this is not the fillmore west, and you are not louis armstron okay? look, here's $5. all right? cannot leave. - sure you can. i'll help you. - you do not understand. i cannot leave this corner. - why not? - my wife was killed here. - your wife? - two weeks ago on this corner. this is sacred ground. - here we are. please, make yourself comfortable. i have some juice. - i'm very happy for you. - no, no, no, no. i'm offering you some juice. would you like some juice? - oh, i'm sorry. thank you. i don't know your name. - monk. adrian. - adrian. what does it mean? - it means nobody picks you for their softball team in seventh grade. - i am samuel waingaya. - tell me about her. here, sit down. - her name was ansara. it means sunflower. that is what she was. she was a school teacher. this is why she was here-- a teaching conference, two weeks in san francisco. she was so excited. - what happened? - i don't know exactly, but she was at the grocery store down the street buying food, and a vehicle, i think a van, drove through a red light. it kept going. - ah, a hit-and-run. i remember re

there's this wonderful book called fillmore harlem west and also there's several other books that are about that particular era. but that's all happening too, people like billie holiday, count basie, duke ellington, they were all playing in the fillmore district, bop city, plantation club, jack's tavern. that's another world that i was intrigued by and the fact that there were neisei jazz musicians. also the no no boys, which i'm not sure if you are aware of, but one of the story lines in the play is about the character called chet monkawa and he was what was known as a no no boy. at some point everyone in the internment camp was asked to do this questionnaire and there were two questions, question 27 and 28, which basically said you were foreswear allegiance to japan and the emperor and will swear allegiance to america and that you will serve in the armed forces. and for young neisei men in their late teens and 20's, if you signed that, by and large the sense was you could be drafted. and what came about was a certain amount of controversy over those two questions because a lot of th

i live at 1431 eddy, which is about four doors from the west basin and which is at 1290 fillmore and a roughly, a block, not even a block from the 1426 site. i have cancer now, been struggling with it for 10 years. i didn't know much about wi-fi or anything like that until i got on the internet and discovered that -- what it does to people. there are denials out there that are questioning it and i'm saying, you're putting a [speaker not understood] on it that doesn't hurt you, it doesn't hurt you. out of my pocket now, i've gotten some teenagers. i work with kids. i'm a youth counselor for kids in the area. i've been doing that for the last 20 years. i used west bay for talent shows. i use the farmers market i help found on fillmore and o'farrell. it's an organic market. the elders and young people come there and sit all day. this is across from the 1426 building. what i discovered online, and that's where i got my information, it's very threatening to my health. my backyard where i sit in the morning faces 1426 building. so, now i have to worry about the impact of what someone is go

fillmore were being bulldozed by the redevelopment agencies in san francisco and that is the great tragedy of coors once thriving black neighborhoods in sand and cisco which was once called the harlem of the west, it had been leveled and the haight could've gone in that direction as well. by the late 60's hard drugs were taking over the neighborhood and it took the good earth commune in part to stand their ground and help clean up the neighborhood. that is the part of the book i want to share with you right now and then we are going to go to questions but i would love to have back-and-forth with you all and hear from dr. smith in maryland. this is chapter 17 in my book. loves last stand. the haight was a war zone by the time robin mccarthy came in 1969 but he had seen worse. mccarthy had served in vietnam as a counter on a patrol boat on the upper mekong river near cambodia. it was the whole apocalypse now experience he said many years later. i was terrified the whole time. mccarthy lost a number of friends there. when mccarthy returned to the united states he was based at treasure island and sanford cisco bait. he tried baking mental him is to get a medical discharge but it wasn't that far fr

fillmore were being bulldozed by the redevelopment agencies in san francisco and that is the great tragedy of coors once thriving black neighborhoods in sand and cisco which was once called the harlem of the west, it had been leveled and the haight could've gone in that direction as well. by the late 60's hard drugs were taking over the neighborhood and it took the good earth commune in part to stand their ground and help clean up the neighborhood. that is the part of the book i want to share with you right now and then we are going to go to questions but i would love to have back-and-forth with you all and hear from dr. smith in maryland. this is chapter 17 in my book. loves last stand. the haight was a war zone by the time robin mccarthy came in 1969 but he had seen worse. mccarthy had served in vietnam as a counter on a patrol boat on the upper mekong river near cambodia. it was the whole apocalypse now experience he said many years later. i was terrified the whole time. mccarthy lost a number of friends there. when mccarthy returned to the united states he was based at treasure island and sanford cisco bait. he tried baking mental him is to get a medical discharge but it wasn't that far fr

fillmore were being bulldozed by the redevelopment agencies in san francisco and that is the great tragedy of coors once thriving black neighborhoods in sand and cisco which was once called the harlem of the west, it had been leveled and the haight could've gone in that direction as well. by the late 60's hard drugs were taking over the neighborhood and it took the good earth commune in part to stand their ground and help clean up the neighborhood. that is the part of the book i want to share with you right now and then we are going to go to questions but i would love to have back-and-forth with you all and hear from dr. smith in maryland. this is chapter 17 in my book. loves last stand. the haight was a war zone by the time robin mccarthy came in 1969 but he had seen worse. mccarthy had served in vietnam as a counter on a patrol boat on the upper mekong river near cambodia. it was the whole apocalypse now experience he said many years later. i was terrified the whole time. mccarthy lost a number of friends there. when mccarthy returned to the united states he was based at treasure island and sanford cisco bait. he tried baking mental him is to get a medical discharge but it wasn't that far fr