momentous occasion. anybody who has visited my office, once you come in, you will see probably about 20 to 25 stuffed mickey mouses on my bookshelf. just a mickey mouse fan. and the first time i walked into mayor lee's office, there was a giant mickey mouse sitting in a chair -- stuffed mickey mouse sitting in it a chair, and i, of course was really pleased to see. made me feel welcome. and i told him, you've got to tell me the story of the mickey mouse sitting here. and he said it was from his beautiful wife, anita. he said she gave it to him because on those tough days when maybe a few people wanted to say something as pleasant as he wanted it to be, she said, if you come in your office, and you look at mickey, you can't help but smile.

so that immediately made me feel welcomed into his office. i immediately discovered the same way he made me feel that welcome, he was that considerate and thoughtful to anyone from c.e.o.s to the young people in our schools. i had the opportunity to walk classes with him, visit schools. any time he was with a child, his attention immediately went to the children, and he just broke into conversations with thim about their futures. he and i coshared the our children, our families council. it's a 42 member advisory body, charged with promoting coordination and increasing accessibility and enhancing the effectiveness of programs for the children and youth of san francisco. as you also heard, he brokered the relationship between sales force.org and our district which has provided over the last

years, over $35 million for our district, and yesterday, it was just announced that we'll be receiving another 8.5 million this year. he recognized the challenges of many of our african american families, and he called for my brother's, my sister's keeper efforts. our common goal was to give students, especially those furthest from opportunity, a greater chance of staying and thriving in san francisco. but mayor lee's dedication to our public schools extended beyond his office. mayor lee and his wife anita, and his two daughters aattended the san francisco unified schools. they've been long time advocates for public education and have served as a welcoming bridge to the city's immigrant youth. the values that mayor lee and anita bring are aligned with our mission, and our mission is that each and every day, for each and

every student, we will give quality instruction and equitiable support that's required to thrive in the 21st century, and that's truly what they believe. here at the edwin and anita lee newcomers school, teachers are committed to see that mission comes to fruition by providing strong foundation in economic subjects in a positive and nurturing environment, and i am so proud and honored to see this school named the edwin and anita lee newcomers school. with that, it gives me great pleasure to introduce our mayor, mayor london breed. [applause] >> the hon. london breed

>> the hon. london breed: malfunction. ed lee wouldn't have had that kind of malfunction with heels on the stage. you know, it's truly an honor to be here today to represent this amazing city as mayor, and it's really an honor to be here with the lee family. and i just -- you know, i still feel his presence when i attend certain events. i still sometimes feel like he's going to walk-through the door so i can bug him and complain him with things about the city. but now, people do that with me, and now i know how he feels. he did it with a smile, he cared about our public schools, our children, their future. so he went beyond what a traditional mayor does and got involved and invested in our kids, especially kids in middle school, where there was oftentimes a lot of challenges. and i can tell you this from personal experiences, with behavioral issues.

he knew that that was a place where sadly we often would lose so many kids, and they, in some cases, wouldn't even make it to high school. and so to take on this initiative, to take care of new programs and stem for our middle school students was absolutely incredible, an amazing program, as hide rotalkydra talked about invested millions in opportunity for kids who are basically going to go onto do amazing things. the teacher housing and investment of $44 million in this new housing for teachers. he didn't just look at one thing to solve the challenges of the future that our kids face, he looked at the bigger picture and made the appropriate investments, which is why he was such a great leader and a great

mayor for this city. we are so honored and grateful to you, anita, for the work that you continue to do to support his legacy, the work that you both pushed for here in san francisco, the sacrifices that you made, raising your daughters, sending them to public schools. i went to public school myself, and san francisco produces some of the best kids, who -- including malia cohen, who's behind me, our superintendent and others -- yes. oh, i didn't see you all over here. but the fact is look at what happens when we invest in children on the front end. the opportunity that they can grow and blossom creates what we see here today, and so i'm just honored to push forward what i know mayor lee would have wanted us to do: continue to support our kids, continue to make these

investments, continue to provide these scholarships and bridge the gap between our communities. we do have so much work to do, and to name this school in the honor of mayor lee and anita lee is truly deserving for the work that you've done to develop the next generation of young people here in the city and county of san francisco. and i want to thank you and mrs. lee, and thank you so much all for being here today. thank you. [applause] >> as ed would say, good morning. they got the lesson. to mrs. lee and the lee family, all of us here collectively hug

