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Joe was 12-years-old when he conducted his first interview in journalism, grilling former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown for the Marina Middle School newspaper, \u003cem>The Penguin Press, \u003c/em>and he continues to report on the San Francisco Bay Area to this day.","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2247beb0564c1e9c62228d5649d2edac?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twitter":"FitztheReporter","facebook":null,"instagram":"https://www.instagram.com/fitzthereporter/","linkedin":null,"sites":[{"site":"","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"arts","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"news","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"science","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"elections","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"liveblog","roles":["editor"]}],"headData":{"title":"Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez | KQED","description":"Reporter and Producer","ogImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2247beb0564c1e9c62228d5649d2edac?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2247beb0564c1e9c62228d5649d2edac?s=600&d=blank&r=g"},"isLoading":false,"link":"/author/jrodriguez"}},"breakingNewsReducer":{},"campaignFinanceReducer":{},"firebase":{"requesting":{},"requested":{},"timestamps":{},"data":{},"ordered":{},"auth":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"authError":null,"profile":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"listeners":{"byId":{},"allIds":[]},"isInitializing":false,"errors":[]},"navBarReducer":{"navBarId":"news","fullView":true,"showPlayer":false},"navMenuReducer":{"menus":[{"key":"menu1","items":[{"name":"News","link":"/","type":"title"},{"name":"Politics","link":"/politics"},{"name":"Science","link":"/science"},{"name":"Education","link":"/educationnews"},{"name":"Housing","link":"/housing"},{"name":"Immigration","link":"/immigration"},{"name":"Criminal Justice","link":"/criminaljustice"},{"name":"Silicon Valley","link":"/siliconvalley"},{"name":"Forum","link":"/forum"},{"name":"The California Report","link":"/californiareport"}]},{"key":"menu2","items":[{"name":"Arts & Culture","link":"/arts","type":"title"},{"name":"Critics’ Picks","link":"/thedolist"},{"name":"Cultural Commentary","link":"/artscommentary"},{"name":"Food & Drink","link":"/food"},{"name":"Bay Area Hip-Hop","link":"/bayareahiphop"},{"name":"Rebel Girls","link":"/rebelgirls"},{"name":"Arts Video","link":"/artsvideos"}]},{"key":"menu3","items":[{"name":"Podcasts","link":"/podcasts","type":"title"},{"name":"Bay Curious","link":"/podcasts/baycurious"},{"name":"Rightnowish","link":"/podcasts/rightnowish"},{"name":"The Bay","link":"/podcasts/thebay"},{"name":"On Our Watch","link":"/podcasts/onourwatch"},{"name":"Mindshift","link":"/podcasts/mindshift"},{"name":"Consider This","link":"/podcasts/considerthis"},{"name":"Political Breakdown","link":"/podcasts/politicalbreakdown"}]},{"key":"menu4","items":[{"name":"Live Radio","link":"/radio","type":"title"},{"name":"TV","link":"/tv","type":"title"},{"name":"Events","link":"/events","type":"title"},{"name":"For Educators","link":"/education","type":"title"},{"name":"Support KQED","link":"/support","type":"title"},{"name":"About","link":"/about","type":"title"},{"name":"Help Center","link":"https://kqed-helpcenter.kqed.org/s","type":"title"}]}]},"pagesReducer":{},"postsReducer":{"stream_live":{"type":"live","id":"stream_live","audioUrl":"https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio","title":"Live Stream","excerpt":"Live Stream information currently unavailable.","link":"/radio","featImg":"","label":{"name":"KQED Live","link":"/"}},"stream_kqedNewscast":{"type":"posts","id":"stream_kqedNewscast","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1","title":"KQED Newscast","featImg":"","label":{"name":"88.5 FM","link":"/"}},"news_11934056":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11934056","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11934056","score":null,"sort":[1670497310000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-transamerica-pyramid-at-50-from-architectural-butchery-to-icon","title":"The Transamerica Pyramid at 50: From 'Architectural Butchery' to Icon","publishDate":1670497310,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The Transamerica Pyramid at 50: From ‘Architectural Butchery’ to Icon | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>The Golden Gate Bridge. The Bay Bridge. Sutro Tower. Coit Tower. Perhaps even (whisper it) the Salesforce Tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to instantly recognizable structures, San Francisco suffers no shortage. But if asked to pick their favorite, many people might go for a classic: the Transamerica Pyramid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pyramid — officially known as the Transamerica Pyramid Center — first opened back in 1972, making it a half-century old this year. At over 850 feet high, back then it was the tallest building San Francisco had ever seen. It has over 3,000 windows, an exterior of white quartz, and an illuminated spire at its very top, like the star on top of a Christmas tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934440\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934440\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Transamerica Pyramid as seen from Pier 7 in San Francisco on Dec. 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Pyramid is no longer the tallest building in San Francisco; that honor now goes to the Salesforce Tower, at 1,070 feet. But even as this building officially turns 50 years old — the same age as \u003cem>The Godfather\u003c/em>, the Honda Civic, Pong, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson — the story of how it came to be might surprise you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because what is now an architectural icon was once quite controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934146\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view from the bottom of the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco before the Pyramid\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Like a pin in a map, the Transamerica Pyramid marks the spot where the communities of Chinatown, North Beach, Telegraph Hill and the Financial District converge. And historically speaking, the Pyramid is built on hallowed ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first half of the 19th century, this area of San Francisco wasn’t several blocks away from the bay, like it is now. It was the Barbary Coast, right on the water. A whaling ship called the Niantic even ran aground here in 1849 after the crew jumped ship to make their fortunes in the gold fields. Like many ships around this time, instead of being removed or torn down, the Niantic was instead absorbed into the fabric of the city: It was retrofitted into a hotel and ultimately became part of the landfill as the city expanded into the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844073\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844073\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10-800x533.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10-1020x680.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of San Francisco looking toward the bay, by Frank Marryat, ca. 1850. \u003ccite>(Library of Congress)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back during the Gold Rush, Montgomery Street was at the center of city life. In 1853, workers constructed a massive building — appropriately known as the Montgomery Block — on the exact spot where the Transamerica Pyramid would later be built. “At the time, it was the tallest building west of the Mississippi at a towering four stories,” said author \u003ca href=\"https://hiyaswanhuyser.wordpress.com/\">Hiya Swanhuyser\u003c/a>, who is currently writing a book about the history of the building. “[It was] built, famously, on a foundation made up of redwood logs interlaced that were floated across the bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Franciscans, Swanhuyser says, even called the Montgomery Block “a floating fortress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many spaces through San Francisco’s history, the Block — and the people inside it — lived many lives. Originally, the space was built to be law offices and a hangout spot for San Francisco’s high society. But when the city’s business folk started to migrate south to Market Street, artists moved in. The Montgomery Block entered its creative era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934444\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934444\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the Montgomery Block in 1856, by photographer G. R. Fardon (1807–1886) \u003ccite>(Google Art Project/Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They were writers and sculptors,” said Swanhuyser, “people who were inventing journalism in the mid-1860s. People like Ambrose Bierce, who, according to some, was America’s first newspaper columnist, and Mark Twain and Bret Harte. And Ina Coolbrith, who was California’s first poet laureate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This area of Montgomery Street was known for its bohemian ways, a scene that attracted freethinkers from near and far. Just a block to the north, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848986/inside-frida-kahlo-and-diego-riveras-life-in-san-francisco\">now-iconic artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera lived and worked here in the 1930s\u003c/a>. But the Montgomery Block’s influence was also ideological, says Swanhuyser, a “hotbed of painters and political people”: \u003ca href=\"http://www.tenderloinmuseum.org/public-programs-2019-1/2019/5/23/the-history-of-the-1934-general-strike\">The massive General Strike of 1934, which shut the city down for four days\u003c/a> and brought class struggles to a head, was organized, in part, right here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lights went out on the Montgomery Block’s creative chapter in 1959. That year, explained Swanhuyser, “a man named S.E. Onorato bought it and tore it down, claiming he was going to make a parking structure.” But Onorato never got to build his parking garage, and the space remained a single parking lot for almost a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the Transamerica Corporation — and the Pyramid — came into the picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934143\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934143\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view from the bottom of the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Path to the Pyramid\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Transamerica is now a financial services company, concerned with insurance and investments. Its story starts back in 1904 with the founding of the Bank of Italy in San Francisco — the brainchild of San José’s A.P. Giannini. That bank would become the Bank of America in the 1930s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transamerica began as the holding company for Giannini’s various financial ventures, which had by then become legion. The original “Transamerica Building” is actually still standing — it’s \u003ca href=\"http://playfoursquare.s3.amazonaws.com/pix/7871784_ficuEsfM_7kskU64jWPZTlip36tZCTyeSNJ1tkepH4A.jpg\">that flatiron-looking building\u003c/a> that forms a junction between Montgomery Street and Columbus Avenue, just across the street from where the Pyramid now stretches into the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’s the San Francisco headquarters of the Church of Scientology, but in 1969, it was home to the corporation that wanted a new headquarters. And it turned out Transamerica wanted to build … a pyramid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corporation had brought in a Los Angeles architect named \u003ca href=\"https://www.laconservancy.org/architects/william-pereira\">William Pereira\u003c/a> who had worked as an art director in Hollywood. His brief was, apparently, to create something that allowed sunlight to filter down to ground level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934144\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934144\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The moon rises near the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pereira envisioned a pyramid more than 850 feet tall, with two wing-like columns running up either side to allow for an elevator shaft on one side and a stairwell on the other. Even with its pyramid structure, it would have a capacity of 763,000 square feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Transamerica Corporation shared the design with the public, the critics hated it. The San Francisco Chronicle’s architecture writer Allan Temko called it “authentic architectural butchery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it wasn’t just local critics. The Washington Post said the Pyramid proposal was “a second-class World’s Fair Space Needle.” Los Angeles Times critic John Pastier called the design “antisocial architecture at its worst,” capturing a broader unease at how Transamerica was trying to smear its corporate vision on San Francisco’s skyline. “Corporations that are far more important to the city have exercised considerably more restraint in their architecture than Transamerica,” wrote Pastier, “which is blatantly attempting to put its ‘brand’ on the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1969, San Franciscans protested against the Pyramid plans in the street, carrying signs that bore slogans like “Corporate Egotism” and “Stop the Shaft.” Some protesters even donned pyramid-shaped dunce hats. (You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/oursf/article/Transamerica-Pyramid-sf-17154748.php\">see more photos from the protests in the San Francisco Chronicle’s archives\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934436\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1539\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image-800x641.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image-1020x818.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image-1536x1231.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors at the old Transamerica Building march against the new Transamerica Pyramid, announced in 1969 and built in 1972, on July 23, 1969. \u003ccite>(Stan Creighton/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those protesters included Hiya Swanhuyser’s mother. “She was a community-minded hippie and she didn’t think that a neighborhood was the right place for a skyscraper,” Swanhuyser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was even a lawsuit filed by nearby residents. At a City Hall hearing about the proposal, an attorney for the Telegraph Hill Dwellers Association spoke for those residents, in language that echoed the burgeoning environmentalism of the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The curse of this country is the worship of material things,” the residents’ attorney told City Hall. “We’ve polluted our rivers, our harbors, and our lakes, and our air — and we’re now about to pollute the skyline of San Francisco, one of its greatest treasures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet at that same hearing, San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto made his support for the Pyramid — and its design — clear. Alioto urged those assembled to acknowledge the subjectivity of taste, proclaiming that the real issue was whether the Pyramid “is so bad that all reasonable men must agree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The design, Alioto said, wasn’t that bad. On the contrary, it would “add considerable interest and beauty to the San Francisco skyline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Planning Commission ultimately signed off. The Pyramid was officially coming to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934148\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934148\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Transamerica Pyramid seen from Montgomery Street in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Darkness and light in a most strange year\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Construction on the Transamerica Pyramid started in 1969. And this was no ordinary year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/zodiac-killer\">The Zodiac Killer\u003c/a> murdered three of his four confirmed victims in 1969, in Vallejo, at Lake Berryessa and, finally, in San Francisco’s Presidio Heights neighborhood. That same year, Bay Area residents would open their morning papers to see strange symbols — ciphers that someone claiming to be the Zodiac Killer sent to the press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was also the summer that \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/manson-cult-kills-five-people\">Charles Manson’s so-called “family” murdered five people in Los Angeles\u003c/a>, co-opting the visual language of the occult in their heinous acts. Then, the very same month construction on the Pyramid began, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-altamont-festival-brings-the-1960s-to-a-violent-end\">Altamont Speedway Free Festival\u003c/a> outside Livermore turned from a celebration of the counterculture into violence, mayhem and murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aUAw9zWi1k\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the backdrop against which San Franciscans were now watching a gigantic, mysterious pyramid start to stretch into the sky: the same ancient symbol that’s loomed large in the worlds of magic, alchemy and superstition for millennia — appearing, that year of all years, between North Beach and Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some may have found it creepy. But Larry Yee, who grew up nearby, remembers it as exciting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee is now president of the historic Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (also known as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Six_Companies\">Chinese Six Companies\u003c/a>), and serves on the San Francisco Police Commission. But back in 1969, growing up in \u003ca href=\"https://landezine-award.com/everyone-deserves-a-garden-ping-yuen-public-housing-rehabilitation/\">Chinatown’s Ping Yuen housing development\u003c/a>, Yee was a basketball-obsessed teen running around this part of the city with his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We challenged ourselves to go into some of these vacant buildings that they developed,” Yee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934393\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1656px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934393\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1656\" height=\"1007\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut.jpg 1656w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut-800x486.