i am joe butler. last week, i saw a video, with diamond street being demolished in 2 minutes. it brings up the question of why we are allowing housing to be demolished in san francisco when there are vacant lots in mission bay. and more recently i have learned that 481 jersey was also proposed for demolition, with the date of 1900 in the data base which means we don't know the date. it has clearly been remodeled. two or three years ago, brand- new kitchen and bathroom tile. purchased not by a family that could live there but a developer who wants to demolish this and put even more there. i kind of remember us going through this in the '90s. we have the criteria for existing housing, and we weren't going to allow this to be demolished. this is the bubble all over again. i thought that we have learned something but maybe not. >> and is there any additional public comment? >> peter warfield, the executive director -- the previous speaker spoke about demolitions and in the course of the library bond program, unfortunately, in relatively recent years there were demolitions of branc

and joe fled and he was in the car trembling and looking for the gearshift when burton russell was somewhat elderly at this point and his butler came running out and said, oh, no, no, it's okay. he thought you were edward teller. (laughing.) >> oh, perfect. we're going to turn the questions to the audience in 1 minute. i have a final question from me and that is that when joe heller wrote catch-22, i think this is correct, ken keysee was write one flew over the cuckoo's nest, and kurt vonnegut was writing the cat's cradle. what produced all this irreverence. we were the silent generation. we didn't protest but something was bubbling. what was -- >> a lot of it had to do with the war. >> but which war? take mine -- you mean the korean war? >> no, i think it had to do with the experience of world war ii and the holocaust, you know. how do you deal with all those stuff and how do you cope with it and one jewish way was through humor. not that they were all jewish. it was in the air, what we remembered plaque comedy. that was the style at the time and there were many books in this vein and joe's was probably preimminent about them

joe fled. he was in the car trembling, looking for the gear shift when bertrand russell who was somewhat elderly at this point -- his butler came running out and said no, no, he thought you were edward teller. >> perfect. we are going to turn questions to the audience in one minute. a final question for me. when joseph heller wrote "catch-22," i think this is correct to. can tv was riding one flew over the coup to's next and kurt vonnegut was writing cat's cradle. this was in the 80s. produced all this year reference. eisenhower was president. we were the silent generation. we didn't protest but something was bubbling. >> allotted had to do with the war. >> but which war? take mine. you mean the korean war? >> it had experience of world war ii and the holocaust. how do you deal with all this stuff? how do you cope with it? when do jewish way is through tumor. not that they were all jewish but it was in the air. it was the style of the time. there were many books in this vein. joe's was preeminent and it has lasted. >> did it come out of the holocaust? >> it came out of him. if you read -- >> jewish neurosis. >> we are not