguna Honda from 1989 to 2004. “They were violating patients’ rights and safety and discharging them illegally to nursing homes where they wouldn’t get as good care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940770\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940770\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62526_02022023_lagunahondapresser-308-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"Three women with banners stand outside the Laguna Honda hospital entrance with protest signs in their hands.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62526_02022023_lagunahondapresser-308-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62526_02022023_lagunahondapresser-308-qut-1-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62526_02022023_lagunahondapresser-308-qut-1-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62526_02022023_lagunahondapresser-308-qut-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62526_02022023_lagunahondapresser-308-qut-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cristina Gutierrez, 74, speaks out during a protest against the discharge and transfer of patients from the Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, in San Francisco, on Feb. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Pham family sued the city and county of San Francisco in 2023, alleging elder abuse and neglect, violation of patients’ rights and wrongful death for their father, Quy Pham, who had moved into Laguna Honda in 2021 and lived with Alzheimer’s disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Laguna Honda worked toward recertification, which it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958392/medi-cal-reinstates-laguna-honda-in-major-win-for-the-states-largest-public-nursing-home\">achieved in 2023\u003c/a>, state and federal regulators urged the hospital to discharge and transfer patients. According to the complaint, the Pham family was contacted during that time and told that a bed would be available for their father at Seton Hospital in Daly City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t want him to go there, but they reluctantly agreed because they felt pressured,” said Kathryn Stebner, the attorney representing the Pham family.[aside postID=news_12064768 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/008_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023_qed.jpg']Their father left Laguna Honda on July 8 and died on July 25 at Seton, the complaint states. He was 80 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They noticed a quick decline, and he died really quickly after,” Stebner said, adding that Pham required assistance for just about every aspect of daily living. “There are laws and regulations that say what exactly is to be done if someone is transferred and we alleged they did not prepare him for this. If people with dementia are moved, even to a different building, they can go downhill immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stebner’s firm initially filed three lawsuits alleging that transfer trauma led to wrongful death after the hospital began transferring patients. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent weekday afternoon, about 15 people sat in a circle in a light-filled room above the Sutter Health emergency room in San Francisco. Facing one another, they each held a packet containing music and lyrics of songs from the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, they began singing the Beatles classic, “Here Comes the Sun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, they paused. Some needed help turning the page or finding the lyrics. Others hummed while waiting to rejoin the group. No one rushed them. After a moment, they began again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a month at Sutter Health’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving/giving-opportunities/neuroscience/ray-dolby-brain-health-center\">Brain Health Center\u003c/a> in San Francisco, people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of cognitive decline gather alongside their caregivers, spouses and friends to sing together — part of a growing effort to support patients living with memory loss beyond medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the Alzheimer’s Association \u003ca href=\"https://www.alz.org/getmedia/4e2d7fc8-0a5e-4e03-858b-0c106f07d8f0/california-cog-brfss-fact-sheet.pdf\">reports\u003c/a> that one in 10 adults age 45 and older experiences confusion or memory loss. Research shows\u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9796133/\"> music can help\u003c/a> people with conditions like Alzheimer’s and dementia as a complement to medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071051\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012326_SINGINGHEALTH_GH_012-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071051\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012326_SINGINGHEALTH_GH_012-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012326_SINGINGHEALTH_GH_012-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012326_SINGINGHEALTH_GH_012-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012326_SINGINGHEALTH_GH_012-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Debellis passes a tambourine to Pat Ronzone during a Music Mends Minds group singing event hosted by Sutter’s Ray Dolby Brain Health Center at CPMC’s Davies Campus in San Francisco on Jan. 23, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:21dea527-cdcd-4f55-8ee5-ea73036142bc\">“Music Mends Minds” sessions at Sutter Health\u003c/a>, which are free to join, are led by Pat Ronzone and Joe Debellis, a married musical duo who have performed together since 2009. Ronzone now lives with cognitive decline, and Debellis has watched participants, including his wife, benefit from the singing circles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Music is a different circuit from memory,” said Debellis. “People who don’t remember my name are able to take to music, and it seems to be incorporated not just in the speech side of the brain but throughout the whole being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He notices something else happen when the group sings together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trying to decide who was memory-impaired and a caregiver, when singing, it’s just not obvious,” said Debellis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This program that uses music to supplement medical care was the brainchild of cognitive neurologist Dr. Armen Moughamian. With Alzheimer’s, where brain function is lost over time, medications can slow progression of the disease, explained Moughamian, but primarily in early stages. By the time Alzheimer’s reaches its later stages, many patients no longer qualify for medical treatments, making music an approach that can offer relief at any stage of the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of literature supporting non-medication ways to help patients manage the disease,” Moughamian explained. “And one aspect of that is building community, bringing patients together and using music.”