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2000
Jan 1, The Bahia Cabana restaurant at Market and
Page, founded in 1988, burned to a shell with damages estimated at
$100,000.
(SFEC, 1/2/00, p.D2)
2000 Jan 1, The SkyDeck on the
41st floor of the Embarcadero One office building shut down due to lack
of tourist interest.
(SFC, 1/5/00, p.A12)
2000 Jan 11, The Port Commission
endorsed a $270 plan for a cruise ship terminal at Pier 30-32 that
would include a hotel, office and retail complex.
(SFC, 1/12/00, p.A15)
2000 Jan 11, Police officers Kirk
Brookbush (49) and James Dougherty (56) were killed when their Bell
OH-58A Kiowa helicopter crashed near Crows Landing following routine
maintenance in Porterville.
(SFC, 1/13/00, p.A1)
2000 Jan 14, Madeline Li Way (78),
secretary and former head of the New York based Li Foundation, died at
her home at 185 Belgrave St. in Clarendon Heights in a 3-alarm fire.
(SFC, 1/15/00, p.A15)
2000 Jan 30, It was reported that
SF school employees charged over $2 million in overtime in 1998-1999
for custodial services.
(SFEC, 1/30/00, p.A1,12)
2000 Jan, The SF Noe Valley
Ministry held its 1st SF Bluegrass and Old Time Music Festival.
(SSFC, 6/10/01, p.D3)
2000 Feb 2, SF Chronicle columnist
Art Hoppe died at age 74.
(SFC, 2/3/00, p.A1)
2000 Feb 5, George Koltanowski,
52-year chess column writer for the SF Chronicle, died at age 96.
(SFC, 2/7/00, p.A21)
2000 Feb 6, Janice Mirikitani,
wife of Rev. Cecil Williams of Glide Memorial, was named the poet
laureate for San Francisco for 2000.
(SFC, 2/7/00, p.A17)
2000 Feb 17, Farrah the giraffe
(23) died at the SF Zoo while under sedation during a routine hoof
trimming.
(SFC, 2/18/00, p.D4)
2000 Feb 19, The Chinese New Year
Parade was held downtown to celebrate the Year of the Dragon for lunar
year 4698. An estimated 900k to 1 million people attended the
148-year-old city festival.
(SFEC, 2/20/00, p.C5)
2000 Mar 2, Some 140 FBI agents
raided 16 locations in Chinatown and Daly City, some of which were
occupied by members of the Jackson Street Boys.
(SFC, 3/4/00, p.A15)
2000 Mar 4, The MUNI F-Line on the
Embarcadero made its debut with an estimated 15,000 riders.
(SFEC, 3/5/00, p.D1)
2000 Mar 10, Devin Gross (15) was
shot and killed on the 1000 block of McAllister St. Police later
arrested David Gilford (22) of Vallejo for the killing.
(SFEC, 3/12/00, p.D1)(SFEC, 3/19/00, p.C1)
2000 Mar 12, The 148th annual St.
Patrick's Day Parade was held.
(SFC, 3/13/00, p.A15)
2000 Mar 14, A new 2-year contract
was approved for Ronnie Davis, director of the SF Housing Authority, at
$188,000 a year plus bonuses for as much as $27,000.
(SFC, 3/15/00, p.A15)
2000 Mar 17, The SF Examiner was
sold to the SF Independent published by Ted Fang.
(SFC, 3/18/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 17, Three students at
James Lick Middle School in Noe Valley put nail polish remover into the
drinking water of Matthew Podwoski (27), a language arts teacher. Two
girls and one boy were later arrested for felony conspiracy.
(SFC, 3/24/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 21, The North Beach
Washington Square Bar & Grill closed. A new owner planned to reopen
under the name "Cobalt."
(SFC, 3/18/00, p.A17)
2000 Mar 22, Robert B. Pasker and
his wife, Laurie Pitman, founders of WebLogic, an Internet software
company, donated $2.4 million to SF State Univ. for an endowed
chairmanship in the history dept.
(SFC, 3/23/00, p.D4)
2000 Mar 31, The $345 million
Pacific Bell Park at Third and King streets opened with an exhibition
game between the Giants and the Milwaukee Brewers. The Giants won 8-3.
(SFC, 3/31/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/31/00, p.A1)(SFC,
4/1/00, p.A1)
2000 Apr 1, Barry Bonds, SF Giants
left fielder, became the first player to hit a home run in the new Pac
Bell Park during an exhibition game against the NY Yankees.
(SFEC, 4/2/00, p.A1)
2000 Apr 9, A shootout erupted at
a dance party in a hall operated by the Armenian Apostolic Church St.
Gregory on Brotherhood Way. A dozen people were injured at the dance
which was promoted with a $250 door prize for the “sexiest thong.”
Rivalry between the Big Block and Westmob gangs of Hunters Point were
blamed for the violence.
(SFEC, 4/10/00, p.A21)(SFC, 4/11/00, p.A17)
2000 Apr 11, The SF Giants lost
their season opener to the LA Dodgers 6-5.
(SFC, 4/12/00, p.A1)
2000 Apr 12, The North Beach
Playground and Pool was renamed the Joe DiMaggio North Beach Playground
and Pool. The Recreation and park Commission voted 20 years earlier to
rename the park after DiMaggio.
(SFC, 4/13/00, p.A19)
2000 Apr 13, Former Msgr. Patrick
O’Shea was indicted on 224 counts of child molestation and failed to
turn himself in the next day.
(SFC, 4/15/00, p.A17)
2000 Apr 27, Five people were
indicted for fraud in a probe on SFO expansion contracts.
(SFC, 4/28/00, p.A1)
2000 Apr 28, A volunteer count of
the homeless in SF tallied some 4,800 people. Estimates had run up to
14,000. The final count stood at 3,610 but city officials estimated the
real figure to be 10-15% higher. The homeless in jails, hospitals and
treatment centers were not included.
(SFC, 4/29/00, p.A1)(SFC, 5/4/00, p.A28)
2000 May 3, Vadim Mieseges (27)
admitted to the killing and chopping up of Ella Wong (47), who had
rented him a room in her Richmond District apartment.
(SFC, 5/4/00, p.A21)
2000 May 5, It was reported that a
feud between the Big Block and Westmob gangs of Bayview-Hunters Point
had recently escalated due to their disputes over rap music supremacy.
3 people were killed in the last week.
(SFC, 5/5/00, p.A1)
2000 May 6, Some 250 people
gathered at the UN Peace Plaza for the Millennium Marijuana march.
(SFEC, 5/7/00, p.A1)
2000 May 10, The Westmob and Big
Block gangs in Hunters Point declared a truce brokered by Christopher X
of Black Muslim Mosque 26.
(SFC, 5/11/00, p.A25)
2000 May 15, Dong Kingman, San
Francisco watercolorist, died in Manhattan at age 89.
(SFC, 5/16/00, p.A20)
2000 May 18, Former Ukraine prime
minister Pavel Lazarenko was indicted by a San Francisco grand jury for
money laundering and transportation of stolen property. In 2003 he put
up an $86 million bail and was confined to a SF apartment. In 2004 a
federal judge in SF dismissed nearly half the charges against
Lazarenko. On June 3, 2004, Lazarenko was convicted on 29 felony
charges. His money laundering was guessed to be in excess of $40
million.
(SFC, 6/2/00, p.A19)(SSFC, 10/19/03, p.A25)(SFC,
5/8/04, p.B3)(SFC, 6/4/04, A3)
2000 May 20, The 6th annual Great
Sweep took place as thousands of volunteers helped clean the city’s
sidewalks and parks.
(SFEC, 5/21/00, p.A1)
2000 May 21, Some 70,000 runners
took part in the Bay to Breakers run.
(SFC, 5/22/00, p.A1)
2000 May 28, The 21st annual
Carnaval took place in the Mission. 200-300 thousand people gathered
and some 40 entries took part.
(SFC, 5/27/00, p.A19)(SFC, 5/29/00, p.A15)
2000 Jun 1, A fire at 2638 San
Jose left 2 children, Danielle (7) and Thomas Derner (6) dead.
(SFC, 6/2/00, p.A1)
2000 Jun 6, Nieisha Jones (20) and
her brother Dominick Jones (13) were attacked by Big Block gang member
Montrell Vines (23), who was charged with attempted murder and assault.
Their stepfather, Alfonso Amir Anderson (48), urged them to testify and
was gunned down Nov 22.
(SFC, 11/22/00, p.A23)
2000 Jun 13, A lottery was held
for the 54 units of the new Bernal Gateway Apartments at the corner of
Mission and Caesar Chavez. The low-income units were scheduled to open
Dec 1.
(SFC, 6/14/00, p.A17)
2000 Jun 13, A $30.7 million
SF-themed Museum complex was approved for Pier 45.
(SFC, 6/14/00, p.A17)
2000 Jun 14, In San Francisco
temperatures hit 103 degrees, matching the record high set on July
17,1988. Eugene Kesselman (27) disappeared after he left his Sunset
home to buy a car. His body was found 9 days later in the trunk of his
car in the Excelsior district. In Sept. police arrested Shonte Pratt
(25) and Brandon Ry (20) for suspicion of murder and armed robbery.
(SFC, 9/6/00, p.A23)(SFC, 12/25/08, p.A14)
2000 Jun 16, The 73,000 sq. foot
Harry Bridges Plaza on the Mid-Embarcadero roadway was dedicated.
(SFC, 6/17/00, p.A1)
2000 Jun 22, It was reported that
Frank Hudson, head of the non-profit Catholic Charities for the
Archdiocese of SF, was paid a salary of $172,000. He recently defended
his $73,000 in expenses over the last 2 years and said: “I’d much
rather be at home eating a peanut butter sandwich.” Hudson resigned Aug
10 after the board condemned his lavish spending.
(SFC, 6/22/00, p.A7)(SFC, 8/11/00, p.A1)
2000 Jun 22, Eugene Kesselman (27)
was found in the trunk of his car on La Grande Ave. The Sunset District
man disappeared June 14 on his way to buy a used car.
(SFC, 6/30/00, p.A25)
2000 Jun, In SF Brian Singer, aka
Someguy, launched his 1000 Journals Project from San Francisco. He
began sending out blank notebooks with instructions for users to create
entries, pass the journals on, and return them to him on completion. In
2003 the 1st one returned. In 2003 Andrea Kreuzhage, a German-born Los
Angeles filmmaker, heard of the project and began filming a
documentary, which was completed in 2008. In 2007 Chronicle books of SF
published “The 1000 Journals Project,” a compendium of outstanding
images from several journals.
(SSFC, 10/19/03, p.A1)(www.1000journals.com)(SFC,
7/29/08, p.E1)
2000 Jul 1, The 41-year-old SF
Mime Troup began their 38th year of free productions with a performance
of “Eating It” at Dolores Park.
(SFEC, 7/2/00, p.C5)
2000 Jul 1, The 15th annual
Fillmore Street Jazz Festival was held along the 13 blocks of Fillmore
between Jackson and Eddy.
(SFEC, 7/2/00, p.C2)
2000 Jul 1, The 6th annual Warped
Tour featured a cornucopia of punk and ska acts at Pier 30.
(SFEC, 7/2/00, p.C15)
2000 Jul 14, SF issued its first
anonymous medical marijuana ID cards.
(SFC, 7/15/00, p.A19)
2000 Jul 15, A fire at 225 Taylor
St., a 24-unit, 3-story apartment building, killed one resident and
left 64 homeless.
(SFEC, 7/16/00, p.B1)
2000 Jul 20, The Board of
Supervisors approved RCN Telecom Services to provide competitive high
speed Internet service in SF.
(SFC, 7/21/00, p.A15)
2000 Jul 21, A Mission District
fight between youth gangs left Fernando Calvo hospitalized after he was
stabbed and stomped. Calvo died Jul 27.
(SFC, 7/29/00, p.A16)
2000 Jul 21, Robert Clark was
assaulted at 26th and Harrison. He was clubbed fro a can of beer and
died Aug 16. A $25,000 reward was offered in the case.
(SFC, 8/17/00, p.A20)
2000 Jul 27, A federal judge
approved the Hearst’s Corp. $660 million purchase of the SF Chronicle.
(SFC, 7/28/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 28, The Hearst Corp.
announced that it completed the transfer of the SF Examiner to the Fang
family. A 120-day transition period followed.
(SFC, 7/29/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 1, Arlene Ackerman (53),
school chief from Washington DC, became the school chief of SF.
(SFEC, 6/25/00, p.A1)(SFEC, 7/30/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 2, In SF a jury awarded
17 bakery workers of Interstate Brands Corp. $120 million for racial
discrimination.
(SFC, 8/3/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 11, A skateboarder was
allegedly beaten to death by 2 fellow boarders on a pier behind the
Ferry Building.
(SFC, 8/12/00, p.A1)(SFEC, 8/13/00, p.B1)
2000 Aug 11, In the Mission
District the bodies of Gilma and Julio Martinez were found at their
studio apartment at 1476 Valencia St.
(SFC, 8/12/00, p.A17)
2000 Aug 12, Some 700 people
marched through the Mission District in a community celebration and a
protest against rising rents and gentrification.
(SFEC, 8/13/00, p.B1)
2000 Aug 12, Jerusha Briley (20)
disappeared from the Richmond District. Her boyfriend, Darien Sable
(23), was arrested the next day for possession of methamphetamine.
Briley’s body was found near Muir Beach on Aug 14, and Sable committed
suicide by jumping off the Bay Bridge after being released form police
custody on Aug 15.
(SFC, 8/15/00, p.A20)(SFC, 8/16/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 18, A fire began
smoldering at a toxic landfill at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. After 3
weeks the navy issued a public alert.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.A17)
2000 Aug 19, An estimated 65,000
people attended the ESPN X Games at Piers 30 and 32.
(SFEC, 8/20/00, p.B1)
2000 Aug 19, In Bernal Heights
over 140 homes participated in a garage sale on 46 streets.
(SFEC, 8/20/00, p.B1)
2000 Aug 21, The SF Board of
Supervisors passed a $9-an-hour minimum living wage bill for city
associated work.
(SFC, 8/22/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 21, Juanita Colla (69)
and her husband, Tommy (78), claimed their $88 million for winning the
SuperLotto Plus state lottery jackpot. They opted for a lump sum
payment of $29 million after taxes.
(SFC, 8/23/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 25, Fourteen people
pleaded guilty in a SF bribery probe against Patricia Williams (57),
the former head of the SF Housing Authority’s relocation office. Bribes
were used to secure public housing. In 2001 Williams was sentenced to 5
years in prison.
(SFC, 8/26/00, p.A1)(SFC, 3/24/01, p.A1)
2000 Aug 26, Susan Cervantes
directed the completion of a 187-foot, historical community mural, Soul
Journey, on Carroll Street in Bayview-Hunters Point.
(SFEC, 8/27/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 26, A street shooting
outside the Attitudes Bar on First Street left Peter Wing Hun (22) and
Lawrence Yang (21) dead.
(SFEC, 8/27/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug, The Jewish Family and
Children’s Services organization opened a new $50 million living
complex on Post St. behind Mt. Zion Medical.