you and your family for giving ed lee to our city. to our superintendent and the leadership of our school district, to victor, the principal of this school and the leadership of this school. to all of you who lead chinatown, our chinese community, our san francisco community, thank you for being part of the community that supported mayor lee. as i was walking here today through chinatown, like all of you, i think we all had so many thoughts and memories. virtually every block that i walk-through in chinatown, i have a memory of a conversation with our former mayor, including conversations on this very alleyway. i was told i had 60 seconds, and like mayor lee, i'm going to be short, and i'm only going to issue one hope. these children who are with us today, they represent thousands

of little boys and girls who are going to pass underneath the sign of this school. and my hope is there's a little boy or a little girl today or sometime in the future who is the child of immigrants, who's the child of a restaurant worker or a seamstress, who goes to public school, who gets educated as -- at a public university, who goes to bolt, who comes back to chinatown to service chinese tenants and chinese workers, who may go off to work for the city, who may go onto lead our city. my hope is sometimes there's a child from this school who is the next mayor of the city and county of san francisco, and that will be because of the spirit and the conscience and the heart of ed lee that will

live here in this school forever, that will live amongst us and will live in the hearts and the minds and the souls and the consciences of these children. ed, godspeed. thank you. [applause] >> good morning. all right. thank you. thank you, students. good morning. thank you for singing to us. i love the song. i -- i was struggling to understand exactly the lyrics, but i love the song. i understood ed lee and anita lee. so the lee family, thank you. i think it's incredibly important for us to up lift and continue to remember what a great man ed lee was. anita, perhaps one day, you will have grandchildren. no pressure, tanya, breanna. one day, perhaps you will have

grandchildren that you will be able to point to the sign and say this was -- this was named after your grandfather. and to mayor lee's mother and sister, thank you very much for sharing your brother and your son with us. and to the larger community, i woke up excited today because i think that it's an exciting time for us to remember good people, and quite frankly, newcomer was an ugly name, and i can't think of a better name, a better name than ed lee, anita lee. it's just a warm feeling that i get when i think about the lee family and the contributions that they've made to all of san francisco. i'm grateful for the fresh faces and the students that will maybe one day grow up and out of curiosity study and understand who ed lee was, his principles, his legacy. on the doors, there's a quote from ed lee: live boldly.

keep your doors open for others. i want to recognize the leadership of the school district for stepping up and recognizing an opportunity, and i want to thank the leadership of our city and perhaps the future david chiu is sitting right over here. who knows? i'm grateful for the opportunity just to give a few remarks and to share how delighted i am to be here with everyone to remember my good friend, ed lee. next, i'd like to bring up my friend and former colleague, carmen chiu, who's the assessor of our great city and county. [applause] >> josan. good morning, everybody. good morning. i think, you know, in the spirit of our former mayor, he would

probably be looking out at this crowd and seeing a lot of friends and family, and he would be probably making a joke about why there's more adults than children here today, right? but i know that education that he cared so much about, and i just want to thank each and every one of you for taking sometime to be here today at this dedication and renaming ceremony. ed is someone that we knew and worked very closely with us. i'll tell you, some of the most shining moments i had with him when he was at the schools. he was always interested in what the kids were learning. he was always interested in inspiring the kids and making them laugh and having them have a wonderful start to their day. i think hydra spoke a lot about some of the accomplishments that he did quietly on behalf of education in our public schools. i will say he always talked to me about why education was so important. for him and myself, being part of an immigrant family, my parents never had the chance to go to school. they never finished college or

even elementary school, so when they came here, and they raised my sisters and i, education to us was the most important thing. it was the most important thing for my family to be able to create opportunity for our lives, and i know ed felt the same way about it. for many of you that don't know, ed, i think many of you don't know, in his life, anita was actually a great educator for him. she was someone who continued to motivate him, who stood by his side, who gave him counsel on so many different issues, and i think she's worth recognizing today, as well. i think for many people do not know, his chinese actually got better because of anita. he would always ask her, how do you say this, how do you say that, and she would always laugh at him and give him the right pronunciation. she was always there to give him his chinese soup that he wanted