[aside postID=news_12058091 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00140_TV-KQED.jpg']The goal, he said, is not restoring memory, but rather improving quality of life for people in all stages of cognitive decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When language gets affected, people struggle to communicate, but music can transcend language,” said Moughamian, “It becomes a way of communicating and it calms people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And music can help surface memories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group was singing “King of the Road” when Lauri Musumeche, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s three years ago, became overcome with emotion. The melody reminded her of her 98-year-old father, who used to play the harmonica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He did play [this song] for me one time, so it makes me want to cry,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her friend Kandy Jones drove her from Livermore to attend, and has witnessed music prompting recall outside these sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll say a phrase from a song and she immediately starts singing it,” Jones said. “It’s a real trigger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Musumeche, the benefit is emotional as much as cognitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It helps me feel good,” she said. “When you have Alzheimer’s, you’re always kind of sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012326_SINGINGHEALTH_GH_002-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071048\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012326_SINGINGHEALTH_GH_002-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012326_SINGINGHEALTH_GH_002-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012326_SINGINGHEALTH_GH_002-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012326_SINGINGHEALTH_GH_002-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Main, support services coordinator at Sutter’s Ray Dolby Brain Health Center, holds up a song list during a Music Mends Minds group singing event themed “Songs of the ’60s” at CPMC’s Davies Campus in San Francisco on Jan. 23, 2026 \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Jim Hayden, the group helps preserve part of his wife Sandy Noltimier’s identity. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055982/supervisors-proposal-seeks-to-address-housing-death-spiral-in-san-francisco\">infamously slow\u003c/a> building permitting process may be getting faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A city study published Thursday found that between January 2024 and August 2025, the timeline on permit approvals for new housing in San Francisco was cut by half — from an average of 605 days down to around 280 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And permit applications that were filed within that 19-month window had even shorter turnaround times, at 114 days on average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has addressed much of the “low-hanging fruit” to speed up its operation over the last two years, said San Francisco Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, who commissioned the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he said the city still has a backlog of years-old permit applications, and tens of thousands of entitled units without approval to build — issues he said could require a ballot measure to fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re also now getting to this point where, despite all of those changes, we’re still the slowest city to build,” he said. “We have to now take a stab at the harder problems, including Charter reform, to enable us to be able to make those changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, city leaders have lambasted San Francisco’s permitting process as disjointed and archaic. 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In February, his office introduced an online portal that allows people to apply for certain types of permits. The state also passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965492/san-francisco-takes-forever-to-approve-new-housing-california-officials-are-forcing-change\">new laws in 2023\u003c/a> aimed at expediting the application review process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a marked improvement, Mahmood said the process still takes significantly longer than other cities analyzed in the report — including San Diego, where permitting approvals took an average of 134 days, and Austin, Texas, where the same process spanned just 91 days.