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5:00 PM - Visitacion Valley History Nights
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12:00 PM - Mini City Tour
2:30 PM - Freestyle Watercolor Painting
3:00 PM - Light Up Paper Houses
2:00 PM - Reading the Model at Mission
2:00 PM - Reading the Model at Visitacion Valley
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6:30 PM - Reading the Model at Golden Gate
4:00 PM - Geocaching 101
3:30 PM - Build It LEGO City
10:00 AM - Mapping Our Memories
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5:30 PM - Reading the Model at Ocean View
6:00 PM - Reading the Model at Glen Park
6:00 PM - Reading the Model at Western Addition
5:00 PM - Visitacion Valley History Nights
3:30 PM - SF LEGO Challenge
2:00 PM - Yes, I Live Here!
2:30 PM - Reading the Model at Potrero
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7:00 PM - Bernal History Project
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3:30 PM - Reading the Model at Chinatown
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Feb
25/02/2019
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
While enormous federal feats like the Works Progress Administration or the Public Library System may seem utopic in 2019, they were the results of mass organization. What can we learn from the New Deal and from the grassroots progressive movements that have historically thrived in San Francisco? Where is this work being done today by activist groups, labor unions, and small business organizations? What can we look to in San Francisco’s past to inform the future and build better communities?
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Feb
26/02/2019
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
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Feb
During the New Deal, the San Francisco Planning Department commissioned a large-scale model of the city, complete with buildings, trees and roads. The model was kept in crates for decades, like a time capsule of San Francisco in the late 1930s. The model is filled with detail, but how can we evaluate it as a historical record? Luckily, we have data and tools we can use to compare the model to the living city. During this program, we will use 1938 aerial photographs of The Haight, The Panhandle and Alamo Square to analyze the model for completeness, accuracy and detail. Then, using modern satellite imagery, we will investigate how the city has changed over the past 80 years.
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Feb
27/02/2019
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Some of our bridges are golden, some are gray, but perhaps the most interesting ones are invisible. San Francisco’s infrastructures, both physical and social, enable and inhibit movement across and around the city. How are the Presidio and Bayview-Hunters Point connected? Why do some people feel uncomfortable crossing Van Ness Avenue? Join us as we explore the invisible connections and barriers created by people, as well as geography.
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Mar
02/03/2019
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
"The Fillmore (1999), an Emmy-winning PBS documentary, tells the dramatic story -- the rise and fall (and rise again?) of San Francisco's premier Black community, as it faced urban renewal.
The film chronicles neighborhood history, including the 1906 earthquake, the World War II removal of Japanese citizens, & the tumultuous 1960's. A discussion with film maker Peter L. Stein to follow.
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Mar
02/03/2019
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
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Mar
03/03/2019
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
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Mar
06/03/2019
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
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Mar
07/03/2019
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Geocaching is an in-real-life (irl) treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices such as a smart phone. Participants navigate to GPS coordinates and attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location. See geocaching.com for all the information you need to get started! Learn how to participate in SFPL's treasure hunt at Richmond Branch!
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Mar
Inspired by the San Francisco city model pieces on display at libraries, author Lorri Ungaretti shares her expertise on the history of the Sunset District, inspired by our neighborhood's part of the 1938 wooden model of San Francisco that is on display at San Francisco libraries this winter. Her 4 books about the Sunset include Stories in the Sand: San Francisco's Sunset District, 1847-1964, and most recently, Legendary Locals of San Francisco's Richmond, Sunset, and Golden Gate Park. Join us for a wonderful evocation of western San Francisco history!
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Mar
13/03/2019
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
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Mar
13/03/2019
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
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Mar
13/03/2019
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
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Mar
What do you like about your neighborhood? What would you like to add to it? Come make a map with your own ideas! You’ll have paint, glitter, markers, fabric and more! Tell us your thoughts. Do you like to shop with your family on San Bruno Avenue? What do you see when you walk to school? There’s an old movie theater there, what movies would you like to see? Do you like music? Would you like to listen to it in McLaren Park? How do you like to dance? Can you sing a song of you? Would you like to float a boat in McNab Lake? How does a parade of your neighborhood look? You can add your ideas to an even bigger map and take your picture in front of the whole thing.
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Mar
17/03/2019
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
21/03/2019
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Meet author Kate Schatz and artist Miriam Klein Stahl, the awe-inspiring women behind the New York Times best-selling books Rad American Women A to Z, Rad Women Worldwide and Rad Girls Can. Come for a lively event filled with real stories of amazing women and make art celebrating the rad women in your life. Book sale and signing hosted by the Friends of San Francisco Public Library.
This program is part of Culture for Community: Free Day. For free tickets and more information, click event for link.
23/03/2019
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Join us for a reading in celebration of Gina Apostol’s critically-acclaimed new novel Insurrecto - one of Publisher Weekly’s best books of 2018, “witty and stylish” according to NPR, and a “bravura performance” proclaimed the NY Times and Asian Review of books - following the journey of two women, an American filmmaker and Filipino translator, and their dueling accounts of a dark and forgotten massacre in Samar during the Philippine-American War. This special afternoon highlights stories located in the heart of the Philippines and the United States, illustrating the often untold and intertwined histories of both nations. Gina Apostol will be joined by Bay Area-based Elaine Castillo who will read from her novel America is Not the Heart. Apostol and Castillo will be in conversation following the readings.
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Mar
Woody LaBounty will give a presentation on the massive, 3-D scale model of San Francisco created by the Works Progress Administration in the late 1930s. Described by someone recently as "a pre-Internet Google Street View," the mostly-wood 37' x 40' model depicts every structure standing in the city at the time. Parks, lakes, theatres, schools, and even the color schemes of individual houses are accurately represented. Today, the model provides a fascinating historical viewpoint of a San Francisco both familiar and alien at the same time. Woody will explain the purpose and creation of the model as well as point out highlights, changes, and the development of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood using sections of the model on display in the branch.
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Mar
23/03/2019
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
Event Type
Library Branch
- Anza
- Bayview /Linda Brooks Burton
- Bernal Height
- Chinatown
- Eureka Valley
- Excelsior
- Glen Park
- Golden Gate Valley
- Ingleside
- Main
- Marina
- Merced
- Mission
- Mission Bay Branch
- Noe Valley
- North Beach
- Oceanview
- Ortega
- Park
- Parkside
- Portola
- Potrero
- Presidio
- Public Knowledge (SFMOMA)
- Richmond
- Sunset
- Visitacion Valley
- West Portal
- Western Addition