to put aside and have his almond joy, instead. i couldn't be more happy to recognize today's naming ceremony not only on behalf of our late mayor, ed, but also his partner anita, someone who mattered so much to his success. you know, when we talk about our education, we have a school that is dedicated to making sure our newcomers, our new you immigrants are -- our new immigrants are welcome here and have a fighting chance in this. when people come here, trying to get acclimated to communities, to know that their english isn't quite there yet, but they have an opportunity to learn, they walk to school today, like god, i wonder who this anita and ed guy is? what did they do? to have them be able to say, oh,

this person was our mayor and first lady. this person has contributed so much that helped our city grow, who provided leadership, is an inspiration. when i was growing up, we didn't have many chinese elected mayors, we didn't have many anything. to have someone who led san francisco and to say wow, they came from an immigrant family. they look like me. they came from experiences like me is something that is incredibly inspiring. so today's ceremony, i just want to say thank you to the school's leadership for recognizing how important this is for the generations to come. thank you to the lee family for all the work that you do and continue to do for our city. we will make sure this school thrives. we will make sure that opportunities for our immigrants in san francisco continue to be

protected. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, carmen. when we were deciding what school we should name after ed and anita, we naturally went to the middle schools because that's where he made such a large investment. but our next speakers will demonstrate why the chinese ed center was the right school to name the ed and anita lee newcomers school, and i want to thank victor for making sure that we caught -- you caught our attention. i'd like to invite jane au, and students to come and share some words. and these are teachers and students here at our school.

[applause] >> good morning. my name is jane au, and i am a teacher here at the edwin and anita lee newcomers school. i am a former student who wholly supports this name change. i often say i graduated from the chinese education center. same yard, same building, same story. that year is special to me, since it was my only elementary school experience here in the u.s. although the experience was phenomenal, the name of the school misled me into thinking that i was enrolled in a center and not an actual school. even today, i fear residents and city residents and parents who misunderstand the mission of our school because of its old name.

as witnessed today, we are just more than a language school. we strive to help our immigrant children and families adjust to their new home and to the unfamiliar cultures that come with it. just like the school has helped me when i was a student here. our new school name amplifies the impact by learning about mr. and mrs. lee's community aachievement -- achievements, our students will be inspired to do more for the community. therefore as aformer alumnus, i am honored to take part in the name change. now, other students will take part in the name change. >> hi. my name is soon lee. i am in united states for four months. before that, i live in china.

before the name change, i did not know a lot about mayor lee. after, i know more about mayor lee. it makes me want to learn new stories about my community. thank you. [applause] >> hi. my name is chen, and i am new fourth grade. i have been america for four months. i am from china. edwin and anita lee newcomers

school. [speaking native language] >> thank you. >> hi. my name is eddy and i am in fourth grade. i have been in america for six months. before that i was in china. after learning about how mayor lee helped our community, i was empowered to help my community, too. thank you. [applause] >> we'll now give our current and future students more reason to proudly say that they attend the edwin and anita lee newcomers school as their first school in america and know that they have aspiring leaders like mr. and mrs. lee to look up to. thank you. [applause] >> it gives me great pleasure to introduce anita louie of the

s.f. chinatown rotary club to speak now. >> good morning, everyone. josan. this is a very proud and historical day for our community volunteers. i am just the face of many volunteers who have spent a lot of time volunteering at this school, and in a lot of ways, we look at it as our second home. there are many organizations that come and volunteer, and i just want to name a few. the rotary club of san francisco chinatown, we have the lion's club, we have salesforce. we have many financial institutions and many friends from the hilton hotels. in fact, anita herself told me that when she has time, that she wants to even come and volunteer. isn't that right, anita?

[applause] >> so you, too, can be a volunteer here. come see me afterwards, no problem. i want to thank anita, tanya, breanna, lina, and mrs. lee for embracing this renaming idea. and frankly, i think the school picked you. it's a blessing to know that the children who now walk-through these halls and in the future will learn to know and love you, anita, and ed, the way we all do. i'm forever grateful to the mayor's office, to london, to the board of supervisors, to all the elected officials, and to you, a special shout out to hydra mendoza. i'd like to give a special