(SFC, 12/30/00, p.A13)
2000 Aug, The Goodman Lumber Co.
on Bayshore was set to close due to a family dispute.
(SFC, 4/13/00, p.D1)
2000 Sep 1, Muni drivers planned
an overtime boycott for the Labor Day weekend due to contract disputes.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 8, The 78th SF Opera
season opened. It marked the last opening by director Lotfi Mansouri.
The opening was greeted by members of AARGG, All Against Ruthless
Greedy Gentrification.
(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 14, George Christopher,
former SF Mayor (1956-1964), died at age 92. He was born in Arcadia,
Greece, as George Christopheles in 1907.
(SFC, 9/15/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 15, The new San Francisco
Int’l. Terminal opened at a cost of $950 million. SFO operations at
Terminal 2 ceased in December as part of a $2.5 billion airport master
plan.
(SFC, 9/16/00, p.A15)(SFC, 5/13/08, p.D4)
2000 Sep 15, Rev. Stephen Privett
took over as the 27th president of the Univ. of SF.
(SFC, 11/15/00, p.A17)
2000 Sep 18, The Navy said that
the smoldering fire at the Hunters Point shipyard was extinguished. A
cap of gravel and soil was planned to cover the 14-16 acre site
(SFC, 9/19/00, p.A15)
2000 Sep 22, Nine protestors at
the National Association of Broadcasters Convention were arrested. They
contended government monopolization of the airwaves. 3 lawyers were
also arrested when they tried to shove their way into the Hall of
Justice.
(SFC, 9/23/00, p.A15)
2000 Sep 27, Patricia Williams
(58), SF Housing Authority official, was convicted on 30 felony
accounts, 7 bribery counts, 1 conspiracy count and 22 false statements
counts.
(SFC, 9/28/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 7, The opera “Dead Man
Walking” premiered at the War Memorial. Sister Helen Prejean wrote the
book in 1993. It described her pen pal relationship with a man on death
row. In 1995 it was made into a movie.
(SFEC, 12/1/96, zone 1 p.3)(WSJ, 10/12/00, p.A24)
2000 Oct 13, The badly beaten body
of Franco Garcia (61) was found at his Excelsior home. In 2001 police
arrested Gary Hallford (39) for the murder.
(SSFC, 6/10/01, p.A23)
2000 Oct 17, Police captured
Joshua Maxwell and Tessie McFarland of Indianapolis, wanted for
killings in two states following a gun-shooting chase. Maxwell and
McFarland were wanted for the recent murder of Sgt. Rudy Lopes in San
Antonio, Texas, and for the murder of Robby Bott in Brooklyn, Indiana.
(SFC, 10/18/00, p.A1,5)
2000 Oct 20, SF MUNI drivers
approved a new 4-year contract.
(SFC, 10/21/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 22, In SF Claire
Tempongko (28) was repeatedly stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend
Tarin. Ramirez (27) in front of her 2 children (5 & 10) in her
basement apartment on 22nd Ave. A month before her death Tempongko had
lodged 2 police reports against Ramirez. In 2004 the city settled a
case for police inaction for $500,000. In 2006 Ramirez was arrested
near Cancun, Mexico. In 2007 he was returned to the US to face trial.
In 2008 Ramirez was convicted of 2nd-degree murder.
(SFC, 10/24/00,
p.A1)(www.purpleberets.org/violence_tempongko.html)(SFCM, 8/24/03,
p.12)(SFC, 10/1/08, p.B5)
2000 Oct 23, Groundbreaking for
the 1st residential block of Mission Bay took place. 6,000 apartments
and condominiums, as well as office blocks and a college campus were
scheduled.
(SFC, 10/23/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 26, Volunteers conducted
a 2nd census of the homeless in SF. Their count showed 5,376 homeless.
(SFC, 10/27/00, p.A27)(SFC, 11/6/00, p.A19)
2000 Oct 26, St. Luke’s Hospital
agreed to become the 30th hospital in the Sutter Health system chain.
(SFC, 10/27/00, p.B1)
2000 Oct 28, Some 32,000 people
attended the Catholic Jubilee 200 Mass at Pac Bell Park under rain.
(SFEC, 10/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 30, A gang of youths
stormed a MUNI bus at 18th and Mission attacked 3 passengers. One man
was slashed with a razor as the bus driver worked to reattach the
electric poles. 4 youths were later taken into custody.
(SFC, 11/1/00, p.A21)(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A17)
2000 Oct, The new oxygen bar 22 O2
opened on Valencia and dispensed 85% oxygen for $10. Herbal elixirs of
ginseng, deer antlers and crushed ants was also available for $6.
(SFC, 10/9/00, p.A15)
2000 Oct, Emily Duffy, an artist
from El Cerrito, contacted the artist Nicolino and suggested a bra ball
as a collaborative art project. Nicolino was already known for his
proposal to bridge the Grand Canyon, “the world’s greatest cleavage,”
with a bra bridge. Duffy was the creator of the “Mammolith,” a 9-foot
high bra.
(USAT, 3/16/01, p.1D)
2000 Nov 7, District elections
returned to SF.
(SFC, 1/9/99, p.A15)
2000 Nov 7, Gavin Newsom and Tom
Ammiano won their Supervisor races for Districts 2 and 9. The remaining
9 districts faced runoffs on Dec 12. A ballot measure to tame growth,
Prop L, was still undecided.
(SFC, 11/9/00, p.A25)
2000 Nov 9, Joseph S. Woods (31)
was shot to death by 3 gunmen who robbed his flat at 3311½
Mission St.
(SFC, 11/11/00, p.A20)
2000 Nov 17, Police arrested 3
suspects in a jewel-theft ring that included Carlos Patino (33), wanted
for a 1994 murder in the San Fernando Valley
(SFC, 11/18/00, p.A17)
2000 Nov 20, The 1915 Albert S.
Samuels clock at 856 Market St. was restored following a 10-year
respite. [see 1915, 1973]
(SFC, 11/18/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 21, The last issue of the
Hearst SF Examiner was published.
(SFC, 11/22/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 22, The 1st issue of the
SF Chronicle PM was published.
(SFC, 11/22/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 25, Bruno Mooshei (80),
owner of the Persian Aub Zam Zam bar on Haight St., died. Moosehi was
known for his martinis of Boord’s gin and Boissiere vermouth.
(SSFC, 12/3/00, p.A23)
2000 Nov 26, The Sunday SF
Examiner and Chronicle became simply the SF Chronicle after 35 years of
publishing with separate editorial visions.
(SSFC, 11/26/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 30, A new $500,000
skateboard park at Crocker Amazon Park approached completion.
Skateboarders were not impressed.
(SFC, 11/30/00, p.A23)
2000 Dec 4, John D. Goldman was
announced as the successor of Nancy H. Bechtle (62) as president of the
SF Symphony in Dec 2001.
(SFC, 12/4/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 6, The play “Las Horas de
Belen: A Book of Hours” opened at the new Brava Theater Center,
formerly the York Theater and before that the 1927 Roosevelt Theater,
on 24th St.
(SSFC, 12/3/00, p.39)
2000 Dec 6, Elijah Sanderson (3)
was found dead at his Ingleside home. Patrick Goodman went on trial in
2002 for the death which followed a pummeling of some 54 blows. Goodman
was convicted and sentenced to 25 years to life.
(SFC, 4/19/02, p.A23)(SFC, 7/11/02, p.A19)
2000 Dec 11, The SF Airport
Commission Aviation Library and Louis A. Turpen Aviation Museum opened
at the new SF Int’l. Airport terminal.
(SSFC, 12/10/00, DB p.40)
2000 Dec 12, Runoff elections for
district supervisors were held. Winners included Jake McGoldrick (1),
Aaron Perkin (3), Leland Yee (4), Mat Gonzalez (5), Chris Daly (6),
Tony Hall (7), Mark Leno (8), Sophie Maxwell (10), and Gerardo Sandoval
(11). Gavin Newsom (2) and Tom Ammiano (9) won outright in the 1st
round.
(SFC, 12/13/00, p.A15)
2000 Dec 15, A repaved Commercial
Street in Chinatown reopened following the removal of its red bricks.
The street was once home to 18 brothels.
(SFC, 12/16/00, p.A26)
2000 Dec 16, Jack’s Restaurant at
615 Sacramento St. closed down after 136 years of operation.
(SFC, 12/15/00, p.A25)
2000 Dec 17, Jerry Rice played his
last football game for the SF 49ers as they defeated the Chicago Bears
17-0.
(SFC, 12/18/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 22, Jim Burke, jazz
pianist, died at age 64. His single CD was a live recording called
“Hands On” (1999).
(SFC, 1/3/01, p.A16)
2000 Dec 27, SF zookeepers
discovered that 2 koalas were stolen overnight. The koalas were stolen
by 2 teenage boys for their girlfriends and recovered the next day.
(SFC, 12/28/00, p.A1)(SFC, 12/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 27, Walter Keane, North
Beach artist, died at age 85. he was known for his portraits of
doe-eyed children, which were later attributed to his 2nd wife Margaret
Keane.
(SFC, 1/4/01, p.A18)
2000 Dec 28, Mayor Brown broke
ground for the $25 million, 18-month reconstruction of Union Square.
(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A19)
2000 Dec 30, Two men burst into an
apartment at 228 Hyde St. and set it on fire. One man was killed and 4
injured.
(SFC, 1/3/01, p.A16)
2000 Dec 31, The SF de Young
Museum closed down. It was to be torn down and replaced by a new
structure by 2005.
(SFC, 12/30/00, p.A17)
2000 Dec 31, Curtis Layne (18) and
Brian Williams (26) were shot to death at Third St. and Kirkwood in the
Bayview District. In 2005 James Hill (24) and David George (23) were
indicted for the murders associated with cocaine distribution.
(SFC, 5/19/05, p.B4)
2000 JT Leroy authored his 1st
book “Sarah. The narrator, a 12-year-old boy, has renamed himself Sarah
after his whorish mother because he has learned from her example that
"Most anything you want in this world is easier when you're a pretty
girl." In 2005 it was revealed that the author was a fake identity
created by SF residents Laura Albert, her husband Geoffrey Knoop and
Geoffrey’s sister Savannah. In 2006 Knoop acknowledged that Laura
Albert wrote “Sarah,“ and followed up in 2001 with “The heart Is
Deceitful Above All Things.”
(http://tinyurl.com/cqvnn)(SFC, 1/10/06, p.A8)(SFC,
2/7/06, p.A3)
2000 SF spent $30 million and
employed some 380 people to sweep streets and remove graffiti.
(SFC, 12/2/00, p.A18)
2000 A small center for the
homeless opened on Columbus Ave. under the direction of prominent North
Beach residents and director Francis Ford Coppola. The SF Health Dept.
ended its homeless death count. In 2005 the Board of Supervisors passed
measures to resume the tally.
(SSFC, 10/6/02, p.A23)(SFC, 1/27/05, p.B2)
2000 The 25-story highrise at 199
Fremont was completed.
(SFC, 9/27/00, p.C1)
2000 The 21-story highrise at 150
California was completed.
(SFC, 9/27/00, p.C1)
2000 SF committed $500,000 toward
the restoration of the Murphy windmill.
(SFC, 6/26/02, p.A18)
2000 The 1-acre Coronet Theater
site on Geary in SF was sold for $8.5 million to the Institute on
Aging. A project of offices and housing were planned for the site.
(SFCM, 3/20/05, p.6)
2001 Jan 4, Brian Cotter (18) of
Burlingame, a senior at St. Ignatius High School, was killed by a Muni
street car on West Portal Ave while playing chicken.
(SFC, 1/4/01, p.A13)
2001 Jan 5, A new time capsule was
planned to be sealed in the cornerstone of City Hall. It was to replace
a 1913 capsule planted by Mayor Rolph in groundbreaking ceremonies.
(SFC, 1/1/01, p.A15)
2001 Jan 8, Tom Ammiano was
re-elected as president of the Board of Supervisors.
(SFC, 1/9/01, p.A19)
2001 Jan 17, Gregory Corso (70),
Beat poet, died in Robbinsdale, Minn. His poetry collections included
“Gasoline” and “Mindfield” (1989).
(SFC, 1/19/01, p.D7)
2001 Jan 18, SF sued 13 energy
providers for collusion to fix prices and restrict the energy supply.
(SFC, 1/19/01, p.A12)
2001 Jan 20, Some 15,000
protesters gathered in SF against the inauguration of Pres. Bush in
Washington DC.
(SSFC, 1/21/01, p.A4)
2001 Jan 20, A MUNI diesel bus
rolled down one block on Missouri Street in Potrero Hill and slammed
into a house after hitting 5 cars and a garage.
(SSFC, 1/21/01, p.A17)
2001 Jan 25, Alexander Lushtak
(35), a Russian immigrant, was sentenced to 71 months in prison for
money laundering.
(SFC, 1/26/01, p.A24)
2001 Jan 26, Diane Whipple (33),
Lacrosse coach, died after being mauled by 2 dogs in her San Francisco
Pacific Heights apartment. The dogs, under the control of Marjorie
Knoller, were later found to be owned by 2 Aryan Brotherhood prison
gang members and kept by attorneys Robert Noel (59) and Marjorie
Knoller (45). A few days later Noel and Knoller adopted Paul Schneider
(38) in SF family court. Bane, one of the Presa Canario dogs, was
destroyed following the attack on Whipple. Hera, the 2nd dog, was
impounded. Knoller and Noel were indicted for murder and manslaughter
on Mar 27. Hera was put to death Jan 30, 2001. Knoller was paroled Jan
1, 2004. In 2005 a state appeals court reinstated a murder conviction
against Marjorie Knoller. Knoller was again jailed in 2008 after a
judge reinstated her murder conviction. On Sep 22 Knoller was sentenced
to 15 years to life in prison.
(SSFC, 1/28/01, p.A1)(SFC, 1/30/01, p.A1)(SFC,
1/31/01, p.A1)(SFC, 2/1/01, p.A11)(SFC, 3/28/01, p.A1)(SFC, 1/31/02,
p.A13)(SFC, 1/1/04, p.A19)(SFC, 5/6/05, p.B1)(SFC, 8/23/08, p.B1)(AP,
9/22/08)
2001 Jan, 55 low income apartments
opened at the new Bernal Gateway Apartments at Mission and Chavez.
5,700 people had applied for the units.
(SFC, 2/2/01, p.A23)
2001 Jan, Dustin Thomas (20) was
shot and killed 6 days after he testified in a preliminary hearing of a
man charged with killing Devon Gross. Ramon Sapp was the lead suspect.
In 2002 Sapp was captured after being wounded by SF police in Oakland.
(SFC, 3/1/02, p.A30)
2001 Feb 1, MisterSF.com was born.
The project started modestly as a labor of love and by Nov., 2001
reached 75,000 hits per month. Created by San Francisco writer Hank
Donat, MisterSF.com was dedicating to promoting the character and
people of the City of San Francisco, and to supporting independent
neighborhood businesses.
(Mr. SF, 12/4/01)(SFC, 1/11/02, p.G1)
2001 Feb 1, Capone Thomas was shot
on I-280 by T.J. Hatfield. Hatfield’s older brother was shot and killed
Apr 13, 2002.