[aside postID=news_12075043 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/026_KQED_Vallejo_FactoryOS_08062020_qed.jpg']“Yes, we’re getting faster at the ones we’re approving, but there’s still a lot that aren’t even approved,” he said. Mahmood said that the report’s timeline is based on about 740 permits approved in that time, but there’s a backlog of more than 1,300 applications that haven’t yet been issued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those pending applications have been in the pipeline since 2017 — as of Oct. 29, the average number of days that those permits had been awaiting approval was 1,489 days, or more than four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city also needs to allow for more than 80,000 new housing units by 2031, in line with the state’s mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the report, five city departments are involved in approving a permit application, with no single point of contact that oversees applications all the way from filing to permit issuance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, one or more departments start their review process later than others, the report said, causing delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said it can also be complicated for developers to communicate with the many departments and fulfill requests of each of their reviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the ways he’s proposed to ease these problems is by consolidating the number of departments involved in the process. In January, Lurie announced plans to merge the Planning Department, the Department of Building Inspection and Permit Center, an effort he said would “mean better coordination, time and cost savings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11965531 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The TransAmerica Pyramid peeks out behind wooden walls as workers construct two affordable housing developments in San Francisco in February 2020. \u003ccite>(Jessica Christian/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But to achieve that goal, Mahmood said, voters would need to approve reforms to the city’s charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, the charter outlines each department’s responsibilities. Mahmood said the ballot measure he’s considering would move those department responsibilities into the city’s administrative code, giving the Mayor and Board of Supervisors flexibility to restructure the departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That will help to fully realize that vision that the Mayor’s already announced,” he told KQED. Lurie and Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news-mayor-lurie-president-mandelman-launch-effort-to-reform-bloated-outdated-city-charter-improve-services-for-san-franciscans\">launched plans in December\u003c/a> to reform the city’s charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If he chooses to do so, Mahmood will have until June to submit a proposed ordinance, with the support of at least four members of the Board of Supervisors or the Mayor’s office, in time for the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055982/supervisors-proposal-seeks-to-address-housing-death-spiral-in-san-francisco\">infamously slow\u003c/a> building permitting process may be getting faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A city study published Thursday found that between January 2024 and August 2025, the timeline on permit approvals for new housing in San Francisco was cut by half — from an average of 605 days down to around 280 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And permit applications that were filed within that 19-month window had even shorter turnaround times, at 114 days on average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has addressed much of the “low-hanging fruit” to speed up its operation over the last two years, said San Francisco Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, who commissioned the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he said the city still has a backlog of years-old permit applications, and tens of thousands of entitled units without approval to build — issues he said could require a ballot measure to fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re also now getting to this point where, despite all of those changes, we’re still the slowest city to build,” he said. “We have to now take a stab at the harder problems, including Charter reform, to enable us to be able to make those changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, city leaders have lambasted San Francisco’s permitting process as disjointed and archaic. And a state-commissioned report published in 2022 found that San Francisco was the slowest California jurisdiction to approve permit applications for housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051931\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250812-TNDC-UNION-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250812-TNDC-UNION-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250812-TNDC-UNION-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250812-TNDC-UNION-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Bilal Mahmood speaks at an event celebrating the creation of a union by the workers at the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation at Boeddeker Park in San Francisco on Aug. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2024, Mahmood campaigned on cutting red tape that made development in the city challenging — including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055982/supervisors-proposal-seeks-to-address-housing-death-spiral-in-san-francisco\">still-vacant former car wash\u003c/a> lot in his district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie has also focused on improving the city’s buildability, launching his landmark ‘PermitSF’ initiative to centralize the application process last year. In February, his office introduced an online portal that allows people to apply for certain types of permits. The state also passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965492/san-francisco-takes-forever-to-approve-new-housing-california-officials-are-forcing-change\">new laws in 2023\u003c/a> aimed at expediting the application review process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a marked improvement, Mahmood said the process still takes significantly longer than other cities analyzed in the report — including San Diego, where permitting approvals took an average of 134 days, and Austin, Texas, where the same process spanned just 91 days.