extreme beauty. please help me in welcoming phil ginsberg recreation and parks. >> good morning, everybody, on behalf of the recreation and parks i'm very happy to stand before you today to kickoff this wonderful celebration. we are proud and extremely humble stewards of this site. the mayor spoke of this celebration then and now and tomorrow. it's incredibly significant. parks are more than swing sets and playgrounds. as joyous as they are, they are part of our natural cultural heritage, the place that connects the then, now and tomorrow. when we think about what's before us and commemorating this celebration and this site is

incredible then now and tomorrow story as itself as noted back in 1915 when the exposition took place. more than 11 800-0000 people from all around the world came to a park. today we have millions of visitors to golden gate park and some of our other incredible cultural attractions. the then for us also celebrates the decades and decades that the exploratorium was in this site where millions of people and families and kids passed through this very space to explore and to learn and to focus on community. the then has also been about more than 40 years that the theatre just across the way here has hosted community music and theatre events again

welcoming our diverse community from all around the city. the now, is i hangar and the incredible celebration that is going to take place and the now that we are so proud to be focusing on right here. the now is the joyous and really really remarkable park that this has become thanks to our partnership with the may back foundation. the mayor noted $22 million exacting renovation of the grounds and lagoon and rotunda. the tomorrow, in addition to this year long celebration is a big question mark for us. what will this space be for the next 50-100 years is? we don't know. what we do know is whatever this space becomes

is going to honor the incredible history and culture of this site and invest it and steward it to make sure we celebrate the bicentennial. i want to acknowledge the california historical society who has been a fantastic partner and we are so grateful for them for taking this on and taking the time and attention this site deserves. this is a pop up version of what's going to open in february and you can already see with ka boom, you can see this place come to life. of course we want to thank our presenting partners, at & t, thank you, ken. a special shout out to my team

because this morning there was so much prosperity here, mayor. there was about 2 feet of prosperity outside the big walls and you all would have needed a canoe to cross over the sea of prosperity to get here and the many men and women who take care of this place have been out here since 6:30 a.m. this morning to make sure the joyous amount of water around here had parted, the sea had parted. i wanted to thank the crew and i want to thank my partnership and property management team, dina is here and cassandra is leading the process to help us identify who the next partner will be in this space, our public affairs team, like this endeavor we are a team

at recreation and parks and we are very proud to contribute. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you so much phil and all recreation and parks team. you are a dendrite -- delight and pleasure to work with. it's now my pleasure to introduce at & t in california in 2005, we would like to thank you for allah -- affairs and many of his colleagues are here today. just about 36,000 employees, give or take and he does it with grace and dignity. it's my pleasure to welcome our sponsor ken mcmillie. [ applause ] >> good morning and what a pleasure it is to be in such a stunning

stunning building and park. thank you so much and thank you to the california historical society and innovation hangar and san francisco recreation and parks department for this wonderful celebration. i also want to thank mayor lee and many of those in this community with us today. we all know that the pan pacific exposition was the change in san francisco not only because it revealed the city but it continues to show case the energy and spirit that san francisco is a terminology leader. we are proud to be the sponsor of this exciting event celebrating this city in a country rich of innovation. it was right here in san francisco leading to the world

fair in 1915 that at & t initiated the first ever transcontinental telephone call and it wasn't an iphone. the telecommunication industry in the world we live today. it was in san francisco that the 100 years of celebration and this will exhibit the programs throughout the long celebration. we also know this innovation depends on our youth and will inspire the years to tackle the challenges of the technology base economy and that's why we are glad to make an additional $50,000 contribution for the program executed by the california historical society and partnership with the san francisco

recreation and parks department after school program and the national parks service. [ applause ] this program willen game engage hundreds of local students and local institutions participating. at & t thanks the california historical society and all the partners who have come together to celebrate this important event in our history, in our city and in our nation. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> thank you, ken. we are deeply honored and very much and

this program will hold a very special place in our heart. thank you very much. it's my pleasure to introduce you to dan from the innovation hangar. he comes from a long and fascinating career even though he's so young and youthful and taken a very deep and meaningful path to his career in which he combines an incredible creative spirit, deep knowledge of tech, an incredible entrepreneurial sense and very deep guiding sense of sustainability on philanthropic side and he will bring his great spirit to all he

does here and it's my pleasure to ask had i am to come up. thank you. [ applause ] >> welcome. it's very exciting to see everybody here and for you to begin to feel the excitement and atmosphere that comes with a sense of place. place is very important and it's actually the driving force that let us to do the things that hopefully you will get a chance to enjoy over the next year. it comes with the idea if you bring a lot of people together from different backgrounds with different skill sets and different needs and motivations together they can create something better than apart. moreover, this place has an important message through the notion of world's fairs. world's

fairs are the greatest example of power and place whether it's 1939. these are moments in our history and innovation loves a deadline. i will tell you. when these world fairs were coming together there were very intense moments when dreams came to reality to be able to show case to the world. don't get me wrong. there is a very important part of the virtual world and i have been part of it for a long time with the dubious contention with the very first cellular data to be able to send a text message from a moving vehicle. i'm not sure if that's entirely positive, but, at the time it seemed like it was pretty cool and we thought we can do