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut-1020x620.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut-160x97.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut-1536x934.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1656px) 100vw, 1656px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction progresses at the Transamerica Pyramid Building, on June 3, 1971. \u003ccite>(Joe Rosenthal/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yee recalls how different San Francisco looked before the Pyramid. “Yeah, it was flat!” he said, adding that it was rare to see “buildings like this, that pop up through the skyline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his friends were getting a front-row seat to the construction of San Francisco’s most talked-about landmark, and one of his most enduring memories is of the constant construction noise. Far louder than the rattle of the California Street cable car that ran nearby, Yee said, was workers “pounding down on the pillars: ‘bom, bom, bom, bom.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, he and his friends didn’t even know it was a pyramid being built down the street. They just saw a building being built up, and up … and then up even further, getting narrower. He laughs recalling how he and his friends worried the strange new building “could tip over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee has still kept his enthusiasm for the Transamerica Pyramid, decades after he watched it being built. He likes what it represents, and its place in the visual fabric of the city — and the neighborhood — he’s always called home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is, he says, still “magical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934142\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Transamerica Pyramid can be seen reflected in the front window of a 1 California Muni bus in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The more things change\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is a place of relentless change, and the Pyramid’s reputation is no exception. For a building that’s literally built on the site where creative genius flourished — a structure whose design was so fiercely contentious — the Transamerica Pyramid Center is now thoroughly uncontroversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s good about the Pyramid overwhelms what’s bad about it,” architect Henrik Bull told The San Francisco Chronicle on the building’s 40th anniversary. Once a loud opponent of the plan, he’d changed his mind. “It’s a wonderful building,” he said. “And what makes it wonderful is everything that we were objecting to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934441\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934441\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Transamerica Pyramid, a 48-story skyscraper in San Francisco’s Financial District, on Nov. 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Transamerica Pyramid is no longer the headquarters of its namesake — the corporation moved to Maryland — but its offices are still leased to financial services companies. Among insurance, wealth management and private equity, a 21st-century Montgomery Block artist’s haven this is not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s another thing: For the most public, visible local icon you could imagine, the Transamerica Pyramid is also not very public. First-time tourists might naturally assume that a trip up the Pyramid is one of the City’s must-see attractions — like climbing the Empire State Building in New York City, or Seattle’s Space Needle. But you can’t go inside the Pyramid Center beyond the lobby, let alone climb to the top to see the view, unless you’re visiting one of the offices inside. There used to be an observation deck up there, but it closed in the ’90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934438\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934438\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Aaron Peskin (from left), state Sen. Scott Wiener, Deutsche Finance America partner Jason Lucas, SHVO Chairman and CEO Michael Shvo, Mayor London Breed and former Mayor Willie Brown break ground at the Transamerica Pyramid during a 50th-anniversary celebration of the building and a groundbreaking ceremony for a $400 million redevelopment of the site in San Francisco on Dec. 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To add insult to injury, it’s also currently covered in construction fencing — at least, its base is. That’s because it’s now undergoing a $400 million-dollar renovation by Norman Foster’s architectural firm. The Pyramid’s owner, Michael Shvo, says he’s in talks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/A-members-only-luxury-club-with-fees-up-to-16799906.php\">bring three restaurants to the building\u003c/a>, which apparently will be open to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But among other interior changes, the renovation will also see a\u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/2022/01/25/just-what-downtown-sf-needs-a-new-private-club-for-the-ultra-rich/\"> high-end club moving into the Pyramid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’ll be private, for members only.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Present meets past\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For all this site’s corporate credentials, the ghosts of the original Montgomery Block and this area’s Barbary Coast roots still linger here — if you know where to look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934439\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934439\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A grove of redwood trees grows at the base of the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco on Dec. 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Architect Pereira’s design includes a small park at the east side of the Pyramid’s base: the Transamerica Redwood Park, which was planted with 80 redwood trees shipped north from the Santa Cruz Mountains. Next to those redwoods you’ll find Mark Twain Place, named for one of the Montgomery Block’s most iconic figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When excavation began in the late ’70s for the plaza complex adjacent to the park, construction workers found none other than the remains of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/nianticpainting.htm\">the Niantic, that whaling ship that docked in 1849\u003c/a>. The vessel hadn’t been lost to time after all. Instead, it was pushed down over the decades by a city that has been compulsively remaking itself in all directions since European colonizers arrived, buried deep underground. It’s said that champagne bottles were even found resting in the ship’s hull.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934151\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934151\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man stops to look at the view of the Transamerica Pyramid at dusk in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And just steps away from these markers of our past is the once-hated Pyramid. It may still be a symbol of the city’s money and power. But it’s an icon that’s finally found acceptance here — even affection — nonetheless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Transamerica Pyramid turns 50 this year. But even after half a century, there's much about the backstory of this surprisingly controversial architectural icon that you still might not know.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700531917,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":55,"wordCount":2827},"headData":{"title":"The Transamerica Pyramid at 50: From 'Architectural Butchery' to Icon | KQED","description":"The Transamerica Pyramid turns 50 this year. But even after half a century, there's much about the backstory of this surprisingly controversial architectural icon that you still might not know.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"The Transamerica Pyramid at 50: From 'Architectural Butchery' to Icon","datePublished":"2022-12-08T11:01:50.000Z","dateModified":"2023-11-21T01:58:37.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"Bay Curious","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious","audioUrl":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC5326627087.mp3?updated=1670450486","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11934056/the-transamerica-pyramid-at-50-from-architectural-butchery-to-icon","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Golden Gate Bridge. The Bay Bridge. Sutro Tower. Coit Tower. Perhaps even (whisper it) the Salesforce Tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to instantly recognizable structures, San Francisco suffers no shortage. But if asked to pick their favorite, many people might go for a classic: the Transamerica Pyramid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pyramid — officially known as the Transamerica Pyramid Center — first opened back in 1972, making it a half-century old this year. At over 850 feet high, back then it was the tallest building San Francisco had ever seen. It has over 3,000 windows, an exterior of white quartz, and an illuminated spire at its very top, like the star on top of a Christmas tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934440\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934440\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Transamerica Pyramid as seen from Pier 7 in San Francisco on Dec. 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Pyramid is no longer the tallest building in San Francisco; that honor now goes to the Salesforce Tower, at 1,070 feet. But even as this building officially turns 50 years old — the same age as \u003cem>The Godfather\u003c/em>, the Honda Civic, Pong, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson — the story of how it came to be might surprise you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because what is now an architectural icon was once quite controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934146\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view from the bottom of the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco before the Pyramid\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Like a pin in a map, the Transamerica Pyramid marks the spot where the communities of Chinatown, North Beach, Telegraph Hill and the Financial District converge. And historically speaking, the Pyramid is built on hallowed ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first half of the 19th century, this area of San Francisco wasn’t several blocks away from the bay, like it is now. It was the Barbary Coast, right on the water. A whaling ship called the Niantic even ran aground here in 1849 after the crew jumped ship to make their fortunes in the gold fields. Like many ships around this time, instead of being removed or torn down, the Niantic was instead absorbed into the fabric of the city: It was retrofitted into a hotel and ultimately became part of the landfill as the city expanded into the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844073\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844073\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10-800x533.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10-1020x680.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of San Francisco looking toward the bay, by Frank Marryat, ca. 1850. \u003ccite>(Library of Congress)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back during the Gold Rush, Montgomery Street was at the center of city life. In 1853, workers constructed a massive building — appropriately known as the Montgomery Block — on the exact spot where the Transamerica Pyramid would later be built. “At the time, it was the tallest building west of the Mississippi at a towering four stories,” said author \u003ca href=\"https://hiyaswanhuyser.wordpress.com/\">Hiya Swanhuyser\u003c/a>, who is currently writing a book about the history of the building. “[It was] built, famously, on a foundation made up of redwood logs interlaced that were floated across the bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Franciscans, Swanhuyser says, even called the Montgomery Block “a floating fortress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many spaces through San Francisco’s history, the Block — and the people inside it — lived many lives. Originally, the space was built to be law offices and a hangout spot for San Francisco’s high society. But when the city’s business folk started to migrate south to Market Street, artists moved in. The Montgomery Block entered its creative era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934444\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934444\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the Montgomery Block in 1856, by photographer G. R. Fardon (1807–1886) \u003ccite>(Google Art Project/Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They were writers and sculptors,” said Swanhuyser, “people who were inventing journalism in the mid-1860s. People like Ambrose Bierce, who, according to some, was America’s first newspaper columnist, and Mark Twain and Bret Harte. And Ina Coolbrith, who was California’s first poet laureate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This area of Montgomery Street was known for its bohemian ways, a scene that attracted freethinkers from near and far. Just a block to the north, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848986/inside-frida-kahlo-and-diego-riveras-life-in-san-francisco\">now-iconic artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera lived and worked here in the 1930s\u003c/a>. But the Montgomery Block’s influence was also ideological, says Swanhuyser, a “hotbed of painters and political people”: \u003ca href=\"http://www.tenderloinmuseum.org/public-programs-2019-1/2019/5/23/the-history-of-the-1934-general-strike\">The massive General Strike of 1934, which shut the city down for four days\u003c/a> and brought class struggles to a head, was organized, in part, right here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lights went out on the Montgomery Block’s creative chapter in 1959. That year, explained Swanhuyser, “a man named S.E. Onorato bought it and tore it down, claiming he was going to make a parking structure.” But Onorato never got to build his parking garage, and the space remained a single parking lot for almost a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the Transamerica Corporation — and the Pyramid — came into the picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934143\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934143\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view from the bottom of the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Path to the Pyramid\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Transamerica is now a financial services company, concerned with insurance and investments. Its story starts back in 1904 with the founding of the Bank of Italy in San Francisco — the brainchild of San José’s A.P. Giannini. That bank would become the Bank of America in the 1930s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transamerica began as the holding company for Giannini’s various financial ventures, which had by then become legion. The original “Transamerica Building” is actually still standing — it’s \u003ca href=\"http://playfoursquare.s3.amazonaws.com/pix/7871784_ficuEsfM_7kskU64jWPZTlip36tZCTyeSNJ1tkepH4A.jpg\">that flatiron-looking building\u003c/a> that forms a junction between Montgomery Street and Columbus Avenue, just across the street from where the Pyramid now stretches into the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’s the San Francisco headquarters of the Church of Scientology, but in 1969, it was home to the corporation that wanted a new headquarters. And it turned out Transamerica wanted to build … a pyramid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corporation had brought in a Los Angeles architect named \u003ca href=\"https://www.laconservancy.org/architects/william-pereira\">William Pereira\u003c/a> who had worked as an art director in Hollywood. His brief was, apparently, to create something that allowed sunlight to filter down to ground level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934144\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934144\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The moon rises near the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pereira envisioned a pyramid more than 850 feet tall, with two wing-like columns running up either side to allow for an elevator shaft on one side and a stairwell on the other. Even with its pyramid structure, it would have a capacity of 763,000 square feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Transamerica Corporation shared the design with the public, the critics hated it. The San Francisco Chronicle’s architecture writer Allan Temko called it “authentic architectural butchery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it wasn’t just local critics. The Washington Post said the Pyramid proposal was “a second-class World’s Fair Space Needle.” Los Angeles Times critic John Pastier called the design “antisocial architecture at its worst,” capturing a broader unease at how Transamerica was trying to smear its corporate vision on San Francisco’s skyline. “Corporations that are far more important to the city have exercised considerably more restraint in their architecture than Transamerica,” wrote Pastier, “which is blatantly attempting to put its ‘brand’ on the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1969, San Franciscans protested against the Pyramid plans in the street, carrying signs that bore slogans like “Corporate Egotism” and “Stop the Shaft.” Some protesters even donned pyramid-shaped dunce hats. (You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/oursf/article/Transamerica-Pyramid-sf-17154748.php\">see more photos from the protests in the San Francisco Chronicle’s archives\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934436\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1539\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image-800x641.