recognition and shout out to the members of the edwin and anita lee -- no, excuse me, the edwin m. democratic club, and thank you for keeping the contributions and the memory of ed alive. hydra, you are really one amazing person, and i wish you the best of luck when you go to new york. but at this time, i'd like to recognize one person. you see, in 2017, commissioner dr. emily merase helped with the naming of the anita fong centennial library. this is a language lab and library created by the rotary club of san francisco chinatown and which is located really right under our feet. it's on the second floor, and i welcome you to go and view it yourself. so these are two things that

emily has helped make happen at this school, so emily, could you come up here at this time? >> i just wanted to being acknowledge that this representation here from the chinese consulate, miss lee, and the office of katey tang, thank you for being here today. i really wanted to come up here and give a huge shout out to principal victor tam, and anita louie who i call a force of nature for bringing us here today. so let's give them a big hand. it's really their effort that will ensure that generations of students will be writing book reports on anita and edwin lee, and that countless families throughout san francisco will learn about their school, whether they're picking up their enrollment guide or passing by in the alley, that this is an important school within one of

the top performing school districts -- urban school districts in the entire state. thank you. [applause] >> so it gives me great honor at this time to present tanya lee, who will speak on behalf of the family. tanya. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. excuse me if i get a little emotional. oftentimes, my mom asks me to speak for her because it's so hard. she misses my dad so much. he would be so proud of this renaming. so i'm honored to speak today on behalf of my family. a lot of people say i look like

my dad, if i had a mustache, so you could imagine him speaking through me today. so on behalf of my mom, anita lee, and my auntie lina, and my grandma, pansy, and our incredible family, we are so grateful to have this school renamed the edwin and anita lee newcomers school. thank you to the efforts of president hydra mendoza and principal victor tam, and commissioner emily merase, and our good friend, venita louie. and everyone else who supported this effort and wrote letters to support this effort, as well. both of my parents have been strong advocates for creating opportunities for immigrants to thrive here in san francisco and

across the nation. we as a family are so inspired by this school, the amazing students, the tireless and dedicated staff, and the generous supporters who all contribute to this vital work. we are humbled and grateful to have our family name associated with you all today. thank you very much. [applause] >> at this time, we are going to have a second song from our students here.

[student singing] >> so we'd like to invite the teachers and parents here at the edwin and anita lee newcomers school to come up and give a

presentation.

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

francisco. >> my name is fwlend hope i would say on at large-scale what all passionate about is peace in the world. >> it never outdoor 0 me that note everyone will think that is a good i know to be a paefrt. >> one man said i'll upsetting the order of universe i want to do since a good idea not the order of universe but his offered of the universe but the ministry sgan in the

room chairing sha harry and grew to be 5 we wanted to preach and teach and act god's love 40 years later i retired having been in the tenderloin most of that 7, 8, 9 some have god drew us into the someplace we became the network ministries for homeless women escaping prostitution if the months period before i performed memorial services store produced women that were murdered on the streets of san francisco so i went back to the board and said we say to do something the number one be a safe place for them to live while he worked on changing 4 months later we were given the building in january of

1998 we opened it as a safe house for women escaping prostitution i've seen those counselors women find their strength and their beauty and their wisdom and come to be able to affirmative as the daughters of god and they accepted me and made me, be a part of the their lives. >> special things to the women that offered me a chance safe house will forever be a part of the who i've become and you made that possible life didn't get any better than that. >> who've would know this look of this girl grown up in atlanta will be working with produced women in san francisco part of the system that has abused and

expedited and obtain identified and degraded women for century around the world and still do at the embody the spirits of women that just know they deserve respect and intend to get it. >> i don't want to just so women younger women become a part of the the current system we need to change the system we don't need to go up the ladder we need to change the corporations we need more women like that and they're out there. >> we get have to get to help them. >> >> growing up in san francisco has been way safer than growing

up other places we we have that bubble, and it's still that bubble that it's okay to be whatever you want to. you can let your free flag fry he -- fly here. as an adult with autism, i'm here to challenge people's idea of what autism is. my journey is not everyone's journey because every autistic child is different, but there's hope. my background has heavy roots in the bay area. i was born in san diego and adopted out to san francisco when i was about 17 years old. i bounced around a little bit here in high school, but i've always been here in the bay.

