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I didn't expect to be worried about anything, and wasn't really. But the care that the patients were getting was pretty spotty in the hospital. I think that was one of the things that led Cliff and the others to really put together the nursing unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Morrison:\u003c/strong> In my experience, in already what had been seen and what I was hearing from the specialists around us with the information that was coming out, was that I wasn't at risk providing care to people by touching people. And everybody around us was saying, \"Oh you're just being cavalier. This is really not what you should be doing, and you're giving the wrong message.\" And our response always was, \"We're giving the right message.\" So we were dealing with a lot of hysteria and misinformation and just outright discrimination, I think, very early on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On expanding the hospital's family and visitors' policy for Ward 5B\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Morrison:\u003c/strong> We also noticed right away ... that we needed to really look at issues around family and visitation, because healthcare was very rigid and was really stuck on this whole idea [regarding] visiting hours that it could only be immediate family. Most of our patients didn't have family around. ... We almost immediately began talking about, in all of these regular meetings and sessions that we had, that maybe we needed to start letting our patients tell us who their family was, and that we needed to kind of move away from this whole idea of traditional family and biological family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Volberding:\u003c/strong> I think that the patients were so sick—and they were so in need of support — that the idea of visiting hours and keeping people away didn't make sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Morrison: \u003c/strong>There were times when they were alone in their rooms and they always needed something. They were very anxious. It not only made them more comfortable, it made our lives a lot easier having people that were there in the rooms most of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the bond that existed among 5B staff members\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Volberding: \u003c/strong>It was a family. The physicians, the staff and the clinic and in the inpatient unit—we all worked so closely together because those were our patients. As physicians, those were our patients. And we were on the unit every day seeing our patients, and it was, again, a very special group of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how the homophobia of the time influenced patient care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112569\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-112569\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/cliff_morrison-31d31b26f723b22c4c3edae6109665e9077ccb9a-800x600.jpe\" alt=\"Appalled by the way patients with AIDS were being treated by hospital personnel, nurse Cliff Morrison decided to create a dedicated unit within SF General that would emphasize compassionate care.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/cliff_morrison-31d31b26f723b22c4c3edae6109665e9077ccb9a-800x600.jpe 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/cliff_morrison-31d31b26f723b22c4c3edae6109665e9077ccb9a-160x120.jpe 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/cliff_morrison-31d31b26f723b22c4c3edae6109665e9077ccb9a-768x576.jpe 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/cliff_morrison-31d31b26f723b22c4c3edae6109665e9077ccb9a-1020x765.jpe 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/cliff_morrison-31d31b26f723b22c4c3edae6109665e9077ccb9a-1200x900.jpe 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/cliff_morrison-31d31b26f723b22c4c3edae6109665e9077ccb9a.jpe 1511w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Appalled by the way patients with AIDS were being treated by hospital personnel, nurse Cliff Morrison decided to create a dedicated unit within SF General that would emphasize compassionate care. \u003ccite>(Verizon Media)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Morrison: \u003c/strong>That was, I think, probably the most glaring reality of the situation. Even in San Francisco—which, even at that time was considered the gay mecca—gay people had very established careers and homes and families, and yet all of that started coming apart. And it really was centered around homophobia. There were people in the hospital that should have known better. ... There was a group of nurses that basically said that what we were doing was crazy and that we were putting all of them at risk. It went before the labor board—but that was all homophobia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the evolution of AIDS treatment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Volberding:\u003c/strong> In 1987 we began to have some drugs that were doing something. ... And then, by 1996, the so-called triple therapy was developed and that was really a turning point in the epidemic. We could suddenly start seeing some of our patients actually get better—not just die more slowly, but actually get better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some of those people are still alive today. The effort since '96 has been to take those potent drugs and make them less toxic and more convenient. Today, we treat this very typically with what we call \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4296592/\">single tab regimens\u003c/a>—one pill taken once a day that contains two, three or even four drugs—all in the same pill. Many of my patients don't have any side effects at all from the medicines they're taking. The change from the early days, and seeing the drugs being developed, and now seeing that this is truly a chronic condition is, I think, one of the most amazing stories we'll ever hear from in medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Amy Salit and Mooj Zadie produced and edited the audio of this interview. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Deborah Franklin adapted it for the Web.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cfar.ucsf.edu/people/paul-volberding\">Dr. Paul Volberding\u003c/a> was a doctor on Ward 5B and went on to co-create an AIDS clinic at the hospital, which was one of the first in the country. He emphasizes how critically ill the patients on the unit were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These were people that were really, sometimes literally, dying when they came into the hospital, so whatever we could do to make them more comfortable was really important,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work on 5B was emotionally draining, and death was a constant reality. Still, Volberding describes his time there as a \"blessing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The care that patients were getting was really special and very different than the rest of the hospital,\" he says. \"It was always a complete privilege to do this work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morrison adds, \"I had some really wonderful experiences with people in their passing, and they taught me a great deal. It really put in perspective the fact that life is on a continuum, and death is just part of that continuum. I saw people have beautiful deaths, and that was wonderful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Interview highlights\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how everyone who came into the hospital with the virus in the early 1980s died\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Volberding:\u003c/strong> I don't think most people can understand today how devastating a disease AIDS was back in those days. ... It's just impossible to appreciate that HIV, if it's untreated, kills essentially 100 percent of the people. It's much worse than \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/tags/147820238/ebola\">Ebola\u003c/a>, much worse than smallpox. So, everyone died. Every patient that was sick enough to come to us to look for medical care would die from this disease. And people knew that there was a lot of education to be done, but they knew that this was a really bad situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how they didn't know if what they were seeing was infectious when the first patients came in with the rare cancer, Kaposi's sarcoma, which ended up being one of the symptoms of the as-yet-unknown AIDS virus\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112568\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-112568\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/volberding_custom-f293e3227c8627ea60036b96d678fd3887a96f27-800x892.jpg\" alt='\"It was always a complete privilege to do this work,\" Dr. Paul Volberding says of treating patients on 5B.' width=\"800\" height=\"892\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/volberding_custom-f293e3227c8627ea60036b96d678fd3887a96f27-800x892.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/volberding_custom-f293e3227c8627ea60036b96d678fd3887a96f27-160x178.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/volberding_custom-f293e3227c8627ea60036b96d678fd3887a96f27-768x857.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/volberding_custom-f293e3227c8627ea60036b96d678fd3887a96f27-1020x1138.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/volberding_custom-f293e3227c8627ea60036b96d678fd3887a96f27-1076x1200.jpg 1076w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/volberding_custom-f293e3227c8627ea60036b96d678fd3887a96f27-1920x2141.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/volberding_custom-f293e3227c8627ea60036b96d678fd3887a96f27.jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"It was always a complete privilege to do this work,\" Dr. Paul Volberding says of treating patients on 5B. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Paul Volberding)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Volberding:\u003c/strong> I wasn't worried about catching anything from the patients because that's not what I expected in taking care of cancer patients. I didn't expect to be worried about anything, and wasn't really. But the care that the patients were getting was pretty spotty in the hospital. I think that was one of the things that led Cliff and the others to really put together the nursing unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Morrison:\u003c/strong> In my experience, in already what had been seen and what I was hearing from the specialists around us with the information that was coming out, was that I wasn't at risk providing care to people by touching people. And everybody around us was saying, \"Oh you're just being cavalier. This is really not what you should be doing, and you're giving the wrong message.\" And our response always was, \"We're giving the right message.\" So we were dealing with a lot of hysteria and misinformation and just outright discrimination, I think, very early on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On expanding the hospital's family and visitors' policy for Ward 5B\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Morrison:\u003c/strong> We also noticed right away ... that we needed to really look at issues around family and visitation, because healthcare was very rigid and was really stuck on this whole idea [regarding] visiting hours that it could only be immediate family. Most of our patients didn't have family around. ... We almost immediately began talking about, in all of these regular meetings and sessions that we had, that maybe we needed to start letting our patients tell us who their family was, and that we needed to kind of move away from this whole idea of traditional family and biological family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Volberding:\u003c/strong> I think that the patients were so sick—and they were so in need of support — that the idea of visiting hours and keeping people away didn't make sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Morrison: \u003c/strong>There were times when they were alone in their rooms and they always needed something. They were very anxious. It not only made them more comfortable, it made our lives a lot easier having people that were there in the rooms most of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the bond that existed among 5B staff members\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Volberding: \u003c/strong>It was a family. The physicians, the staff and the clinic and in the inpatient unit—we all worked so closely together because those were our patients. As physicians, those were our patients. And we were on the unit every day seeing our patients, and it was, again, a very special group of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how the homophobia of the time influenced patient care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112569\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-112569\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/cliff_morrison-31d31b26f723b22c4c3edae6109665e9077ccb9a-800x600.jpe\" alt=\"Appalled by the way patients with AIDS were being treated by hospital personnel, nurse Cliff Morrison decided to create a dedicated unit within SF General that would emphasize compassionate care.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/cliff_morrison-31d31b26f723b22c4c3edae6109665e9077ccb9a-800x600.jpe 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/cliff_morrison-31d31b26f723b22c4c3edae6109665e9077ccb9a-160x120.jpe 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/cliff_morrison-31d31b26f723b22c4c3edae6109665e9077ccb9a-768x576.jpe 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/cliff_morrison-31d31b26f723b22c4c3edae6109665e9077ccb9a-1020x765.jpe 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/cliff_morrison-31d31b26f723b22c4c3edae6109665e9077ccb9a-1200x900.jpe 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/cliff_morrison-31d31b26f723b22c4c3edae6109665e9077ccb9a.jpe 1511w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Appalled by the way patients with AIDS were being treated by hospital personnel, nurse Cliff Morrison decided to create a dedicated unit within SF General that would emphasize compassionate care. \u003ccite>(Verizon Media)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Morrison: \u003c/strong>That was, I think, probably the most glaring reality of the situation. Even in San Francisco—which, even at that time was considered the gay mecca—gay people had very established careers and homes and families, and yet all of that started coming apart. And it really was centered around homophobia. There were people in the hospital that should have known better. ... There was a group of nurses that basically said that what we were doing was crazy and that we were putting all of them at risk. It went before the labor board—but that was all homophobia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the evolution of AIDS treatment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Volberding:\u003c/strong> In 1987 we began to have some drugs that were doing something. ... And then, by 1996, the so-called triple therapy was developed and that was really a turning point in the epidemic. We could suddenly start seeing some of our patients actually get better—not just die more slowly, but actually get better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some of those people are still alive today. The effort since '96 has been to take those potent drugs and make them less toxic and more convenient. Today, we treat this very typically with what we call \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4296592/\">single tab regimens\u003c/a>—one pill taken once a day that contains two, three or even four drugs—all in the same pill. Many of my patients don't have any side effects at all from the medicines they're taking. The change from the early days, and seeing the drugs being developed, and now seeing that this is truly a chronic condition is, I think, one of the most amazing stories we'll ever hear from in medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The people in charge of \u003cem>Bob's Burgers\u003c/em> have denied it repeatedly. “We set it firmly in the Northeast because of the way Linda sounds, and Teddy,” show creator \u003ca href=\"https://ew.com/article/2012/08/17/bobs-burgers-interview-bouchard-benjamin/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Loren Bouchard told \u003cem>Entertainment Weekly\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. \"Because it’s this seaside, past-its-prime, dusty old town, we kind of felt like that puts it pretty close to those Coney Island, New York-New Jersey shore parts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For anyone living in Northern California, though, much about \u003cem>Bob's Burgers\u003c/em> screams Bay Area. Let us count the ways...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Bob's Restaurant Is From The Mission\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-111683 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/11114b7feaafb4e955ca276dd0b581f5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/11114b7feaafb4e955ca276dd0b581f5.