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image-1020x818.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image-1536x1231.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors at the old Transamerica Building march against the new Transamerica Pyramid, announced in 1969 and built in 1972, on July 23, 1969. \u003ccite>(Stan Creighton/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those protesters included Hiya Swanhuyser’s mother. “She was a community-minded hippie and she didn’t think that a neighborhood was the right place for a skyscraper,” Swanhuyser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was even a lawsuit filed by nearby residents. At a City Hall hearing about the proposal, an attorney for the Telegraph Hill Dwellers Association spoke for those residents, in language that echoed the burgeoning environmentalism of the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The curse of this country is the worship of material things,” the residents’ attorney told City Hall. “We’ve polluted our rivers, our harbors, and our lakes, and our air — and we’re now about to pollute the skyline of San Francisco, one of its greatest treasures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet at that same hearing, San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto made his support for the Pyramid — and its design — clear. Alioto urged those assembled to acknowledge the subjectivity of taste, proclaiming that the real issue was whether the Pyramid “is so bad that all reasonable men must agree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The design, Alioto said, wasn’t that bad. On the contrary, it would “add considerable interest and beauty to the San Francisco skyline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Planning Commission ultimately signed off. The Pyramid was officially coming to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934148\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934148\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Transamerica Pyramid seen from Montgomery Street in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Darkness and light in a most strange year\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Construction on the Transamerica Pyramid started in 1969. And this was no ordinary year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/zodiac-killer\">The Zodiac Killer\u003c/a> murdered three of his four confirmed victims in 1969, in Vallejo, at Lake Berryessa and, finally, in San Francisco’s Presidio Heights neighborhood. That same year, Bay Area residents would open their morning papers to see strange symbols — ciphers that someone claiming to be the Zodiac Killer sent to the press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was also the summer that \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/manson-cult-kills-five-people\">Charles Manson’s so-called “family” murdered five people in Los Angeles\u003c/a>, co-opting the visual language of the occult in their heinous acts. Then, the very same month construction on the Pyramid began, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-altamont-festival-brings-the-1960s-to-a-violent-end\">Altamont Speedway Free Festival\u003c/a> outside Livermore turned from a celebration of the counterculture into violence, mayhem and murder.\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/3aUAw9zWi1k'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/3aUAw9zWi1k'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>This was the backdrop against which San Franciscans were now watching a gigantic, mysterious pyramid start to stretch into the sky: the same ancient symbol that’s loomed large in the worlds of magic, alchemy and superstition for millennia — appearing, that year of all years, between North Beach and Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some may have found it creepy. But Larry Yee, who grew up nearby, remembers it as exciting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee is now president of the historic Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (also known as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Six_Companies\">Chinese Six Companies\u003c/a>), and serves on the San Francisco Police Commission. But back in 1969, growing up in \u003ca href=\"https://landezine-award.com/everyone-deserves-a-garden-ping-yuen-public-housing-rehabilitation/\">Chinatown’s Ping Yuen housing development\u003c/a>, Yee was a basketball-obsessed teen running around this part of the city with his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We challenged ourselves to go into some of these vacant buildings that they developed,” Yee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934393\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1656px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934393\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1656\" height=\"1007\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut.jpg 1656w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut-800x486.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut-1020x620.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut-160x97.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut-1536x934.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1656px) 100vw, 1656px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction progresses at the Transamerica Pyramid Building, on June 3, 1971. \u003ccite>(Joe Rosenthal/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yee recalls how different San Francisco looked before the Pyramid. “Yeah, it was flat!” he said, adding that it was rare to see “buildings like this, that pop up through the skyline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his friends were getting a front-row seat to the construction of San Francisco’s most talked-about landmark, and one of his most enduring memories is of the constant construction noise. Far louder than the rattle of the California Street cable car that ran nearby, Yee said, was workers “pounding down on the pillars: ‘bom, bom, bom, bom.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, he and his friends didn’t even know it was a pyramid being built down the street. They just saw a building being built up, and up … and then up even further, getting narrower. He laughs recalling how he and his friends worried the strange new building “could tip over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee has still kept his enthusiasm for the Transamerica Pyramid, decades after he watched it being built. He likes what it represents, and its place in the visual fabric of the city — and the neighborhood — he’s always called home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is, he says, still “magical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934142\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Transamerica Pyramid can be seen reflected in the front window of a 1 California Muni bus in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The more things change\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is a place of relentless change, and the Pyramid’s reputation is no exception. For a building that’s literally built on the site where creative genius flourished — a structure whose design was so fiercely contentious — the Transamerica Pyramid Center is now thoroughly uncontroversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s good about the Pyramid overwhelms what’s bad about it,” architect Henrik Bull told The San Francisco Chronicle on the building’s 40th anniversary. Once a loud opponent of the plan, he’d changed his mind. “It’s a wonderful building,” he said. “And what makes it wonderful is everything that we were objecting to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934441\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934441\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Transamerica Pyramid, a 48-story skyscraper in San Francisco’s Financial District, on Nov. 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Transamerica Pyramid is no longer the headquarters of its namesake — the corporation moved to Maryland — but its offices are still leased to financial services companies. Among insurance, wealth management and private equity, a 21st-century Montgomery Block artist’s haven this is not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s another thing: For the most public, visible local icon you could imagine, the Transamerica Pyramid is also not very public. First-time tourists might naturally assume that a trip up the Pyramid is one of the City’s must-see attractions — like climbing the Empire State Building in New York City, or Seattle’s Space Needle. But you can’t go inside the Pyramid Center beyond the lobby, let alone climb to the top to see the view, unless you’re visiting one of the offices inside. There used to be an observation deck up there, but it closed in the ’90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934438\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934438\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Aaron Peskin (from left), state Sen. Scott Wiener, Deutsche Finance America partner Jason Lucas, SHVO Chairman and CEO Michael Shvo, Mayor London Breed and former Mayor Willie Brown break ground at the Transamerica Pyramid during a 50th-anniversary celebration of the building and a groundbreaking ceremony for a $400 million redevelopment of the site in San Francisco on Dec. 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To add insult to injury, it’s also currently covered in construction fencing — at least, its base is. That’s because it’s now undergoing a $400 million-dollar renovation by Norman Foster’s architectural firm. The Pyramid’s owner, Michael Shvo, says he’s in talks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/A-members-only-luxury-club-with-fees-up-to-16799906.php\">bring three restaurants to the building\u003c/a>, which apparently will be open to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But among other interior changes, the renovation will also see a\u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/2022/01/25/just-what-downtown-sf-needs-a-new-private-club-for-the-ultra-rich/\"> high-end club moving into the Pyramid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’ll be private, for members only.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Present meets past\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For all this site’s corporate credentials, the ghosts of the original Montgomery Block and this area’s Barbary Coast roots still linger here — if you know where to look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934439\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934439\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A grove of redwood trees grows at the base of the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco on Dec. 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Architect Pereira’s design includes a small park at the east side of the Pyramid’s base: the Transamerica Redwood Park, which was planted with 80 redwood trees shipped north from the Santa Cruz Mountains. Next to those redwoods you’ll find Mark Twain Place, named for one of the Montgomery Block’s most iconic figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When excavation began in the late ’70s for the plaza complex adjacent to the park, construction workers found none other than the remains of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/nianticpainting.htm\">the Niantic, that whaling ship that docked in 1849\u003c/a>. The vessel hadn’t been lost to time after all. Instead, it was pushed down over the decades by a city that has been compulsively remaking itself in all directions since European colonizers arrived, buried deep underground. It’s said that champagne bottles were even found resting in the ship’s hull.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934151\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934151\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man stops to look at the view of the Transamerica Pyramid at dusk in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And just steps away from these markers of our past is the once-hated Pyramid. It may still be a symbol of the city’s money and power. But it’s an icon that’s finally found acceptance here — even affection — nonetheless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11934056/the-transamerica-pyramid-at-50-from-architectural-butchery-to-icon","authors":["3243"],"programs":["news_26731","news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_17657","news_393","news_27626","news_32116","news_160","news_1198","news_38","news_30162","news_32115"],"featImg":"news_11934147","label":"source_news_11934056"},"news_11907457":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11907457","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11907457","score":null,"sort":[1646910046000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-the-filbert-steps-came-to-be-an-oasis-in-san-francisco","title":"How the Filbert Steps Came to Be an Oasis in San Francisco","publishDate":1646910046,"format":"standard","headTitle":"How the Filbert Steps Came to Be an Oasis in San Francisco | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>There’s a reason tourists love to visit Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill. It’s ridiculously charming — old houses tucked up on impossibly steep streets, lush greenery all around, sweeping views of the bay \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11185731/where-did-the-wild-parrots-of-san-francisco-come-from\">and if you’re lucky — parrots\u003c/a>! This iconic spot is one of the older parts of San Francisco, and it’s got that old-world charm that’s hard to replicate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Isn-t-it-incredible-Climbing-S-F-s-15585110.php\">There are over 900 sets of steps in San Francisco\u003c/a>, but two of the most famous are on Telegraph Hill: the Greenwich steps and the Filbert steps. They’re both postcard-perfect, but the Filbert steps got a national spotlight in the 1980s, which made them extra famous (we’ll get to that story in a minute).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11907460\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a red t-shirt, sunglasses and backpack poses on a set of wooden steps with a lush garden to his right.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Curious listener Eric Johnson poses on the Filbert steps. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eric Johnson lives in the Mission District and knew the Filbert steps were a thing. So, during the COVID-19 pandemic when he wasn’t traveling and wanted that tourist feeling closer to home, he and his partner decided to see what all the fuss was about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We came here, we hiked up to the top and we were just wondering out loud, what is it like to live here?” Eric said. “I want to know about the rules [for] living here because [the steps are] always so well decorated, either with flowers or with lights at Christmas. So I want to know what it’s like to live here in this neighborhood?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric’s question won a Bay Curious public voting round, so clearly a lot of people are wondering the same thing. (Psst … \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious\">submit your question to us\u003c/a> and it just might get picked!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met up with Eric at the bottom of the Filbert steps, just off Sansome Street near Levi’s Plaza, to make the climb and meet some folks who live on the steps. What we discovered was a deep history of community and service, and a battle that landed the steps in prime-time news.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are there rules for living on the steps?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When we first started up the steps, I didn’t see the appeal. Near Sansome Street, which used to be an industrial area with a popcorn factory and railroad running through it, the steps are made of concrete rising steeply up against a rocky cliff sporting graffiti. But as we climbed higher, I caught glimpses of green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, we were standing at the bottom of a set of wooden steps, old wooden cottages off to the right and a lush green garden running along the left side of the stairway. About halfway up, we came to a sign that said “Napier Lane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11907461\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Napier-Lane.jpg\" alt=\"A boardwalk with old wooden cottages to the right and a bank of greenery to the right.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Napier-Lane.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Napier-Lane-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Napier-Lane-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Napier-Lane-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Napier-Lane-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Napier Lane is one of the few streets that intersects the Filbert steps as they wind up Telegraph Hill. It’s a small boardwalk lined with cottages built in the 1850s. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Napier Lane is a boardwalk that intersects the steps about halfway up. It’s lined with cute wooden cottages, some of the oldest homes in San Francisco. In the 1850s, longshoremen lived in these cottages. They’d look up to the semaphore on the top of Telegraph Hill to see which ships were coming into San Francisco’s harbor and what they carried. Then they’d rush down the steps to help unload.