all of united states, newspapers, magazines were agast about it. they were just talking about it back and forth. was it healthy? was it unhealthy? are they taking over the roads, hazards to health and traffic? and most importantly everybody was very excited about the idea that women were bicycling. they were worried that women might perspire and that was an unhealthy and unfeminine thing. and a lot of women were wearing bloomers, these sort of blousey trousers to help them bicycle. that was thought to be scandalous. but the lady falcons, they didn't care. they were a group of seven married women who went bicycling. they would finish their ride, rest in the long seats there in the clubhouse. they started having dinner parties there. they became quite fashionable. and they sort of tricked it out with all the victorian fill debris they could cox up -- filigri they could come up with, japanese fans, curtains, cushions it became sort of a fashionable, bohemian thing to do that other people took up the idea, rented these clubhouses from sutro, and many o

frankly, i was agast at the police department's response back then when i came into elected office, like stay out of it, it's not your jurisdiction. that's what i'm elected to do. it was like when the school department was shutting down six 6 our -- six of our eight public schools, and it's not your jurisdiction. these things have a sinner gistic relationship. they're intertwined. if we give half a damn about any of our districts, or certainly the neighborhoods throughout the city and county of san francisco, it is the natural response. we want to take care of business. we want to work with the police department. we want to make sure that the streets are liberateded away from crime. -- liberated away from crime, and that people are not feeling hostage to their houses or to certain blocks because they can't cross the street. it was like pulling teeth in order to get the kind of response which i think should have been routine and normal for that level of concern. >> i apologize for that. again, unfortunately i wasn't here when this occurred. my concern is the reason i'm here today and the

court and were able to pro discrimination, able to get an award, knewthat congress had pass add law agast gender discrimination, against age discrimination. you had the law on your side and then your case goes to the supreme court, and in one case, ms. ledbetter, the court rules against you, and the other, mr. gross, the court changes the case in order to take up basically a different matter, but the results werethe same. you both were denied your individual justice, but just as importantly, the reason you brought the caseis to make it cle that gender discrimination and age discrimination has no place in america. how did you feel the day you learned about the supreme court decision? >> the day i learned, i w very disappointed, because as you said, the law had been on my side. it supported my case. the equal employment offic had supported me all the way to the supreme court, and then those five justices decided i should have complained back in the early days when my pay was first set, even though i didn't kw it, and even though i had no way to prove it, and even tugh we were not allowed to