those were built for the union ironwork. this really is one of the most original live-work neighborhoods in san francisco. because of this mix of housing and industrial, they need to sit in terms of scale and mass and height for the neighborhood. during the whole dot-com boom, we saw many move into the neighborhood. we found ourselves in combat before the planning commission for one project after another, and that was actually an impetus for the community to try to become a historic district. >> the process took our community approximately four years. we made presentations before pretty much every single supervisor and educated them about dogpatch. it was an arduous task, but once we went before the planning commission and then to the board of supervisors, lee did not have one person in the neighborhood opposed the historic designation. i cannot say that just being a historic district protect everything. it means that there is another layer of bureaucracy that people have to go through if there are going to make changes to th

had child labor laws -- i have been a union ironworker out of local 808 in orlando, florida, for almost 30 years and i am 50 years old now. there is no way in the world -- they did not call it hired work for nothing. there is no way in the world that a 70 or even a 60-year-old man can get out there in the blazing hot sun and do ironwork at 70 years old. it is physically impossible. for someone who has paid in all of these years, to now congress, the greedy as ob's that are in there, to turn around and tell people my age that they will have to wait until 70 years old to collect my unemployment makes me want to puke. that is all lie -- go ahead. host: what about people who say, could you find another job? caller: you could find another job, then what happens? it pays half as much money? ironwork is all i have ever done. host: do you mind telling us how much you made? yama call well, right now i am making hardly nothing -- caller: right now, i am making hardly nothing because there is hardly any were going on in the country anywhere. when they start building nuclear power plants or build in something, then half the ironworkers -- half of mineworke