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Yes, we’re getting faster at the ones we’re approving, but there’s still a lot that aren’t even approved,” he said. Mahmood said that the report’s timeline is based on about 740 permits approved in that time, but there’s a backlog of more than 1,300 applications that haven’t yet been issued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those pending applications have been in the pipeline since 2017 — as of Oct. 29, the average number of days that those permits had been awaiting approval was 1,489 days, or more than four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city also needs to allow for more than 80,000 new housing units by 2031, in line with the state’s mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the report, five city departments are involved in approving a permit application, with no single point of contact that oversees applications all the way from filing to permit issuance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, one or more departments start their review process later than others, the report said, causing delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said it can also be complicated for developers to communicate with the many departments and fulfill requests of each of their reviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the ways he’s proposed to ease these problems is by consolidating the number of departments involved in the process. In January, Lurie announced plans to merge the Planning Department, the Department of Building Inspection and Permit Center, an effort he said would “mean better coordination, time and cost savings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11965531 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The TransAmerica Pyramid peeks out behind wooden walls as workers construct two affordable housing developments in San Francisco in February 2020. \u003ccite>(Jessica Christian/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But to achieve that goal, Mahmood said, voters would need to approve reforms to the city’s charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, the charter outlines each department’s responsibilities. Mahmood said the ballot measure he’s considering would move those department responsibilities into the city’s administrative code, giving the Mayor and Board of Supervisors flexibility to restructure the departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That will help to fully realize that vision that the Mayor’s already announced,” he told KQED. Lurie and Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news-mayor-lurie-president-mandelman-launch-effort-to-reform-bloated-outdated-city-charter-improve-services-for-san-franciscans\">launched plans in December\u003c/a> to reform the city’s charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If he chooses to do so, Mahmood will have until June to submit a proposed ordinance, with the support of at least four members of the Board of Supervisors or the Mayor’s office, in time for the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 67 is Muni’s most delayed bus line, snaking through the hills along Alemany Boulevard and Bernal Heights, ending at the 24th and Mission BART station. However unreliable it can be, it still serves an estimated 800 daily riders. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But as SFMTA faces a budget deficit of more than $300 million in July, the 67 and other bus lines are at risk of disappearing if voters don’t approve \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074874/amid-bid-to-save-bay-area-transit-muni-gets-a-campaign-of-its-own\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ballot measures to fund transit this November.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073883/its-san-franciscos-most-delayed-bus-for-riders-a-frustrating-problem-may-get-worse\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s San Francisco’s Most Delayed Bus. For Riders, a Frustrating Problem May Get Worse\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074874/amid-bid-to-save-bay-area-transit-muni-gets-a-campaign-of-its-own\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amid Bid to Save Bay Area Transit, Muni Gets a Campaign of Its Own\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC3063602055&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:00] I’m Ericka Cruz-Gavara and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. Bay Area transit agencies have drawn up nightmare scenarios if they can’t get enough money to help them close their budget deficits. Those nightmare scenarios include the elimination of the red and green BART lines, no BART or Muni after 9 p.m., and, if you can even imagine it, a San Francisco without cable cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:00:35] If that money isn’t raised, then we could see some really big changes to service in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:43] SFMTA, which is the agency that runs Muni, says it could cut entire bus lines if voters don’t approve ballot measures to fund transit this November. And even though some of those lines aren’t used by a ton of people, cutting them will impact entire neighborhoods. Today, we take you aboard one such bus line in San Francisco, Muni’s most delayed bus to meet the riders who rely on it every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:01:24] People actually call the 67 a rollercoaster because it goes over so many hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:32] Elize Manoukian is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:01:36] It starts at Alemany and then just climbs up to the top of Bernal Heights Park. Beautiful park, has a view of the whole bay and a great view of downtown San Francisco. And then it sort of snakes its way down to 24th Street Mission and then back again. You can ride the whole loop in 25 minutes. It’s also visually kind of funny, it’s only 30 feet long, like about half of a normal bus. It’s diesel powered, because they really have to be chugging up those hills. One of the passengers I talked to for this story, he told me that he puts his backpack on top of his knees so that in case he slides into the seat in front of him, he has a little cushion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:26] And who is riding this bus?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:02:28] It serves a pretty diverse swath of neighborhood residents, everyone from the people who live at the Alemany Apartments, which is a affordable housing complex. It also climbs up through the Bernal Heights hilly neighborhood, which has a lot of single-family homes, a lot of wealthier tech residents in the city. I see a lot of kids take it to school. It serves Paul Revere Elementary and a couple other schools in the mission in Bernal Heights. And then of course it serves the people who live in the Mission right by 24th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:06] And is it often like a crowded bus? Are people like standing on this roller coaster?