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/11114b7feaafb4e955ca276dd0b581f5-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No other city in the country has buildings that look like this. Bouchard admits that the show \"has all that Victorian architecture from San Francisco because I was living there when we developed the show.\" SF-based artist and illustrator Sirron Norris (you probably know him via the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/102978/a-guide-to-san-francisco-murals-and-the-artists-who-make-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blue teddy bears\u003c/a> he paints all over the city) was the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sirronnorris.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lead artist\u003c/a> on \u003cem>Bob's Burgers\u003c/em>, and says the show's restaurant was directly lifted \u003ca href=\"https://hoodline.com/2016/11/bob-s-burgers-mural-at-rhea-s-cafe-pays-homage-to-show-s-sf-roots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">from the Mission District\u003c/a>: \"Loren lived on 20th. The house he used to live in is the model for the restaurant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Mr. Fischoeder Lives In The Winchester Mystery House\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111684\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-111684\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/capture37-800x450.png\" alt='A scene from \"The Oeder Games.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/capture37-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/capture37-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/capture37-768x432.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/capture37-1020x573.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/capture37.png 1082w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from \"The Oeder Games.\" \u003ccite>('Bob's Burgers'/FOX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's a simplified version, of course, but Mr. Fischoeder's elaborate estate—seen in detail in Season 5's \"The Oeder Games\"—is clearly, from the huge porch to the turrets on either side, based on San Jose's \u003ca href=\"https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/\">Winchester Mystery House\u003c/a>. With the main colorful structure and its accompanying weird treehouse and manicured grounds, the Belchers' landlord lives in a creation that could've come directly from the minds of Sarah Winchester and her mediums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The Neighborhood Is Very LGBTQ-Friendly\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111688\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-111688\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/vy43sop2cg621-800x369.jpg\" alt=\"It's not a party in 'Bob's Burgers' until Marshmallow shows up.\" width=\"800\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/vy43sop2cg621-800x369.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/vy43sop2cg621-160x74.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/vy43sop2cg621-768x355.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/vy43sop2cg621-1020x471.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/vy43sop2cg621-1200x554.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/vy43sop2cg621-1920x887.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/vy43sop2cg621.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It's not a party in 'Bob's Burgers' until Marshmallow shows up. \u003ccite>('Bob's Burgers'/FOX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A full list of all the LGBTQ-friendly moments in \u003cem>Bob's Burgers\u003c/em> could fill its own article, but it's fair to say that the nightlife around the Wonder Wharf (which has a bar called The Bear Trap) is welcoming to the LGBTQ community on a San Francisco level. There's the time Bob befriended \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttw3ZN4sx6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a \"fabulous\" trio\u003c/a> while driving a cab, and the time the drag queen Cleavage To Beaver performed what's essentially a disco version of \"Born This Way\" at a Christmas party. Best of all, there's \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_6ua-PGWPk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marshmallow\u003c/a>—a trans sex worker who befriends the Belchers and is treated like just any other gal in the neighborhood. The world of \u003cem>Bob's Burgers\u003c/em> never discriminates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>This Blatant Reference To The \u003ca href=\"https://www.boomboomroom.com/\">Boom Boom Room\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-111909\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-17-at-9.18.46-PM-800x449.png\" alt=\"From Season 2's "Food Truckin'" episode.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-17-at-9.18.46-PM-800x449.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-17-at-9.18.46-PM-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-17-at-9.18.46-PM-768x431.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-17-at-9.18.46-PM-1020x572.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-17-at-9.18.46-PM-1200x673.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-17-at-9.18.46-PM.png 1358w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Season 2's \"Food Truckin'\" episode. \u003ccite>('Bob's Burgers'/FOX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Season 2, Bob takes his burgers on the road with a food truck. When he's out finding drunk people to feed, he ends up... here. Its name's similarity to \u003ca href=\"https://www.boomboomroom.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the venerable blues club in the Fillmore\u003c/a> can't be a coincidence. Fun fact! The liquor store next to The Womb Womb Room is named after \u003cem>Bob's Burgers\u003c/em> Supervising Director, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/derriman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernard Derriman\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jimmy Pesto Is The Image Of Huey Lewis\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112038\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-112038\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/huey-jimmy-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"Jimmy Pesto is basically Huey Lewis in cartoon form.\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/huey-jimmy-800x400.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/huey-jimmy-160x80.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/huey-jimmy-768x384.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/huey-jimmy-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/huey-jimmy-1200x600.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/huey-jimmy-1920x960.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/huey-jimmy.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jimmy Pesto is basically Huey Lewis in cartoon form.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One is a San Francisco musical treasure. The other is an Italian restaurant-owning bully. But Huey Lewis and Jimmy Pesto bear all the same physical features, from their identical haircuts and soulful eyebrows down to their irresistibly dimpled chins. This has always felt like a conscious decision on the part of the animators, but Season 9 really hammered the point home. First, in \"Nightmare on Ocean Avenue Street,\" the kids trick-or-treat in a store titled \"Shoe-y Lewis and the Shoes.\" Then, in \"Bob Your Pardon,\" a nosy reporter utters the immortal phrase: \"Well, somebody better call Huey Lewis, because I may have found myself some news...\" That is, indeed, the power of love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>There's A Bay To Breakers Episode\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts2KV7AzlsQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's an exchange between the Belchers about the annual \"Bog to Beach\" parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Linda:\u003c/strong> “All the free spirits out on the street having a blast... You drink a lot, you wear crazy costumes.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Tina:\u003c/strong> “And some people don’t wear costumes, or \u003cem>anything\u003c/em>. Sun’s out, buns out, am I right?”\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Bob:\u003c/strong> “It gets a little out of control. People pee everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that's not a description of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_to_Breakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay to Breakers\u003c/a>, then Tina isn't in love with Jimmy Jr.'s butt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The Wharf Arts Center Is Clearly In San Jose\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 602px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-111691\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-07-at-3.28.22-PM.png\" alt=\"The Wharf Arts Center in 'Bob's Burgers.'\" width=\"602\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-07-at-3.28.22-PM.png 602w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-07-at-3.28.22-PM-160x90.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wharf Arts Center in 'Bob's Burgers.' \u003ccite>('Bob's Burgers'/FOX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Wharf Arts Center (or \"War! 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Mr. Fischoeder Lives In The Winchester Mystery House\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111684\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-111684\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/capture37-800x450.png\" alt='A scene from \"The Oeder Games.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/capture37-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/capture37-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/capture37-768x432.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/capture37-1020x573.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/capture37.png 1082w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from \"The Oeder Games.\" \u003ccite>('Bob's Burgers'/FOX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's a simplified version, of course, but Mr. Fischoeder's elaborate estate—seen in detail in Season 5's \"The Oeder Games\"—is clearly, from the huge porch to the turrets on either side, based on San Jose's \u003ca href=\"https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/\">Winchester Mystery House\u003c/a>. With the main colorful structure and its accompanying weird treehouse and manicured grounds, the Belchers' landlord lives in a creation that could've come directly from the minds of Sarah Winchester and her mediums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The Neighborhood Is Very LGBTQ-Friendly\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111688\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-111688\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/vy43sop2cg621-800x369.jpg\" alt=\"It's not a party in 'Bob's Burgers' until Marshmallow shows up.\" width=\"800\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/vy43sop2cg621-800x369.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/vy43sop2cg621-160x74.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/vy43sop2cg621-768x355.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/vy43sop2cg621-1020x471.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/vy43sop2cg621-1200x554.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/vy43sop2cg621-1920x887.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/vy43sop2cg621.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It's not a party in 'Bob's Burgers' until Marshmallow shows up. \u003ccite>('Bob's Burgers'/FOX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A full list of all the LGBTQ-friendly moments in \u003cem>Bob's Burgers\u003c/em> could fill its own article, but it's fair to say that the nightlife around the Wonder Wharf (which has a bar called The Bear Trap) is welcoming to the LGBTQ community on a San Francisco level. There's the time Bob befriended \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttw3ZN4sx6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a \"fabulous\" trio\u003c/a> while driving a cab, and the time the drag queen Cleavage To Beaver performed what's essentially a disco version of \"Born This Way\" at a Christmas party. Best of all, there's \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_6ua-PGWPk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marshmallow\u003c/a>—a trans sex worker who befriends the Belchers and is treated like just any other gal in the neighborhood. The world of \u003cem>Bob's Burgers\u003c/em> never discriminates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>This Blatant Reference To The \u003ca href=\"https://www.boomboomroom.com/\">Boom Boom Room\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-111909\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-17-at-9.18.46-PM-800x449.png\" alt=\"From Season 2's "Food Truckin'" episode.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-17-at-9.18.46-PM-800x449.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-17-at-9.18.46-PM-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-17-at-9.18.46-PM-768x431.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-17-at-9.18.46-PM-1020x572.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-17-at-9.18.46-PM-1200x673.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-17-at-9.18.46-PM.png 1358w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Season 2's \"Food Truckin'\" episode. \u003ccite>('Bob's Burgers'/FOX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Season 2, Bob takes his burgers on the road with a food truck. When he's out finding drunk people to feed, he ends up... here. Its name's similarity to \u003ca href=\"https://www.boomboomroom.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the venerable blues club in the Fillmore\u003c/a> can't be a coincidence. Fun fact! The liquor store next to The Womb Womb Room is named after \u003cem>Bob's Burgers\u003c/em> Supervising Director, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/derriman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernard Derriman\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jimmy Pesto Is The Image Of Huey Lewis\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112038\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-112038\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/huey-jimmy-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"Jimmy Pesto is basically Huey Lewis in cartoon form.\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/huey-jimmy-800x400.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/huey-jimmy-160x80.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/huey-jimmy-768x384.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/huey-jimmy-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/huey-jimmy-1200x600.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/huey-jimmy-1920x960.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/huey-jimmy.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jimmy Pesto is basically Huey Lewis in cartoon form.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One is a San Francisco musical treasure. The other is an Italian restaurant-owning bully. But Huey Lewis and Jimmy Pesto bear all the same physical features, from their identical haircuts and soulful eyebrows down to their irresistibly dimpled chins. This has always felt like a conscious decision on the part of the animators, but Season 9 really hammered the point home. First, in \"Nightmare on Ocean Avenue Street,\" the kids trick-or-treat in a store titled \"Shoe-y Lewis and the Shoes.\" Then, in \"Bob Your Pardon,\" a nosy reporter utters the immortal phrase: \"Well, somebody better call Huey Lewis, because I may have found myself some news...\" That is, indeed, the power of love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>There's A Bay To Breakers Episode\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ts2KV7AzlsQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ts2KV7AzlsQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Here's an exchange between the Belchers about the annual \"Bog to Beach\" parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Linda:\u003c/strong> “All the free spirits out on the street having a blast... You drink a lot, you wear crazy costumes.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Tina:\u003c/strong> “And some people don’t wear costumes, or \u003cem>anything\u003c/em>. Sun’s out, buns out, am I right?”\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Bob:\u003c/strong> “It gets a little out of control. People pee everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that's not a description of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_to_Breakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay to Breakers\u003c/a>, then Tina isn't in love with Jimmy Jr.'s butt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The Wharf Arts Center Is Clearly In San Jose\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 602px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-111691\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-07-at-3.28.22-PM.png\" alt=\"The Wharf Arts Center in 'Bob's Burgers.'