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These homes even survived the 1906 earthquake and fire that devastated much of San Francisco. There were \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/thesemaphore2016summer214/page/n7/mode/2up\">many Italian families living here at the time\u003c/a>, the story goes, and they made their own wine. When the first fires ignited south of Market Street and headed toward them, the people dipped burlap sacks in the wine and covered their roofs, preventing floating embers from catching fire on the wooden shingles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 943px\">\u003ca href=\"https://opensfhistory.org/Display/wnp24.227a.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11907462\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/opensfhistory_wnp24.227a.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo with horse and buggy in the foreground. In the background, a wooden staircase climbs a steep, barren hill with a few low houses on it.\" width=\"943\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/opensfhistory_wnp24.227a.jpg 943w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/opensfhistory_wnp24.227a-800x848.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/opensfhistory_wnp24.227a-160x170.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 943px) 100vw, 943px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Filbert steps circa 1890, before Coit Tower was built. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://opensfhistory.org/Display/wnp24.227a.jpg\">OpenSFHistory\u003c/a>/wnp24.227a)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This is where we met up with Larry Habegger and Paula McCabe, who are married and have lived on the steps for decades. We asked them if there are any homeowners association-style rules for living here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no expectations other than taking out your garbage and your trash like everybody else in the city,” laughed McCabe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What about getting a pizza delivered?” Eric asked. “Do you have them come all the way up the steps to your door? And if so, how many digits is the tip that you give them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really big tippers,” said Habegger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other common questions the couple often field: “Do you really have to walk up or down the stairs for everything?” (Yes. There’s no hidden back alley for a car.) “How do you move?” (It was a pain, but they only had to do it once.) “Do they get mail?” (Yes. Henry is a lovely mail carrier and very dedicated.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Keeping the steps beautiful\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s a communal spirit to the Filbert steps neighborhood that comes out in voluntary acts of kindness, we learned. For example, one Christmas, a local couple strung twinkling lights all the way from the bottom of the steps up to Coit Tower. Their neighbors provided electrical hookups along the way, and sat back to enjoy the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A long-term and beloved resident of Napier Lane, Grace Marchant, may be the inspiration for some of these acts of service. Grace moved to the Filbert steps with her daughter, Valletta, in 1935. She was originally from South Dakota, but moved to Long Beach as a young woman to work as a stuntperson in the film industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she first moved to the Filbert steps, they weren’t nearly so charming. In fact, many local residents used the hillside across from Napier Lane as an unofficial trash heap. Everything from tires to old furniture would end up on the hill. As she got older, Grace liked to get outside and beautify the hillside. She found it helped with her aches and pains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11907465\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-Marchant_1980-sized.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman in lose fitting pants and a red blouse stands with her hand resting on a fence that surrounds a lush green garden stretching out behind her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-Marchant_1980-sized.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-Marchant_1980-sized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-Marchant_1980-sized-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-Marchant_1980-sized-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-Marchant_1980-sized-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Marchant poses in front of the garden she created along the Filbert steps, in 1980. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Larry Habegger)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She got these little baby tears and she was just beautifying right outside her door,” Habegger said. “Then she started hauling the debris off the hill because she thought, ‘OK, why don’t I do the cliffside out here?’ So she turned the junkyard into a fabulous rose garden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grace planted those first baby tears (a moss-like plant with tiny detailed leaves) in 1949. Now, the hillside is an oasis of fuchsias and roses planted into the steep terrain. A wooden gate separates the garden from the steps and paths wend their way through the lush growth. This isn’t the type of garden with green grass or benches. It feels more wild and free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11907466\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/GMG-May-302021-sized.jpeg\" alt=\"A profusion of red roses bloom in a lush garden.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/GMG-May-302021-sized.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/GMG-May-302021-sized-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/GMG-May-302021-sized-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/GMG-May-302021-sized-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/GMG-May-302021-sized-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/GMG-May-302021-sized-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Grace Marchant Garden in the spring when the roses are in bloom. The shot looks back toward Napier Lane from inside the garden. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Larry Habegger)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This garden is what lured Habegger to the steps 45 years ago. He was out for a walk with a friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was this stairway going up the side of the hill and we thought, ‘I wonder what’s up there?'” Habegger said. “Of course, we walk up the cliff and we come to this enchanting garden with butterflies and hummingbirds and roses everywhere, and the boardwalk and cottages and on the spot I thought, ‘I’ve got to live here.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got his chance a few years later when another friend saw a sign (on the exact house Habegger picked out for himself) advertising “Roommate Wanted.” Habegger was traveling out of the country at the time, but his friend called the number on the sign and insisted that the guy wait until Habegger got back before filling the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the guy decided to wait till I got back.” Habegger said. “[I] called him. We got together and said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Habegger and his new roommate, Gary Kray, lived next door to Grace Marchant, who was quite old by this time. Kray would help Grace in the garden, learning how to care for her beloved roses. Grace passed away in 1982 at the age of 96, leaving Kray to care for the garden. Grace had maintained the garden for 33 years and Kray would go on to do the same for another 33 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1706px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11907467\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-and-Gary-Kray-sized-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A posed photo of an older woman in a witch costume holding a broom. Next to her is a younger man with a mustache looks down fondly at the woman.\" width=\"1706\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-and-Gary-Kray-sized-scaled.jpeg 1706w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-and-Gary-Kray-sized-800x1200.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-and-Gary-Kray-sized-1020x1531.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-and-Gary-Kray-sized-160x240.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-and-Gary-Kray-sized-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-and-Gary-Kray-sized-1365x2048.jpeg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1706px) 100vw, 1706px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Marchant, dressed in a witch costume, stands with Gary Kray, her gardening protégé, circa 1980. Gary used to plan a big Halloween event every year, placing jack-o’-lanterns in the garden. It got so popular, they had to abandon the tradition. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Larry Habegger)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A development battle that made the steps famous\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This is a tight-knit community with a lot of pride in what Grace built. So when rumors started circulating not long after she died that a neighbor intended to demolish his cottage and build a much bigger home that would ruin the garden, it ruffled some feathers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A property owner here wanted to build a large house, take over a big portion of the garden, more or less turn the place into his private garden,” Habegger said. “Gary and I got the neighborhood involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two men saw the garden as Grace’s legacy. They started organizing an opposition movement, getting the Telegraph Hill Dwellers neighborhood group, City Hall, the Trust for Public Land and the people of San Francisco involved in the fight. They thought their best shot would be to buy the property from the owner and put an easement on the garden to protect it for the public. But they needed money for the plan to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We sold figurative square inches of the garden for $10,” Habegger said. “And we thought we’d raise a couple of hundred bucks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To their surprise, 4,000 individual donors from all over San Francisco and beyond contributed. Their cause also got press attention, both locally and nationally. In the end, the \u003ca href=\"https://gracemarchantgarden.com/\">Friends of the Garden\u003c/a> nonprofit they created raised more than $200,000 from individuals and foundations. They saved the garden and named it after Grace. But all the publicity they got came with a price — it made the steps famous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That changed things a lot,” Habegger said. Before the publicized battle, only locals knew about the steps. “And after that campaign … it got in all the guidebooks,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the time, Habegger says the steps are pretty quiet. That’s what he and McCabe like about living here. Tourists walk by, but for the most part they’re respectful. Habegger and McCabe wouldn’t trade it for somewhere easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not your normal city environment. You walk down a wooden stairway, you walk along a wooden boardwalk and then you’re home. I mean, it’s really kind of 19th-century living in a modern age,” Habegger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A changing city\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Habegger has lived on the Filbert steps since 1977. Paula McCabe has been there since the early ’90s. Most of their neighbors have equally long tenures. But the couple says they are seeing some of the changes endemic to San Francisco in their neighborhood, too. Back in the ’70s and ’80s, the city wasn’t an exclusive place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11907478\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Larry-Paula-me-sized.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman with recording equipment stands in a garden interviewing two middle aged people in hats.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Larry-Paula-me-sized.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Larry-Paula-me-sized-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Larry-Paula-me-sized-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Larry-Paula-me-sized-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Larry-Paula-me-sized-1536x864.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED’s Katrina Schwartz (center) interviews Larry Habegger (left) and Paula McCabe in the Grace Marchant Garden. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Eric Johnson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was a very creative community here, a lot of artists and musicians and such,” Habegger said. “And you know, back then, things didn’t turn over very fast. And in fact, a lot of it was rental.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That changed when a big landlord in the area died and his kids sold off his assets. Now, most people in the neighborhood own, and if something goes up for sale, only the rich can afford it. Because the places are small, and kind of a novelty, folks with the money buy them as pieds-à-terre. They don’t live in them full time, which makes it feel a little less neighborhoody, McCabe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the Grace Marchant Garden, McCabe is now the volunteer caretaker. Gary Kray died in 2012, passing the torch to her. She uses funds from the Friends of the Garden nonprofit to buy supplies, and donates her time to keep the garden looking nice. It’s her way of paying homage to the spirits of Grace and Gary, two people who loved this place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Filbert steps on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill are an oasis of lush greenery. But what's it like to live on steps? And how did this area get so charming? ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700532865,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":42,"wordCount":2175},"headData":{"title":"How the Filbert Steps Came to Be an Oasis in San Francisco | KQED","description":"The Filbert steps on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill are an oasis of lush greenery. But what's it like to live on steps? And how did this area get so charming? ","ogTitle":"What’s It Really Like to Live On the Filbert Steps?","ogDescription":"The Filbert steps on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill are an oasis of lush greenery. But what's it like to live there? And how did it get so darn charming?","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"What’s It Really Like to Live On the Filbert Steps?","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"How the Filbert Steps Came to Be an Oasis in San Francisco","datePublished":"2022-03-10T11:00:46.000Z","dateModified":"2023-11-21T02:14:25.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"Bay Curious","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious","audioUrl":"https://dcs.megaphone.fm/KQINC5590710812.mp3?key=0af1533ca01d7dfad5ca1ddca419a7f3","subhead":"And, what's it like to live on the Filbert Steps?","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11907457/how-the-filbert-steps-came-to-be-an-oasis-in-san-francisco","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There’s a reason tourists love to visit Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill. It’s ridiculously charming — old houses tucked up on impossibly steep streets, lush greenery all around, sweeping views of the bay \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11185731/where-did-the-wild-parrots-of-san-francisco-come-from\">and if you’re lucky — parrots\u003c/a>! This iconic spot is one of the older parts of San Francisco, and it’s got that old-world charm that’s hard to replicate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Isn-t-it-incredible-Climbing-S-F-s-15585110.php\">There are over 900 sets of steps in San Francisco\u003c/a>, but two of the most famous are on Telegraph Hill: the Greenwich steps and the Filbert steps. They’re both postcard-perfect, but the Filbert steps got a national spotlight in the 1980s, which made them extra famous (we’ll get to that story in a minute).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11907460\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a red t-shirt, sunglasses and backpack poses on a set of wooden steps with a lush garden to his right.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Eric-Johnson-sized-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Curious listener Eric Johnson poses on the Filbert steps. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eric Johnson lives in the Mission District and knew the Filbert steps were a thing. So, during the COVID-19 pandemic when he wasn’t traveling and wanted that tourist feeling closer to home, he and his partner decided to see what all the fuss was about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We came here, we hiked up to the top and we were just wondering out loud, what is it like to live here?” Eric said. “I want to know about the rules [for] living here because [the steps are] always so well decorated, either with flowers or with lights at Christmas. So I want to know what it’s like to live here in this neighborhood?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric’s question won a Bay Curious public voting round, so clearly a lot of people are wondering the same thing. (Psst … \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious\">submit your question to us\u003c/a> and it just might get picked!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met up with Eric at the bottom of the Filbert steps, just off Sansome Street near Levi’s Plaza, to make the climb and meet some folks who live on the steps. What we discovered was a deep history of community and service, and a battle that landed the steps in prime-time news.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are there rules for living on the steps?