(SFC, 4/16/02, p.A14)
2001 Feb 3, The Chinese New Year
Parade celebrated the Year of the Snake.
(SSFC, 2/4/01, p.B1)
2001 Feb 4, The SF Demons beat the
Los Angeles Xtreme 15-13 at Pac Bell Park in the local XFL debut before
a crowd of 38,000.
(SFC, 2/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 24, It was reported that
the city’s water system was old and neglected and would cost $1 billion
to fix.
(SFC, 2/24/01, p.A15)
2001 Mar 11, A 3-day memorial
service began for the homeless, who died in SF since tracking began in
1987. 1,767 people were listed on a plaque.
(SFC, 3/12/01, p.A21)
2001 Mar 17, SF police officers
fired some 30 shots to kill a pit bull in the Oceanview District. The
dog, named T.Y., had bitten a woman who tried to break its fight with
her Akita dog.
(SSFC, 3/18/01, p.A17)
2001 Mar 21, Ronnie Davis, SF
Housing Chief, was indicted in Ohio for stealing hundreds of thousands
of dollars during his tenure at the Cleveland housing authority. Felony
charges were dropped Oct 30 in exchange for a guilty plea to a single
misdemeanor.
(SFC, 3/22/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/31/01, p.A13)
2001 Mar 22, Ronnie Davis issued a
written statement saying the he was “voluntarily taking unpaid leave.”
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.A19)
2001 Mar 23, Families began to
move into the new Bernal Dwellings low income housing complex at Folsom
and 26th streets.
(SFC, 3/24/01, p.A15)
2001 Mar 27, Robert Lee Massie was
executed for the 1979 robbery and murder of a SF liquor store owner.
(SFC, 3/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 31, SF celebrated its 1st
Cesar Chavez Day parade. Some 15,000 participated.
(SSFC, 4/1/01, p.A18)
2001 Mar, The 42-story Market St.
complex between 4th and 5th was scheduled to be completed.
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.C2)
2001 Mar, The $400 million
Bloomingdale development of the former Emporium was scheduled to begin.
(SFC, 1/15/01, p.A21)
2001 Apr 5, An accounts supervisor
found that Edward McCann (49), a retired controller for Golden Gate
Univ., submitted a false invoice for 18,000. Investigations showed that
$3.5 million was embezzled between 1996 and 2001.
(SFC, 4/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 8, Mayor Brown’s
girlfriend, Carolyn Carpineti (38), gave birth to Sydney Minetta Brown.
(SFC, 4/10/01, p.A15)
2001 Apr 11, A Muni streetcar
broadsided a drag racing car at 41st Ave and Judah. One passenger in
the car was killed.
(SFC, 4/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 16, The Board of
Supervisors approved nearly $80 million to end a lawsuit that
challenged the city’s business tax. The dual system, based on the
higher of either gross receipts or payroll tax, was alleged to be
unconstitutional.
(SFC, 4/17/01, p.A13)
2001 Apr 18, A Board of
Supervisors committee approved a plan to of sex change benefits to city
employees.
(SFC, 4/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 18, The SF Port
Commission voted 3-2 to support the Mills Corp. proposal for the
development of Piers 27-31.
(SSFC, 7/29/01, p.A16)
2001 Apr 24, Paul Orfalea (53),
founder of Kinko’s copy store chain, gave a $8.5 million donation to
City College to support child care.
(SFC, 4/25/01, p.A13)
2001 Apr 25, Clint Eastwood was
awarded the Akira Kurosawa prize for directing at the SF Film Festival.
(SFC, 4/27/01, p.C1)
2001 Apr 26, Louise Renne, City
Attorney, announced that she would not run for re-election.
(SFC, 4/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 28, Laticia Ramirez (33),
mother of 4, was shot and killed in front of her home on York St. 2
suspects, Maricio Sandoval (21) and Eliezer Salcedo (26) were soon
arrested.
(SSFC, 4/29/01, p.A22)
2001 Apr 29, The SF Chronicle
began a 5-day series on Mayor Willie Brown, his political operatives,
patronage, and business at City Hall.
(SSFC, 4/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 29, The 151-year-old
First Congregation Church on Union Square held its last service.
Members could no longer afford the 1915 structure.
(SFC, 4/23/01, p.A14)
2001 Apr 30, The SF Board of
Supervisors passed a measure 9-2 to allow city employees medical
benefits for a sex change.
(SFC, 5/1/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr, In SF the 36-story Four
Seasons Hotel and Residences was scheduled to open at 757 Market near
Fourth St. It included 277-room hotel with rooms starting at $299 per
night, and 142 condominiums at over 2 mil per unit. In 2005 the hotel
was put up for sale.
(SFEC, 4/2/00, p.C1)(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A18)(SFC,
9/30/05, p.C1)
2001 Apr, The Bored Collective was
founded by Bay Guardian columnist Amanda Nowinski and Reflective
Records’ Billee Sharp and Holly Roberts. They met for monthly meetings
at 26 Mix, a Mission District club
(SFC, 2/26/02, p.D1)
2001 May 1, Alvin Mceldry (19),
the half-brother of Montrell Vines- jailed Big Block gang leader, was
shot and killed by the Westmob gang.
(SFC, 5/3/01, p.A13)
2001 May 6, SF held the grand
opening of the Presidio Crissy Field Park.
(SFC, 5/3/01, p.G1)
2001 May 17, It was reported that
CBS cancelled “Nash Bridges” after 6 seasons of production in SF.
(SFC, 5/17/01, p.D1)
2001 May 18, The Dave Matthews
performed the 1st rock concert at Pac Bell Park before some 35,000 fans.
(SFC, 5/19/01, p.B1)
2001 May 18, It was reported that
the SF Unified School District had spent $60 million intended for
school construction on salaries and benefits since 1989.
(SFC, 5/18/01, p.A1)
2001 May 20, Some 50,000
participated in the Bay to Breakers race. James Koskei of Kenya won in
34:19. Jane Ngotho of Kenya won in 40:35.
(SFC, 5/21/01, p.A1)
2001 May 27, The 22nd annual
Mission district Carnaval parade was expected to draw 200,000 people.
(SFC, 5/26/01, p.A14)
2001 May 31, Mayor Brown proposed
a $5.2 billion city budget.
(SFC, 6/1/01, p.A21)
2001 Jun 6, City officials
dedicated Ferry Park, the 2 Embarcadero blocks at Clay and Washington,
as permanent open space. A butterfly museum had been planned for the
site.
(SFC, 6/7/01, p.A18)
2001 Jun 13, SF police shot and
killed Idriss Stelley (23) at the Sony Metreon complex. Stelley was
suffering a mental breakdown and had cut an officer with a knife.
Officers fired over 20 shots and wounded one of their men.
(SFC, 6/20/01, p.A16)(SFC, 12/5/06, p.A1)
2001 Jun 19, The SF Health
Commission approved a law that required city contractors and
leaseholders to provide health benefits for employees.
(SFC, 6/20/01, p.A13)
2001 Jun 24, The 31st annual
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Parade and Celebration
took place.
(SSFC, 6/24/01, p.C3)
2001 Jul 5, Darryl Lewis (38) of
Hunters Point was killed in a noon-time shooting in the 200-block of
Westpoint Rd. A week later police arrested Johnny Trammel for the
murder. Frank Hall, a police informant said 2 months later that Trammel
was innocent. Hall was shot to death Oct 18 on Cashmere St. in the
Bayview. Trammel was released in 2002.
(SFC, 9/5/02, p.A17)
2001 Jul 28, Gov. Davis and Mayor
Brown marked the 100th birthday of Harry Bridges with the dedication of
a new plaza in front of the Ferry Building.
(SFC, 7/27/01, p.A19)
2001 Jul 28, Krystal Sexty (16) of
Modesto was shot and killed in the Bayview District at Bayshore and
Oakdale.
(SFC, 7/31/01, p.A13)
2001 Jul, Michele Breault (38) was
stabbed and battered to death with a hammer in the Stanford Hotel on
Kearny Street in SF. In 2006 David Cooper was sentenced to life without
parole for the murder. His girlfriend, Debra Soler, was also convicted
of murder but faced a new trial. In their 2004 trial each blamed the
other for the murder.
(SFC, 10/24/06, p.B3)
2001 Aug 1, Mario Trevino (49),
former Las Vegas fire chief, was sworn in as the new fire chief of SF.
(SFC, 8/2/01, p.A14)
2001 Aug 3, The city’s 1st
Critical Mutt rally was held at City Hall to protest leash laws.
(SFC, 8/4/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 4, A groundbreaking
celebration was scheduled for the new 105-unit Int’l. Hotel Senior
Housing highrise.
(SFC, 6/8/01, WBa p.1)
2001 Aug 7, Four SF city
commissioners received a reprimand from the federal HUD for failing “to
act in a responsible manner.”
(SFC, 8/8/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 8, A Superior Court judge
ruled that Prop. H, approved last Fall, is unconstitutional. The law
barred landlords from imposing special rent increases on their tenants
for property improvements.
(SFC, 8/8/01, p.A13)
2001 Aug 11, BART transbay service
was shut down for 6 hours due to electrical problems. Traffic clogged
on the Bay Area bridges and freeways.
(SSFC, 8/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 13, Police arrested 9
squatters of the group Homes Not Jails for occupying a boarded building
at Fell and Franklin. The building was full of asbestos, lead, rats and
fleas.
(SFC, 8/14/01, p.A11)
2001 Aug 14, Lucasfilm signed an
agreement to build a 23-acre office and digital production campus at
the Letterman Army Hospital site in the Presidio. Demolition was
expected to cost $10 million and annual rent from Lucasfilm would be
about $5 million.
(SFC, 8/15/01, p.A11)
2001 Aug 17, It was reported that
Wins of California, a SF garment factory, had not paid its almost 200
workers since late April. A license renewal was rejected in March due
to a $3,000 debt to the IRS. The operation shut down on Aug 18.
(SFC, 8/17/01, p.A1)(SFC, 8/18/01, p.A1,13)
2001 Aug 27, Herbert Monterroza
(22) with some assistance killed his father and mother in order to live
in their 1545 Quesada home in Bayview with his new pregnant wife. 3
other men were seen fleeing the home.
(SFC, 8/28/01, p.A11)(SFC, 8/29/01, p.A14)
2001 Aug 31, Police and FBI agents
swept Bayview-Hunter’s Point and issued 17 arrest warrants for
suspected members of the Big Block gang. 9 people were arrested.
(SFC, 9/1/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 1, Altaneze Taylor (65)
was found murdered in her Bayview home at 231 Thornton Ave. She helped
support the Bright Moments Music Lovers Club and had mentored numerous
children to learn jazz.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.A13)
2001 Sep 4, BART reached a
tentative agreement with its 2 largest unions. A injunction against a
strike was ordered the next day against the AFSCME.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.A13)
2001 Sep 5, A US Court of Appeals
approved the 1997 sale of the 43-foot cross on Mount Davidson to the
Council of Armenian American Organizations of Northern California.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.A16)
2001 Sep 5, Chevron announced that
it would move its headquarters at 575 Market to its San Ramon campus.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 6, In SF Barry Bonds hit
his 60th home run of the year and became the 5th player in history to
do so.
(SFC, 9/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 6, The SF Planning
Commission gave the green light to the design for Prada at Polk and
Grant on Union Square by architect Rem Koolhaas. The design included a
stainless steel wrapping with tiny portholes.
(SFC, 9/7/01, p.A21)
2001 Sep 6, Scott Stoll (38) and
Dennis Snader (36) set off from San Francisco on a bicycle journey that
aimed to cover 24,901.55 miles, equal to the circumference of the
Earth. After 3+ years Stoll completed 25,752 miles across North and
South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. Stoll ended his
adventure on the southern tip of South Africa on October 24, 2004. The
Milwaukee native returned to Waukesha where he grew up and his parents
still live.
(SSFC, 2/26/06, p.F3)(www.theargonauts.com)
2001 Sep 8, A ceremony at the War
Memorial Opera House marked the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Peace
with Japan.
(SSFC, 9/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 9, SF hosted a 10.2 mile
track Grand Priz bicycle race. George Hincapie, a teammate to Lance
Armstrong, won the 127-mile race. Armstrong bowed out after 80 miles.
(SFC, 9/5/01, p.A13)(SFC, 9/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 9, Police found the
Anthony (36) and Anna Shami (37) and their 2 daughters shot to death at
their Bernal Heights home on Justin Dr. Shami was a weekend motorcycle
rider with the Hell’s Angels.
(SFC, 9/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 22, Four children, aged
1-12, died in the Bayview area from a fire at 87 Maddux Ave. in the
Silver Terrace area.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A23)(SFC, 9/24/01, p.A11)
2001 Sep 26, The US Senate
approved $50.6 million for the Navy to continue cleaning Hunters Point
Shipyard, a toxic superfund site.
(SFC, 9/27/01, p.A15)
2001 Sep 26, Pat Martel, ass’t.
manager of Daly City, was named general manager of SF PUC, the 1st
Latina, lesbian or woman to head the agency.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D5)
2001 Sep 29, Some 7,000 people
marched for peace in Washington DC while an estimated 7-10 thousand
marched in San Francisco. They marched to mourn terrorist victims, and
to urge the nation to heal poverty and injustice that fuels global
violence instead of focusing on military revenge.
(SSFC, 9/30/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 30, Many thousands
attended the 18th Folsom Street Fair billed as “the biggest leather
event in the world.”
(SFC, 10/1/01, p.A16)
2001 Oct 4, In Texas Barry Bonds
hit his 70th home run and tied the 3-year-old record of Mark McGwire.
(SFC, 10/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 5, Barry Bonds of the SF
Giants hit his 71st and 72nd record home runs at Pacific Bell Park off
of pitcher Chan Ho Park of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers won
11-10. This broke the record of 70 held by Mark McGwire.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.F1)
2001 Oct 7, The Asian Arts Museum
in Golden Gate Park opened for its last day pending the move to its new
location in the Civic Center.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.G1)
2001 Oct 7, In SF Barry Bonds hit
his 73rd home run in the final game of the season. Two men, Alex Popov
and Patrick Hayashi, fought over the ball and went to court. In 2002 a
judge ruled that the ball be sold and the cash split. In 2003 the ball
was auctioned off for $450,000.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.B1)(SFC, 12/19/02, p.A1)(SFC,
6/26/03, p.A1)
2001 Oct 7, Anti-war
demonstrations in SF drew some 1,000.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.A11)
2001 Oct 18, The US Senate
approved a military spending bill that included $50 million for cleanup
at Hunter’s Point naval shipyard.
(SFC, 10/19/01, p.D6)
2001 Oct 21, Richard Hilkert,
Bookseller Ltd., closed his shop at 333 Hayes after 18 years.
(SFC, 10/13/01, p.F1)
2001 Oct 25, Ground was broken for
a new $27.5 million Mexican Museum building near Yerba Buena Gardens.
The 63,000-sq.-foot building sported a design by Ricardo Legoretta. The
museum was founded by Peter Rodriguez in a storefront on Folsom St. in
1976.