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:03:11] Not really. It’s quite, it can get a little busy during the morning commute, but it only gets about 800 riders per day, which is down from half before the pandemic. That’s a pretty low volume route. You know, some of the busses, like the 38, will serve up to 25,000 people a day. It’s a smaller neighborhood route that connects people from neighborhood to neighborhood, as opposed to taking them straight to downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:40] And you are someone who frequently uses this bus, is that right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:03:43] Yeah, I’m right off of Courtland Street, and so I take it to get to 24th Street BART all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:51] Just besides the fact that you ride it, what is so special about the 67? Why did you want to focus on this particular bus line in your reporting?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:04:00] Well, I agree. I think it is a very magical line, but yeah, it also is the most delayed bus in San Francisco, which I learned one day when I was trying to take it to BART so I could go see my friend in Oakland on Valentine’s Day. And it never came. And it made me wonder, like, is this a common experience? And I found out that one in 67’s will depart very late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gil Diaz \u003c/strong>[00:04:27] So if I miss one bus, I could be waiting 20, 30 minutes for the next one, maybe longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:04:33] I also talked to a guy named Gil Diaz. He also rides the 67 and he gets on at the same stop as me and he takes it to 24th Street and then goes to work from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gil Diaz \u003c/strong>[00:04:44] I just noticed that there’s a gap between pickups. Yeah, I get that anxiety. Like, oh, every minute’s counting because it’s going to affect the next bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:04:54] You know, the bus runs every 20 minutes, so if one doesn’t come or one is very delayed, then you can be waiting like almost an hour for it to show up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:04] That’s the worst feeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:05:05] I know, especially on a cold San Francisco chilly day, you know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:08] Totally. And then what do you do if you miss the bus? Like what are your options?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:05:17] You know, there’s always another bus, luckily Muni is really well connected, but you can end up taking a completely different route, having to travel to different corners of the city to get to where you need to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:28] Going up and down those hills on foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:05:30] That’s true, you can always take the “chevro-legs” and just climb up the hill, climb up to the top of Bernal Heights and climb down, which is really a workout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:41] I mean, why is this particular line the most delayed bus in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:05:48] So I asked SFMTA the same question, and it really does have to do with the steep grades of the route, the very sharp turns that it has to make as it snakes around the Bernal Heights Hill and around these very narrow streets and neighborhoods. I asked if it had to do with a Muni operator shortage or a vehicle shortage, and they told me that there wasn’t one at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:17] A lot of people still rely on the 67, it sounds like, but it could actually also go away, right? Can you explain the sort of looming threats to SFMTA and also lines like the 67?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:06:31] So like other transit agencies in the Bay, the SFMTA is in trouble. It’s facing a more than $300 million deficit starting in July. And that number is only projected to grow over the next couple of years because of things like rising costs and lower fare revenue since the pandemic. So the SFMTA, they’re looking at a lot of different scenarios to help them work through this. One of them is a parcel tax on the ballot in November. There’s also a second regional tax that people across the Bay Area can vote on. Part of the revenue raised by that sales tax will go to fund Muni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:16] As well as BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:07:19] Exactly. AC Transit, among others. But, you know, that’s all hypothetical at this point. If that money isn’t raised, then we could see some really big changes to service in San Francisco. And one of the proposed changes would be cutting the 67, which, yeah, like I said, serves a really hilly community and there is no parallel line and 11 other lines like it which also serve hilly neighborhoods, could also be impacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:51] Is SFMTA doing to try and prove that it is still worth funding? I mean, with these ballot measures going before voters, I imagine they want to make a good case that they’re worth keeping around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:08:07] Definitely. And I will say, the SFMTA actually just released its ridership survey for the year, and it got really, really high reviews from San Francisco residents. I think it was something like 78% said that they had good or excellent experiences with Muni. So I think that people are happy with the service that they’re getting for the most part. But they’re also trying some kind of interesting things, too, to improve their service, especially since the pandemic, when a lot of lines were cut pretty much overnight, but some people still needed to get around the city. So one thing that they did was switch their busier lines, like the 38, the 22, and the 1, they switched those busier lines over to a system that’s called headway. So instead of operating on traditional bus schedules, they switched to intervals. They really focused on making sure that busses were spaced out evenly instead of adhering to a strict schedule. So instead if your bus coming right at 3 p.m., your bus would come every 10 