\" width=\"602\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-07-at-3.28.22-PM.png 602w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-07-at-3.28.22-PM-160x90.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wharf Arts Center in 'Bob's Burgers.' \u003ccite>('Bob's Burgers'/FOX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Wharf Arts Center (or \"War! Farts!\" if you're Gene) just so happens to be almost identical to the distinctive exterior of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Jose's Center For Performing Arts\u003c/a>. Clearly no accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Linda Worries About Earthquakes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-111959\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/maxresdefault-1-800x450.jpg\" alt='Linda, Bob and Gene try to rescue Louise in \"The Belchies.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/maxresdefault-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/maxresdefault-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/maxresdefault-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/maxresdefault-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/maxresdefault-1-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/maxresdefault-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linda, Bob and Gene try to rescue Louise in \"The Belchies.\" \u003ccite>('Bob's Burgers'/FOX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Season 2, \u003cem>Bob's Burgers\u003c/em> spoofed \u003cem>The Goonies\u003c/em> with an episode titled \"The Belchies.\" As Bob and Linda rush to rescue their treasure-hunting children from the old taffy factory in town, contractors begin to demolish it. While rubble falls around them, Linda exclaims \"Maybe it's an earthquake!\" That response is infinitely more San Francisco than New Jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We'll leave you with the best thing about that episode: \"Taffy Butt\"—Cyndi Lauper's parody of her very own \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxLhytQ67fs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"Goonies 'R' Good Enough\"\u003c/a> hit, complete with Jimmy Jr. doing the warehouse routine from \u003cem>Footloose\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/8qSQDKYivHk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/8qSQDKYivHk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the above is conclusive proof that, while \u003cem>Bob's Burgers\u003c/em> may be officially on the East Coast, it definitely left its heart in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In 2014, after Armistead Maupin released the final book in his \u003cem>Tales of the City\u003c/em> series, KQED Pop's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/10814/armistead-maupin-on-saying-goodbye-to-san-francisco-and-tales-of-the-city\">Tony Bravo wrote\u003c/a>, \"There's something melancholy yet appropriate about Maupin choosing to end his series at this particular point in the city's history; the San Francisco of the nearly 40 years of the series is changing rapidly and radically.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech domination and socio-economic inequality might dominate San Francisco's 2019 reality, but in the latest TV adaptation of Maupin's \u003cem>Tales\u003c/em>, the focus remains primarily on community, acceptance and the families we choose for ourselves. The trailer alone is a reminder of what a special haven the city has historically been—and still is in many ways. As Maupin himself once wrote: \"The worst of times in San Francisco was still better than the best of times somewhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IUSCVH61xw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here then, is everything you need to know about \u003cem>Tales of the City\u003c/em> before the latest installment hits Netflix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The Birth Of The Books Was A Happy Accident\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roots of Maupin's \u003cem>Tales\u003c/em> column started in the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle \u003c/em>after he attempted to write a 1976 article about the Marina Safeway. It was, at the time, a well-known pick-up joint every Wednesday night, but when Maupin failed to find any singles willing to talk honestly about what they were doing at the supermarket, he decided to transform the story into fiction. Maupin quickly made a deal with his editors that allowed him to write about gay characters too; they said as long as the gay characters only made up a third of the cast, it was okay. The community was impossible to keep out. As Maupin himself wrote: “In this town, the love that dare not speak its name never shuts up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Maupin Loved San Francisco Before He Even Lived In It\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-112022\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-21-at-4.22.09-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-21-at-4.22.09-PM.png 302w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-21-at-4.22.09-PM-160x201.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">Originally hailing from Raleigh, North Carolina, the author's father was a Confederate flag-owning segregation supporter. Maupin did two tours of duty in the Navy, the bulk of which was spent working as a communications officer in Vietnam. (He returned there to build houses for disabled veterans after the war. ) The process of leaving the Navy in 1970 required Maupin to go to Treasure Island. “I stood there and looked at the city,\" he recalled. \"That extraordinary white vision rising above the blue water... [I] used to fantasize about living there… It wasn’t until several years later that I realized the dream could come true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Tales\u003c/em> Helped People Come Out\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbg6Ge0FqCI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beautiful coming out letter that Michael wrote to his Anita Bryant-supporting parents in the original \u003cem>Tales of the City\u003c/em> book is based on Maupin’s own to his conservative parents. Others, including a caller to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101870505/armistead-maupin-and-laura-linney-share-new-tales-of-the-city\">KQED's \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> last April, have since used it as a blueprint to come out to their own families. It reads in part:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"If you and Papa are responsible for the way I am, then I thank you with all my heart, for it's the light and the joy of my life... Being gay has taught me tolerance, compassion and humility. It has shown me the limitless possibilities of living. It has given me people whose passion and kindness and sensitivity have provided a constant source of strength. It has brought me into the family of man, Mama, and I like it here. I like it.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>It Was A Major Step Forward For Trans Visibility\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Maupin was permitted to introduce gay characters six weeks into writing his column, he was firmly prohibited from revealing Anna Madrigal's trans status for an entire year, \"or else we'd scare off the readers.\" That delay mattered little in the grand scheme of things. In a 1992\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0kGn5xK6OY\"> BBC \u003cem>Arena\u003c/em> documentary\u003c/a>, Kate Bornstein, a transgender woman living in San Francisco, expressed how much \u003cem>Tales\u003c/em> meant to her growing up, saying, “I thought, if a city can accept a transexual character drawn with so much love, there is some hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maupin, executive producer of the new show, has said that a real trans woman would have been cast in the role of Anna Madrigal if it were being cast for the first time now. “When Olympia did [it] in 1992, no one else would touch it,\" Laura Linney confirmed on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>. \"And what she was able to do for the trans community then is something that had not been done before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>28 Barbary Lane is Still in Russian Hill\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though 28 Barbary Lane is a fictitious address, it's based on the real-life Macondray Lane in Russian Hill, described in 1978's \u003cem>Tales Of The City\u003c/em> thusly:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The house was on Barbary Lane, a narrow, wooded walk-way off Leavenworth between Union and Filbert. It was a well-weathered, three-story structure made of brown shingles. It made Mary Ann think of an old bear with bits of foliage caught in its fur. She liked it instantly.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The First \u003cem>Tales\u003c/em> TV Adaptation Is Now 26 Years Old\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Just as SF residents are prone to revisiting Maupin's \u003cem>Tales\u003c/em> books, Laura Linney and Olivia Dukakis have been doing the same thing with their roles as Mary Ann Singleton and Anna Madrigal respectively, since 1993. At the time of that first adaptation—which also starred a gloriously freewheeling Parker Posey—the series had PBS's highest ever ratings for a drama. It also had the distinction of being one of the first positive portrayals of the LGBTQ community in TV history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOzpSSsJbV8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linney and Dukakis reprised their roles on Showtime in 1998 and 2001. Back in April, Laura Linney told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101870505/armistead-maupin-and-laura-linney-share-new-tales-of-the-city\">\u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>: “There was something about walking back on that set again. Being able to step back into that world, into that house… It goes deep for me now… It means something to me, not just my character now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The New Series Seems To Be Based On 2010's \u003cem>Mary Ann in Autumn\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The darkest of the \u003cem>Tales\u003c/em> books, 1989's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sure_of_You\">\u003cem>Sure of You\u003c/em>\u003c/a> saw Mary Ann leaving San Francisco, her husband and her adopted daughter, Shawna, to pursue a prestigious TV job in New York. In 2010's \u003cem>Mary Ann In Autumn\u003c/em>, she returns to the city in ill-health, reconnecting with the loved ones of her past, including her estranged daughter, who is now a popular sex blogger. Though the Netflix adaptation isn't sticking with the plot exactly—in the book, Shawna was dating a professional clown named Otto; in the series, played by Ellen Page, she is involved with a woman named Claire (Zosia Mamet)—the bare bones probably remain similar. “We’ve hired queer writers to write the story,\" Maupin told \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>, \"and they’ve shared their experiences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tales of the City \u003cem>premieres on Netflix, June 7.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roots of Maupin's \u003cem>Tales\u003c/em> column started in the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle \u003c/em>after he attempted to write a 1976 article about the Marina Safeway. It was, at the time, a well-known pick-up joint every Wednesday night, but when Maupin failed to find any singles willing to talk honestly about what they were doing at the supermarket, he decided to transform the story into fiction. Maupin quickly made a deal with his editors that allowed him to write about gay characters too; they said as long as the gay characters only made up a third of the cast, it was okay. The community was impossible to keep out. As Maupin himself wrote: “In this town, the love that dare not speak its name never shuts up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Maupin Loved San Francisco Before He Even Lived In It\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-112022\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-21-at-4.22.09-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-21-at-4.22.09-PM.png 302w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-21-at-4.22.09-PM-160x201.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">Originally hailing from Raleigh, North Carolina, the author's father was a Confederate flag-owning segregation supporter. Maupin did two tours of duty in the Navy, the bulk of which was spent working as a communications officer in Vietnam. (He returned there to build houses for disabled veterans after the war. ) The process of leaving the Navy in 1970 required Maupin to go to Treasure Island. “I stood there and looked at the city,\" he recalled. \"That extraordinary white vision rising above the blue water... [I] used to fantasize about living there… It wasn’t until several years later that I realized the dream could come true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Tales\u003c/em> Helped People Come Out\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/fbg6Ge0FqCI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/fbg6Ge0FqCI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The beautiful coming out letter that Michael wrote to his Anita Bryant-supporting parents in the original \u003cem>Tales of the City\u003c/em> book is based on Maupin’s own to his conservative parents. Others, including a caller to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101870505/armistead-maupin-and-laura-linney-share-new-tales-of-the-city\">KQED's \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> last April, have since used it as a blueprint to come out to their own families. It reads in part:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"If you and Papa are responsible for the way I am, then I thank you with all my heart, for it's the light and the joy of my life... Being gay has taught me tolerance, compassion and humility. It has shown me the limitless possibilities of living. It has given me people whose passion and kindness and sensitivity have provided a constant source of strength. It has brought me into the family of man, Mama, and I like it here. I like it.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>It Was A Major Step Forward For Trans Visibility\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Maupin was permitted to introduce gay characters six weeks into writing his column, he was firmly prohibited from revealing Anna Madrigal's trans status for an entire year, \"or else we'd scare off the readers.\" That delay mattered little in the grand scheme of things. 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It was a well-weathered, three-story structure made of brown shingles. It made Mary Ann think of an old bear with bits of foliage caught in its fur. She liked it instantly.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The First \u003cem>Tales\u003c/em> TV Adaptation Is Now 26 Years Old\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Just as SF residents are prone to revisiting Maupin's \u003cem>Tales\u003c/em> books, Laura Linney and Olivia Dukakis have been doing the same thing with their roles as Mary Ann Singleton and Anna Madrigal respectively, since 1993. At the time of that first adaptation—which also starred a gloriously freewheeling Parker Posey—the series had PBS's highest ever ratings for a drama. 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Being able to step back into that world, into that house… It goes deep for me now… It means something to me, not just my character now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The New Series Seems To Be Based On 2010's \u003cem>Mary Ann in Autumn\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The darkest of the \u003cem>Tales\u003c/em> books, 1989's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sure_of_You\">\u003cem>Sure of You\u003c/em>\u003c/a> saw Mary Ann leaving San Francisco, her husband and her adopted daughter, Shawna, to pursue a prestigious TV job in New York. In 2010's \u003cem>Mary Ann In Autumn\u003c/em>, she returns to the city in ill-health, reconnecting with the loved ones of her past, including her estranged daughter, who is now a popular sex blogger. Though the Netflix adaptation isn't sticking with the plot exactly—in the book, Shawna was dating a professional clown named Otto; in the series, played by Ellen Page, she is involved with a woman named Claire (Zosia Mamet)—the bare bones probably remain similar. “We’ve hired queer writers to write the story,\" Maupin told \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>, \"and they’ve shared their experiences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Looking for things to do this weekend in the Bay Area? Look no further. Here are four (free!) ideas:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://sfcherryblossom.org/\">Cherry Blossom Festival\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110954\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-110954\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/cherry-blossom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/cherry-blossom.