(SFC, 5/26/96, DB p.27)(SFC, 10/27/01, p.F1)
2001 Oct 25, SF made its 3rd
annual count of the homeless. The census counted 7,305.
(SFC, 10/27/01, p.A11)(SFC, 11/17/01, p.A19)
2001 Oct 25, SF, Daly City and 3
golf courses agreed on a plan to restore the health and water level of
Lake Merced.
(SFC, 10/26/01, p.A24)
2001 Oct 25, Kuo Wai Chiang (40)
was caught and dragged by an M-Ocean View street car at the Stonestown
Galleria shopping center and died at SFG.
(SFC, 10/27/01, p.A12)
2001 Oct, Seismic work on San
Francisco’s Central Freeway was scheduled to end.
(SFC, 2/21/98, p.A13)
2001 Nov 1, The Cartoon Art Museum
took over the space at 655 Mission St. formerly held by the Ansel Adams
Center and The Friends of Photography.
(SFC, 10/18/01, p.B1)
2001 Nov 6, In local elections
Prop D passed and gave authority to voters over any project that would
fill 100 acres or more of SF Bay. Prop F, a public power proposal, lost
by 533 votes.
(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A15,17)
2001 Nov 11, The SF Chronicle
began a series on how school officials mismanaged bond and tax money
over the last 13 years.
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 12, Record rains hit the
Bay Area with 2.7 inches in Kentfield and 2.09 inches in SF.
(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A20)
2001 Nov 17, The Chinese
Historical Society opened its new museum at the old Chinatown YWCA on
Clay St.
(SSFC, 11/18/01, p.A29)
2001 Nov 17, In SF Hunter
McPherson (27) was shot and killed on Potrero Hill’s Mariposa St.
during a robbery as he returned home with a girlfriend. He was the son
of state Sen. Bruce McPherson. Clifton Terrell Jr. (18) and Dwayne
Curtis Reed (22) were later charged in the murder. In 2005 Terrell was
convicted of 1st degree murder and robbery. Reed was freed in 2005
following a plea bargain in which he agreed to testify against Terrell.
In Oct 2005 Reed killed a man in Belmont.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A18)(SFC, 3/3/05, p.B1)(SFC,
10/8/05, p.B3)
2001 Dec 5, Demolition of
Letterman Army Hospital at the Presidio continued in preparation for
the new George Lucas digital production studio.
(SFC, 12/5/01, p.A20)
2001 Dec 10, James Meadows,
director of the Presidio Trust, resigned amid allegations of financial
mismanagement.
(SFC, 12/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 11, Dennis Herrera (39)
won a runoff election for city attorney over Jim Lazarus (52) 52% to
47%.
(SFC, 12/12/01, p.A23)
2001 Dec 15, A fire at 275 Turk
St. left 150 tenants homeless.
(SFC, 12/17/01, p.A17)
2001 Dec 16, Police instituted
Operation Ceasefire to try to halt violence between rival groups in the
Bayview-Hunters Point area.
(SFC, 12/17/01, p.A1)
2001 Dave Eggers authored the
memoir “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.” He used the
proceeds to establish a SF publishing house named “McSweeneys.”
(Econ, 1/8/05, p.75)
2001 Peter Booth Wiley authored
“National Trust Guide: San Francisco, America’s Guide for Architecture
and History Travelers.”
(SSFC, 2/4/01, BR p.2)
2001 The light rail system of
Airport Transit System was scheduled to be completed. The AirTrain
monorail was scheduled to replace rental car shuttles at the airport.
(SFC,10/24/97, p.A22)(SFEC, 1/10/99, p.T3)
2001 The BART extension to the
airport was scheduled to open.
(SFEC, 7/19/98, p.A1)
2001 Speckmann’s, a long-time
German restaurant and bar on Church St., closed.
(SFCM, 6/6/04, 6)
2001 The Pacific Stock Exchange
merged with Archipelago, an electronic marketplace corporation. Its
trading floor was sold in 2002.
(SSFC, 7/3/05, p.F3)
2002 Jan 1, Alfred J. Nelder,
former police chief (1970-1971), Supervisor (1973-1980) and police
commission member, died at age 87.
(SFC, 1/4/02, p.A26)
2002 Jan 2, SF reached a tentative
deal with federal officials to take over the Old Mint.
(SFC, 1/3/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 4, Alfred Wilsey, SF
businessman and philanthropist, died at age 82.
(SFC, 1/7/02, p.A17)
2002 Jan 18, Perry Michael
Bradstreet (37) was killed at 1088 Palou Ave. in Bayview. Gerald A.
White, summoned by a Grand Jury on the murder, was killed July 28, 3
days after an appearance in which he did not testify.
(SFC, 7/31/02, p.A15)
2002 Feb 2, Steve Lee, off-duty
police officer, shot and killed Jerome Hooper in Chinatown after being
accosted.
(SFC, 2/4/02, p.B2)
2002 Feb 4, A gunman robbed a
Union Square jeweler of over $1 million in diamonds, emeralds and gold
outside his 10th-floor office at 210 Post St.
(SFC, 2/5/02, p.A17)
2002 Feb 11, Chinatown celebrated
the New Year of the Horse, year 4,700.
(SFC, 2/12/02, p.A21)
2002 Feb 11, SF sued PG&E for
a $5 billion refund to ratepayers.
(SFC, 2/12/02, p.B1)
2002 Feb 11, Rebecca
Etherington-Smith was attacked at a bus stop on Columbus and Francisco
by a man who slashed her face and throat and escaped. On Mar 13 police
arrested Hugh Howell (41), who admitted the slashing.
(SFC, 2/12/02, p.A21)(SFC, 3/13/02, p.A13)
2002 Feb 13, In SF Nicholas Rendon
(55) was strangled at his Kansas Street home. His body was found the
next day. In 2007 Mark Miller and Ruben Bill pleaded guilty to
manslaughter in the case and. They faced sentences of 16 years and 11
years respectively.
(SFC, 6/7/07, p.B3)
2002 Feb 16, Philip Elwood’s final
jazz column as a SFC staff writer appeared. He had joined the morning
Examiner in July, 1965.
(SFC, 2/16/02, p.D1)
2002 Feb 18, Louis Nichols (54)
was killed by Marc D’Hollander (31) her hiking French friend, who
admitted choking her to death.
(SFC, 2/19/02, p.A13)
2002 Feb 20, Larry Flynt’s Hustler
Club was scheduled to open at 1031 Kearny with a lineup of exotic
dancers.
(SFC, 2/7/02, p.D3)
2002 Feb 23, The Chinese New Year
Parade was held in SF.
(SSFC, 2/24/02, p.A21)
2002 Feb 26, The Nihonmachi Little
Friends community day care center gained title to the 1932 YWCA
building at 1830 Sutter in a settlement with YWCA. [see 1932, 1996]
(SFC, 4/9/96, p.A14)(SFC, 2/27/02, p.A15)
2002 Mar 5, Voters approved Prop
A, which called for instant runoffs via voter ranking in local primary
elections.
(SFC, 3/7/02, p.A15)
2002 Mar 17, Over 50,000 people
gathered for the 150th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Market St.
(SFC, 3/18/02, p.B3)
2002 Mar 21, SF jurors convicted
Marjorie Knoller (46) of 2nd degree murder and Robert Noel (60) of
manslaughter in the dog attack on Diane Whipple.
(SFC, 3/22/02, p.A1)
2002 Apr 13, Thomas Hatfield (24)
was shot and killed at Ocean and Lee near Beep’s hamburgers. Tyson
Williams (21) was sought in the murder.
(SFC, 4/16/02, p.A14)
2002 Apr 20, Some 20,000 people
marched in SF in opposition to US policy in the Middle East.
(SSFC, 4/21/02, p.A1)
2002 Apr 26, Peter Chong (58) was
convicted on 10 or 13 accounts of racketeering and other federal
charges. He was accused of heading the Wen Hop To crime syndicate and
of trying to unify the areas Chinese crime gangs.
(SFC, 4/27/02, p.A17)
2002 Apr 28, It was reported that
the Bechtel Group, hired 2 years ago to revamp the Hetch Hetchy water
supply system, was being ousted.
(SSFC, 4/28/02, p.A1)
2002 May 1, Evelyn Hernandez (24)
disappeared with her 5-year-old son. She was pregnant with a baby due
May 7. Her boyfriend reported her missing May 7. A portion of her torso
was found July 24.
(SFC, 6/11/02, p.A17)(SFC, 9/4/02, p.A17)
2002 May 2, China’s VP Hu Jintao
met with Mayor Brown and set a visit to Intel prior to his departure
back to China.
(SFC, 5/3/02, p.A8)
2002 May 5, In SF Bruce Brooks
(51), a street blues musician, killed Juliette Williamson, his
girlfriend and bandmate, by repeatedly smashing her head with a hammer.
Her body was found on May 22, washed up on Yerba Buena Island. In 2008
Brooks was convicted of 2nd-degree murder.
(SFC, 8/7/08, p.B3)
2002 May 12, Steve Sparks sold his
“The Mad Dog In Fog” English pub on Haight St. and moved to
Anderson Valley. The pub had begun in 1989.
(SFC, 1/21/05, p.F8)
2002 May 14, Justin Glazer 23 was
shot to death in the 500 block of Alemany Blvd. A local feud between
the “Project Boys” and “Freeway Boys” was suspected.
(SFC, 5/18/02, p.A18)
2002 May 17, Keith Frazier (12)
was shot to death at 901 Ellsworth in Bernal Heights as his older
brother, Kevin Wortham, drove him home. Wortham belonged to the Project
Boys group.
(SFC, 5/18/02, p.A18)(SSFC, 5/19/02, p.A21)
2002 May 19, Some 50,000 ran in
the 91st annual rain-soaked Bay to Breakers race. James Koskei of Kenya
won for the men and Luminita Talpos of Romania won for the women.
(SFC, 5/20/02, p.B1)
2002 Jun 5, The SF Roman Catholic
Archdiocese furnished Bay Area prosecutors the names of some 40 current
and former priests and lay employees who have been targets of sexual
abuse complaints.
(SFC, 6/6/02, p.A1)
2002 Jun 5, Phyllis Wattis (97),
SF arts patron, died. Her contributions to Northern California cultural
institutions exceeded $150 million. Her husband, Paul L. Wattis, headed
the construction company that built Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam).
(SFC, 6/6/02, p.A22)
2002 Jun 13-30, The annual SF
Int’l. Gay and Lesbian Film Festival planned to show 80 features and
209 shorts.
(SFC, 5/22/02, p.D1)
2002 Jun 13, SF Police Officer Jon
C. Cook (38) was killed at 17th and Dolores when his patrol car hit
another patrol car driven by Nick Ferrando (25). They were both racing
to the same emergency call.
(SFC, 6/14/02, p.A1)
2002 Jun 17, SF Judge James Warren
reversed the 2nd degree murder conviction against Marjorie Knoller
saying she could have known that her dogs were capable of killing
someone. He let stand Knoller's conviction for involuntary
manslaughter. (However, the California Supreme Court has left open the
possibility the murder conviction could be reinstated.) Robert Noel was
sentenced to 4 years for involuntary manslaughter.
(SFC, 6/18/02, p.A1)(AP, 6/17/07)
2002 Jun 26, The Ninth US Circuit
Court in SF ruled that the “under God” phrase in the Pledge of
Allegiance is an endorsement of religion and violates the Constitution.
It was unconstitutional because of the words "under God" inserted by
Congress in 1954. The US Supreme Court overturned the decision in 2004
on a technicality.
(SFC, 6/27/02, p.A1)(AP, 6/26/07)
2002 Jun 26, Philip Whalen (78),
Zen Buddhist priest and SF Beat poet, died.
(SFC, 6/27/02, p.A19)
2002 Jun 30, The 32nd annual Pride
Parade was held in SF. Organizers estimated a million people there,
while police said 300,000.
(SFC, 7/1/02, p.B1)
2002 Jul 2, In Sunnydale 3
intruders entered a private apartment demanding money, tied up the
husband (35), confined 3 children, and raped the wife (26).
(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A17)
2002 Jul 3, Gustine Simms (85) of
Bayview was found bludgeoned to death. Clay Cael (47) was later shot by
police in Oakland and confessed to the killing.
(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A17)
2002 Jul 7, Three masked men broke
into a house on Peabody St. in Visitacion Valley. They raped a mother
and one daughter but were fought off be a 2nd daughter. They stole
jewelry, electronic equipment and fled.
(SFC, 7/11/02, p.A4)
2002 Jul 8, A woman’s body, later
identified as Nadine Reyes of Sacramento (18), was found in a trash can
at 17th Street and Treat Ave. She was last seen July 3 by her father.
(SFC, 7/9/02, p.A16)(SFC, 7/13/02, p.A17)
2002 Jul 11, Mayor Brown named
Asst. Police Chief Earl Sanders (64) as the new chief, the 1st African
American to hold the post in its 153 years.
(SFC, 7/12/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 12, The SF Robertson
Stephens investment banking firm, a unit of Fleet Financial, shut down.
It had formed in 1969 as Robertson, Coleman and Siebel. It split into
Robertson Stephens and Montgomery Securities in 1978.
(SFC, 7/13/02, p.A12)
2002 Jul 15, Marjorie Knoller was
sentenced to 4 years in prison for the 2001 dog mauling of her neighbor
Diane Whipple.
(WSJ, 7/16/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 25, Union Square
re-opened following an 18-month, $25 million re-model.
(SFC, 7/26/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 27, The 4th and last
annual Street Luge Competition was held on Potrero Hill.
(SFC, 8/2/02, p.E1)
2002 Aug 4, Sukhpal Singh (52), a
Daly City cab driver, took a fatal gunshot and crashed his cab
into 2 parked cars and a utility pole in a fiery crash on 24th St. in
the Mission District.
(SFC, 8/5/02, p.B1)
2002 Aug 9, Barry Bonds of the SF
Giants hit his 600th homerun and joined the ranks of Henry Aaron (660),
Babe Ruth (714) and Willie Mays (755).
(SFC, 8/10/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 9, Guadelupe J. Marquez
(47), former city fire inspector, was indicted for extortion and false
overtime.
(SFC, 8/10/02, p.A13)
2002 Aug 9, SF hit a record 86
degrees. The old record was 85 set in 1970.
(SFC, 8/10/02, p.A13)
2002 Aug 17, The new $ 1 billion
Navy destroyer McCampbell, completed in July at the Bath Iron Works in
Maine, was commissioned in SF.
(SSFC, 8/18/02, p.A2)
2002 Aug 19, The Dolph Rempp
Sailing Ship Restaurant was razed. The 135-year-old vessel had spent
its last 27 years at South Beach near Pac Bell Park.
(SFC, 8/20/02, p.A17)
2002 Sep 2, A woman named Dina
Harb (20) of San Jose, the mother of an 8-month-old son, was shot to
death at 21st Street near Capp. Police suspected her death was gang
related.
(SFC, 9/3/02, p.A17)(SFC, 9/4/02, p.A18)
2002 Sep 7, Some 10,000 peace
activists gathered for the 4th annual 911 Power to the Peaceful
Festival at Golden Gate Park. The event began in 1999 as a means of
drumming up support for Mumia Abu Jamal, the former Philadelphia
journalist convicted of killing a police officer.
