SFist: Archival Footage of 1960 City Hall Protest

Greg

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:27:31 -0800

The Google, the Wikipedia and my short attention span are killing me right now, but I seem to remember a documentary on KRON or KQED ages ago that indicated that a young lawyer named Willie Brown stood up for the protesters, in his pre-politician days. He ran in 1962 (!) and lost but ran again in 1964 and won and well there you go. It was funny to see Gavin rip on anyone older than 42 at the convention and hear lefties rip on John Burton and the fact is these guys despite what you may think now, back in the day DID stick their necks out on the very very outspoken movements of their day. Find a Democrat or a Republican member of the Legislature that isn't working to pad their resume with BS to run for some other office now, and you get a gold foil star. I don't plan on handing any out anytime soon!

Leanne Maxwell

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:46:58 -0800

Cool, I'll write a preview post about it soon!

footage

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:35:48 -0800

This footage, like the rest of the historical images of San Francisco that bobster1985 offers on flickr, comes from our collection, which is Prelinger Archives. Full versions can be downloaded at http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger, which is where bobster found them. I'm showing "Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 3", a compilation of historical material showing the city between 1906 and 1970, on May 16 at the Exploratorium. Come on by!