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When we first started up the steps, I didn’t see the appeal. Near Sansome Street, which used to be an industrial area with a popcorn factory and railroad running through it, the steps are made of concrete rising steeply up against a rocky cliff sporting graffiti. But as we climbed higher, I caught glimpses of green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, we were standing at the bottom of a set of wooden steps, old wooden cottages off to the right and a lush green garden running along the left side of the stairway. About halfway up, we came to a sign that said “Napier Lane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11907461\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Napier-Lane.jpg\" alt=\"A boardwalk with old wooden cottages to the right and a bank of greenery to the right.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Napier-Lane.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Napier-Lane-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Napier-Lane-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Napier-Lane-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Napier-Lane-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Napier Lane is one of the few streets that intersects the Filbert steps as they wind up Telegraph Hill. It’s a small boardwalk lined with cottages built in the 1850s. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Napier Lane is a boardwalk that intersects the steps about halfway up. It’s lined with cute wooden cottages, some of the oldest homes in San Francisco. In the 1850s, longshoremen lived in these cottages. They’d look up to the semaphore on the top of Telegraph Hill to see which ships were coming into San Francisco’s harbor and what they carried. Then they’d rush down the steps to help unload.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These homes even survived the 1906 earthquake and fire that devastated much of San Francisco. There were \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/thesemaphore2016summer214/page/n7/mode/2up\">many Italian families living here at the time\u003c/a>, the story goes, and they made their own wine. When the first fires ignited south of Market Street and headed toward them, the people dipped burlap sacks in the wine and covered their roofs, preventing floating embers from catching fire on the wooden shingles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 943px\">\u003ca href=\"https://opensfhistory.org/Display/wnp24.227a.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11907462\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/opensfhistory_wnp24.227a.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo with horse and buggy in the foreground. In the background, a wooden staircase climbs a steep, barren hill with a few low houses on it.\" width=\"943\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/opensfhistory_wnp24.227a.jpg 943w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/opensfhistory_wnp24.227a-800x848.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/opensfhistory_wnp24.227a-160x170.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 943px) 100vw, 943px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Filbert steps circa 1890, before Coit Tower was built. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://opensfhistory.org/Display/wnp24.227a.jpg\">OpenSFHistory\u003c/a>/wnp24.227a)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This is where we met up with Larry Habegger and Paula McCabe, who are married and have lived on the steps for decades. We asked them if there are any homeowners association-style rules for living here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no expectations other than taking out your garbage and your trash like everybody else in the city,” laughed McCabe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What about getting a pizza delivered?” Eric asked. “Do you have them come all the way up the steps to your door? And if so, how many digits is the tip that you give them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really big tippers,” said Habegger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other common questions the couple often field: “Do you really have to walk up or down the stairs for everything?” (Yes. There’s no hidden back alley for a car.) “How do you move?” (It was a pain, but they only had to do it once.) “Do they get mail?” (Yes. Henry is a lovely mail carrier and very dedicated.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Keeping the steps beautiful\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s a communal spirit to the Filbert steps neighborhood that comes out in voluntary acts of kindness, we learned. For example, one Christmas, a local couple strung twinkling lights all the way from the bottom of the steps up to Coit Tower. Their neighbors provided electrical hookups along the way, and sat back to enjoy the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A long-term and beloved resident of Napier Lane, Grace Marchant, may be the inspiration for some of these acts of service. Grace moved to the Filbert steps with her daughter, Valletta, in 1935. She was originally from South Dakota, but moved to Long Beach as a young woman to work as a stuntperson in the film industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she first moved to the Filbert steps, they weren’t nearly so charming. In fact, many local residents used the hillside across from Napier Lane as an unofficial trash heap. Everything from tires to old furniture would end up on the hill. As she got older, Grace liked to get outside and beautify the hillside. She found it helped with her aches and pains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11907465\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-Marchant_1980-sized.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman in lose fitting pants and a red blouse stands with her hand resting on a fence that surrounds a lush green garden stretching out behind her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-Marchant_1980-sized.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-Marchant_1980-sized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-Marchant_1980-sized-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-Marchant_1980-sized-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-Marchant_1980-sized-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Marchant poses in front of the garden she created along the Filbert steps, in 1980. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Larry Habegger)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She got these little baby tears and she was just beautifying right outside her door,” Habegger said. “Then she started hauling the debris off the hill because she thought, ‘OK, why don’t I do the cliffside out here?’ So she turned the junkyard into a fabulous rose garden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grace planted those first baby tears (a moss-like plant with tiny detailed leaves) in 1949. Now, the hillside is an oasis of fuchsias and roses planted into the steep terrain. A wooden gate separates the garden from the steps and paths wend their way through the lush growth. This isn’t the type of garden with green grass or benches. It feels more wild and free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11907466\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/GMG-May-302021-sized.jpeg\" alt=\"A profusion of red roses bloom in a lush garden.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/GMG-May-302021-sized.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/GMG-May-302021-sized-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/GMG-May-302021-sized-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/GMG-May-302021-sized-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/GMG-May-302021-sized-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/GMG-May-302021-sized-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Grace Marchant Garden in the spring when the roses are in bloom. The shot looks back toward Napier Lane from inside the garden. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Larry Habegger)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This garden is what lured Habegger to the steps 45 years ago. He was out for a walk with a friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was this stairway going up the side of the hill and we thought, ‘I wonder what’s up there?'” Habegger said. “Of course, we walk up the cliff and we come to this enchanting garden with butterflies and hummingbirds and roses everywhere, and the boardwalk and cottages and on the spot I thought, ‘I’ve got to live here.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got his chance a few years later when another friend saw a sign (on the exact house Habegger picked out for himself) advertising “Roommate Wanted.” Habegger was traveling out of the country at the time, but his friend called the number on the sign and insisted that the guy wait until Habegger got back before filling the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the guy decided to wait till I got back.” Habegger said. “[I] called him. We got together and said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Habegger and his new roommate, Gary Kray, lived next door to Grace Marchant, who was quite old by this time. Kray would help Grace in the garden, learning how to care for her beloved roses. Grace passed away in 1982 at the age of 96, leaving Kray to care for the garden. Grace had maintained the garden for 33 years and Kray would go on to do the same for another 33 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1706px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11907467\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-and-Gary-Kray-sized-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A posed photo of an older woman in a witch costume holding a broom. Next to her is a younger man with a mustache looks down fondly at the woman.\" width=\"1706\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-and-Gary-Kray-sized-scaled.jpeg 1706w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-and-Gary-Kray-sized-800x1200.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-and-Gary-Kray-sized-1020x1531.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-and-Gary-Kray-sized-160x240.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-and-Gary-Kray-sized-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Grace-and-Gary-Kray-sized-1365x2048.jpeg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1706px) 100vw, 1706px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Marchant, dressed in a witch costume, stands with Gary Kray, her gardening protégé, circa 1980. Gary used to plan a big Halloween event every year, placing jack-o’-lanterns in the garden. It got so popular, they had to abandon the tradition. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Larry Habegger)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A development battle that made the steps famous\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This is a tight-knit community with a lot of pride in what Grace built. So when rumors started circulating not long after she died that a neighbor intended to demolish his cottage and build a much bigger home that would ruin the garden, it ruffled some feathers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A property owner here wanted to build a large house, take over a big portion of the garden, more or less turn the place into his private garden,” Habegger said. “Gary and I got the neighborhood involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two men saw the garden as Grace’s legacy. They started organizing an opposition movement, getting the Telegraph Hill Dwellers neighborhood group, City Hall, the Trust for Public Land and the people of San Francisco involved in the fight. They thought their best shot would be to buy the property from the owner and put an easement on the garden to protect it for the public. But they needed money for the plan to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We sold figurative square inches of the garden for $10,” Habegger said. “And we thought we’d raise a couple of hundred bucks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To their surprise, 4,000 individual donors from all over San Francisco and beyond contributed. Their cause also got press attention, both locally and nationally. In the end, the \u003ca href=\"https://gracemarchantgarden.com/\">Friends of the Garden\u003c/a> nonprofit they created raised more than $200,000 from individuals and foundations. They saved the garden and named it after Grace. But all the publicity they got came with a price — it made the steps famous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That changed things a lot,” Habegger said. Before the publicized battle, only locals knew about the steps. “And after that campaign … it got in all the guidebooks,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the time, Habegger says the steps are pretty quiet. That’s what he and McCabe like about living here. Tourists walk by, but for the most part they’re respectful. Habegger and McCabe wouldn’t trade it for somewhere easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not your normal city environment. You walk down a wooden stairway, you walk along a wooden boardwalk and then you’re home. I mean, it’s really kind of 19th-century living in a modern age,” Habegger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A changing city\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Habegger has lived on the Filbert steps since 1977. Paula McCabe has been there since the early ’90s. Most of their neighbors have equally long tenures. But the couple says they are seeing some of the changes endemic to San Francisco in their neighborhood, too. Back in the ’70s and ’80s, the city wasn’t an exclusive place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11907478\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Larry-Paula-me-sized.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman with recording equipment stands in a garden interviewing two middle aged people in hats.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Larry-Paula-me-sized.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Larry-Paula-me-sized-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Larry-Paula-me-sized-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Larry-Paula-me-sized-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Larry-Paula-me-sized-1536x864.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED’s Katrina Schwartz (center) interviews Larry Habegger (left) and Paula McCabe in the Grace Marchant Garden. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Eric Johnson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was a very creative community here, a lot of artists and musicians and such,” Habegger said. “And you know, back then, things didn’t turn over very fast. And in fact, a lot of it was rental.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That changed when a big landlord in the area died and his kids sold off his assets. Now, most people in the neighborhood own, and if something goes up for sale, only the rich can afford it. Because the places are small, and kind of a novelty, folks with the money buy them as pieds-à-terre. They don’t live in them full time, which makes it feel a little less neighborhoody, McCabe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the Grace Marchant Garden, McCabe is now the volunteer caretaker. Gary Kray died in 2012, passing the torch to her. She uses funds from the Friends of the Garden nonprofit to buy supplies, and donates her time to keep the garden looking nice. It’s her way of paying homage to the spirits of Grace and Gary, two people who loved this place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11907457/how-the-filbert-steps-came-to-be-an-oasis-in-san-francisco","authors":["234"],"programs":["news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_27626","news_30765","news_1198","news_28135","news_6651"],"featImg":"news_11907459","label":"source_news_11907457"},"news_11825103":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11825103","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11825103","score":null,"sort":[1592510476000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-francisco-removes-controversial-christopher-columbus-statue-on-telegraph-hill","title":"San Francisco Removes Controversial Christopher Columbus Statue on Telegraph Hill","publishDate":1592510476,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Acting quickly and quietly, city workers early Thursday morning removed a controversial Christopher Columbus from its perch atop San Francisco's Telegraph Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move was ordered with little notice by Mayor London Breed, just a day before protesters had reportedly \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1273641748477116416\">planned to topple the 12-foot bronze statue\u003c/a> of the 15th century explorer and throw it off Pier 31 into the bay. The statue, which stood adjacent to Coit Tower, had already been defaced multiple times recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was removed because it doesn’t align with San Francisco’s values or our commitment to racial justice. Doing it quickly was also a matter of public safety,” said Rachelle Axel, Director of Public & Private Partnerships for the San Francisco Arts Commission, which oversees the city's sculptures. “The statue was vandalized three times last week and similar statues across the country have been brought down by citizens during protests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Axel said the city's quick response was an effort to preempt Friday's potential protest action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A 2-ton statue falling from its pedestal presented a grave risk to citizens,” Axel said in an email. “The statue has been safely placed in storage. We look forward to engaging the community in a meaningful conversation around next steps for the statue, and for the site.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statue's removal has long been sought by activists who say it symbolizes white supremacy in its commemoration of a historical figure who ushered in an era of genocide to North America's indigenous peoples. But those efforts have gained fierce momentum in the last three weeks amid nationwide protests over racial injustice spurred by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kanyon Coyotewoman Sayers-Roods is a Mutsun Ohlone California Native Two-Spirit activist. They said this was a happy day for indigenous people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I understand some people are getting upset for claiming this may be an agenda for a revisionist narrative,\" they said. \"For me, the statues being erected was a revisionist narrative.