(SSFC, 9/8/02, p.A21)
2002 Sep 8, Pop Zhao, a SF artist,
organized volunteers to drape 3 miles of US flags along the SF
coastline in an artistic display of patriotism, remembrance and
strength.
(SFC, 9/9/02, p.A12)
2002 Sep 8, Ray D. Jimmerson Jr.
(25), a key witness in a case against the Big Block gang, was shot to
death on Buchanon St. In 2005 Dennis Cyrus Jr., a leader of the Page
Street Mob, was indicted for the slaying.
(SFC, 9/10/02, p.A1)(SFC, 5/27/05, p.B4)
2002 Sep 10, The Musee Mecanique
was set to close it doors for the last time in the wake of a rebuilding
project for the Cliff House. In March, 2002, under public pressure the
National Park Service and owner agreed on a temporary home pending a
new one above the new Cliff House.
(SFC, 2/27/02, p.A13)(SFC, 3/26/02, p.A13)
2002 Sep 12, Rich Sorro Commons, a
subsidized housing complex near Pacific Bell Park, opened.
(SFC, 9/13/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 14, Some 1,000 marched
down Market St. to denounce the Bush administration’s call for war
against Iraq.
(SFC, 9/15/02, p.A25)
2002 Sep 15, The SF Grand Priz
bike race was held along the NE waterfront.
(SFC, 9/15/02, p.A29)
2002 Sep 27, SF bicyclists
celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the critical Mass ride and the
city’s 1st official Car-Free Day. 3-5,000 riders took part.
(SFC, 9/28/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 2, SF launched a
computerized system to track the use of services for the homeless.
(SFC, 10/3/02, p.A17)
2002 Oct 13, In San Francisco a
water main burst in the Portola district.
(SFC, 10/14/02, p.A21)
2002 Oct 13, San Francisco held
its 134th annual Columbus Day Parade.
(SFC, 10/14/02, p.A22)
2002 Oct 14, The SF Giants won the
National League Championship with a 2-1 victory over the St. Louis
Cardinals.
(SFC, 10/15/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 16, Desmond McQuoid (46),
for SF school security director, was indicted for scamming the SF
Unified School District of some $200,000.
(SFC, 10/17/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 23, The San Francisco
Giants edged the Anaheim Angels, 4-3, to tie the World Series at two
games each.
(AP, 10/23/07)
2002 Oct 26, An estimated 40-80
thousand people marched down market Street to protest the Bush policy
threatening war on Iraq.
(SSFC, 10/27/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 27, The Anaheim Angels
beat the SF Giants in the 7th game of the baseball World Series 4-1.
(SFC, 10/28/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 29, The 3rd annual SF
homeless census counted about 7,300. The number sleeping in the street
or in vehicles totaled 4,535.
(SFC, 10/31/02, p.A15)(SFC, 1/27/05, p.B2)
2002 Oct 31, In SF the Halloween
party in the Castro district turned violent. 4 people were stabbed and
30 were arrested as police were pelted with bottles.
(SFC, 10/28/06, p.B3)
2002 Nov 6, SF voters approved a
$1.6 billion bond measure to rebuild the Hetch Hetchy water system.
Prop D, a city public power proposal, lost. Prop N, the Care Not Cash
homeless reform measure of Supv. Gavin Newsom, passed. Prop O, Supv.
Ammiano’s measure to limit Prop N, lost.
(SFC, 11/7/02, p.A25)
2002 Nov 14, Nancy Pelosi became
the 1st woman to lead a party in the US Congress after Democrats voted
177-29 in support of the liberal from SF.
(SFC, 11/15/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 20, A street fight (the
“Fahitagate” case) involved 3 SF off-duty police officers. Alex Fagan
Jr. (the rookie son of Asst. Chief Alex Fagan Sr.), Matthew Tonsing and
David Lee confronted Adam Snyder and Jade Santoro at Laguna and Union
Streets. In 2005 a jury acquitted Alex Fagan Jr. of the most serious
charges against him.
(SFC, 4/5/03, p.A1)(SFC, 6/23/03, p.A1)(SFC,
3/30/05, p.A1)
2002 Nov 22, “Cupid’s Span,” a
sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and his wife Coosje van Bruggen (d.2009 at
66), was set on the Embarcadero at the foot of the Bay Bridge.
(SFC, 11/23/02, p.A1)(SFC, 1/20/09, p.B5)
2002 Nov 24, The new 31-story
tower at 560 Mission, designed by Cesar Pelli, was described as an
exercise in minimalism. JP Morgan Chase & Co. was the sole tenant.
(SSFC, 11/24/02, p.A23)
2002 Dec 13, Monsignor Ignatius
Wang (68) of SF was named as an auxiliary bishop for the SF
Archdiocese, the 1st US bishop of Asian ancestry.
(SFC, 12/14/02, p.A1)
2002 MUNI planned to have
completed a 150-room boutique hotel and shopping complex across from
the Ferry Building.
(SFC, 10/2/97, p.A17)
2002 The Murphy windmill cap was
sent to the Netherlands for restoration.
(SFC, 6/26/02, p.A18)
2002 St. John’s Evangelical
Lutheran Church at 3134 22nd St. was sold for $2.5 million the United
Int’l. World Buddhism Assoc. The church dated back to the 1900s.
(SFC, 12/31/04, p.B5)
2003 Jan 8, Matt Gonzalez (37), a
Green Party supervisor, was elected president of the SF Board of
Directors.
(SFC, 1/9/03, p.A1)
2003 Jan 15, The SF 49ers fired
football coach Steve Mariucci in year 6 of his 7-year contract.
(SFC, 1/16/03, p.A1)
2003 Jan 17, Margo Patterson Doss
(b.1920), former SF Chronicle columnist, died. In 1961 she began
writing her Sunday column “San Francisco at Your Feet” and continued
for 30 years. During the last decade of her life she gardened in
Bolinas and wrote for the Point Reyes Light.
(SFC, 1/22/09, p.B1)
2003 Jan 18, In the US tens of
thousands rallied in Washington DC in an emphatic dissent against
preparations for war in Iraq. As many as 500,000 rallied outside the
Capitol. In SF the rally drew at least 100,000 by my count. A small
band of anarchists vandalized the Financial District in “black bloc”
protests.
(AP, 1/19/03)(AR)(SSFC, 1/19/03, p.A1)(SFC, 1/27/03,
p.B1)
2003 Jan 26, The US Super Bowl
XXXVII Football game scheduled in 1997 to be played in San Francisco,
was played in San Diego.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A1)
2003 Jan 31, A federal jury in SF
found Ed Rosenthal (58), a marijuana advocate, guilty of felony
conspiracy and cultivation charges. Judge Charles Breyer did not allow
testimony citing 1996 California state voter approval of medical
marijuana. On Feb 4 jurors claimed they were duped and called for a new
trial.
(SFC, 2/1/03, p.A1)(SFC, 2/5/03, p.A1)
2003 Feb 8, Kevin Coleman (35) was
shot and killed in San Francisco’s Lower Haight neighborhood. In 2006
Anthony Johnson (23) and Anthony Woods (25) were convicted of 1st
degree murder.
(SFC, 1/21/06, p.B5)
2003 Feb 16, The SF
anti-war demonstration cost organizers some $85,000. An estimated
200,000 people participated. Some 1000 protesters clashed with police
at the end of the rally and 46 people were arrested. A later aerial
study numbered the crowd at 65,000.
(SFC, 2/17/03, p.A1)(SFC, 2/21/03, A1)
2003 Feb 16, Bart counted over
82,000 people exiting downtown stations for the anti-war rally. An
airplane count numbered some 65,000 at Civic Center Plaza.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A23)
2003 Feb 22, Stars restaurant,
home to the city’s longest bar, was scheduled to close after 19 years.
(SFC, 2/7/03, p.A1)
2003 Feb 27, SF police officials
were indicted on charges that they blocked an investigation in a Nov
20, 2002, street fight (the “Fahitagate” case) that involved 3 off-duty
officers.
(SFC, 4/5/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 11, SF officials fenced
off the fountain at the UN Plaza due to human filth and hypodermic
needles found on a daily basis.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A19)
2003 Mar 14, Police arrested 80
anti-war protesters in the SF financial district. They included Warren
Langley, former head of the Pacific Exchange.
(SFC, 3/15/03, p.A13)
2003 Mar 15, Many thousands of
anti-war demonstrators marched in SF, Washington DC and around the
world against plans for a war with Iraq.
(SFC, 3/16/03, p.A1)(AP, 3/15/08)
2003 Mar 19, Protests began in SF
with the start of war in Iraq.
(SFC, 3/19/03, p.W3)
2003 Mar 20, The SF Asian Museum
opened in the renovated former SF main Library.
(SFC, 3/21/03, p.A3)
2003 Mar 20, Up to 1400 anti-war
protesters were arrested in SF.
(SFC, 3/21/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 31, Crews began
demolishing the half-mile Fell Street off-ramp.
(SFC, 4/1/03, p.A15)
2003 Mar, The new $151 million
Asian Art Museum, the Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Arts and culture,
opened in San Francisco’s Old Main Library. Johnson Bogart (1928-2008),
a member of the Asian Art Commission since 1992, led the successful
move.
(SFC, 11/28/96, p.C1)(SFC, 8/14/08, p.B5)
2003 Apr 4, Judge Kay Tsenin
dismissed charges against 5 police officials in the “Fahitagate” case.
(SFC, 4/5/03, p.A1)
2003 Apr 7, The SF Chronicle ran a
$45,000 full-page ad that called for the impeachment of Pres. Bush.
Former US Attorney Gen’l. Ramsey Clark led the ad sponsors.
(SFC, 4/8/03, p.A12)
2003 Apr 7, The SF Giants beat the
San Diego Padres 7-4 on opening day. Navy jets buzzed the 40,800 crowd
in opening ceremonies at PacBell Park.
(SFC, 4/8/03, p.A15)
2003 Apr 7, Jewelry valued at $4.7
million was stolen from the Lang Estate and Jewelry store on Union
Square in SF. 2 men were later arrested. In 2006 Troy Smith (44) was
convicted in the robbery and faced 35 years to life in prison. His
brother Dino Smith (48) and George Turner (46) were convicted in 2005.
(SFC, 12/21/04, p.B3)(SFC, 11/1/06, p.B7)
2003 Apr 8, Ed Harrington, SF City
Controller, said as many as 1,000 city jobs may be eliminated.
(SFC, 4/9/03, p.A25)
2003 Apr 21, Charges were filed
against Marcus Armstrong, former information systems manager for the
Dept. of Building Inspection, for bribes of close to $450,000/
(SFC, 4/22/03)
2003 Apr 22, Mark Padua and
Frederick Johnson were arrested following a bank robbery at the B of A
branch on Balboa St. They were believed to be responsible for 26 recent
holdups.
(SSFC, 5/18/03, p.A1)
2003 Apr, The new magazine
"Believer" published its 1st issue from 826 Valencia, SF, part of the
Dave Eggers publishing family. The storefront featured a Pirate Supply
Store to conform with commercial zoning requirements. The backend
featured tutoring services for school kids.
(SSFM, 7/13/03, p.11)(SFC, 3/1/08, p.C2)
2003 May 2, In SF the Centre for
Sex and Culture held its second annual public "Masturbate-a-Thon".
(Reuters, 5/3/02)
2003 May 3, Robert Hansen (85),
Golden Gate Park Band maestro, died. He had wielded the conductor's
baton for 53 years.
(SFC, 5/6/03, p.A17)
2003 May 8, Judge Ronald Quidachay
said only county officials and not voters can set welfare standards for
the downtrodden. This overturned the 2002 voter-approved Prop N, the
"Care Not Cash" measure.
(SFC, 5/9/03, p.A1)
2003 Apr 5, Kirby Doyle (70), San
Francisco Beat poet and writer, died.
(SFC, 5/14/03, p.A17)
2003 May 9, The film "Forbidden
Photographs: The Life and Work of Charles Gatewood" premiered at the
Roxie theater.
(SFC, 5/8/03, p.E3)
2003 May 18, The 92nd annual Bay
to Breakers race had some 70,000 participants. James Koskei defended
his title with a time of 35.11.
(SFC, 5/19/03, p.A1)
2003 May 20, The SF Civil Service
Commission, empowered by voters last November, voted 3:2 to raise the
pay scale for supervisors to $112,320 vs. the previous $37,585,
effective July 1.
(SFC, 5/21/03, p.A1)
2003 May 25, The 25th annual SF
Carnaval Parade was held in the Mission District.
(SSFC, 5/25/03, p.A21)
2003 Jun 2, PipeVine Inc., a firm
that handled over $100 million in donations, shut down and said it did
not have enough money to pay owed funds to nonprofit organizations. The
SF later acknowledged that is had spent some of the money on its own
salaries and other operating expenses. Accounting problems dated back 2
years.
(SFC, 6/4/03, p.A1)(SFC, 6/5/03, p.A1)
2003 Jun 22, The 8.7-mile Bart
extension to the airport was set to begin operations.
(SFC, 6/19/03, p.A1)
2003 Jun 26, Record temperatures
hit the Bay Area with 97 in SF and 102 in San Jose.
(SFC, 6/27/03, p.A23)
2003 Jun 28, Virginia Ramos, the
Tamale Lady, celebrated her 50th b-day at the Zeitgeist, a Mission
district bar.
(SFC, 6/28/03, p.A15)
2003 Jun 28, John Bravard (53)
fatally shot 3 men at the Dalt Hotel on Turk St. and then killed
himself.
(SSFC, 6/28/03, p.A1)
2003 Jun 29, SF held its 33rd
annual SF Gay Pride parade on Market St.
(SSFC, 6/28/03, p.A2)
2003 Jul 4, The SF Mime Troup
opened their season with a free performance of "Veronique of the
Mounties" in Dolores Park.
(SFC, 7/7/03, p.D2)
2003 Jul 12, In SF Robert Ramirez
(24) was killed when bullets sprayed a car he sat in with a friend near
City College. Philip Sands (24, a long-time friend, was arrested for
the murder on Oct 16. Sands was convicted of 1st degree murder on Nov
4, 2005. Sands was also convicted for a Sep 14, 2001, stabbing at
Pacific Bell Park. Sands believed that Ramirez had planned to testify
against him in the stabbing case.
(SFC, 10/17/03, p.A21)(SFC, 11/5/05, p.B3)
2003 Jul 14, The SF Board of
Supervisors voted 6-5 to install $1-an-hour parking meters in Golden
Gate Park. The plan was dropped Jul 29 under widespread outrage.
(SFC, 7/16/03, p.A15)(SFC, 7/30/03, p.A17)
2003 Jul 14, A tow truck went out
of control on Alemany Blvd. and crashed on top of a SUV on I-280. Walid
Mansour, the truck driver, was killed along with 3 siblings in the SUV.
(SFC, 7/15/03, p.A1)
2003 Aug 1, Alex Gong (32), a
Thai-style kickboxer, was shot to death at Fifth and Harrison by the
driver of a stolen vehicle who had crashed into Gong's car. Rodger
Wayne Chastain (23) shot himself to death Aug 4 following a 12-hour
standoff with police in South SF.