minutes or every five minutes for some of these busier lines. And they said that they were getting really positive feedback from that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brent Jones \u003c/strong>[00:09:26] The whole idea is to stay flexible and nimble and be able to adjust our service with the actual customer needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:09:34] Brent Jones is the director of transit for SFMTA. He’s been with the agency for nearly three decades. And he was there when they decided to make this switch over from a schedule-based system for the busier lines over to this thing that’s called headway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brent Jones \u003c/strong>[00:09:51] So what we found was that we had less issues with people being upset about their vehicle being late as opposed to, hey, but even if I see it pulling off, I know another one will be there within 10 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:05] Yeah, I feel like that is something that would help me as someone who’s not really always interested in checking which bus I should take. It’s good to just show up to a bus stop and know that if there’s not one there, there will at least be one in 10 minutes or less, essentially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:10:22] Yeah, you know that it’s going to come and that you’re not going to see like three busses bunched up and then one doesn’t come for half an hour. It’s going be more regular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:31] And so is this happening with the 67 as well?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:10:36] No, it’s not. Because the 67 is a smaller line and it comes every 20 minutes, it doesn’t make sense for the agency to make this change for all of its busses in circulation. So about half of them are still on schedules and then half of the have switched over to this kind of experimental system. 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Those nightmare scenarios include the elimination of the red and green BART lines, no BART or Muni after 9 p.m., and, if you can even imagine it, a San Francisco without cable cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:00:35] If that money isn’t raised, then we could see some really big changes to service in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:43] SFMTA, which is the agency that runs Muni, says it could cut entire bus lines if voters don’t approve ballot measures to fund transit this November. And even though some of those lines aren’t used by a ton of people, cutting them will impact entire neighborhoods. Today, we take you aboard one such bus line in San Francisco, Muni’s most delayed bus to meet the riders who rely on it every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:01:24] People actually call the 67 a rollercoaster because it goes over so many hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:32] Elize Manoukian is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:01:36] It starts at Alemany and then just climbs up to the top of Bernal Heights Park. Beautiful park, has a view of the whole bay and a great view of downtown San Francisco. And then it sort of snakes its way down to 24th Street Mission and then back again. You can ride the whole loop in 25 minutes. It’s also visually kind of funny, it’s only 30 feet long, like about half of a normal bus. It’s diesel powered, because they really have to be chugging up those hills. One of the passengers I talked to for this story, he told me that he puts his backpack on top of his knees so that in case he slides into the seat in front of him, he has a little cushion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:26] And who is riding this bus?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:02:28] It serves a pretty diverse swath of neighborhood residents, everyone from the people who live at the Alemany Apartments, which is a affordable housing complex. It also climbs up through the Bernal Heights hilly neighborhood, which has a lot of single-family homes, a lot of wealthier tech residents in the city. I see a lot of kids take it to school. It serves Paul Revere Elementary and a couple other schools in the mission in Bernal Heights. 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It’s a smaller neighborhood route that connects people from neighborhood to neighborhood, as opposed to taking them straight to downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:40] And you are someone who frequently uses this bus, is that right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:03:43] Yeah, I’m right off of Courtland Street, and so I take it to get to 24th Street BART all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:51] Just besides the fact that you ride it, what is so special about the 67? Why did you want to focus on this particular bus line in your reporting?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:04:00] Well, I agree. I think it is a very magical line, but yeah, it also is the most delayed bus in San Francisco, which I learned one day when I was trying to take it to BART so I could go see my friend in Oakland on Valentine’s Day. And it never came. And it made me wonder, like, is this a common experience? And I found out that one in 67’s will depart very late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gil Diaz \u003c/strong>[00:04:27] So if I miss one bus, I could be waiting 20, 30 minutes for the next one, maybe longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:04:33] I also talked to a guy named Gil Diaz. He also rides the 67 and he gets on at the same stop as me and he takes it to 24th Street and then goes to work from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gil Diaz \u003c/strong>[00:04:44] I just noticed that there’s a gap between pickups. Yeah, I get that anxiety. 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So instead of operating on traditional bus schedules, they switched to intervals. They really focused on making sure that busses were spaced out evenly instead of adhering to a strict schedule. So instead if your bus coming right at 3 p.m., your bus would come every 10 minutes or every five minutes for some of these busier lines. And they said that they were getting really positive feedback from that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brent Jones \u003c/strong>[00:09:26] The whole idea is to stay flexible and nimble and be able to adjust our service with the actual customer needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elize Manoukian \u003c/strong>[00:09:34] Brent Jones is the director of transit for SFMTA. He’s been with the agency for nearly three decades. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s the Year of the Fire Horse, and the Bay Area will be celebrating with a long-standing tradition: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027348/san-francisco-celebrates-the-lunar-new-year-with-iconic-chinatown-parade\">the Chinese New Year Parade\u003c/a> in San Francisco on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many different cultures observe \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/lunar-new-year\">Lunar New Year\u003c/a>, and this year is the Year of the Fire Horse, representing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/02/16/nx-s1-5713534/on-the-streets-of-beijing-many-wish-for-economic-stability-this-lunar-new-year\">action, risk-taking\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.elle.com/uk/horoscopes/a70327986/year-of-the-fire-horse/\">even financial positivity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Past Fire Horse years \u003ca href=\"https://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/social_customs/zodiac/horse.htm\">include\u003c/a> 1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002 and 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(And for some fun further reading, take a look at how \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/04/harry-potter-draco-malfoy-mascot-year-of-horse-china\">Harry Potter’s Draco Malfoy character\u003c/a> has somehow become a Year of the Horse \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/abc/status/2024084429493170330?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">meme mascot for 2026\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s Parade Grand Marshall will be San Francisco-born \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DU3W3fjiG-O/\">Eileen Gu\u003c/a>, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072038/2026-winter-olympics-how-to-watch-bay-area-athletes-tahoe-figure-skating-skiing-snowboarding-cortina\">Olympic gold medalist and freestyle skier.\u003c/a> The parade is always free, so you should expect large crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027359\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Fireworks are seen above a string of red lanterns.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fireworks go off in Chinatown during the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for what to know about the San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade this weekend, including the parade route map and street closures that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For timely updates, you can follow the Chinese New Year Festival and Parade’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/chineseparade/\">official social media pages\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/faq/\">website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhatstheSanFranciscoChineseNewYearparaderoute\"> What’s the San Francisco Chinese New Year parade route?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Whatstreetswillbeclosedfortheparade\"> What streets will be closed for the parade?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhatstheSanFranciscoChineseNewYearparaderoute\">\u003c/a>What is the San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade route?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The parade starts at 5:15 p.m. on Saturday, March 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/faq/\">route\u003c/a> begins at Second and Market streets, goes around Union Square and ends at Kearny Street and Columbus Avenue. The total route is around 1.3 miles long.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Do I need tickets to the San Francisco Chinese New Year parade?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The parade is \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/faq/\">a free event\u003c/a>. However, if you want to sit on the bleachers, you’ll need paid tickets to be assigned a specific section (but not a specific seat).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are four bleacher sections, each on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Washington and Jackson streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>California and Sacramento streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Kearny and Grant streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Stockton and Powell streets\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Tickets range from $45 to $75, and \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/tickets/\">can be bought online\u003c/a> for email delivery. The more expensive options include a gift bag. Bleacher seating is \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/tickets/\">free for children under two\u003c/a>, as long as they are sitting on the lap of a caregiver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers suggest that if you buy tickets, you’ll need to check in and be seated early on Saturday, close to 4 p.m., to be ready for the start of the parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977013\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11977013\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240224-ChineseNYParade-60-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240224-ChineseNYParade-60-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240224-ChineseNYParade-60-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240224-ChineseNYParade-60-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240224-ChineseNYParade-60-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240224-ChineseNYParade-60-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fireworks go off at the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All sections of the bleachers will have wheelchair seating, but you will need a ticket regardless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you need accessible spaces, you will also need a ticket. Portable restrooms will be available near the bleachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Whatstreetswillbeclosedfortheparade\">\u003c/a>How can I get to the San Francisco Chinese New Year parade? Are there street closures?