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sayers-Roods added, of Columbus, \"He didn't discover anything, he's being celebrated for a mistake\" and for \"the first wave of genocide against indigenous people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"george-floyd\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statue once stood at Coit Tower, which is operated by the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coit Tower is an emblem of the San Francisco skyline, beloved by visitors for its panoramic views. Racism has no place in that view, or in ours,” Phil Ginsburg, general manager of the Park Department, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The removal of the statue comes just days after California legislative leaders announced their decision to remove a Columbus statue that has been the centerpiece of the state Capitol rotunda since 1883, “given the deadly impact his arrival in this hemisphere had on indigenous populations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At a time of great unrest and deep reflection both locally and nationally, we recognize that Christopher Columbus is a deeply polarizing figure in our history, and a symbol of pain and oppression to many, including and especially to indigenous people,\" said Supervisor Aaron Peskin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That marks a stark turnaround for Peskin, who represents the North Beach and Telegraph Hill neighborhoods, home to a large Italian-American community, and who has long defended the statue as an important marker of the community's heritage. Last year, when activists doused the sculpture in red paint and graffiti just before the federal Columbus Day holiday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Columbus-statue-beside-Coit-Tower-vandalized-with-14519035.php\">Peskin told the Chronicle\u003c/a> the act was “a hateful, despicable piece of divisive vandalism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statue of Columbus — who was born in Genoa, Italy — was erected in 1957 to celebrate the city's Italian-American community, which have opposed previous efforts to remove it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1273644621466423296\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what statue, if any, should stand atop Telegraph Hill at the foot of Coit Tower?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sayers-Roods, the Ohlone activist, said they would be glad to see a statue of an Italian historical figure who made positive strides, but that any future decision should be collaborative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would be for the city, the community, and the first people, the Raymatush Ohlone people, being involved in the conversation going forward,\" they said. \"It seems as though the news wants to pit indigenous people against Italian Americans. No, we just don't want to celebrate Columbus. I would joyously celebrate Italian American history for valid reasons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco, along with a number of other U.S. cities, have also voted in recent years to eliminate Columbus Day from their calendars and replace it with a day honoring indigenous people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statues of controversial figures have been coming down across the country as government officials rethink the impact and symbolism they have. In Kentucky, officials removed a statue of Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederacy, from the state Capitol. And in Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy, Gov. Ralph Northam has announced plans to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Mayor London Breed ordered the statue's removal with little notice, just a day before protesters reportedly planned to topple it.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1592527605,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":849},"headData":{"title":"San Francisco Removes Controversial Christopher Columbus Statue on Telegraph Hill | KQED","description":"Mayor London Breed ordered the statue's removal with little notice, just a day before protesters reportedly planned to topple it.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"San Francisco Removes Controversial Christopher Columbus Statue on Telegraph Hill","datePublished":"2020-06-18T20:01:16.000Z","dateModified":"2020-06-19T00:46:45.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11825103 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11825103","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/06/18/san-francisco-removes-controversial-christopher-columbus-statue-on-telegraph-hill/","disqusTitle":"San Francisco Removes Controversial Christopher Columbus Statue on Telegraph Hill","path":"/news/11825103/san-francisco-removes-controversial-christopher-columbus-statue-on-telegraph-hill","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Acting quickly and quietly, city workers early Thursday morning removed a controversial Christopher Columbus from its perch atop San Francisco's Telegraph Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move was ordered with little notice by Mayor London Breed, just a day before protesters had reportedly \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1273641748477116416\">planned to topple the 12-foot bronze statue\u003c/a> of the 15th century explorer and throw it off Pier 31 into the bay. The statue, which stood adjacent to Coit Tower, had already been defaced multiple times recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was removed because it doesn’t align with San Francisco’s values or our commitment to racial justice. Doing it quickly was also a matter of public safety,” said Rachelle Axel, Director of Public & Private Partnerships for the San Francisco Arts Commission, which oversees the city's sculptures. “The statue was vandalized three times last week and similar statues across the country have been brought down by citizens during protests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Axel said the city's quick response was an effort to preempt Friday's potential protest action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A 2-ton statue falling from its pedestal presented a grave risk to citizens,” Axel said in an email. “The statue has been safely placed in storage. We look forward to engaging the community in a meaningful conversation around next steps for the statue, and for the site.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statue's removal has long been sought by activists who say it symbolizes white supremacy in its commemoration of a historical figure who ushered in an era of genocide to North America's indigenous peoples. But those efforts have gained fierce momentum in the last three weeks amid nationwide protests over racial injustice spurred by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kanyon Coyotewoman Sayers-Roods is a Mutsun Ohlone California Native Two-Spirit activist. They said this was a happy day for indigenous people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I understand some people are getting upset for claiming this may be an agenda for a revisionist narrative,\" they said. \"For me, the statues being erected was a revisionist narrative.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sayers-Roods added, of Columbus, \"He didn't discover anything, he's being celebrated for a mistake\" and for \"the first wave of genocide against indigenous people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"george-floyd"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statue once stood at Coit Tower, which is operated by the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coit Tower is an emblem of the San Francisco skyline, beloved by visitors for its panoramic views. Racism has no place in that view, or in ours,” Phil Ginsburg, general manager of the Park Department, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The removal of the statue comes just days after California legislative leaders announced their decision to remove a Columbus statue that has been the centerpiece of the state Capitol rotunda since 1883, “given the deadly impact his arrival in this hemisphere had on indigenous populations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At a time of great unrest and deep reflection both locally and nationally, we recognize that Christopher Columbus is a deeply polarizing figure in our history, and a symbol of pain and oppression to many, including and especially to indigenous people,\" said Supervisor Aaron Peskin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That marks a stark turnaround for Peskin, who represents the North Beach and Telegraph Hill neighborhoods, home to a large Italian-American community, and who has long defended the statue as an important marker of the community's heritage. Last year, when activists doused the sculpture in red paint and graffiti just before the federal Columbus Day holiday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Columbus-statue-beside-Coit-Tower-vandalized-with-14519035.php\">Peskin told the Chronicle\u003c/a> the act was “a hateful, despicable piece of divisive vandalism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statue of Columbus — who was born in Genoa, Italy — was erected in 1957 to celebrate the city's Italian-American community, which have opposed previous efforts to remove it.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1273644621466423296"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>So what statue, if any, should stand atop Telegraph Hill at the foot of Coit Tower?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sayers-Roods, the Ohlone activist, said they would be glad to see a statue of an Italian historical figure who made positive strides, but that any future decision should be collaborative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would be for the city, the community, and the first people, the Raymatush Ohlone people, being involved in the conversation going forward,\" they said. \"It seems as though the news wants to pit indigenous people against Italian Americans. No, we just don't want to celebrate Columbus. I would joyously celebrate Italian American history for valid reasons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco, along with a number of other U.S. cities, have also voted in recent years to eliminate Columbus Day from their calendars and replace it with a day honoring indigenous people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statues of controversial figures have been coming down across the country as government officials rethink the impact and symbolism they have. In Kentucky, officials removed a statue of Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederacy, from the state Capitol. And in Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy, Gov. Ralph Northam has announced plans to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11825103/san-francisco-removes-controversial-christopher-columbus-statue-on-telegraph-hill","authors":["1263","11690"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_195","news_28134","news_27626","news_28031","news_1198","news_38","news_28135"],"featImg":"news_11825179","label":"news"},"news_11732637":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11732637","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11732637","score":null,"sort":[1552693756000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"literary-icon-lawrence-ferlinghetti-marks-his-100th-birthday-with-new-work","title":"Literary Icon Lawrence Ferlinghetti Marks His 100th Birthday With New Work","publishDate":1552693756,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]U[/dropcap]ntil recently, Lawrence Ferlinghetti was vacationing in Mexico, popping into \u003ca href=\"http://www.citylights.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">City Lights\u003c/a> — the trailblazing bookstore and publishing house he founded in San Francisco in the early 1950s — and working on his paintings and poetry. But the last couple years have been tough on the literary icon's body as he approaches his 100th birthday on March 24. Ferlinghetti is nearly blind, spends a lot of time resting and no longer does in-person interviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's an echo in my phone,\" he says when his aide, writer and curator Mauro Aprile Zanetti, connects our call. \"I'm not getting your voice very clearly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as soon as the connection clears up, Ferlinghetti is like a Formula One driver. He leaves me in the dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have an engine that doesn't run on petroleum!\" he says, with a wheezing chuckle. \"It runs on pure energy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poet, publisher and activist wants to start a revolution. But he says America isn't ready for it yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It would take a whole new generation not devoted to the glorification of the capitalist system,\" he says. \"A generation not trapped in the me, me, me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author's new autobiographical novel, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602500/little-boy-by-lawrence-ferlinghetti/9780385544788/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Little Boy\u003c/a>,” is coming out next week, too. And various San Francisco organizations have been planning \u003ca href=\"http://www.citylights.com/ferlinghetti/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">monthlong celebrations\u003c/a> in his honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are readings of his poetry, exhibitions of his paintings, parties, an olive tree planting and more. The San Francisco Mayor's Office is scheduled to announce an annual Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day on his birthday, March 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fuss is not unfounded. Ferlinghetti helped to change the face of literary culture in the United States when he co-founded City Lights in 1953 with Peter Martin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11732815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11732815\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Outside-City-Lights-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A view outside City Lights.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Outside-City-Lights-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Outside-City-Lights-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Outside-City-Lights-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Outside-City-Lights-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Outside-City-Lights-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Outside-City-Lights.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view outside City Lights. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bookstore and publisher became an institution, attracting and influencing literary figures across generations, from “On the Road” author Jack Kerouac to bestselling San Francisco writer and publisher Dave Eggers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everything we did was sort of influenced by City Lights,\" Eggers says. \"We were trying to stand on their shoulders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11732813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11732813\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-office-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Inside Ferlinghetti's office at City Lights.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-office-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-office-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-office-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-office-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-office-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-office.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside Ferlinghetti's office at City Lights. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Born in Yonkers, New York in 1919, Ferlinghetti came to California in the early 1950s, drawn to it as a place where people could start over. It was what he called this country’s \"last frontier.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferlinghetti's mission for City Lights was aligned with his socialist politics: to break poetry out of its stuffy academic cage and make it accessible to all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a massive risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were young and foolish,\" he says. \"And we had no money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In 2015, KQED spent time with Ferlinghetti, just before he turned 95.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr3G1Agw0xY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike other bookstores around the country, City Lights was open seven days a week and late into the night. He wanted to create a sense of community — a place for people to toss around ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, the business was originally focused on selling paperback books at a time when the literary establishment only cared about hardbacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Paperbacks weren't considered as real books,\" says Ferlinghetti. \"The only paperback books were murder mysteries and some science fiction books.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ferlinghetti was all about democratizing literature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11732811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11732811\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-books-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Volumes of poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-books-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-books-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-books-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-books-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-books-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-books.