(SSFC, 8/3/03, p.A25)(SFC, 8/5/03, p.A1)
2003 Aug 9, The 10th annual
Pistahan, a Philippine fiesta, began in Yerba Buena Gardens.
(SFC, 8/9/03, p.A1)
2003 Aug 24, Lawrence Fixel (86),
SF poet, died. His 1st collection of poems, The Scale of Silence," was
published in 1970.
(SFC, 8/28/03, p.A27)
2003 Sep 13, Volunteers at Ocean
Beach unfurled a half mile banner honoring the victims of the 2001,
9/11 tragedy.
(SSFC, 9/14/03, p.A22)
2003 Sep 14, SF held a 108- mile
Men's bicycle race. The Women's pro race was 49.6 miles. Chris Horner
(31) of team Saturn won the men's race. Nicole Cooke (20) of team Ausra
Gruodis won the women's race.
(SSFC, 9/14/03, p.A22)
2003 Sep 20, The SF Conservatory
of flowers, battered by a storm 8 years earlier, re-opened following a
$25 million renovation.
(SFC, 9/16/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep, SF opened the Five Keys
Charter School for convicted drug dealers and violent criminals, the
nation's 1st charter school in jail.
(SFC, 1/2/04, p.A15)
2003 Oct 1, Jazz at Skip's, a
Bernal Heights tavern owned by Bill Courtright, ended due to legal
suits filed by ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and
Publishers. Music returned in 2004 after Courtright agreed to pay
royalties, but he still faced infringement suits.
(SFC, 12/3/03, p.D1)(SFC, 1/2/04, p.B1)
2003 Oct 14, SBC Communications
announced that it would rename Pacific Bell Park to SBC Park as of Jan
1.
(SFC, 10/15/03, p.A1)
2003 Oct 15, FCC officials raided
San Francisco Liberation Radio, a low-power FM station, and confiscated
its equipment.
(SFC, 10/21/03, p.D1)
2003 Oct 18, The 24th annual SF
Exotic Erotic Ball took place at the Cow Palace in Daly City.
(SFC, 10/20/03, p.D1)
2003 Oct 22, Supervisor Chris
Daly, serving as acting mayor, filled 2 vacancies in the Public
Utilities Commission. Mayor Brown was traveling in Tibet.
(SFC, 10/24/03, p.A1)
2003 Oct 25, Some 5-15 thousand
people demonstrated in SF calling for US withdrawal from Iraq.
(AP, 10/26/03)
2003 Oct 28, It was announced that
the Helen Diller Family Foundation would make a $35 million donation to
the new cancer research center of UCSF at Mission Bay.
(SFC, 10/28/03, p.B1)
2003 Oct 31, In SF Victor Bach
(71) was killed at his Mission District office, Western Plumbing and
Heating on Halloween. His wife was later charged with defrauding the
business and a trust account that he was overseeing. In 2008 Kathy Bach
(57) was convicted of 13-theft related charges for defrauding her
husband’s business and a private trust that he oversaw.
(SFC, 3/16/05, p.B4)(SFC, 11/18/08, p.B2)
2003 Nov 4, SF voters favored
Gavin Newsom (36) for mayor, but failed to win a majority and a runoff
against Matt Gonzalez (38) on Dec 19 was scheduled. Voters passed Prop.
H, a measure to reorganize the police commission.
(SFC, 11/5/03, p.A19)
2003 Nov 9, SF held its 84th
annual Veterans Day Parade.
(SFC, 11/10/03, p.A13)
2003 Nov 13, Mayor Brown
officially broke ground for the $410 million Westfield San Francisco
Center, scheduled to open in 2006. It will fuse Union Square with the
Yerba Buena Center into one urban district.
(SFC, 11/14/03, p.A1)
2003 Nov 13, Dana Stubblefield, SF
49er defensive lineman, made false statements to an IRS agent just days
before drug tests showed he had taken steroids. In 2008 he pleaded
guilty to lying about his use of performance-enhancing drugs. He was
the first football player prosecuted in the BALCO steroid scandal.
(SFC, 1/19/08, p.B1)
2003 Nov 14, A new Arabic mural
was unveiled at the corner of Market and Jones. 8 Bay Area artists were
commissioned for the $35,000 year-long work.
(SFC, 11/15/03, p.A23)
2003 Nov 15, Dmitriy Romasenko
(21), immigrant Russian Jew, was shot to death at the northern edge of
Golden Gate Park.
(SFCM, 6/27/04, p.8)
2003 Nov 18, Michael Burns, SF
Director of Transportation, was given a 28% pay increase by the
agency's board of directors in a 4-2 vote. Some Muni workers recently
agreed to a 7.5% pay cut to help balance the budget.
(SFC, 11/19/03, p.A27)
2003 Dec 4, Barry Bonds, SF
homerun star, told a grand jury that he used a clear substance and a
cream supplied by BALCO, but that he never thought they were steroids.
The SF Chronicle obtained a transcript of his testimony in 2004.
(SFC, 12/3/04, p.A1)
2003 Dec 9, Gavin Newsom (36) was
elected as the 42nd mayor of San Francisco. He beat Matt Gonzalez by a
53-47% margin. Kamala Harris was elected District Attorney. She beat
Terence Hallinan 56-44%
(SFC, 12/10/03, p.A1)
2003 Dec 13, Mayor-elect Gavin
Newsom announced his strategy to create a 10-year plan to end
homelessness in SF.
(SSFC, 12/14/03, p.A1)
2003 Dec 15, Art Blum (80), "king
of public relations" in SF, died in Mill Valley.
(SFC, 12/17/03, p.A27)
2003 Dec 20, Daniel Price (28),
artist, was shot and killed as he protected his wife from a gunman near
Filbert and Gough in the early morning hours.
(SFC, 12/20/03, p.A1)
2003 Dec 20, A third of SF lost
power for 2-3 hours in the early evening. A fire at a PG&E Mission
sub-station was overlooked for 99 minutes.
(SSFC, 12/21/03, p.A1)(SFC, 12/24/03, p.A1)
2003 Dec 29, The Sears Fine Food
Restaurant on Powell St., in operation on Union Square since 1938,
served its last meal due to legal and financial woes. In 2004 Man Kim
singed a long-term lease to take over the restaurant and planned to
reopen it in the spring.
(SFC, 12/25/03, p.A1)(SFC, 1/23/04, p.B1)
2003 Dec 31, The SF California
Academy of Sciences closed at the end of the day and prepared to move
to a new temporary site at 875 Howard. A new $370 million structure
designed by Renzo Piano was scheduled to open in 2008.
(SFC, 12/31/03, p.A13)
2003 Dec, In San Francisco a
project known as Distillery 209 moved into Pier 50. The licensed gin
distillery hoped to capture a share of the gourmet spirits market.
(SFC, 4/6/04, p.C1)
2003 SF raised cable car prices to
$3.00.
(SFC, 3/2/05, p.B7)
2003 A 40-story, $182 million,
luxury hotel and condominium at 3rd and Mission was scheduled to be
completed.
(SFC, 5/26/99, p.A18)
2003 The $400 million, 1.58
million-sq.-foot Bloomingdale development of the former Emporium was
scheduled to be finished.
(SFC, 1/15/01, p.A21)
2003 A Third St. light-rail
surface line was scheduled to open. It would connect to a downtown
subway that would take another decade to fund and build.
(SFC, 6/12/97, p.A17)
2003 The ViroChip, invented by Dr.
Joseph DeRisi (33) of UC San Francisco, gained attention when it
spotted the virus that causes the epidemic form of pneumonia called
SARS.
(SFC, 9/10/08, p.B4)
2004 Jan 2, Burgess Collins
(b.1923), SF artist, died. He had been the lover of poet Robert Duncan
and helped found the King Ubu art gallery on Fillmore in 1953.
(SSFC, 1/25/04, p.E1)
2004 Jan 8, Gavin Newsom began
serving as SF's 42nd mayor. He planned a multi-million bond measure to
fund construction of housing and social services for the city's
homeless.
(SFC, 1/8/04, p.A1)
2004 Jan 10, Mayor Newsom
appointed Joanne Hayes-White (39), Assistant Deputy Fire Chief, as head
of the fire department.
(SSFC, 1/11/04, p.A1)
2004 Jan 12, It was reported that
Mary Ellen O'Brien, head of the SF parking ticket division, was put on
leave from her $102,000-a-year job under allegations of chronic ticket
fixing.
(SFC, 1/12/04, p.B1)
2004 Jan 15, It was reported that
a SF street cleaning crew were told to vote for Gavin Newsom and work
for his campaign on Dec 9, 2003, election day.
(SFC, 1/15/04, p.A1)
2004 Jan 16, Mayor Newsom gathered
experts from around the country to discuss programs to help the
homeless. Marc Trotz, director of housing and urban health for the SF
Dept. of Public Health, pointed out that the Direct Access housing
program, begun 5 years earlier, had an 85% rate of retention.
(SSFC, 5/9/04, p.A1)
2004 Jan 17, Mayor Newsom asked
Police Chief Fagan to step aside and named heather Fong as the new
acting chief.
(SSFC, 1/18/04, p.A1)
2004 Jan 19, Mayor Newsom
appointed Michela Alioto-Pier (35) to replace him as supervisor in
district 2.
(SFC, 1/23/04, p.A17)
2004 Jan 19, The SF Cafe Du Nord
on upper Market opened the touring Sex Workers' Art Show, founded by
Annie Oakley. The original show was conceived in Olympia, Wa., in 1997.
(SSFC, 1/11/04, p.E3)
2004 Jan 22, The Pacific Exchange
seat owners voted to convert the entire exchange into a for-profit
stock corporation.
(SSFC, 1/25/04, p.I3)
2004 Jan 22, Federal agents broke
up a SF prostitution ring that worked out of at least 4 west side
residential homes. These included 1671 33rd Ave, 155 Buckingham Way,
2054 19th Ave, and a apartment at 132A Carl St.
(SFC, 1/23/04, p.A1)
2004 Jan 26, Mayor Newsom told SF
business leaders that a tax hike may be need to deal a city deficit
that could exceed $300 million.
(SFC, 1/27/04, p.A13)
2004 Jan 27, SF Supervisors gave
initial approval to developers who want to built 4 residential high
rises in the Rincon Hill area.
(SFC, 1/28/04, p.A15)
2004 Jan 29, Mayor Newsome cut
$25,000 from his salary and requested that city officials earning over
$125,000 accept 15% pay cuts.
(SFC, 1/31/04, p.A1)
2004 Feb 2, Pres. Bush proposed a
$2.4 trillion federal budget with a projected deficit of $521 billion
for this year. It included an increase in rent for San Francisco's use
of Hetch Hetchy reservoir in the Yosemite Valley from $30,000 a year to
$8 million.
(SFC, 2/3/04, p.A1)(SFC, 2/4/04, p.A1)
2004 Feb 7, SF held its annual
Chinese New Year parade to cap 15 days of celebration for the Year of
the Monkey and 4702 on the lunar calendar.
(SSFC, 2/8/04, p.A1)
2004 Feb 12, Some 90 gay and
lesbian couples wed in San Francisco. Over the next few days some 2,000
took their vows.
(SFC, 2/13/04, p.A1)(WSJ, 2/17/04, p.A1)
2004 Feb 19, It was announced that
Philip Anschutz (64), Denver billionaire and founder of Qwest
Communications, purchased the Fang newspapers including the SF Examiner
for $20 million.
(SFC, 2/21/04, p.A1)
2004 Feb 20, Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger directed the California state attorney general to take
immediate legal steps to stop SF from granting marriage licenses to gay
couples.
(AP, 2/21/04)(SFC, 2/21/04, p.A1)
2004 Feb 21, Bill Lockyer,
California state Attorney General, rebuffed Gov. Schwarzenegger's
demand to force an end to same-sex marriages in SF, calling the
directive political rhetoric.
(SSFC, 2/22/04, p.A1)
2004 Feb 22, A giant wedding
reception was held at the SF Hyatt Regency honoring the thousands of
same-sex couples married over the previous 11 days.
(SFC, 8/13/04, p.A16)
2004 Feb 23, The wage minimum in
SF rose to $8.50 from $6.75, based on voter approval in 2003.
(SFC, 2/21/04, p.A1)
2004 Feb 27, Bill Lockyer,
California state Attorney General, asked the California Supreme Court
to stop SF officials from issuing same-sex marriage licenses and
invalidate the 3,400 gay and lesbian weddings that have taken place at
City Hall since Feb 12.
(SFC, 8/13/04, p.A16)
2004 Mar 7, SF Zoo veterinarians
euthanized Calle, the 37-year-old female Asian elephant due to her
degenerative joint disease exacerbated by tuberculosis.
(SFC, 3/08/04, p.A2)
2004 Mar 11, The California
Supreme Court halted gay weddings in San Francisco for at least a few
months while it decides whether they are legal.
(AP, 3/12/04)(SFC, 3/12/04, p.A1)
2004 Mar 14, Some 100,000 people
gathered for the 152nd SF St. Patrick's Day Parade.
(SFC, 3/15/04, p.B3)
2004 Mar 19, The SF budget was
projected to have a deficit of $352 million. This was in part due to a
payroll that grew 54% under Mayor Brown.
(SFC, 3/20/04, p.B4)(SSFC, 3/28/04, p.A1)
2004 Mar 20, Thousands of anti-war
demonstrators marched from Dolores Park to the Civic Center.
(SSFC, 3/21/04, p.A1)
2004 Mar 23, SF city Controller Ed
Harrington found accounting problems with the SF County Transportation
Authority.
(SFC, 3/24/04, p.A1)
2004 Mar 27, John Sack (74), war
correspondent, died in SF. His 10 books included "Lieutenant Calley:
His Own Story."
(SFC, 1/1/05, p.A14)
2004 Mar 29, The body of Eugen
Gorenman (26), immigrant Russian Jew, was found shot to death at Fort
Funston, SF, Ca. In 2009 3 women, teenagers at time, were sentenced to
prison terms of 8 to 21 years for the slaying.
(SFCM, 6/27/04, p.8)(SFC, 4/4/09, p.B3)
2004 Mar 31, SF reached agreement
with the US Navy for the 1st section of Hunters Point shipyard to be
turned over to the city.
(SFC, 4/1/04, p.B4)
2004 Apr 2, US Dept. of
Transportation auditors said SF overcharged SFO by some $12.5 million
between 1998 and 2002 in violation of lease agreements.
(SFC, 4/3/04, p.B4)
2004 Apr 3, Techies organized a
flash mob to create a supercomputer at UCSF's Koret Gym. 669 computers
were hooked together, but the fastest speed, 180 gigaflops, was
achieved with just 256. The world's fastest computer was Japan's $400
million Earth Simulator running at 35 teraflops, or 35,000 gigaflops.
(SSFC, 4/4/04, p.B1)
2004 Apr 10, Several thousand
protesters gathered in SF and called for an end to US military presence
in Iraq.