we are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to emp. we don't turn anyone away. we take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. the most common thing i hear in my adult life is oh, you don't seem like you have autism. you seem so normal. yeah. that's 26 years of really, really, really hard work and i think thises that i still do. i was one of the first open adoptions for an lgbt couple. they split up when i was about four. one of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my biological mother, who is also a lesbian. very queer family. growing up in the 90's with a queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here, i felt safe. i was bullied relatively infrequently. but i never really felt

isolated or alone. i have known for virtually my entire life i was not suspended, but kindly asked to not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change. the school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. one of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so they know what it's about, but my parents wanted my life to be safe. when i have all the neurological issues to manage, that was just one more to add to it. i was a weird kid. i had my core group of, like, very tight, like, three friends. when we look at autism, we characterize it by, like, lack of eye contact, what i do now is when i'm looking away from the camera, it's for my own comfort. faces are confusing. it's a lack of mirror neurons in your brain working properly

to allow you to experience empathy, to realize where somebody is coming from, or to realize that body language means that. at its core, autism is a social disorder, it's a neurological disorder that people are born with, and it's a big, big spectrum. it wasn't until i was a teenager that i heard autism in relation to myself, and i rejected it. i was very loud, i took up a lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space let everybody else know where i existed in the world. i didn't like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared. i was very difficult to be around. but the friends that i have are very close. i click with our atypical kiddos than other people do. in experience, i remember when

i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me because it hurt. i remember throwing chairs because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it meant that i couldn't cope. i grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i got development cal -- developmental psychology from all sides. i recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of that, and not everybody's in a position to have a family that's as supportive, but there's also a community that's incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. it was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what? i'm just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male.

i have a two-year-old. the person who i'm now married to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasn't sure, so i we went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth control, so there's no way you can be pregnant. i found out i was pregnant at 6.5 months. my whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. i think i've finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. i think the access to irrelevant care for parents is intentionally confusing. when i did the procespective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing.

we have a place where children can be children, but it's very confusing. i always out myself as an adult with autism. i think it's helpful when you know where can your child go. how i'm choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy. how do -- speech therapy. how do you explain that to the rest of their class? i want that to be a normal experience. i was working on a certificate and kind of getting think early childhood credits brefore i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in san francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i don't really feel comfortable

or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight person's perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and i'm like absolutely. so i'm now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. i love growing up here. i love what san francisco represents. the idea of leaving has never occurred to me. but it's a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. what i've done with my life is work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that we're still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a resource center, and this resource center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second.

i would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. so many things that i would love to do that are all about changing people's minds about certain chunts, like the transgender community or the autistic community. i would like my daughter to know there's no wrong way to go through life. everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all of those things are temporary.

>> this is one place you can always count on to give you what you had before and remind you of what your san francisco history used to be. >> we hear that all the time, people bring their kids here and their grandparents brought them here and down the line. >> even though people move away, whenever they come back to the city, they make it here. and they tell us that. >> you're going to get something made fresh, made by hand and made with quality products and something that's very, very good. ♪ >> the legacy bars and restaurants was something that was begun by san francisco simply to recognize and draw attention to the establishments. it really provides for san francisco's unique character. ♪ >> and that morphed into a request that we work with the

city to develop a legacy business registration. >> i'm michael cirocco and the owner of an area bakery. ♪ the bakery started in 191. my grandfather came over from italy and opened it up then. it is a small operation. it's not big. so everything is kind of quality that way. so i see every piece and cut every piece that comes in and out of that oven. >> i'm leslie cirocco-mitchell, a fourth generation baker here with my family. ♪ so we get up pretty early in the morning. i usually start baking around 5:00. and then you just start doing rounds of dough. loaves.

>> my mom and sister basically handle the front and then i have my nephew james helps and then my two daughters and my wife come in and we actually do the baking. after that, my mom and my sister stay and sell the product, retail it. ♪ you know, i don't really think about it. but then when i -- sometimes when i go places and i look and see places put up, oh this is our 50th anniversary and everything and we've been over 100 and that is when it kind of hits me. you know, that geez, we've been here a long time. [applause] ♪ >> a lot of people might ask why our legacy business is important. we all have our own stories to tell about our ancestry. our lineage and i'll use one example of tommy's joint. tommy's joint is a place that

