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 leade

and jude it's any great pleasure to introduce the mayor of the city and county of san francisco edwin m lee mayor ed lee. >> (clapping) >> thank you, richard and pam and judy and, of course, larry give them a big hand they've done a wonderful, wonderful job (clapping) hello, everybody it's great to be here i wanted to say thank you to every one of i here today when you when i walked up to this field i've had had strange and wonderful feeling we're on the field of the 3 time world series champion giants this is who you or so i'm going to volunteer smng something i know that willy and beven those who who have been successful if he can enhance our ability to bid how about a personal autograph from all of us to remember those bids we can help enhance that lets do that; right? so hopefully, you'll get the bids out we'll continue this effort it is unique to have willie in his red clothing and it is, of course, for san francisco general hospital a place where i think represents the values of this wonderful city that we have and again you know larry and pam and judy and rich we've been to month mee

the dell against -- intelligence in the city like few ever has mayor ed lee. [ applause ] mayor edwin m. lee: thank you very much for the introduction and thank you and the california historical society for your long work here. good morning, everyone. i'm going to try to mask my level of enthusiasm for this with hopefully some facts and acknowledgements. let me say that you know in my culture as many of you know when it rains, it's all about prosperity for everyone. i want to make sure everybody knows when i said that the world series would end the drought, i meant it. i want to repeat that again and again. but i want to say thank you, hello, everybody and welcome to this important milestone in our city's history. and i'm enthusiastic about this panama pacific international exposition we are celebrating today. i'm enthusiastic about literally everybody i see in this audience whether it's with the arts organization, or education institutions, our writers and people that have talked about this city for so many years, you have to understand how important this is. i'm a student myself and i know