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/cherry-blossom-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/cherry-blossom-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/cherry-blossom-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/cherry-blossom-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/cherry-blossom-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cherry blossom in SF's Japantown \u003ccite>(Alyssa Jeong Perry/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over 220,000 people attend this \u003ca href=\"https://sfcherryblossom.org/2019-schedule-of-events/\">annual two-week festival in SF's Japantown\u003c/a>, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11664055/photos-cherry-blossom-festival-brings-crowds-to-san-franciscos-japantown\">celebrates Japanese and Japanese American culture\u003c/a>. If you’re cool with crowds, you’ll be rewarded with cultural performances, martial arts, live bands and food—lots and lots of food. (Fun fact: San Francisco's Cherry Blossom Festival is the second largest after Washington, D.C.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The festival begins Saturday, April 13, 2019, and continues through Sunday, April 21, 2019.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://sfcherryblossom.org/2019-schedule-of-events/\">\u003cem>Details\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://cuesa.org/event/2019/goat-festival\">CUESA Goat Festival\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110961\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-110961\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/RS36491_adorable-animal-animal-photography-1773181-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/RS36491_adorable-animal-animal-photography-1773181-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/RS36491_adorable-animal-animal-photography-1773181-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/RS36491_adorable-animal-animal-photography-1773181-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/RS36491_adorable-animal-animal-photography-1773181-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/RS36491_adorable-animal-animal-photography-1773181-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/RS36491_adorable-animal-animal-photography-1773181-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goats a-plenty will be at the CUESA Goat Festival \u003ccite>(Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/108241/cuesas-goat-festival-is-april-16-here-are-11-reasons-to-goat-crazy-for-goats\">Back for its tenth year\u003c/a>, CUESA’s \u003ca href=\"https://cuesa.org/event/2019/goat-festival\">perennially-popular Goat Festival\u003c/a> takes over San Francisco’s Ferry Building on the Embarcadero once more. Activities on offer include goat cheese tasting and meeting expert ranchers, but mainly: it’s all about hobnobbing with those goats (even though it looks like formal \u003ca href=\"https://cuesa.org/event/2019/goat-festival\">Goat Petting Tickets have, alas, sold out\u003c/a>). Definitely not just for kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Saturday, April 13, 2019 (9 am - 2 pm)\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://cuesa.org/event/2019/goat-festival\">\u003cem>Details\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://calday.berkeley.edu/\">CAL Day 2019\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110967\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-110967\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/RS36494_ucb_cal_day-122-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/RS36494_ucb_cal_day-122-qut.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/RS36494_ucb_cal_day-122-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/RS36494_ucb_cal_day-122-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/RS36494_ucb_cal_day-122-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/RS36494_ucb_cal_day-122-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cal Day attendees fill the UC Berkeley campus \u003ccite>(Elena Zhukova/ UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://calday.berkeley.edu/\">annual Open House\u003c/a> jamboree isn’t just geared toward prospective students – it’s open to all, including kids and families, and hundreds (seriously) of free events all around the scenic campus. Highlights include \u003ca href=\"https://calday.berkeley.edu/detail.php?eventID=5045\">Cal Men's Tennis vs. Stanford\u003c/a> at Hellman Tennis Complex, \u003ca href=\"https://calday.berkeley.edu/detail.php?eventID=5342\">live psychedelic soul with The Marías\u003c/a> in Memorial Glade, \u003ca href=\"https://calday.berkeley.edu/detail.php?eventID=5487\">a walking tour of the Space Sciences Laboratory\u003c/a> and a fashion lecture on the history of menswear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Saturday, April 13, 2019 (times vary)\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://calday.berkeley.edu/find.shtml\">\u003cem>Details\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://recordstoreday.com/\">Record Store Day\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110956\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1180px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-110956\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/contact-records-cropped-1180x664.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1180\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/contact-records-cropped-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/contact-records-cropped-1180x664-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/contact-records-cropped-1180x664-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/contact-records-cropped-1180x664-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/contact-records-cropped-1180x664-1020x574.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1180px) 100vw, 1180px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contact Records in Oakland: one of many Bay Area stores that will participate in Record Store Day. \u003ccite>( Leeza Arbatman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yes, opinions “differ” among music lovers on whether \u003ca href=\"https://recordstoreday.com/Stores\">Record Store Day\u003c/a> is a good thing for independent vinyl sellers. 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If you’re cool with crowds, you’ll be rewarded with cultural performances, martial arts, live bands and food—lots and lots of food. 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Activities on offer include goat cheese tasting and meeting expert ranchers, but mainly: it’s all about hobnobbing with those goats (even though it looks like formal \u003ca href=\"https://cuesa.org/event/2019/goat-festival\">Goat Petting Tickets have, alas, sold out\u003c/a>). 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"content": "\u003cp>If you're a Millennial, chances are your first forays into adult living happened virtually, via the medium of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yLpvhNfoWA\">The Sims\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. The life simulation gave kids the chance to do grown-up stuff (or take \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/gamers-confess-the-worst-things-theyve-done-on-the-sims-10144138.html\">a walk on the wild side\u003c/a>) without ever leaving the comfort and safety of their bedrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When \u003cem>Sims\u003c/em> voice actor and co-creator of the Simlish language, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0492548/\">Gerri Lawlor\u003c/a>, died on January 28, 2019, the gaming world and \u003cem>Sims\u003c/em> fans felt the loss keenly. Audio director, Robi Kauker, who has worked on \u003cem>The Sims\u003c/em> since its inception, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/in-memory-gerri-lawlor\">said\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Gerri was an amazing improvisational comedienne who brought her enormous personality to the mic. She was one of the funniest people with whom I ever had the opportunity to work. Gerri’s generosity and willingness to try anything is one of my most cherished memories from over twenty years of making \u003cem>The Sims\u003c/em>. It’s something I still lean on and learn from to this day.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>To give you some idea of what Kauker is talking about, here's Lawlor and fellow \u003cem>Sims\u003c/em> actor Stephen Kearin trying not to crack up every 30 seconds while recording Simlish in 2001:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF6JUKIAI-s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, Lawlor's life stretched far beyond the \u003cem>Sims\u003c/em> universe. She came from the world of San Francisco improv and was a Company Player at \u003ca href=\"https://www.improv.org/\">BATS Improv,\u003c/a> where her \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6ZP4GBqT9Q\">performances\u003c/a> and classes were marked by a playful, fearless approach to linguistic and physical comedy. Lawlor also acted in movies like \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0193535/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Suckerfish\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0359954/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_11\">\u003cem>Security\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and provided guest vocals for avant-garde musical outfits like \u003ca href=\"https://www.residents.com/\">The Residents\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlAqlm-k49A&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0tIMoIpQ-1SoKvwM-v_1VoJ3bD20wxbTwB1AYnCfo5DGDJvBdq9crR8fw\">The Sexy Lilliputians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawlor's work was wildly unpredictable but always imbued with joy. There were her alter-egos, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9sN9kBE6ms\">The Piffy\u003c/a> and Piffy Fou, her \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Va4S93PRY&fbclid=IwAR1BFIt5klVJPXFaRkzaiEtrttF-wWp8X8QdIz2l_r_SaBtC6MvTaOXNJ-0\">graceful swing dances\u003c/a> and her appearances alongside drag queens and kings at \u003ca href=\"https://sfoasis.com/\">Oasis\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109324\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 550px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-109324\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM.png\" alt=\"@Heklina / Facebook\" width=\"550\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM.png 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-160x158.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-128x128.png 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">@Heklina / Facebook\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her spare time, Lawlor was a homeless advocate, joining forces with Margaret Cho in 2014 for the \u003cem>Be Robin\u003c/em> campaign, inspired by the passing of Robin Williams. Cho and Lawler put on impromptu musical and comedic \u003ca href=\"https://hoodline.com/2014/11/margaret-cho-kicks-off-homeless-outreach-tour-in-the-haight\">street performances\u003c/a> around San Francisco in order to raise money and collect supplies for the city's homeless population. Lawlor's \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDWCZ5ukgNk\">graphic interpretive dances\u003c/a> of Cho's songs were always a hit with assembled crowds:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fkurt.weitzmann%2Fvideos%2F10158041011045410%2F&show_text=0&width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerri Lawlor left her mark both on the local community and on pop culture in a larger sense. 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There were her alter-egos, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9sN9kBE6ms\">The Piffy\u003c/a> and Piffy Fou, her \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Va4S93PRY&fbclid=IwAR1BFIt5klVJPXFaRkzaiEtrttF-wWp8X8QdIz2l_r_SaBtC6MvTaOXNJ-0\">graceful swing dances\u003c/a> and her appearances alongside drag queens and kings at \u003ca href=\"https://sfoasis.com/\">Oasis\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109324\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 550px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-109324\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM.png\" alt=\"@Heklina / Facebook\" width=\"550\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM.png 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-160x158.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-128x128.png 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">@Heklina / Facebook\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her spare time, Lawlor was a homeless advocate, joining forces with Margaret Cho in 2014 for the \u003cem>Be Robin\u003c/em> campaign, inspired by the passing of Robin Williams. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We promise: This is no fluff piece. Cats are a staple of many independent bookstores, a\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">nd as any bookstore owner will tell you, they're often the ones that \u003cem>truly\u003c/em> run the place.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To celebrate PBS' series\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/series/greatamericanread\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Great American Read\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, which invites viewers like you to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/vote/\">vote for \u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">America’s most beloved novel from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/books/#/\">list of 100\u003c/a>, we traveled around the Bay Area to meet some of these book-loving felines.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Hudson, Borderlands Bookstore\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://borderlands-books.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Borderlands,\u003c/a> a specialty bookshop located in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission district, boasts new and used imports, fan fiction, rare editions, and a cat as unconventional as the bookstore.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_104818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-104818\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Hudson1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Hudson1.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Hudson1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Hudson1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Hudson1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Hudson1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hudson, the bookstore cat of Borderlands \u003ccite>(Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meet Hudson. He's a Sphinx breed, which means he's hairless. Despite his expression,\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> he's surprisingly friendly. Manager Jude Feldman says Hudson is a crowd-pleaser and a draw for Borderlands. \"People stop and stare [at Hudson perching in the window] while passing by on the street. It’s a great way to lure them in.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837775\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837775 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/Hudson2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hudson, the bookstore cat of Borderlands (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If Hudson were an author, who would he be? \"Oscar Wilde,\" says Jude. \"Because he’s a sassy freethinker, yet very lovable.\" Want to see Hudson at Borderlands? Catch him on Valencia while you can; he'll be moving to the Haight when the store relocates sometime \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/books/article/Weekend-booking-Borderlands-Books-open-house-13102154.php\">later this year\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Owen, Aardvark \u003c/b>\u003cb>Books\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">227 Church St, San Francisco, CA \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.aardvarkbookssf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aardvark Books\u003c/a> is a spacious emporium selling new and secondhand books, cards, and newspapers in San Francisco’s Castro District. The store's mascot Owen has been a fixture there for 12 years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837749\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837749 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Owen of Aardvark Books (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"Owen’s the real boss around here,\" says Aardvark employee David. You can usually find him on his favorite chair in the Myth & Folklore section.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837777\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837777 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/Owen2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Owen, the bookstore cat at Aardvark (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If Owen was an author, he'd be Christopher Isherwood, says Aardvark employee Frieda, because he's \"loving, kind, pragmatic and takes life as it comes. Nothing really seems to upset him.