my husband went to as a child and he's a fourth generation san franciscan. it's a place we can still go to today with our children or grandchildren and share the stories of what was san francisco like back in the 1950s. >> i'm the general manager at tommy's joint. people mostly recognize tommy's joint for its murals on the outside of the building. very bright blue. you drive down and see what it is. they know the building. tommy's is a san francisco hoffa, which is a german-style presenting food. we have five different carved meats and we carve it by hand at the station. you prefer it to be carved whether you like your brisket fatty or want it lean. you want your pastrami to be

very lean. you can say i want that piece of corn beef and want it cut, you know, very thick and i want it with some sauerkraut. tell the guys how you want to prepare it and they will do it right in front of you. san francisco's a place that's changing restaurants, except for tommy's joint. tommy's joint has been the same since it opened and that is important. san francisco in general that we don't lose a grip of what san francisco's came from. tommy's is a place that you'll always recognize whenever you lock in the door. you'll see the same staff, the same bartender and have the same meal and that is great. that's important. ♪

>> the service that san francisco heritage offers to the legacy businesses is to help them with that application process, to make sure that they really recognize about them what it is that makes them so special here in san francisco. ♪ so we'll help them with that application process if, in fact, the board of supervisors does recognize them as a legacy business, then that does entitle them to certain financial benefits from the city of san francisco. but i say really, more importantly, it really brings them public recognition that this is a business in san francisco that has history and that is unique to san francisco. >> it started in june of 1953. ♪

and we make everything from scratch. everything. we started a you -- we started a off with 12 flavors and mango fruits from the philippines and then started trying them one by one and the family had a whole new clientele. the business really boomed after that. >> i think that the flavors we make reflect the diversity of san francisco. we were really surprised about the legacy project but we were thrilled to be a part of it. businesses come and go in the city. pretty tough for businesss to stay here because it is so expensive and there's so much competition. so for us who have been here all these years and still be popular and to be recognized by the city has been really a huge

honor. >> we got a phone call from a woman who was 91 and she wanted to know if the mitchells still owned it and she was so happy that we were still involved, still the owners. she was our customer in 1953. and she still comes in. but she was just making sure that we were still around and it just makes us feel, you know, very proud that we're carrying on our father's legacy. and that we mean so much to so many people. ♪ >> it provides a perspective. and i think if you only looked at it in the here and now, you're missing the context. for me, legacy businesses, legacy bars and restaurants are really about setting the context for how we come to be where we are today.

>> i just think it's part of san francisco. people like to see familiar stuff. at least i know i do. >> in the 1950s, you could see a picture of tommy's joint and looks exactly the same. we haven't change add thing. >> i remember one lady saying, you know, i've been eating this ice cream since before i was born. and i thought, wow! we have, too. sfgovtv.org. >> neighborhoods and san francisco as exists and fascist as the people that i think inhabitable habit them the bay area continues to change for the better as new start up businesses with local restaurants and nonprofit as the

collaborative spaces the community appeal is growing too. >> what anchors me to the community i serve is a terminal connection this is the main artery of the southeast neighborhood that goes around visitacion valley and straight down past the ball park and into the south of market this corridor the hub of all activity happening in san francisco. >> i'm barbara garcia of the wines in the bayview before opening the speculation we were part of bayview and doing the opera house every thursday i met

local people putting their wares out into the community barbara is an work of a symbol how the neighborhood it changing in a a positive way literally homemade wine that is sold in the community and organized businesses both old and new businesses coming together to revitalizes this is a yoga studio i actually think be able a part of community going on in the bayview i wanted to have a business on third street and to be actually doing that with the support of community. >> how everybody reasons together to move each other forward a wonderful run for everybody out here. >> they're hiring locally and selling locally. >> it feels like a community

effort. >> i was i think the weather is beautiful that is what we can capture the real vibe of san francisco i love it i can go ongoing and on and on about the life in the

>> let's talk a little bit about the format and get this party started. all right. after you make your opening statements, i have two little bags. my little bags. the questions have been divided into, how will you get it done? and working with the community? you all have had these questions in advance, most of them. so they shouldn't be a surprise to you. but each candidate will be asked one question and a different question at a time, okay? and we'll go through the questions. if we run out of questions, we'll recycle, all right? [laughter] all right. the reason why we're not asking the public to add questions to our list, we produced them with the public's input, but we're not asking for them tonight, because we want to hear from the candidates tonight and hear about the issues thatr