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volumes of poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City Lights weathered its fair share of ups and downs over the years, like financial woes, and Ferlinghetti’s arrest in 1957 on obscenity charges for publishing Allen Ginsberg’s groundbreaking, epic poem “Howl.” The charges were dropped, setting an important precedent for reduced censorship in the publishing world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Lights’ current publisher and director Elaine Katzenberger says the business continues to draw customers from all over the globe, despite the challenges facing today's publishing industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't have bestsellers, and we're not publishing bestsellers,\" Katzenberger says of cleaving to the founder's anti-commercial leanings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Staying true to those ideals and maintaining them, that's the hardest thing. And on the other hand, it's the most important thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Many thanks to Mauro Aprile Zanetti for his help with this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The San Francisco poet, publisher and activist is coming out with a new novel and celebrating his centennial on March 24. And he's as fiery as ever.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1553189537,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":715},"headData":{"title":"Literary Icon Lawrence Ferlinghetti Marks His 100th Birthday With New Work | KQED","description":"The San Francisco poet, publisher and activist is coming out with a new novel and celebrating his centennial on March 24. And he's as fiery as ever.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Literary Icon Lawrence Ferlinghetti Marks His 100th Birthday With New Work","datePublished":"2019-03-15T23:49:16.000Z","dateModified":"2019-03-21T17:32:17.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11732637 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11732637","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/03/15/literary-icon-lawrence-ferlinghetti-marks-his-100th-birthday-with-new-work/","disqusTitle":"Literary Icon Lawrence Ferlinghetti Marks His 100th Birthday With New Work","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2019/03/FerlinghettiBirthday.mp3","audioTrackLength":412,"path":"/news/11732637/literary-icon-lawrence-ferlinghetti-marks-his-100th-birthday-with-new-work","audioDuration":411000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">U\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ntil recently, Lawrence Ferlinghetti was vacationing in Mexico, popping into \u003ca href=\"http://www.citylights.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">City Lights\u003c/a> — the trailblazing bookstore and publishing house he founded in San Francisco in the early 1950s — and working on his paintings and poetry. But the last couple years have been tough on the literary icon's body as he approaches his 100th birthday on March 24. Ferlinghetti is nearly blind, spends a lot of time resting and no longer does in-person interviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's an echo in my phone,\" he says when his aide, writer and curator Mauro Aprile Zanetti, connects our call. \"I'm not getting your voice very clearly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as soon as the connection clears up, Ferlinghetti is like a Formula One driver. He leaves me in the dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have an engine that doesn't run on petroleum!\" he says, with a wheezing chuckle. \"It runs on pure energy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poet, publisher and activist wants to start a revolution. But he says America isn't ready for it yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It would take a whole new generation not devoted to the glorification of the capitalist system,\" he says. \"A generation not trapped in the me, me, me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author's new autobiographical novel, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602500/little-boy-by-lawrence-ferlinghetti/9780385544788/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Little Boy\u003c/a>,” is coming out next week, too. And various San Francisco organizations have been planning \u003ca href=\"http://www.citylights.com/ferlinghetti/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">monthlong celebrations\u003c/a> in his honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are readings of his poetry, exhibitions of his paintings, parties, an olive tree planting and more. The San Francisco Mayor's Office is scheduled to announce an annual Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day on his birthday, March 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fuss is not unfounded. Ferlinghetti helped to change the face of literary culture in the United States when he co-founded City Lights in 1953 with Peter Martin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11732815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11732815\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Outside-City-Lights-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A view outside City Lights.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Outside-City-Lights-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Outside-City-Lights-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Outside-City-Lights-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Outside-City-Lights-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Outside-City-Lights-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Outside-City-Lights.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view outside City Lights. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bookstore and publisher became an institution, attracting and influencing literary figures across generations, from “On the Road” author Jack Kerouac to bestselling San Francisco writer and publisher Dave Eggers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everything we did was sort of influenced by City Lights,\" Eggers says. \"We were trying to stand on their shoulders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11732813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11732813\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-office-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Inside Ferlinghetti's office at City Lights.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-office-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-office-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-office-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-office-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-office-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-office.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside Ferlinghetti's office at City Lights. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Born in Yonkers, New York in 1919, Ferlinghetti came to California in the early 1950s, drawn to it as a place where people could start over. It was what he called this country’s \"last frontier.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferlinghetti's mission for City Lights was aligned with his socialist politics: to break poetry out of its stuffy academic cage and make it accessible to all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a massive risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were young and foolish,\" he says. \"And we had no money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In 2015, KQED spent time with Ferlinghetti, just before he turned 95.\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/dr3G1Agw0xY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/dr3G1Agw0xY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Unlike other bookstores around the country, City Lights was open seven days a week and late into the night. He wanted to create a sense of community — a place for people to toss around ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, the business was originally focused on selling paperback books at a time when the literary establishment only cared about hardbacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Paperbacks weren't considered as real books,\" says Ferlinghetti. \"The only paperback books were murder mysteries and some science fiction books.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ferlinghetti was all about democratizing literature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11732811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11732811\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-books-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Volumes of poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-books-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-books-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-books-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-books-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-books-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Ferlinghetti-books.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volumes of poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City Lights weathered its fair share of ups and downs over the years, like financial woes, and Ferlinghetti’s arrest in 1957 on obscenity charges for publishing Allen Ginsberg’s groundbreaking, epic poem “Howl.” The charges were dropped, setting an important precedent for reduced censorship in the publishing world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Lights’ current publisher and director Elaine Katzenberger says the business continues to draw customers from all over the globe, despite the challenges facing today's publishing industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't have bestsellers, and we're not publishing bestsellers,\" Katzenberger says of cleaving to the founder's anti-commercial leanings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Staying true to those ideals and maintaining them, that's the hardest thing. And on the other hand, it's the most important thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Many thanks to Mauro Aprile Zanetti for his help with this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11732637/literary-icon-lawrence-ferlinghetti-marks-his-100th-birthday-with-new-work","authors":["8608"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_223","news_8"],"tags":["news_160","news_22557","news_1198","news_1222","news_38","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_11733313","label":"news_72"},"news_11658880":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11658880","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11658880","score":null,"sort":[1522653035000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"s-f-fire-marshal-there-were-no-sprinklers-in-business-where-massive-north-beach-fire-started","title":"S.F. Fire Marshal: There Were No Sprinklers in Business Where Massive North Beach Fire Started","publishDate":1522653035,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The restaurant where a large four-alarm fire began in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood last month did not have a sprinkler system, according to a top fire official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building at Union Street and Columbus Avenue, which was the scene of one of the city's biggest blazes in years, housed five businesses on the ground floor, including four eateries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Upon my site visit I only saw sprinklers in one of the restaurants, and it wasn't the restaurant where the area of origin of the fire was,\" said Dan De Cossio, the city's fire marshal, in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Would it have helped? Sure. Would it have controlled the fire long enough to prevent extension? I'm not so sure about that,\" De Cossio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators believe the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11656451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 17 fire\u003c/a> began in a flue or shaft in an area above the dropped ceiling of the restaurant's kitchen. The blaze burned through two floors of residential construction, sent large flames shooting into the sky and a huge amount of smoke wafting through the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scores of firefighters battled the fire. In just three hours they poured 1.8 million gallons of water on the blaze, according to data compiled by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire damaged seven businesses: five in the building that went up in flames and two others nearby. No one was living in the upper floors of the building but 15 residents in adjacent structures were displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze also led to a political skirmish involving Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who criticized Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White over how the Fire Department battled the blaze. Peskin \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11656794/s-f-supervisor-peskin-apologies-to-fire-chief-following-north-beach-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">apologized\u003c/a> days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Cossio is declining to release the name of the restaurant where investigators believe the fire started, citing an ongoing investigation. The four eateries on the first floor of the building are Tuk Tuk Thai Cafe, Ferry Plaza Seafood, the Salzburg and Rogue Ales Public House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All seven of the businesses impacted by the fire have applied for disaster mitigation funds, according to the Office of Economic and Workforce Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The structure that went up in flames has 11 separate owners, including several trusts, and was built in 1914, according to the San Francisco Assessor's Office\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Cossio says because the building is so old, sprinklers and fire alarms were not required to be installed in businesses on the first floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of large fires in San Francisco several years ago prompted some officials and tenant advocates to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11179855/s-f-could-require-some-older-apartment-buildings-to-get-sprinklers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">push\u003c/a> for more of the city's older apartment buildings to be equipped with sprinklers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time a fire official inspected the first floor of the building was in July 2016, according to De Cossio. The department inspects businesses like the restaurants on the ground floor only when prompted by complaints -- not on an annual basis, he said. Crews last inspected the upper floors in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire spread so quickly and got so big because of the construction being done on the building's two vacant residential floors, De Cossio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The building was in a compromised condition because it was under construction,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'Would it have helped? Sure,' said Fire Marshal Dan De Cossio.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1522690437,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":530},"headData":{"title":"S.F. 