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Parrot, Pegasus \u003c/b>\u003cb>Books Downtown\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parrot, the senior cat-in-residence at Downtown Berkeley's \u003ca href=\"https://www.pegasusbookstore.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pegasus Books\u003c/a> may be on the grumpier end of the Bookstore Cat spectrum, but the place just didn't feel complete until she arrived, says employee Sean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837763\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837763 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/681-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parrot of Pegasus Books (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If she were an author, Sean says, \"She would be Doris Lessing: grouchy and strong-willed. Just like Lessing, Parrot gives off the vibe that she too would be nonchalant about winning a Nobel Prize.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837756\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837756 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/900-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parrot, the bookstore cat of Pegasus Books (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although Parrot can be crabby, she has a major fan club among Pegasus' customers; some pay the store a visit just to see her, and Parrot has even received fan mail. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sweetpea & Jack, Copperfield's Books\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">104 W Matheson St, Healdsburg, CA\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837762\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837762 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/791-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"563\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack, one of the bookstore cats at Copperfield's (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What's better than a bookstore with a cat? One with two cats, obviously! Enter Sweetpea and Jack of \u003ca href=\"https://www.copperfieldsbooks.com/healdsburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Copperfield's \u003c/a>in Sonoma County. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both cats were adopted from local shelters at around 9 years old, and are now beloved by customers.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837760\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837760 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/805-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"565\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sweetpea, one of the bookstore cats at Copperfield's (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You'll find Sweetpea, who certainly lives up to her name, front and center, greeting customers at the door. Although she acts young, pawing at your feet as you browse, don’t be fooled: she’s the ripe age of 14 (about 72 in cat years). \"If she were personified as an author,\" employee Cathy says, \"she would be Margaret Mitchell. She thinks she’s tough, but she’s actually sweet.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837748\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837748 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/test3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack of Copperfield's (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her sociable store mate Jack is also a senior citizen at 14, with hobbies that include celebrating customers' birthdays and bullying dogs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837757\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837757 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/809-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack of Copperfield's (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"He’s the real boss, and knows how to show guests great hospitality,\" says Copperfield's employee Emily. (Unless you're a dog.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Emma & Ender, Recycle Bookstore\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">1066 The Alameda, San Jose, CA \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837761\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837761 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/840-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma, one of the bookstore cats at Recycle Bookstore (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This South Bay spot is a used \u003ca href=\"http://recyclebookstore.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bookstore\u003c/a> with an eclectic selection of titles and a labyrinthine layout. It’s easy to miss the two kitties, as they blend in with the books, from witchcraft to folklore.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Emma, a black cat who's the more gregarious of the two, likes to stalk customers in the stacks. If you sit down to skim the first few pages of a book, she might even jump right into your lap. If she were an author, employee Eric says, \"she would be Edith Wharton: prim and proper.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837759\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837759 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/832-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"545\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ender, one of the bookstore cats at Recycle Bookstore (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her store mate Ender was named after the title character of the science fiction novel \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ender’s Game\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for his youthful attitude and energy when he was first adopted. He\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’s mellowed out since then and is the timider of the two. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837751\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837751 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/DSC_0831-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma of Recycle Bookstore (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Why do bookstores often have cats? Recycle employee Eric says that owners used to dread rats chewing the pages of their books so would bring in cats \"as\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a practical way to keep the rats away, a tradition that never really left.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rats or no rats, we think the combination of books and cats is (don't hate us)... purrfect.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more information on PBS's Great American Read, click \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/series/greatamericanread\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104806\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1-160x8.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1-768x40.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1-240x13.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1-375x20.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1-520x27.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Owen, Aardvark \u003c/b>\u003cb>Books\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">227 Church St, San Francisco, CA \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.aardvarkbookssf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aardvark Books\u003c/a> is a spacious emporium selling new and secondhand books, cards, and newspapers in San Francisco’s Castro District. The store's mascot Owen has been a fixture there for 12 years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837749\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837749 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Owen of Aardvark Books (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"Owen’s the real boss around here,\" says Aardvark employee David. You can usually find him on his favorite chair in the Myth & Folklore section.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837777\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837777 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/Owen2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Owen, the bookstore cat at Aardvark (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If Owen was an author, he'd be Christopher Isherwood, says Aardvark employee Frieda, because he's \"loving, kind, pragmatic and takes life as it comes. Nothing really seems to upset him.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Parrot, Pegasus \u003c/b>\u003cb>Books Downtown\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parrot, the senior cat-in-residence at Downtown Berkeley's \u003ca href=\"https://www.pegasusbookstore.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pegasus Books\u003c/a> may be on the grumpier end of the Bookstore Cat spectrum, but the place just didn't feel complete until she arrived, says employee Sean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837763\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837763 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/681-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parrot of Pegasus Books (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If she were an author, Sean says, \"She would be Doris Lessing: grouchy and strong-willed. Just like Lessing, Parrot gives off the vibe that she too would be nonchalant about winning a Nobel Prize.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837756\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837756 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/900-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parrot, the bookstore cat of Pegasus Books (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although Parrot can be crabby, she has a major fan club among Pegasus' customers; some pay the store a visit just to see her, and Parrot has even received fan mail. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sweetpea & Jack, Copperfield's Books\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">104 W Matheson St, Healdsburg, CA\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837762\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837762 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/791-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"563\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack, one of the bookstore cats at Copperfield's (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What's better than a bookstore with a cat? One with two cats, obviously! Enter Sweetpea and Jack of \u003ca href=\"https://www.copperfieldsbooks.com/healdsburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Copperfield's \u003c/a>in Sonoma County. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both cats were adopted from local shelters at around 9 years old, and are now beloved by customers.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837760\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837760 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/805-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"565\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sweetpea, one of the bookstore cats at Copperfield's (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You'll find Sweetpea, who certainly lives up to her name, front and center, greeting customers at the door. Although she acts young, pawing at your feet as you browse, don’t be fooled: she’s the ripe age of 14 (about 72 in cat years). \"If she were personified as an author,\" employee Cathy says, \"she would be Margaret Mitchell. She thinks she’s tough, but she’s actually sweet.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837748\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837748 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/test3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack of Copperfield's (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her sociable store mate Jack is also a senior citizen at 14, with hobbies that include celebrating customers' birthdays and bullying dogs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837757\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837757 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/809-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack of Copperfield's (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"He’s the real boss, and knows how to show guests great hospitality,\" says Copperfield's employee Emily. (Unless you're a dog.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Emma & Ender, Recycle Bookstore\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">1066 The Alameda, San Jose, CA \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837761\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837761 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/840-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma, one of the bookstore cats at Recycle Bookstore (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This South Bay spot is a used \u003ca href=\"http://recyclebookstore.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bookstore\u003c/a> with an eclectic selection of titles and a labyrinthine layout. It’s easy to miss the two kitties, as they blend in with the books, from witchcraft to folklore.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Emma, a black cat who's the more gregarious of the two, likes to stalk customers in the stacks. If you sit down to skim the first few pages of a book, she might even jump right into your lap. If she were an author, employee Eric says, \"she would be Edith Wharton: prim and proper.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837759\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837759 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/832-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"545\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ender, one of the bookstore cats at Recycle Bookstore (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her store mate Ender was named after the title character of the science fiction novel \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ender’s Game\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for his youthful attitude and energy when he was first adopted. He\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’s mellowed out since then and is the timider of the two. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837751\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837751 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/DSC_0831-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma of Recycle Bookstore (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Why do bookstores often have cats? Recycle employee Eric says that owners used to dread rats chewing the pages of their books so would bring in cats \"as\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a practical way to keep the rats away, a tradition that never really left.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rats or no rats, we think the combination of books and cats is (don't hate us)... purrfect.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more information on PBS's Great American Read, click \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/series/greatamericanread\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104806\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1-160x8.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1-768x40.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1-240x13.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1-375x20.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1-520x27.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n 1978, a movie named \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001007/?ref_=tt_cl_t1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Lady of the House\u003c/em>\u003c/a> hit American televisions, carrying with it a story that would be preposterous if it weren’t, in fact, true: hard-bitten brothel madam works her way up to become popular mayor of a small town. This was the life story of the legendary Ms. Sally Stanford, who conquered hardship and a third-grade education with a winning combination of sass and street smarts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in 1903 (with the name Mabel Busby) in Baker County, Oregon, the second of five children, Stanford’s wild spirit showed itself early. She eloped at the age of 16 and ran straight into a life of crime, immediately landing herself in prison for cashing checks that her husband had stolen. During her two-year sentence, she learned the art of bootlegging from fellow prisoners. After her release, she headed to Ventura to open a speakeasy. Once she’d saved enough money, a 21-year-old Stanford made the move to San Francisco, and immediately opened a brothel at 693 O’Farrell St. in the Tenderloin. “Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you,” Stanford wrote in her 1966 autobiography, \u003cem>The Lady of the House\u003c/em>. “Like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University.” [aside postid=arts_13902628]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford’s dazzling confidence, wit, and steadfast ability to keep secrets quickly made her an infamous figure in the city. She was arrested repeatedly, but charges against her rarely stuck — in part because of her friends in high places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The politics of the town were dominated by Mayor Jimmy Rolph,” she wrote in her memoir. “He was a doll, a political dreamboat … Not only did Jimmy do OK, but the rest of us did pretty well too. For if there ever was a live-and-let-live type, it was Mayor Rolph.” She continued: “At this point [in the 1920s], it was easier to come by professional female company in San Francisco than it was to catch a rash in a leper colony.