great things. and spent some time working with the federal government and at the time i saw so many of my colleagues and friends involved with text and to come up way to change the world to find funding and there wasn't a good path and there wasn't a way to find help to link them through the federal government and the private sector. the impetus was if we brought entrepreneurs as investors and the general public come and demystify the general process to make it happen. that's why we are here and working to bring it together. that's why we have the tenure in this space and creative to come altogether and the energy is palpable. the partners that you are beginning to move in to occupy the

space are the essence of innovation in its best form and people that are here to promote social impact in so many ways. i think very importantly and then i will get off your stage is we have partners like maker and maker media that have a very different view of who will innovate for the future. many of the world's fairs by necessity hat had a top down view by large organizations of what this would look like. by celebrating the centennial, by celebrating what this has become is a place where many people are going to be able to come up with the future and many different versus of the future and many different paths to innovation and that's what we are here to do and excited to do and lastly,

it's an incredible responsibility that i'm incredibly grateful for to be the curator of this space. audrey talks to me, she's the angel when i'm here very late at night. the gravitate of this space is something i have never seen. people just knock on the door and want to come in. i'm excited that for many years, the general public will have access to this place, the different languages of innovation and hopefully take that with them, take it back to where they can be

inspired themselves. thank you very much and glad to be here. [ applause ] >> thank you so much, dan, for helping us dream about what is within these beautiful walls and right in this space leading over to the fireplace will be about a 10,000 square foot exhibition that the california historical society headed by jessica how will be produced and we'll have a jewel box on our gallery on mission street and all of our partners love this and dan in welcoming you in kicking off this event on february 20th. i'm deeply grateful for all of you who have been here and all of you with blessings for prosperity. please

go to our website. ppa 100.org which is a lot better to say than the panama canal exposition. we invite you to the board around you as you imagine what will be here. before we ceremoniously open these doors, you will remember as you come to the exploratorium as my husband and my sons come here that you came to a very different orientation to this space. as dan mentioned you will enter through these doors starting february 20th. we'll peak to see if it's still raining, but before that, i will ask mr. mayor lee and laura to come up here. laura has spent 25

years understanding the world fair, she started when she was ten and it's been a lifelong process. she would like to make a presentation and afterwards we will all exit and i give you a truly amazing scholar and phenomenal woman deeply dedicated and passionate advocate and this book that was brought into world is one of the shining stars to this centennial. >> thank you so much, cynthia. mayor lee, may i beg your presence on back of the historical society and myself i would like to present you with a copy of my book. mayor edwin m. lee: thank you

very much. [ applause ] >> thank you, i hope you enjoy it. thank you. >> all right. mayor lee, you have to come up one more time. this is an official badge. c'mon up. thank you for the honor of making me the liaison for the centennial. i'm thrilled. i would like to present you with this original badge from the 1915 exposition, the opening day. can i pin it on you? mayor edwin m. lee: sure. >> this is what would have been worn on this day to enter the gate. you are now official. thank you for everything you are doing. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you all so much. this officially ends, oops. madam

would like to address you. >> i just wanted to say when the mayor gave us the instructions, i think they were instructions with go do this. we got together with the office with phil and with all the organizations that really had an interest and there we said what we were going to do and everybody was interested and you took the reigns, you volunteered. just remember that everyday, you volunteered and you put this together. all of this takes leadership obviously it starts with the mayor and for your leadership for getting everybody together has been wonderful. the other thing when the mayor came he said he was going to try to control his enthusiasm for this event. >> how did it go? >> the chief from the protocol office

you have now permission for the uncontrollable for this enter. donna, we want to call her a diva and she does have uncontrollable enthusiasm. and where is chief? >> lastly, mayor, this book, "a jewel city" i bet we can get this at a good price. and this is the gift to people who come to see the jewel city. >> one last thing i just wanted to thank those for bringing this incredible model t today. it's exactly what you would have seen

coming off the ford assembly line at the exhibition. >> thank you and welcome. let's go open those doors. >> >> >>

we are celebrating the glorious grand opening of the chinese rec center. ♪ 1951, 60 years ago, our first kids began to play in the chinese wrecks center -- rec center. >> i was 10 years old at the time. i spent just about my whole life here. >> i came here to learn dancing. by we came -- >> we had a good time. made a lot of friends here. crisises part of the 2008 clean neighborhood park fund, and this is so important to our families. for many people who live in chinatown, this is their backyard. this is where many people come to congregate, and we are so

happy to be able to deliver this project on time and under budget. >> a reason we all agreed to name this memorex center is because it is part of the history of i hear -- to name this rec center, is because it is part of the history of san francisco. >> they took off from logan airport, and the call of duty was to alert american airlines that her plane was hijacked, and she stayed on the phone prior to the crash into the no. 9 world trade center. >> i would like to claim today the center and the naming of it. [applause] >> kmer i actually challenged me

to a little bit of a ping pong -- the mayor actually challenge me to a little bit of a ping- pong, so i accept your challenge. ♪ >> it is an amazing spot. it is a state of the art center. >> is beautiful. quarkrights i would like to come here and join them >> sorry for the late start but parking prevented us from having a quorum on time. yes we need more parking commissioner bustos says. this is the regular meeting on community investment and infrastructure the success or e