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chinese New Year Parade organizers \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/transportation/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">strongly encourage public transportation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and all Muni rides (except for cable cars) will be \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/free-muni-march-7-chinese-new-year-parade-learn-details\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">free that day\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you are driving, there will \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/free-muni-march-7-chinese-new-year-parade-learn-details\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">also be street closures\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> around the area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you’d like an idea of what to expect, last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024779/2025-san-francisco-chinese-new-year-parade-map-route-closures-events\">the following areas\u003c/a> were closed:[aside postID=arts_13986607 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_037-KQED.jpg']\u003cstrong>From 2 p.m. to around 9:30 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli> 2nd Street between Market and Mission streets\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From 3 p.m. to around 9:30 p.m\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Market Street between 2nd and Geary streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Geary Street between Market and Powell streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Powell Street between Geary and Post streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Post Street between Kearny and Powell streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Kearny Street between Geary and Pacific streets.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/project-updates/chinese-new-year-parade-service-alert\">the 2025 SFMTA guidance\u003c/a>, the easiest way to get to the parade is through the Market Street Subway at Montgomery Station, near the beginning of the parade. However, SFMTA also recommends using nearby Powell Station, “just a few blocks from where the Parade goes around Union Square,” which is the transfer point between the Central Subway and the Market Street Subway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/free-muni-march-7-chinese-new-year-parade-learn-details\">The bus routes to the parade\u003c/a> are 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 14, 14R, 15, 30, 31, 38R and 45. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(And for some fun further reading, take a look at how \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/04/harry-potter-draco-malfoy-mascot-year-of-horse-china\">Harry Potter’s Draco Malfoy character\u003c/a> has somehow become a Year of the Horse \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/abc/status/2024084429493170330?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">meme mascot for 2026\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s Parade Grand Marshall will be San Francisco-born \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DU3W3fjiG-O/\">Eileen Gu\u003c/a>, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072038/2026-winter-olympics-how-to-watch-bay-area-athletes-tahoe-figure-skating-skiing-snowboarding-cortina\">Olympic gold medalist and freestyle skier.\u003c/a> The parade is always free, so you should expect large crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027359\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Fireworks are seen above a string of red lanterns.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fireworks go off in Chinatown during the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for what to know about the San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade this weekend, including the parade route map and street closures that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For timely updates, you can follow the Chinese New Year Festival and Parade’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/chineseparade/\">official social media pages\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/faq/\">website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhatstheSanFranciscoChineseNewYearparaderoute\"> What’s the San Francisco Chinese New Year parade route?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Whatstreetswillbeclosedfortheparade\"> What streets will be closed for the parade?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhatstheSanFranciscoChineseNewYearparaderoute\">\u003c/a>What is the San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade route?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The parade starts at 5:15 p.m. on Saturday, March 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/faq/\">route\u003c/a> begins at Second and Market streets, goes around Union Square and ends at Kearny Street and Columbus Avenue. The total route is around 1.3 miles long.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Do I need tickets to the San Francisco Chinese New Year parade?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The parade is \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/faq/\">a free event\u003c/a>. However, if you want to sit on the bleachers, you’ll need paid tickets to be assigned a specific section (but not a specific seat).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are four bleacher sections, each on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Washington and Jackson streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>California and Sacramento streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Kearny and Grant streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Stockton and Powell streets\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Tickets range from $45 to $75, and \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/tickets/\">can be bought online\u003c/a> for email delivery. The more expensive options include a gift bag. 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