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the early 1930s, Stanford had opened a second bordello in the Tenderloin, this one at 610 Leavenworth. She made such a success of her first two establishments that, by the end of the decade, she had opened four more: 837 Geary, 1526 Franklin, 929 Bush and 1224 Stockton in Chinatown. The madam had no problem finding women who wanted to work for her either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Starving jobless dames? Forget it,” she wrote in her autobiography. “They wanted to have intercourse with men for money … Some were just plain lazy. Others had the strange idea that any activity illicit in nature was glamorous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 4088px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103914\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4088\" height=\"4088\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house.jpg 4088w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-1920x1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4088px) 100vw, 4088px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sally Stanford’s bordello sites.\u003cbr>Top line: 1144 Pine Street (this original house was torn down in 1961), and 693 O’Farrell Street. Bottom line: 610 Leavenworth Street, and the building that once housed the Valhalla Inn.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1941, Stanford added what would become one of her favorite business locations to her roster. Housed inside a mansion built by a prominent businessman for his fourth wife, Stanford’s high-end Nob Hill bordello at 1144 Pine was legendary for the eight years its doors remained open. (Stanford once called it, “the finest and most distinguished pleasure house in the world. Maybe the universe.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Word was, the Pine house and its marble pool were frequented by the most respected politicians and businessmen in the region, as well as visiting dignitaries and celebrities from around the country. Stanford listed the likes of Errol Flynn and Humphrey Bogart as regulars. Stanford eventually 86’d the latter, however, for being in her own words, “a foul-mouthed, pugnacious drunk who came around to badger, belittle and insult the girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banning Bogart was one of the many ways in which Stanford worked to keep her employees happy. “I did my conniving, scheming, defensive best for them,” she later stated. “They did their enticing, seductive, coquettish best for me and the house prospered. For their efforts I gave them 60 percent of the take … They were a lovely set of girls and they contributed quite a bit to the success of the place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103910\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 201px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103910\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-30-at-2.06.39-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-30-at-2.06.39-PM.png 201w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-30-at-2.06.39-PM-160x298.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A matchbook from Sally Stanford’s Valhalla\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n 1949, increasingly harassed by local police and then-\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Stanford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District Attorney, Pat Brown\u003c/a>, Stanford moved to Sausalito and opened a restaurant, appropriately titled Valhalla. While the venue attracted celebrity customers including Marlon Brando, Bing Crosby, and Lucille Ball, and advertised itself as a venue strictly for wining and dining, local rumor and a \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/3787722-former-valhalla-inn-run-by-sausalito-madame-gets-a-new-future/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">red light at the back of the building\u003c/a> suggested otherwise. Thanks to the Bohemian nature of the Bay Area enclave, neighbors adored and supported the inn, regardless. \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/3787722-former-valhalla-inn-run-by-sausalito-madame-gets-a-new-future/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In 2018, a local man told KPIX News\u003c/a>: “She did provide a useful service and a good place to eat, and people appreciate that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford’s good standing in the community, as well as the fact that the local council wouldn’t allow her to install an electric sign on her restaurant, eventually led to Stanford’s political ambitions. A momentous \u003ca href=\"https://outlet.historicimages.com/products/rse47823\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1970 press photo\u003c/a> captures just how far her reputation had come in two decades in Sausalito. The caption reads: “Sally Stanford, nails up sign boosting her candidacy… in this upper middle class… suburb. Lamenting ‘a general breakdown in morals,’ the retired madam of San Francisco’s best known bordello is running for city council — with the support of local women’s clubs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took Stanford \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/02/obituaries/sally-stanford-madam-who-became-a-mayor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">six attempts\u003c/a> to win a seat, but she was dogged in her determination to win, once noting, “We sinners never give up.” Once in office, she successfully held onto her position, and her ongoing popularity led to her being elected mayor in 1976. After her decision to retire in 1980, in a beautiful gesture, the council insisted on naming her “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/02/obituaries/sally-stanford-madam-who-became-a-mayor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vice Mayor For Life.\u003c/a>” [aside postid=arts_13894842]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, there was nothing dull about the life of Sally Stanford. She was married five times and adopted two children, John Owen and Hara “Sharon” Owen, along the way. Stanford had multiple different aliases, lived according to her own moral and social codes and wrote daringly and openly about the secret lives of men. 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Today, a water fountain at the town’s ferry landing still instructs visitors to “Have a drink on Sally.” A second fountain sits lower to the ground, in honor of Stanford’s beloved dog, Leland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford is best remembered for her indomitable spirit and seemingly invincible ability to always come out on top. “If you are being run out of town,” she once said, “get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For stories on other Rebel Girls from Bay Area History, click \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/program/rebel-girls-from-bay-area-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A book celebrating women from the Rebel Girls series, \u003ca href=\"https://citylights.com/politics-current-events-history/unsung-heroines35-women-who-changed/\">‘Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area,’\u003c/a> is available now from City Lights.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Starving jobless dames? Forget it,” she wrote in her autobiography. “They wanted to have intercourse with men for money … Some were just plain lazy. Others had the strange idea that any activity illicit in nature was glamorous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 4088px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103914\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4088\" height=\"4088\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house.jpg 4088w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-1920x1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4088px) 100vw, 4088px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sally Stanford’s bordello sites.\u003cbr>Top line: 1144 Pine Street (this original house was torn down in 1961), and 693 O’Farrell Street. Bottom line: 610 Leavenworth Street, and the building that once housed the Valhalla Inn.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1941, Stanford added what would become one of her favorite business locations to her roster. Housed inside a mansion built by a prominent businessman for his fourth wife, Stanford’s high-end Nob Hill bordello at 1144 Pine was legendary for the eight years its doors remained open. (Stanford once called it, “the finest and most distinguished pleasure house in the world. Maybe the universe.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Word was, the Pine house and its marble pool were frequented by the most respected politicians and businessmen in the region, as well as visiting dignitaries and celebrities from around the country. Stanford listed the likes of Errol Flynn and Humphrey Bogart as regulars. Stanford eventually 86’d the latter, however, for being in her own words, “a foul-mouthed, pugnacious drunk who came around to badger, belittle and insult the girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banning Bogart was one of the many ways in which Stanford worked to keep her employees happy. “I did my conniving, scheming, defensive best for them,” she later stated. “They did their enticing, seductive, coquettish best for me and the house prospered. For their efforts I gave them 60 percent of the take … They were a lovely set of girls and they contributed quite a bit to the success of the place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103910\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 201px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103910\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-30-at-2.06.39-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-30-at-2.06.39-PM.png 201w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-30-at-2.06.39-PM-160x298.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A matchbook from Sally Stanford’s Valhalla\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n 1949, increasingly harassed by local police and then-\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Stanford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District Attorney, Pat Brown\u003c/a>, Stanford moved to Sausalito and opened a restaurant, appropriately titled Valhalla. While the venue attracted celebrity customers including Marlon Brando, Bing Crosby, and Lucille Ball, and advertised itself as a venue strictly for wining and dining, local rumor and a \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/3787722-former-valhalla-inn-run-by-sausalito-madame-gets-a-new-future/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">red light at the back of the building\u003c/a> suggested otherwise. 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Subjects in the piece included a funeral home that refused to dress a three-year-old who had died from AIDS, firemen suddenly wary of performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, and a 13-year-old hemophiliac named Ryan White who was excluded from his Indiana middle school after contracting the virus from a blood transfusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid=’arts_13955066′]\u003cem>Time\u003c/em> reported: “The issue of whether or not AIDS can be transmitted through saliva remains medically unresolved and a focus of fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruth, a San Francisco resident, was acutely aware of these issues. After finding out that a friend of hers who was living with AIDs was also suffering from malnutrition, she took it upon herself to make sure he had regular meals to eat. 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That is, until you get to the last lines and it’s impossible not to let out a laugh:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When i make love to you\u003cbr>\ni try\u003cbr>\nwith each stroke of my tongue\u003cbr>\nto say i love you\u003cbr>\nto tease i love you\u003cbr>\nto hammer i love you\u003cbr>\nto melt i love you\u003cbr>\n& your sounds drift down\u003cbr>\noh god!\u003cbr>\noh jesus!\u003cbr>\nand i think—\u003cbr>\nhere it is, some dude’s\u003cbr>\ngetting credit for what\u003cbr>\na woman\u003cbr>\nhas done,\u003cbr>\nagain.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>By the time “For Willyce” came out, it had been 15 years since Patricia Parker first took a stage in Oakland, armed with a handful of poems and a lot more life experience than many people three times older than her 19 years. In between, she had written and released four groundbreaking poetry collections—1978’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Movement-Black-Pat-Parker/dp/1563411083\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Movement in Black\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Woman-Slaughter-Pat-Parker/dp/0884470164/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1522223909&sr=1-1&keywords=woman+slaughter+pat+parker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Woman Slaughter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, 1975’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Pit-stop-Pat-Parker/dp/B0006EY8PI/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1522223933&sr=1-1&keywords=Pit+Stop+pat+parker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Pit Stop, \u003c/em>\u003c/a>and 1972’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Child-myself-Pat-Parker/dp/B0006W6G3W/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1522223963&sr=1-1&keywords=Child+of+Myself+pat+parker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Child of Myself\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>She would go on to release one more, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Jonestown-Other-Madness-Pat-Parker/dp/0932379001/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522224766&sr=8-1&keywords=Jonestown+and+Other+Madness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonestown and Other Madness\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>in 1985.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker was born in Houston, Texas on January 20, 1944, and her life was hard from the get-go. 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The boldness of \u003ca href=\"https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/my-lover-woman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“My Lover is a Woman”\u003c/a>—which uses an interracial lesbian relationship as a jumping-off point to talk about racism, poverty, and the prejudice faced by the LGBT community—is still astonishing in 2018. In 1968, hearing it for the first time must have felt like an earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFFTb6Jh5cI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker was outspoken by nature, but found herself even more emboldened by her community. Alongside fellow lesbian feminist poets including \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Grahn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Judy Grahn\u003c/a>, she helped organize regular group poetry readings up and down the West Coast. \u003ca href=\"https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/pat-parker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parker once said\u003c/a> of this crew of innovators: “It was like, pioneering. We were talking to women about women, and, at the same time, letting women know that the experiences they were having were shared by other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker’s activism was at the center of almost everything she did. In addition to her work with lesbian and feminist groups, as well as her early involvement with the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Panther Party,\u003c/a> she formed the Black Women’s Revolutionary Council in 1980, and assisted in the founding of the Women’s Press Collective. In 1985, she worked with the United Nations, traveling with delegations to both Kenya and Ghana, before testifying before the U.N. about the status of women in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QDGssMWpoU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It should come as no surprise that Parker’s day job was as the director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/07/18586732.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Feminist Women’s Health Center.