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Fire Marshal: There Were No Sprinklers in Business Where Massive North Beach Fire Started","path":"/news/11658880/s-f-fire-marshal-there-were-no-sprinklers-in-business-where-massive-north-beach-fire-started","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The restaurant where a large four-alarm fire began in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood last month did not have a sprinkler system, according to a top fire official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building at Union Street and Columbus Avenue, which was the scene of one of the city's biggest blazes in years, housed five businesses on the ground floor, including four eateries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Upon my site visit I only saw sprinklers in one of the restaurants, and it wasn't the restaurant where the area of origin of the fire was,\" said Dan De Cossio, the city's fire marshal, in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Would it have helped? Sure. Would it have controlled the fire long enough to prevent extension? I'm not so sure about that,\" De Cossio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators believe the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11656451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 17 fire\u003c/a> began in a flue or shaft in an area above the dropped ceiling of the restaurant's kitchen. The blaze burned through two floors of residential construction, sent large flames shooting into the sky and a huge amount of smoke wafting through the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scores of firefighters battled the fire. In just three hours they poured 1.8 million gallons of water on the blaze, according to data compiled by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire damaged seven businesses: five in the building that went up in flames and two others nearby. No one was living in the upper floors of the building but 15 residents in adjacent structures were displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze also led to a political skirmish involving Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who criticized Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White over how the Fire Department battled the blaze. Peskin \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11656794/s-f-supervisor-peskin-apologies-to-fire-chief-following-north-beach-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">apologized\u003c/a> days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Cossio is declining to release the name of the restaurant where investigators believe the fire started, citing an ongoing investigation. The four eateries on the first floor of the building are Tuk Tuk Thai Cafe, Ferry Plaza Seafood, the Salzburg and Rogue Ales Public House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All seven of the businesses impacted by the fire have applied for disaster mitigation funds, according to the Office of Economic and Workforce Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The structure that went up in flames has 11 separate owners, including several trusts, and was built in 1914, according to the San Francisco Assessor's Office\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Cossio says because the building is so old, sprinklers and fire alarms were not required to be installed in businesses on the first floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of large fires in San Francisco several years ago prompted some officials and tenant advocates to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11179855/s-f-could-require-some-older-apartment-buildings-to-get-sprinklers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">push\u003c/a> for more of the city's older apartment buildings to be equipped with sprinklers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time a fire official inspected the first floor of the building was in July 2016, according to De Cossio. The department inspects businesses like the restaurants on the ground floor only when prompted by complaints -- not on an annual basis, he said. Crews last inspected the upper floors in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire spread so quickly and got so big because of the construction being done on the building's two vacant residential floors, De Cossio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The building was in a compromised condition because it was under construction,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11658880/s-f-fire-marshal-there-were-no-sprinklers-in-business-where-massive-north-beach-fire-started","authors":["258"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6266","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19542","news_1198","news_1513"],"featImg":"news_11656452","label":"news_72"},"news_11656893":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11656893","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11656893","score":null,"sort":[1521587839000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"an-apology-pretty-much","title":"An Apology, Pretty Much","publishDate":1521587839,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18515,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/fiorepeskin\">issued an apology\u003c/a> to Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White after initially calling the response to a four-alarm North Beach fire \"an abject failure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin was sharply critical of the department's firefighting tactics during the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11656451\">fire at 659 Union St\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Peskin apologized, his written statement said he will \"reserve the right to raise questions as more information comes out about SFFD leadership response to Saturday night's fire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin issued an apology to Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White after initially calling the response to a four-alarm North Beach fire \"an abject failure.\"","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1521587839,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":5,"wordCount":77},"headData":{"title":"An Apology, Pretty Much | KQED","description":"San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin issued an apology to Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White after initially calling the response to a four-alarm North Beach fire "an abject failure."","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"An Apology, Pretty Much","datePublished":"2018-03-20T23:17:19.000Z","dateModified":"2018-03-20T23:17:19.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11656893 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11656893","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/03/20/an-apology-pretty-much/","disqusTitle":"An Apology, Pretty Much","path":"/news/11656893/an-apology-pretty-much","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/fiorepeskin\">issued an apology\u003c/a> to Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White after initially calling the response to a four-alarm North Beach fire \"an abject failure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin was sharply critical of the department's firefighting tactics during the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11656451\">fire at 659 Union St\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Peskin apologized, his written statement said he will \"reserve the right to raise questions as more information comes out about SFFD leadership response to Saturday night's fire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11656893/an-apology-pretty-much","authors":["3236"],"series":["news_18515"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_195","news_20150","news_17005","news_20949","news_1198","news_1513","news_1538"],"featImg":"news_11656898","label":"news_18515"},"news_11656794":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11656794","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11656794","score":null,"sort":[1521570821000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"s-f-supervisor-peskin-apologies-to-fire-chief-following-north-beach-fire","title":"S.F. Supervisor Peskin Apologizes to Fire Chief Following North Beach Blaze","publishDate":1521570821,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 12:45 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin has issued an apology to Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White after criticizing the way the Fire Department battled a four-alarm blaze Saturday night in North Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11656451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fire\u003c/a> at 659 Union St. damaged several businesses and displaced eight residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin criticized Hayes-White at the scene of the blaze for the department's decision to wait before dumping water on the outside of the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While I reserve the right to raise questions as more information comes out about SFFD leadership response to Saturday night's fire, it was inappropriate to raise them on the scene,\" Peskin wrote in a statement Tuesday morning. \"I apologize to Chief Hayes-White.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours later Mayor Mark Farrell applauded Peskin for apologizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the middle of a live fire to be criticizing the professional firefighters, literally as flames are dancing behind you, on how they're fighting the fire, unless you're a firefighter yourself, I think there's really no standing at all to be doing that,\" Farrell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it was wholly inappropriate, and I think he's doing the right thing,\" Farrell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials have defended their firefighting tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters say they arrived a minute after getting a call about the fire at 7:24 p.m. Saturday. Members of an engine crew forced their way through a locked door to get into the building as other firefighters and police officers evacuated businesses inside, fire officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes later, firefighters brought hoses into the building and searched for occupants. After finding no one inside, fire commanders decided to battle the blaze from the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Based on the totality of circumstances the department was confronted with, such as heavy fire load, and no occupants, the incident commander made the decision to fight this fire defensively,\" SFFD spokesman Jonathan Baxter wrote in a statement released Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is under investigation, but investigators believe it was accidental, Baxter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom O'Connor, president of San Francisco's main firefighters union, Local 798, who has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10914471/s-f-firefighter-leaders-say-morale-is-a-problem-and-the-chief-should-go\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pushed for Hayes-White to be replaced before\u003c/a>, said the chief made the right call on Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've had quarrels in the past with our chief, but it's about broader policy issues,\" O'Connor said. \"We've never had a quarrel about how to extinguish a fire and how we perform on the fire ground.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Supervisor had appeared at scene of four-alarm blaze on Saturday night and criticized Fire Department and chief for their tactics. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1521577835,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":405},"headData":{"title":"S.F. Supervisor Peskin Apologizes to Fire Chief Following North Beach Blaze | KQED","description":"Supervisor had appeared at scene of four-alarm blaze on Saturday night and criticized Fire Department and chief for their tactics. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"S.F. 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Supervisor Peskin Apologizes to Fire Chief Following North Beach Blaze","path":"/news/11656794/s-f-supervisor-peskin-apologies-to-fire-chief-following-north-beach-fire","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 12:45 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin has issued an apology to Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White after criticizing the way the Fire Department battled a four-alarm blaze Saturday night in North Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11656451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fire\u003c/a> at 659 Union St. damaged several businesses and displaced eight residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin criticized Hayes-White at the scene of the blaze for the department's decision to wait before dumping water on the outside of the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While I reserve the right to raise questions as more information comes out about SFFD leadership response to Saturday night's fire, it was inappropriate to raise them on the scene,\" Peskin wrote in a statement Tuesday morning. \"I apologize to Chief Hayes-White.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours later Mayor Mark Farrell applauded Peskin for apologizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the middle of a live fire to be criticizing the professional firefighters, literally as flames are dancing behind you, on how they're fighting the fire, unless you're a firefighter yourself, I think there's really no standing at all to be doing that,\" Farrell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it was wholly inappropriate, and I think he's doing the right thing,\" Farrell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials have defended their firefighting tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters say they arrived a minute after getting a call about the fire at 7:24 p.m. Saturday. Members of an engine crew forced their way through a locked door to get into the building as other firefighters and police officers evacuated businesses inside, fire officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes later, firefighters brought hoses into the building and searched for occupants. After finding no one inside, fire commanders decided to battle the blaze from the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Based on the totality of circumstances the department was confronted with, such as heavy fire load, and no occupants, the incident commander made the decision to fight this fire defensively,\" SFFD spokesman Jonathan Baxter wrote in a statement released Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is under investigation, but investigators believe it was accidental, Baxter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom O'Connor, president of San Francisco's main firefighters union, Local 798, who has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10914471/s-f-firefighter-leaders-say-morale-is-a-problem-and-the-chief-should-go\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pushed for Hayes-White to be replaced before\u003c/a>, said the chief made the right call on Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've had quarrels in the past with our chief, but it's about broader policy issues,\" O'Connor said. \"We've never had a quarrel about how to extinguish a fire and how we perform on the fire ground.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11656794/s-f-supervisor-peskin-apologies-to-fire-chief-following-north-beach-fire","authors":["258"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_195","news_17005","news_1198"],"featImg":"news_11656452","label":"news_6944"},"news_11656451":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11656451","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11656451","score":null,"sort":[1521348693000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"four-alarm-building-fire-sends-flames-high-into-north-beach-sky","title":"Four-Alarm Building Fire Sends Flames High into North Beach Sky","publishDate":1521348693,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated: Sunday, March 18, 1:10 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A four-alarm fire burned through a building at 659 Union Street between Powell and Columbus Streets in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood on Saturday night, sending diners and shoppers in the area running into the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire was under control early Sunday morning, and the Red Cross has confirmed that eight people are displaced from an adjacent building. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People did not live in the burnt building although there were several businesses on the ground floor, including Coit Liquors and Rogue Ales San Francisco Public House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One firefighter was injured after falling from a fire truck, but he is stable and expected to be OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sffdpio/status/975386089518084096\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An evacuation center is open at 1450 Powell St. to help those affected by the fire, according to the San Francisco Fire Department, which shared the information on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last night, San Francisco Fire Department spokesman Jonathan Baxter said the fire had been contained, but expected firefighters would be working through the night to put it out. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baxter said there were no injuries caused by the fire, and one business owner was displaced because his keys were left inside the building. A nearby apartment building at 575 Columbus Street was deemed temporarily uninhabitable due to water damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sffdpio/status/975228009010507776\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire was reported just before 7:30 p.m., and firefighters were on the scene within two minutes, according to Baxter. The fire department originally reported the second alarm on Twitter at 7:37 p.m. It was upgraded to a three and eventually four-alarm fire less than an hour later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sffdpio/status/975205833624584192\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sffdpio/status/975208013307904003\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flames could be seen high in the sky coming from the building along with a massive plume of smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFFD posted video of the flames tearing through the the building as firefighters shot water into its windows. Baxter said the building had 27 vacant residential units and five open businesses, all of which were filled with people when the fire broke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sffdpio/status/975203881725521920\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baxter said fire crews evacuated the building within 30 minutes and then began a defensive operation, attacking the flames with water from outside because of the severity of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials evacuated the block surrounding the fire, and they are asking people to avoid the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rania Aboueshwas was eating dinner at an Italian restaurant nearby when she said the smell of smoke started permeating the restaurant. She said most patrons thought it was the smell of cooking grilled chicken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she stepped out, she saw smoke and soon flames rising into the sky. She walked by bars blaring with music and packed with St. Patrick's Day revelers, unaware of the fire, right before police began evacuating the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was raining burnt ashes,\" Abouesh said. \"It happened so fast.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She could still see the flames billowing into the sky once she returned to her home near Russian Hill and Lombard Street. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisors London Breed and Aaron Peskin were on the scene as well as Mayor Mark Farrell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MarkFarrellSF/status/975238120156180480\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baxter says fire investigators are working with SFPD to find the cause of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press and Bay City News contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Fire officials say one firefighter has been injured after falling from a fire truck. 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She died at age 78 of complications related to kidney failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doda first went topless in 1964 at the Condor Club. 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