(SSFC, 4/11/04, p.B3)
2004 Apr 10, San Francisco Police
officer Isaac A. Espinoza (29) was shot dead and his partner wounded in
the Bayview neighborhood. Suspect David Hill (21) was arrested the next
day. Hill used an illegal AK-47 against the officers that had been
given to him by Marvin Jeffrey Jr., a police informant. In 2007 Hill
was found guilty of 2nd degree murder.
(SFC, 4/12/04, p.A1)(SSFC, 8/13/06, p.A1)(SFC,
1/5/07, p.A1)
2004 Apr 13, Anne Outin (66) was
murdered at her Prague Street home in the Crocker-Amazon district by
her adopted son, Thomas Hanley (18).
(SFC, 4/17/04, p.B1)
2004 Apr 20, Peter Rocha (65),
artist, died. He was known for creations of mosaics using jelly beans
from the Fairfield jelly bean factory, inspired by Pres. Reagan's
preference for the candy.
(SFC, 4/22/04, p.B9)
2004 Apr 22, Maybelle (43), an
African elephant, died at the SF Zoo.
(SFC, 4/23/04, p.B1)
2004 Apr 25, The 14th annual
"California Mile" vintage 4-day car rally began in SF.
(SFC, 4/26/04, p.B1)
2004 Apr 25, Thom Gunn (b.1929),
British-born poet, died in SF at age 74. His 1st book, titled "Fighting
Terms" (1954), was recognized as part of the British group called "The
Movement." He moved from England to America in 1954 to live with his
male lover and explore the California culture.
(SFC, 4/28/04, p.B7)(Econ, 5/8/04, p.83)
2004 Apr 26, Record heat hit the
Bay Area with 91 reported in SF. 93 degrees was reported in San Jose.
(SFC, 4/27/04, p.A1)
2004 Apr 29, Allen Cohen (64),
founder of the SF Oracle underground newspaper (1966-1968), died. His
1st issue came out in Sep 20, 1966. Cohen was also arrested in 1966 for
publishing a collection of erotic poetry called "The Love Book" by
Lenore Kandel. Cohen was convicted and fined $50.
(SFC, 5/1/04, p.B7)(www.sfheart.com/cohen_bio.html)
2004 Apr, SF based non-profit Room
to Read (R2R), founded by former Microsoft executive John Wood, opened
its 1000th library in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
(SFCM, 9/26/04, p.7)
2004 May 1, A California state
appeals court restored Mayor Newsom's Care Not Cash program for
homeless people in SF. Some 2,497 homeless people were receiving
monthly welfare checks for as much as $410. The checks were cut to $59
with housing or emergency shelter provided. By Dec 2005 the number of
homeless receiving checks dropped to 391.
(SFC, 5/1/04, p.A1)(SFC, 12/21/05, p.B1)
2004 May 3, It was reported
Anthony Camilleri (54) and Tan Huynh (42) 2 Muni mechanics had stolen
at least $100,000 from fare boxes.
(SFC, 5/3/04, p.B1)
2004 May 5, SF police shot and
killed Camerin Boyd (29), an African-American with prosthetic legs,
following a car chase during which Boyd allegedly shot at police.
(SFC, 5/7/04, p.A1)
2004 May 7, It was reported that
an aggressive species of African frog from Kenya had taken up residence
in Golden Gate Park’s Lily Pond.
(SFC, 5/7/04, p.A1)
2004 May 7, Raymon Bass (17), a
San Francisco Mission High senior and standout athlete, was shot to
death. Police later arrested Florentino Tobie (19) based on an account
by Cadero Currington, a gang insider, who said the killing was due to
feud with Bass’s cousins. In late 2007 the SF DA dropped the murder
charges against Tobie, because Currington bolted rather than retake the
witness stand.
(SFC, 1/1/08, p.B1)
2004 May 16, The 93rd Bay to
Breakers drew an estimated 45,000 registered runners and some 60,000
crashers and gawkers. Benjamin Maiyo of Kenya placed first.
(SFC, 5/17/04, p.A1)
2004 May 18, SF Supervisors
learned that the Civil Service Commission had cut their salaries to
$90,000 from $112,000 following a survey of other state municipalities.
(SFC, 5/19/04, p.B4)
2004 May 18, Kubi, SF Zoo’s
29-year-old gorilla, died, 11 days following his May 7 surgery to
remove a diseased lung.
(SFC, 5/19/04, p.A1)
2004 May 18, In SF Chris Johnson
(26) was killed in the Safeway parking lot at Geary and Fillmore just
after attending a funeral for his nephew, Raymon Bass (17), who had
been killed as part of a gang feud in the Western Addition. In 2008
Kevin Carradine Jr. (24) was convicted of first-degree murder for
Johnson’s murder and sentenced for 77 years to life.
(SFC, 2/27/08, p.B4)(SFC, 5/30/08, p.B3)
2004 May 26, It was reported that
SF police officer Darryl Watts and institutional cop Kelly Francisco
were under investigation for moonlighting in porn video.
(SFC, 5/26/04, p.B1)
2004 May 30, The 26th annual SF
Carnaval took place in the Mission before an estimated 300k spectators.
(SFC, 5/31/04, p.A1)
2004 May, Michael Franti, SF
musician, traveled to Iraq and shot video that led to his 2006 book and
film titled “I Know I’m Not Alone.”
(SFC, 9/7/06, p.E4)
2004 Jun 3, Eugene Ruggles
(b.1935), SF poet, died in Petaluma, Ca. His books included “Lifeguard
in the Snow” (1977).
(SFC, 6/4/04, B6)
2004 Jun 4, Virgin USA chose SFO
as its home base.
(SFC, 6/5/04, A1)
2004 Jun 5, In SF some 8-10
thousand people marched on Market St. calling for an end to US presence
in Iraq.
(SSFC, 6/6/04, B1)
2004 Jun 8, In SF over 100
protesters were arrested following demonstrations against the biotech
convention at Moscone Center.
(SFC, 6/9/04, B1)
2004 Jun 19, SF held the 54th
annual Juneteenth parade. [see Texas, June 19, 1865]
(SFC, 6/18/04, p.B1)
2004 Jun 24, Carl Gill, a former
executive of the SF Free Clinic, was arrested for embezzling $773,000.
(SFC, 3/6/06,
p.B5)(www.aegis.com/news/ap/2004/AP040661.html)
2004 Jun 24, Carl Rakosi (100),
American poet, died in SF.
(SFC, 7/2/04, p.A1)
2004 Jun 26, The 12th annual SF
Dyke March was held on market Street.
(SFC, 6/26/04, p.A1)
2004 Jun 27, The 34th annual SF
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Parade was held.
(SFC, 6/28/04, p.A1)
2004 Jun 29, Gustavus Rugley (21)
was killed by SF police at the Mission St. overpass of Alemany Blvd.
following a chase. Rugley had fired at police with a .38-caliber
semiautomatic and police returned fire hitting him 35 times. In 2006 6
officers faced charges of violating department policy in the
confrontation.
(SFC, 2/25/06, p.B3)
2004 Jul 1, SF police announced an
undercover drug sting and the arrest of 19 suspected drug dealers in
the Bayview-Hunters Point area.
(SFC, 7/2/04, p.B1)
2004 Jul 13, Christopher Hewitt
(58), disabled gay poet, died. He was among the many poets to have read
at the Café Babar.
(SFC, 7/21/04, p.B7)
2004 Jul 17, California’s Gov.
Schwarzenegger mocked his opponents in the California Legislature as
"girlie-men" and called upon voters to "terminate" them at the polls in
November if they don't pass his $103 billion budget.
(http://tinyurl.com/w4zyt)
2004 Jul 31, Hundreds of Hells
Angels arrived in SF to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their 2nd
oldest chapter. The oldest was in Fontana in San Bernadino County.
(SSFC, 8/1/04, p.B1)
2004 Aug 1, Some 7,800 runners
participated in the annual SF Chronicle Marathon. John Weru, a Kenyan
living in Mountainview, won the race in 2 hrs. 33 min. and 41 sec.
Susan Loke of Phoenix won for the women in 2 hrs. 50 min. and 21 sec.
(SFC, 8/2/04, p.B5)
2004 Aug 5, John Forney (42),
Enron energy trader, pleaded guilty in SF to charges of fraud and
plotting to manipulate the market during the 2000-2001 California
energy crises.
(SFC, 8/6/04, p.A1)
2004 Aug 6, Mayor Newsom swore in
Sean Elsbernd (28) to replace Tony Hall as supervisor for District 7.
Hall had accepted a position to head the Treasure Island Development
Authority.
(SFC, 8/6/04, p.B1)
2004 Aug 12, California’s supreme
court struck down San Francisco’s attempt to legalize same-sex
marriages, saying Mayor Newsome had illegally defied state law.
(SFC, 8/13/04, p.A1)
2004 Aug 13, It was announced that
Stonestown Galleria was sold by Pacific Acquisition Corp. for $312
million to General Growth Properties of Chicago.
(SFC, 8/17/04, p.C1)
2004 Aug 19, Sudden oak death,
Phytopthora ramorum, was confirmed in trees in Golden Gate Park, making
SF the 14th infected country in California.
(SFC, 8/20/04, p.B1)
2004 Aug 23, Thieves stole the
“Resting Hermes” statue from its pedestal on Nob Hill. The University
Club had purchased the statue, made by Chiurazzi of Naples, from Italy
in 1915 following the Panama Pacific Expo. It was stolen once before in
1974. On Aug 27 an informant reported the statue sitting at the Toot’s
Bar in Crocket, from where it was recovered.
(SFC, 8/24/04, p.A1)(SFC, 8/31/04, p.A1)
2004 Aug 31, Mayor Newsom promised
a 3-month intensive intervention to clean up the Mission District.
(SFC, 9/1/04, p.B4)
2004 Sep 1, Ground was broken in
Glen Park for a $10 million project that included 15 new apartments, a
grocery market and a branch library.
(SFC, 9/1/04, p.B4)
2004 Sep 4, San Francisco’s De La
Salle High School lost its 1st football game since 1992 to the Bellevue
High Wolverines in Washington State, ending a winning streak of 151
games.
(SFC, 9/6/04, p.B1)
2004 Sep 17, In SF Barry Bonds
became the first new member of baseball’s homerun 700 club in 31 years,
joining Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron. Timothy Griffith (21), was stabbed to
death in a fight after the game. Rafael Antonio Cuevas (22) was
arrested Oct 1. On Oct 27 the homerun ball was auctioned for $804,129.
On Oct 10, 2008, Cuevas was sentenced 16 years to life for 2nd degree
murder and ordered to pay a fine of $10,000.
(SFC, 9/18/04, p.A1)(SFC, 10/2/04, p.B4)(SFC,
10/28/04, p.B1)(SFC, 10/11/08, p.B2)
2004 Sep 23, Edward Galland
Zelinsky, co-founder with Gladys Hansen of the Museum of the City of
San Francisco and owner of Musee Mecanique, died.
(SFC, 1/1/05, p.A15)
2004 Sep 24, William Corpuz turned
himself in to SF police for killing his wife, Marisa (31). In 2007
Corpuz (34) was convicted of using a fishing knife to slash the throat
of his wife. He had recently attended his 39th weekly session of a
52-week domestic abuse program.
(SFC, 5/12/07, p.B2)
2004 Sep 27, San Francisco renamed
its sports stadium "Monster Park", in a 4-year deal that trades $6
million from an electronics cable company for the name to Candlestick
Park.
(AP, 9/28/04)(SFC, 9/28/04, p.B1)
2004 Sep 27, The body of Maxina
Danner (17), a student at Lincoln High, was found wrapped in a blanket
near Visitacion Ave. and Mansell. She had disappeared that morning on
her way to school. In 2005 Royce Miller (21), a youth councilor at a
group home, was arrested in connection with the murder. In 2007 Miller
was convicted of 2nd degree murder.
(SFC, 9/30/04, p.A1)(SFC, 2/12/05, p.B2)(SFC,
3/21/07, p.B2)
2004 Sep 29, Some 1,400 SF hotel
workers went on strike. A lockout by 10 hotels was expected the next
day. The last contract expired Aug 14.
(SFC, 9/30/04, p.A1)(SFC, 10/1/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep, San Francisco’s Cannery
block was renamed Del Monte Square.
(SSFC, 10/3/04, p.J1)
2004 Sep, SF Mayor Newsom
announced the launch of free wireless Internet service at Union Square.
He soon planned to extend free service to Civic Center Plaza,
Portsmounth Square and Ferry Plaza.
(SFC, 10/29/04, p.F1)
1944 Sep, A Trader Vic’s
restaurant and bar reopened in SF. A previous version had closed in
1994.
(SFCM, 1/16/05, p.31)
2004 Oct 2, The Loveparade, which
originated in Berlin in 1989, came to San Francisco for its 1st annual
bash. Matthias Roeingh, founder, was on hand.
(SSFC, 10/3/04, p.B1)
2004 Oct 3, Vernon Alley (89),
jazz bassist, died in San Francisco.
(SFC, 10/5/04, p.A1)
2004 Oct 4, SF voters cast their
first ranked-choice ballots in early voting at City Hall.
(SFC, 10/5/04, p.B1)
2004 Oct 5, The first Web 2.0
Conference opened for a 3-day session at the Hotel Nikko in San
Francisco.
(Econ, 3/21/09,
p.71)(http://conferences.oreillynet.com/web2con/)
2004 Oct 10, It was officially
“Craigslist day” in SF. Craig Newmark started the classified ad
Internet service in 1995 and in 2004 it was in 57 cities and 5
countries.
(Econ, 10/16/04, p.59)
2004 Oct 15, The US National Park
Service announced that Golden Gate Park in SF would be added to the
National Register of Historic Places.
(SFC, 10/30/04, p.B4)
2004 Oct 18, A grand opening was
scheduled for North Beach Place, a 341-unit complex built on Bay St.
near Taylor using $23.2 million federal HOPE VI funds.
(SFC, 10/2/04, p.B1)
2004 Oct 20, Elizabeth McClintock
(92), botanist, died in Santa Rosa. She helped found the Strybing
Arboretum Society and helped create the county park on San Bruno
Mountain.
(SFC, 11/27/04, p.B5)
2004 Oct 21, SF Mayor Newsom in
his State of the City address pledged to create a giant hot zone
serving the whole city with Internet service.
(SFC, 8/17/05, p.C1)
2004 Oct 23, The 25th annual
Exotic Erotic Ball was held at the Cow Palace in Daly City.
(SFC, 10/27/04, p.E1)
2004 Oct 26, Mayor Newsom joined
the picket line to support the 4,000 locked-out workers in the SF hotel
strike.
(SFC, 10/27/04, p.A1)
2004 Oct 26, Some 35 houses in the
Sunset and Excelsior flooded from an overnight storm. Old storm drains
were blamed for the repetitive flooding.
(SFC, 10/27/04, p.B4)
2004 Oct 29, William Wolff (81),
renowned SF woodcut artist, died.
(SSFC, 11/7/04, p.A23)
2004 Nov 2, San Francisco Prop. K,
which called for a .1% gross-receipts tax on companies taking in over
5ook in revenue, was defeated. City voters also rejected Prop J, a
sales tax, and an affordable housing bond sponsored by Mayor Newsom.