\u003c/a> She worked there for a decade, resigning only when terminal illness forced her to in 1988. Parker died in Oakland after a battle with breast cancer, on June 19, 1989 at the age of 45. She was survived by her partner of nine years, Martha “Marty” Dunham, and her daughters Cassidy Brown and Anastasia Jean Dunham-Parker-Brady. It was her children that inspired Parker’s poem, “Legacy (for Anastasia Jean)”—a powerful critique of homophobic ideals around parenting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>There are those who think\u003cbr>\nor perhaps don’t think\u003cbr>\nthat children and lesbians\u003cbr>\ntogether can’t make a family\u003cbr>\nthat we create an extension\u003cbr>\nof perversion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They think\u003cbr>\nor perhaps don’t think\u003cbr>\nthat we have different relationships\u003cbr>\nwith our children\u003cbr>\nthat instead of getting up\u003cbr>\nin the middle of night\u003cbr>\nfor a 2AM and 6AM feeding\u003cbr>\nwe rise up and chant\u003cbr>\n“you’re gonna be a dyke\u003cbr>\nYou’re gonna be a dyke.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That we feed our children\u003cbr>\nLavender Similac\u003cbr>\nand by breathing our air\u003cbr>\nthe children’s genitals distort\u003cbr>\nand they become hermaphrodites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They ask\u003cbr>\n“What will you say to them\u003cbr>\nWhat will you teach them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child\u003cbr>\nThat would be mine\u003cbr>\nI bring you my world\u003cbr>\nand bid it be yours.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Outside of her writing, Parker’s legacy lives on in \u003ca href=\"https://gaycenter.org/community/library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Pat Parker/Vito Russo Center Library\u003c/a> in New York City, as well as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.scholarships4school.com/scholarships/pat-parker-poetry-award.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pat Parker Poetry Award\u003c/a> for black, lesbian, feminist poets. More than that though, her outspoken activism lives on in those that have followed in her footsteps and in the forward strides made in civil and gay rights since her life ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Pat Parker’s devastatingly premature death, her lifelong friend Judy Grahn described the way Parker lived life and overcame challenges, as “go[ing] to the front of the line with a big bad sword in hand and lead[ing] a revolution.” That, she most certainly did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For stories on other Rebel Girls from Bay Area History, click \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/program/rebel-girls-from-bay-area-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A book celebrating women from the Rebel Girls series, \u003ca href=\"https://citylights.com/politics-current-events-history/unsung-heroines35-women-who-changed/\">‘Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area,’\u003c/a> is available now from City Lights.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In 1968, hearing it for the first time must have felt like an earthquake.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/LFFTb6Jh5cI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/LFFTb6Jh5cI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Parker was outspoken by nature, but found herself even more emboldened by her community. Alongside fellow lesbian feminist poets including \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Grahn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Judy Grahn\u003c/a>, she helped organize regular group poetry readings up and down the West Coast. \u003ca href=\"https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/pat-parker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parker once said\u003c/a> of this crew of innovators: “It was like, pioneering. We were talking to women about women, and, at the same time, letting women know that the experiences they were having were shared by other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker’s activism was at the center of almost everything she did. In addition to her work with lesbian and feminist groups, as well as her early involvement with the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Panther Party,\u003c/a> she formed the Black Women’s Revolutionary Council in 1980, and assisted in the founding of the Women’s Press Collective. In 1985, she worked with the United Nations, traveling with delegations to both Kenya and Ghana, before testifying before the U.N. about the status of women in the world.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/7QDGssMWpoU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/7QDGssMWpoU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>It should come as no surprise that Parker’s day job was as the director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/07/18586732.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Feminist Women’s Health Center.\u003c/a> She worked there for a decade, resigning only when terminal illness forced her to in 1988. Parker died in Oakland after a battle with breast cancer, on June 19, 1989 at the age of 45. She was survived by her partner of nine years, Martha “Marty” Dunham, and her daughters Cassidy Brown and Anastasia Jean Dunham-Parker-Brady. It was her children that inspired Parker’s poem, “Legacy (for Anastasia Jean)”—a powerful critique of homophobic ideals around parenting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>There are those who think\u003cbr>\nor perhaps don’t think\u003cbr>\nthat children and lesbians\u003cbr>\ntogether can’t make a family\u003cbr>\nthat we create an extension\u003cbr>\nof perversion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They think\u003cbr>\nor perhaps don’t think\u003cbr>\nthat we have different relationships\u003cbr>\nwith our children\u003cbr>\nthat instead of getting up\u003cbr>\nin the middle of night\u003cbr>\nfor a 2AM and 6AM feeding\u003cbr>\nwe rise up and chant\u003cbr>\n“you’re gonna be a dyke\u003cbr>\nYou’re gonna be a dyke.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That we feed our children\u003cbr>\nLavender Similac\u003cbr>\nand by breathing our air\u003cbr>\nthe children’s genitals distort\u003cbr>\nand they become hermaphrodites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They ask\u003cbr>\n“What will you say to them\u003cbr>\nWhat will you teach them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child\u003cbr>\nThat would be mine\u003cbr>\nI bring you my world\u003cbr>\nand bid it be yours.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Outside of her writing, Parker’s legacy lives on in \u003ca href=\"https://gaycenter.org/community/library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Pat Parker/Vito Russo Center Library\u003c/a> in New York City, as well as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.scholarships4school.com/scholarships/pat-parker-poetry-award.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pat Parker Poetry Award\u003c/a> for black, lesbian, feminist poets. More than that though, her outspoken activism lives on in those that have followed in her footsteps and in the forward strides made in civil and gay rights since her life ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Pat Parker’s devastatingly premature death, her lifelong friend Judy Grahn described the way Parker lived life and overcame challenges, as “go[ing] to the front of the line with a big bad sword in hand and lead[ing] a revolution.” That, she most certainly did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For stories on other Rebel Girls from Bay Area History, click \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/program/rebel-girls-from-bay-area-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A book celebrating women from the Rebel Girls series, \u003ca href=\"https://citylights.com/politics-current-events-history/unsung-heroines35-women-who-changed/\">‘Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area,’\u003c/a> is available now from City Lights.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If a horror movie tried to capture all of the wild occurrences at, and around, San Francisco's Cliff House and Sutro Baths over the years, the end result would be utterly preposterous. Not even the over-killers of \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1844624/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>American Horror Story\u003c/em>\u003c/a> would try to squeeze apparitions, satanists, explosions, dead children, secret cemeteries, disastrous fires, mummies (yes, actual mummies), \u003cem>and\u003c/em> shipwrecks into a single season. Yet this one tiny corner of San Francisco has seen it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A good place to start is the abundance of ghost-sightings reported there—the most famous of which is the forlorn woman who wanders the rocks below the Cliff House. Legend has it, the restless spirit is that of \u003ca href=\"http://paranormalghostsociety.org/SutroBaths.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Natalie Salina Harrison\u003c/a>, who, in life, reportedly waited on the shore in vain for her fiancé to return from World War I. She died broken-hearted, and people have been seeing her ghostly form since 1917. When \u003ca href=\"http://paranormalghostsociety.org/SutroBaths.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Paranormal Ghost Society investigated the area\u003c/a>, they claimed to pick up the sound of weeping on their instruments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103049\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-103049\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An eerie air falls over the Sutro Bath ruins at dusk (Photo: Adam Morse on Unsplash)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across the way, what remains of the Sutro Baths has also had its fair share of ghostly goings-on. The host of \u003ca href=\"http://amyscrypt.com/san-francisco-sutro-baths/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amy's Crypt\u003c/a>, an online paranormal show, picked up a voice recording of someone telling her to “move it” when she searched the area one night. Most investigators are fixated on the tunnel at the Baths, once used to pump sea water into the indoor pools. Not only have inverted pentagrams been found painted in there—suggesting Satanic activity (there have even been \u003ca href=\"https://backpackerverse.com/sutro-baths-ruins/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rumors about human sacrifice\u003c/a>)—legend has it that the spirits of a drowned woman and an older man frequent the spot. Stories say that if you leave a lit candle in the tunnel, the spirit of the woman is summoned, and she throws the candle into the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not just the tunnel that's spooky either. The Baths themselves have been a place of interest for decades. Multiple people have reported seeing Victorian ladies strolling along the beach with parasols, as well as turn-of-the-century bathers hanging around where the seven impressive pools used to be. One of the spirits is rumored to be \u003ca href=\"https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18960709.2.108\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frank Denvin, who died in 1896, at the age of 16,\u003c/a> having fallen head-first from the ladder of a water slide into an empty, cement tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 530px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-103052\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/f793eec73650344205b08ae4812d886d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/f793eec73650344205b08ae4812d886d.jpg 530w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/f793eec73650344205b08ae4812d886d-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/f793eec73650344205b08ae4812d886d-240x152.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/f793eec73650344205b08ae4812d886d-375x237.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/f793eec73650344205b08ae4812d886d-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sutro Baths in their heyday.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mediums have claimed that the area has always been overwhelmed by a strange energy, though none of them can say why. It was six years after he'd purchased the Cliff House, that mining engineer, philanthropist, and Sutro Baths owner Adolph Sutro first got a taste of it. It was then that his ongoing battle to keep his grand property from burning to the ground commenced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On January 13, 1887, a ship named \u003ca href=\"http://www.cliffhouseproject.com/history/parallel/parallel.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parallel ran aground directly beneath the Cliff House.\u003c/a> It wasn't the first shipwreck to land in the region (see also: the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Philip_(clipper)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">King Philip\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Ohioan_(1914)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SS Ohioan,\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_City_of_Rio_de_Janeiro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SS City of Rio De Janeiro, which killed 135 people\u003c/a>), but Parallel distinguished itself by promptly exploding so violently, parts of the schooner were found over a mile away. The blast happened due to the ship's cargo—40 tons of black powder and dynamite—and it took out the Cliff House's north wing entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-103050 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/c4dd8e5eadccec0713044c6ccd4e0d8b-800x497.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/c4dd8e5eadccec0713044c6ccd4e0d8b-800x497.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/c4dd8e5eadccec0713044c6ccd4e0d8b-160x99.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/c4dd8e5eadccec0713044c6ccd4e0d8b-768x477.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/c4dd8e5eadccec0713044c6ccd4e0d8b-1020x634.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/c4dd8e5eadccec0713044c6ccd4e0d8b-1200x746.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/c4dd8e5eadccec0713044c6ccd4e0d8b-1920x1193.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/c4dd8e5eadccec0713044c6ccd4e0d8b-1180x733.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/c4dd8e5eadccec0713044c6ccd4e0d8b-960x597.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/c4dd8e5eadccec0713044c6ccd4e0d8b-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/c4dd8e5eadccec0713044c6ccd4e0d8b-375x233.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/c4dd8e5eadccec0713044c6ccd4e0d8b-520x323.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven years later, on Christmas Day, the Cliff House, which had originally been built by Samuel Brannan in 1858 (using materials salvaged from a shipwreck!) burned down in just 30 minutes, thanks to a chimney fire. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/historyculture/cliff-house.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adolph Sutro subsequently spent $75,000 and two years rebuilding it in epic, Victorian style.\u003c/a> Locals nicknamed the elaborate eight-story structure towering over Ocean Beach, the \"Gingerbread House.\" Then, after all that work, time, and money, it burned down again just 10 years later. It was fire too that ultimately took down the Sutro Baths building in 1966, while the structure was in the midst of being converted into apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who believe in curses might wonder whether Adolph Sutro's persistent fire problem was a result of his penchant for collecting Egyptian artifacts. The Sutro Bath house wasn't simply the greatest indoor swimming facility in the country, it also contained Sutro's extensive taxidermy collection, as well as a museum containing three 3,500-year-old mummified heads, two full-body mummies, a mummified hand, and hundreds of other Egyptian artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the weird energy in the area has undoubtedly not been eased by the fact that most of the land around the Cliff House and Sutro Baths used to be Golden Gate cemetery. In the 1930s, when the Board of Supervisors voted to exhume and move 18,000 dead bodies to Colma, the grisly job was not thoroughly completed. In 1993, hundreds of bodies were discovered in unmarked graves, after the Legion of Honor began a renovation. The assumption now is that beneath \u003ca href=\"http://www.lincolnparkgolfcourse.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lincoln Park Golf Course\u003c/a> and beyond, a great many anonymous dead people lie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most pressing concern for most people visiting the Cliff House and Sutro Baths these days is the potential danger of getting swept out to sea by an errant wave. But all the creepy stories in the world won't halt the area's ongoing popularity with both tourists and locals, thanks to its dramatic scenery and fascinating history. Maybe that's why all those ghosts have stuck around too.