Slide 1 : Storytelling and Cultures San Francisco
A lyrical tour
Doug Henry
Sept 12, 2009
Slide 2 : Doug Henry
Doug_henry@msn.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/adam79/1649581019/
Slide 3 : San Francisco, California, USA Built on 23 hills.
Pop: 7 million (Bay Area)
770,000 San Francisco. Oldest building built in 1791 Mexico ceded
land in 1835.
1840’s gold rush.
1906 earthquake destroyed ¾ of city.
Bridges built 1936-1937.
Temp ave 63 F, 20 in rainfall.
Slide 4 : http://www.flickr.com/photos/xnuzha/1378260905/ “The loveliness of Paris seems somehow sadly gay” “The glory that was Rome is of another day” http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/188628880/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/7455207@N05/3521032041/ “I've been terribly alone and forgotten in Manhattan
I'm going home to my
city by the Bay
I left my heart in San Francisco
High on a hill, it calls to me…” “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” – Tony Bennett - 1962
Slide 5 : “To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars
The morning fog may chill the air, I don't care…” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LombardStreet.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39772828@N03/3681418280/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kudaker/1588558661/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kitkit201/189480589/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sutanto/1273584744/
Slide 6 : “San Francisco” – 1936 Movie and song
In this tale of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, MacDonald played a hopeful opera singer opposite Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy. “San Francisco, open your golden gate
You let no stranger wait who's been outside your door
San Francisco, here is your wandering one
Saying I'll wander no more” http://dic.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/50/258827.1020.A.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/vgm8383/3065932904/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bridgink/328848602/
Slide 7 : “San Francisco Blues” - Peggy Lee - 1962 “Let's go to:
Fisherman&'s Wharf
Top of the Mark
Telegraph Hill
Golden Gate Park
See de Young Museum
Go to old Chinatown
Go to the opera…” http://www.flickr.com/photos/karamccullar/2970467828/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sutanto/2119406313/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sutanto/467936506/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bush/1398018489/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohadby/1454799151/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dharmasf/944318814/
Slide 8 : http://www.flickr.com/photos/38832546@N00/2074287026/ - row houses
http://www.flickr.com/photos/siladi/2166931002/ - Victorian Sisters
http://www.flickr.com/photos/msdonnalee/2470564725/ - condo
http://www.inetours.com/images/Snglimg2/Pacific_Queen_Anne.jpg – queen Anne houses
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fly2bigbear/3516608270/ - flood mansion “Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of
ticky-tacky,” Little Boxes (Ticky-tacky) – Pete Seeger - 1963
Slide 9 : “And the children go to school.
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university,
And they all get put in boxes
And they all come out the same.” http://nephrology.medicine.ucsf.edu/parnaussuscampus.JPG - ucsf
http://www.bau-eng.com/images/sanfran.jpg - sfsu
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kap_cris/464197293/ - berkeley
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28490422@N04/2658055792/ - stanford
Slide 10 : “And the boys go into business,
And marry, and raise a family,
And they all get put in boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.”
Slide 11 : “If You're Going to San Francisco” - Scott Mckenzie - 1967
Haight-Ashbury - 60's - flower power http://www.flickr.com/photos/wili/146701698/ - Haight Ashbury
http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/00012/00012C94.jpg - protest
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00601/Woodstock385_601906a.jpg - flower children Celebrities in/around SF
George Lucas
Robin Williams
Sharon Stone
Nicolas Cage
Francis Ford Coppola
Danny Glover
Sean Penn
Amy Tan
Santana
Joan Baez
Michael Tilson Thomas
Diane Feinstein
Nancy Pelosi
Maya Angelou
Slide 12 : Thanks,
And good bye
From some famous
Statues in SF