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If a horror movie tried to capture all of the wild occurrences at, and around, San Francisco's Cliff House and Sutro Baths over the years, the end result would be utterly preposterous. Not even the over-killers of \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1844624/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>American Horror Story\u003c/em>\u003c/a> would try to squeeze apparitions, satanists, explosions, dead children, secret cemeteries, disastrous fires, mummies (yes, actual mummies), \u003cem>and\u003c/em> shipwrecks into a single season. Yet this one tiny corner of San Francisco has seen it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A good place to start is the abundance of ghost-sightings reported there—the most famous of which is the forlorn woman who wanders the rocks below the Cliff House. Legend has it, the restless spirit is that of \u003ca href=\"http://paranormalghostsociety.org/SutroBaths.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Natalie Salina Harrison\u003c/a>, who, in life, reportedly waited on the shore in vain for her fiancé to return from World War I. She died broken-hearted, and people have been seeing her ghostly form since 1917. When \u003ca href=\"http://paranormalghostsociety.org/SutroBaths.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Paranormal Ghost Society investigated the area\u003c/a>, they claimed to pick up the sound of weeping on their instruments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103049\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-103049\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/adam-morse-95997-unsplash-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An eerie air falls over the Sutro Bath ruins at dusk (Photo: Adam Morse on Unsplash)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across the way, what remains of the Sutro Baths has also had its fair share of ghostly goings-on. The host of \u003ca href=\"http://amyscrypt.com/san-francisco-sutro-baths/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amy's Crypt\u003c/a>, an online paranormal show, picked up a voice recording of someone telling her to “move it” when she searched the area one night. Most investigators are fixated on the tunnel at the Baths, once used to pump sea water into the indoor pools. Not only have inverted pentagrams been found painted in there—suggesting Satanic activity (there have even been \u003ca href=\"https://backpackerverse.com/sutro-baths-ruins/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rumors about human sacrifice\u003c/a>)—legend has it that the spirits of a drowned woman and an older man frequent the spot. Stories say that if you leave a lit candle in the tunnel, the spirit of the woman is summoned, and she throws the candle into the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not just the tunnel that's spooky either. The Baths themselves have been a place of interest for decades. Multiple people have reported seeing Victorian ladies strolling along the beach with parasols, as well as turn-of-the-century bathers hanging around where the seven impressive pools used to be. One of the spirits is rumored to be \u003ca href=\"https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18960709.2.108\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frank Denvin, who died in 1896, at the age of 16,\u003c/a> having fallen head-first from the ladder of a water slide into an empty, cement tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 530px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-103052\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/f793eec73650344205b08ae4812d886d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/f793eec73650344205b08ae4812d886d.jpg 530w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/f793eec73650344205b08ae4812d886d-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/f793eec73650344205b08ae4812d886d-240x152.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/f793eec73650344205b08ae4812d886d-375x237.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/f793eec73650344205b08ae4812d886d-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sutro Baths in their heyday.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mediums have claimed that the area has always been overwhelmed by a strange energy, though none of them can say why. It was six years after he'd purchased the Cliff House, that mining engineer, philanthropist, and Sutro Baths owner Adolph Sutro first got a taste of it. It was then that his ongoing battle to keep his grand property from burning to the ground commenced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>She was a Danish immigrant who grew up on the rough side of town. She was a scandalous nude model with a reputation. She enjoyed skinny dipping well into old age. And if it wasn’t for this controversial livewire, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/category/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> would have neither the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/legion-of-honor\">Legion of Honor\u003c/a> nor the Maritime Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her name was Alma de Bretteville Spreckels but her more fitting nickname was “Big Alma” — a moniker that captured not only her 6-foot-tall stature, but her outgoing, devil-may-care personality too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alma’s greatest gifts to the city all happened after her 1908 marriage to Adolph Bernard Spreckels, wealthy and successful son of sugar refinery entrepreneur, Claus Spreckels. But Alma was already a local celebrity in her own right by the time she met him in 1902. In no small part because of a gossip-fueled court case earlier that year in which Alma sued a love interest for “breach of promise” — or, as she later put it herself, “personal defloweration” — and won $1,250 in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the court case, Alma was hired by sculptor Robert Ingersoll Aitken to pose as the Goddess of Victory. Robert’s resulting bronze in Alma’s likeness was chosen to sit atop the Dewey Monument in San Francisco’s Union Square. It just so happened that the chairman of the citizens’ committee responsible for picking the winning piece of art for the new landmark was smitten with Alma the moment he laid eyes on her. This fortuitous course of events is how Alma and Adolph first fell in love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102799\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-102799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-508641746-800x1142.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1142\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-508641746-800x1142.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-508641746-160x228.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-508641746-768x1097.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-508641746-1020x1456.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-508641746-840x1200.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-508641746-1920x2741.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-508641746-1180x1685.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-508641746-960x1371.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-508641746-240x343.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-508641746-375x535.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-508641746-520x742.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alma’s likeness sits atop the Dewey Monument as the “Goddess of Victory” in the heart of Union Square. (Photo by Jason Kempin/ Getty Images for Bud Light)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite his being 24 years her senior, Adolph and Alma were a good match. Adolph was in possession of the same anarchic impulses that also drove Alma. He famously shot \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> editor Michael de Young in 1884, after the paper printed a series of unflattering articles about his father. (Adolph was acquitted after he pleaded insanity and self-defense.) Even more significantly, Adolph shared Alma’s generous spirit. He was a man who had persuaded his father to contribute to the construction of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/golden-gate-park\">Golden Gate Park\u003c/a>’s band shell, as well the building of the Dewey Monument. She was a woman who responded to the 1906 earthquake by organizing community kitchens and directing aid trucks to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After they finally tied the knot, Alma and Adolph’s honeymoon involved a trip around the world. Still, Alma took nothing for granted. Legend has it, she coined the term “sugar daddy” to affectionately describe her husband’s generosity, completely unaware that the phrase would live on forever. The phrase’s longevity is fitting. There was nothing temporary about Adolph’s desire to give Alma whatever she wanted. Because of him, Alma finally had access to the wealth, comfort and ability to affect change that she had been striving for her whole life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid=’arts_13894842′]Born in 1881, Alma was raised with four brothers and one sister in San Francisco’s Sunset District, back when it was still known as the “Outside Lands” — a name born from its rugged, sand dune-dominated landscape and sparse population. To make ends meet, Alma’s mom Mathilde transformed the front room of their home into a Danish bakery. Alma’s brothers’ bedroom was sometimes used as a massage studio. Mathilde even laundered other people’s clothes in a Cow Hollow lagoon to make extra money on the side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alma was forced out of school and into work in her early teens, but naturally followed her mother’s industrious example. Alma delivered laundry to the mansions in town. She worked as a stenographer. Her nude modeling later came about because it was the quickest way for her to make good money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After marriage to Adolph, Alma had three children in four years — though she made for a reluctant mother. To accommodate their growing family, in 1913 Adolph finished building Alma her dream mansion at 2080 Washington Street, opposite Lafayette Park. Lavish parties became regular occurrences, though San Francisco’s social elites shunned Alma relentlessly. Instead, she happily hosted fascinating guests including author Jack London, Folies Bergère dancer Loie Fuller, and even the Prince and Princess of Siam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102797\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-102797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/DS-Hedge.jpg-800x266.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/DS-Hedge.jpg-800x266.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/DS-Hedge.jpg-160x53.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/DS-Hedge.jpg-768x255.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/DS-Hedge.jpg-1020x339.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/DS-Hedge.jpg-960x319.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/DS-Hedge.jpg-240x80.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/DS-Hedge.jpg-375x125.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/DS-Hedge.jpg-520x173.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/DS-Hedge.jpg.png 1158w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LEFT: the Spreckels mansion under the care of Alma; RIGHT: Danielle Steel’s massive hedge\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some guests enjoyed Alma more than others. Actress Ina Claire once said: “I liked [Alma]. She was a great old sport. But she was a character. She talked dirty. I’ve seen people get up and walk away from her at dinner tables because she was talking dirty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alma was much more than a mere party girl though. She was consistently focused on using her home for more selfless purposes too. During both world wars, when Alma wasn’t holding high profile charity auctions, fairs and raffles at venues like San Francisco’s Palace Hotel, she did so out of her own home. Alma tirelessly raised money for causes close to her heart — aid for Romania, post-war house-building in France, a milk fund for Belgian orphans. She sent medical supplies and musical instruments to troops overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid=’pop_110017′]During the Second World War, she sent a washing machine to a Navy station when she found out cooks were having to handwash their clothes. Her wartime charitable organization, the League for Servicemen, opened a recreation center for troops. Alma also saw to it that thousands of radios, toiletries, typewriters and athletic supplies were sent to those serving overseas. One Navy commander credited Alma with saving the lives of at least 250 men via her generosity with — and swift delivery of — much-needed medical equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alma’s greatest legacy lies at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor, however. Inspired by the Palais de la Légion d’Honneur in Alma’s beloved Paris, the museum was designed by architect George Applegarth and cost Adolph over a million dollars to build. After much campaigning and socializing, Alma managed to acquire donations of art from Belgium, Romania, Serbia, Poland and France.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those weren’t the only ways the museum had ties to France though. Alma conceptualized and designed The Book of Gold: a record on parchment, written by a calligrapher, of the roughly 3,600 Californian men who died in France during World War I. The book was dedicated to the soldiers’ mothers and put on display at the Legion until 1941, alongside 700 other pieces of art — including Alma’s own precious collection of 31 Auguste Rodin works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102796\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-102796 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-72896021-800x491.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-72896021-800x491.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-72896021-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-72896021-768x471.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-72896021-1020x626.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-72896021-1200x737.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-72896021-1920x1179.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-72896021-1180x724.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-72896021-960x589.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-72896021-240x147.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-72896021-375x230.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-72896021-520x319.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“The Thinker” by Auguste Rodin at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco. The museum also contains work by Picasso, Rembrandt, Degas, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne and more. (Photo by: GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sadly, by the time the museum opened, Alma was mourning just like the mothers she honored. Adolph had died mere months before the Legion’s doors opened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss of Adolph hit Alma hard, but it never stopped her from forging ahead with big ideas. In the late-1930s, Alma became obsessed with the idea of creating a maritime museum for San Francisco. It was a thought that had been brewing in her mind for some time. Speaking to the San Francisco Beautiful Committee in 1937, Alma expressed her desire to see more “centers to house not only maritime collections, but mining, industrial exhibits and other typically California displays in which visitors to the city would be interested.” Alma became a trustee for the new maritime museum, was instrumental in raising money for its founding, and donated important collections to fill its walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid=’arts_13877186′]The end of Alma’s life was significantly quieter than the beginning. After her son died during a bar altercation in 1961, she stopped socializing and retreated to the comforts of her mansion. Not even receiving a Phoebe Hearst Medal from the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> in 1963 brought the former attention-seeker back out of her shell. Alma died in 1968 at the age of 87, of the very same thing that had prompted Adolph’s death 44 years earlier: pneumonia. Her funeral, described by the \u003cem>Examiner\u003c/em> as “perhaps the most opulent in the city’s history,” was held at her beloved Legion of Honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her death, paying tribute to Big Alma, one Honolulu newspaper called her, “The grandest of grande dames — a lady who not only gave generously, but lived in high old style, paddling around in her Roman pool daily, nipping appreciatively at her pitcher of martinis, and always talking straight and dry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was, the obituary noted, “A San Franciscan, true and through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For stories on other Rebel Girls from Bay Area History, click \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/program/rebel-girls-from-bay-area-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A book celebrating women from the Rebel Girls series, \u003ca href=\"https://citylights.com/politics-current-events-history/unsung-heroines35-women-who-changed/\">‘Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area,’\u003c/a> is available now from City Lights.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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