(SFC, 11/4/04, p.B5)
2004 Nov 4, Mayor Newsom proposed
a list of recommended program cuts and the elimination of some 200 jobs
to close the city deficit.
(SFC, 11/5/04, p.B1)
2004 Nov 4, Richard Hongisto (67),
former SF supervisor and sheriff, died of a heart attack.
(SFC, 11/5/04, p.A1)
2004 Nov 8, Heather Fong was
officially acknowledged as police chief of SF.
(SFC, 11/9/04, p.B4)
2004 Nov 9, Mayor Newsom said the
old air-raid sirens were being replaced by a state-of-the-art emergency
warning system.
(SFC, 11/10/04, p.B4)
2004 Nov 9, A gunman robbed 2
teachers at Visitacion Valley Middle School.
(SFC, 11/10/04, p.B4)
2004 Nov 12, The SF Board of
Education voted 4-3 to raise the pay of Superintendent Arlene Ackerman
to $250,000 and to increase her monthly housing allowance from $1,200
to $2,000. Her contract was extended to June 30, 2008.
(SFC, 11/13/04, p.B1)
2004 Nov 20, Negotiators in SF for
the hotels and workers’ union agreed to a 60-day cooling off period.
Workers planned to return to their jobs Nov 23.
(SSFC, 11/21/04, p.A1)
2004 Dec 13, It was reported that
the SF Board of Supervisors had settled on Aaron Peskin as board
president.
(SFC, 12/13/04, p.A1)
2004 Dec 18, It was reported that
a 23-year-old gorilla named OJ had returned to SF after spending 17
years in Buffalo, NY.
(SFC, 12/18/04, p.A1)
2004 Dec 26, Sacred Heart Church
(b.1897), a Lombardy Romanesque-style church at Fillmore and Fell in
SF, held its last service due to high retrofit costs and low attendance.
(SFC, 12/27/04, p.B1)
2004 Dec 26, John Kimbro (75),
gothic novelist, died in SF. His more than 40 books included the series
“Saga of the Phenwick Women.”
(SFC, 1/4/05, p.B5)
2004 Kate Pocrass authored
“Mundane Journeys,” notes of the author’s 50 favorite walks around San
Francisco.
(SFCM, 3/27/05, p.3)
2004 The new $117 mil M.H. de
Young Museum in Golden Gate Park was scheduled to open.
(SFC, 7/18/96, p.A4)
2004 The Mission Place complex
opened in the SF Mission Bay district on King St. between 3rd and 4th
St. it was later dubbed the Beacon and in 2005 selected as the
headquarters for the stem cell research.
(SSFC, 5/15/05, p.B1)
2004 The SF Board of Supervisors
passed legislation, introduced by Supervisor Aaron Peskin, making it
easier for neighborhoods to create Community Benefits Districts.
(SFC, 8/12/05, p.F5)
2004 In SF a small group of
professional formed a group called Compact, after the eponymous
agreement among the Mayflower pilgrims. Members agreed to go an entire
year without buying anything new besides food, health and safety items
and underwear, in an effort to fight rampant consumerism.
(SFC, 2/17/06, p.B8)
2004 An investor group led by Mark
Karasick purchased the Bank of America Center in San Francisco for $879
million, or $489 a square foot.
(WSJ, 9/23/05, p.B3)
2005 Jan 3, McDonald’s Book Shop
on Turk St. reopened after a 2 ½ year closure for repairs.
(SFC, 12/24/04, p.C1)
2005 Jan 5, Mayor Gavin Newsom and
his Court TV analyst wife Kimberley Guilfoyle Newsom, announced the end
of their 3-year marriage.
(SFC, 1/6/05, p.A1)
2005 Jan 10, It was reported that
AIDS spending in SF dropped $4 million this year to $29 million.
(SFC, 1/10/05, p.A1)
2005 Jan 17, SF and other US
cities held parades honoring Martin Luther King.
(SFC, 1/18/05, p.A1)
2005 Jan 20, Firefighters found
2,642 marijuana plants at 2359 20th Ave. while responding to a fire.
The plants were valued at $2.2 million.
(SFC, 1/22/05, p.B4)
2005 Jan 22, On the 32nd
anniversary of Roe vs. Wade rival sides of the abortion issue staged
dueling marches on Market St. in SF. Some 6,000 antiabortion activists
were jeered by some 3,000 advocates for abortion rights.
(SSFC, 1/23/05, p.A1)
2005 Jan 25, Legislators in San
Francisco, Ca., voted 8-3 to ban smoking in public parks, becoming the
first major American city to embrace such an expansive ban on tobacco
use.
(Reuters, 1/26/05)(SFC, 1/26/05, p.A1)
2005 Jan 25, The SF Commission on
the Environment approved a proposal to charge grocery shoppers 17 cents
for every paper or plastic bag they take home.
(SFC, 1/26/05, p.B4)
2005 Jan 25, SF and dozens of
other US cities undertook a tally of their homeless competing for
nearly $1.5 billion in federal funds to care for the homeless.
(WSJ, 2/1/05, p.A1)
2005 Jan 26, The SF Board of
Supervisors passed measures to resume a tally of homeless deaths. The
SF Health Dept. ended its homeless death count in 2000.
(SSFC, 10/6/02, p.A23)(SFC, 1/27/05, p.B2)
2005 Jan 27, SF transit officials
estimated a $24 million budget deficit for the fiscal year ending June
30 and planned to raise Muni fares.
(SFC, 1/28/05, p.A1)
2005 Feb 1, In SF plans for a $43
million, 60,000-sq.-foot Contemporary Jewish Museum, designed by Daniel
Libeskind, were unveiled for a site between Market and Mission across
from the Yerba Buena Gardens.
(SFC, 2/1/05, p.B1)
2005 Feb 8, Susan Leal, SF general
manager, reported that the projected cost for rebuilding the Hetch
Hetchy water system had risen to $4.3 billion.
(SFC, 2/8/05, p.A1)
2005 Feb 10, SF Mayor Gavin Newsom
declared war on dirty streets and said he will deputize some 400 city
workers to write up litterbugs.
(SFC, 6/11/05, p.A1)
2005 Feb 14, SF reported a 28%
drop in the homeless population since Fall of 2002. The Jan 26 count
reported 6,248 homeless.
(SFC, 2/15/05, p.A1)
2005 Feb 19, SF held its annual
Chinese New Year parade for lunar year 4703, the Year of the Rooster.
(SSFC, 2/20/05, p.A1)
2005 Feb 28, The SF board
governing MUNI approved a 25-cent fare increase as part of a plan to
close a $57 million deficit.
(SFC, 3/1/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 5, It was reported that
Sima Therapeutics planned to move to China Basin Landing at 185 Berry
St., the 2nd biotech firm to commit to the area following Five-Prime
Therapeutics.
(SFC, 3/5/05, p.C1)
2005 Mar 5, Evelyn Curro (97),
Americana artist known for her SF cable car drawings, died in Portugal.
(SFC, 3/22/05, p.B5)
2005 Mar 7, Philip Lamantia (77),
SF Surrealist poet, died in North Beach. His 9 books included “Erotic
Poems” (1946).
(SFC, 3/11/05, p.B7)
2005 Mar 11, SF temperatures hit a
record 87 degrees.
(SFC, 3/12/05, p.B5)
2005 Mar 12, A 2-alarm fire at a
28-unit apartment building at 951 Eddy St. left 35 people homeless.
(SFC, 3/14/05, p.B1)
2005 Mar 13, SF held its 153rd St.
Patrick’s Day Parade before an estimated crowd of some 150,000 people.
(SFC, 3/14/05, p.B1)
2005 Mar 14, San Francisco
Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer declared California’s ban on
same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
(SFC, 3/15/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 16, Newly trained SF city
workers saturated the Tenderloin to issue citations to litterbugs.
Fines ranged from $90 to $1000 and 24 citations were issued.
(SFC, 3/19/05, p.B2)
2005 Mar 19, SF held its 1st
Spring Cleaning Day.
(SFC, 3/19/05, p.B2)
2005 Mar 21, Justin Mendoza of
Daly City was shot and killed outside the Café Cocomo nightclub
in SF. In 2008 Gerry Phongboupha (25) was convicted of 1st degree
murder and other charges in connection to Mendoza’s murder.
(SFC, 4/16/08, p.B5)
2005 Mar 22, Riggers installed the
steel sculpture “Ballast” by Richard Serra at UCSF’s Mission Bay Campus.
(SFC, 3/23/05, p.B2)
2005 Mar 23, SF Mayor Newsom
called for a “renaissance of housing construction” and reported plans
to create 11,000 new housing units.
(SFC, 3/24/05, p.C1)
2005 Mar 24, A SF jury awarded
Dennis Kavanaugh (47) $437,000 in a molest case against the Roman
Catholic Archdiocese and the late Rev. Joseph Pritchard.
(SFC, 3/25/05, p.B1)
2005 Mar 24, Tinkerbelle (39),
former SF Asian elephant, was euthanized at an animal sanctuary in San
Andreas, Ca.
(SFC, 3/26/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 25, The SF Civic Center
Plaza was filled with 1,525 pairs of military boots tagged with the
names of US service members killed in Iraq as part of an exhibit titled
“Eyes Wide Open: The Human Cost of War,” sponsored by the American
Friends Service Committee.
(SFC, 3/26/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 25, The SF Health Dept.
proposed up to $25 million in cuts starting July 1.
(SFC, 3/26/05, p.B1)
2005 Mar 26, The 10th Annual Bay
Area Anarchist Bookfair was held at the SF County Fair Building.
(SSFC, 3/27/05, p.A18)
2005 Mar, The new 189-room Hotel
Vitale opened at Mission and Steuart.
(SFC, 12/25/04, p.D1)
2005 Apr 5, A few thousand
demonstrators protested Gov. Schwarzenegger’s fund raiser at the SF
Ritz-Carlton.
(SFC, 4/6/05, p.A1)
2005 Apr 7, San Francisco’s MUNI
prepared to lay off 200 drivers to help close a $57 million deficit.
(SFC, 4/8/05, p.B4)
2005 Apr 7, California state
prosecutors charged Julie Lee, a top volunteer fund-raiser for former
Sec. of State Kevin Shelley, with grand theft and other felonies. In
2008 Lee (62) was found guilty on 5 of 7 charges relating to Shelley’s
2002 campaign, All the charges related to a $500,000 grant for a SF
Sunset District community center that was never built. In state court
Lee pleaded guilty to 9 counts. On Oct 17 Lee was sentenced to 5 years
probation following public support for her community work.
(SFC, 4/8/05, p.A1)(SFC, 7/12/08, p.A1)(SFC,
7/17/08, p.B1)(SFC, 10/18/08, p.B3)
2005 Apr 10, The SF Russian Jewish
community dedicated a new 1,200 square foot Heritage Center on Balboa
St.
(SFC, 4/23/05, p.B5)
2005 Apr 14, Mabel Teng, SF
Assessor-Recorder, resigned amidst accusations that she hired cronies
and gave breaks to friends.
(SFC, 4/15/05, p.A1)
2005 Apr 20, A SF jury awarded $6
million to 3 men and a woman who were molested as children by Rev.
Joseph Pritchard at St. Martin of Tours church in San Jose.
(SFC, 4/21/05, p.B1)
2005 Apr 20, The 81-year-old
Federal Reserve building in SF was sold to Bentley Holdings for $46.8
million.
(SFC, 4/21/05, p.C1)
2005 Apr 21, Mayor Newsom proposed
a number of regulations to regulate SF pot clubs.
(SFC, 4/22/05, p.A1)
2005 Apr 23, Prof. Slavoj Zizek,
Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist of the Univ. of Ljubljana,
attended the world premier of the documentary film “Zizek” in San
Francisco, Ca. His books included “Welcome to the Desert of the Real:
Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates” (2002).
(SSFC, 4/24/05, p.A1)
2005 Apr 27, Luis Cervantes, SF
muralist, died. He co-founded Precita Eyes Muralists in 1977 with his
wife Susan Kelk Cervantes.
(SFC, 5/2/05, p.B3)
2005 Apr 28, SF residents of the
Northeast Waterfront Historic District and Sidney Walton Square voted
to rename the are as the “Barbary Coast.”
(SFC, 4/29/05, p.F3)
2005 Apr 30, Connie and Merrill
Magowan of Hillsborough spent $32,500 in the winning bid to name 2 new
bears at the SF Zoo. The pledged to choose names from the entries in a
contest that originally began on Nov 17.
(SSFC, 5/1/05, p.A15)
2005 May 2, Decision makers
selected San Francisco as California’s headquarters for the state’s $3
billion stem cell program.
(SFC, 5/3/05, p.A1)
2005 May 9, Gregory Gray (54) shot
to death Bruce Franks (50), a caseworker at Conard Community Service
Center at Ninth and Howard. Gray had been fired in Sep 2004.
(SFC, 5/10/05, p.A1)
2005 May 9, Charles Baker (30), a
school volunteer, was killed by a stray bullet in the Bayview at
Kirkwood and Mendell.
(SFC, 5/13/05, p.A1)
2005 May 13, Pope Benedict XVI
appointed SF Archbishop William Levada (68) as the new prefect of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican’s top arbiter
of questions of faith and morals.
(SFC, 5/14/05, p.A1)
2005 May 14, Carlos Garvin (30)
was shot to death on the 100 block of Taylor after he refused to hand
$5 over to Douglas Teat (35) and Leonora Robinson (29). In 2006 Teat
and Robinson were convicted of murder along with accomplice Anissa
Jordan (37), who was in a getaway car.
(SFC, 6/30/06, p.B7)
2005 May 15, Some 65,000 runners
participated in the 94th annual Bay to Breakers. Gilbert Okari of Kenya
won in 34:49. Asmae Leghzauoi of Morocco was 1st at 38:22 for the women.
(SSFC, 5/15/05, p.A1)
2005 May 16, The SF radio station
KYCY-AM planned to dump syndicated talk shows and begin broadcasting
amateur podcasts from audio programs posted on the Web.
(SFC, 4/28/05, p.C1)
2005 May 19, The SF Recreation and
Park Commission voted to name a South of Market Park in honor of 1948
Olympic medal winner Victoria Manalo Draves.
(SFC, 6/3/05, p.F1)
2005 May 19, Dr. Robert J. Lull
(64) was found stabbed to death inside the doorway of his Diamond
Heights home. Concord police later arrested Ellison Millare (30), the
ex-convict son of the doctor’s personal assistant. SF police arrested
Millare on May 26 to prevent his release by state parole officials.
(SFC, 5/20/05, p.B1)(SFC, 5/23/05, p.B1)
2005 May 20, Nonbelievers gathered
in San Francisco for their 1st “All Atheist Weekend.”
(SFC, 5/20/05, p.A1)
2005 May 22, SF held its 1st Asian
Heritage Street Celebration in Japantown. The pan-Asian festival drew
some 50,000 people.
(SFC, 5/23/05, p.B6)
2005 May 29, SF held its 27th
annual Carnaval parade on Mission St.
(SFC, 5/30/05, p.B1)
2005 May 31, Mayor Newsom proposed
a $5.3 billion SF municipal budget.
(SFC, 6/1/05, p.B1)
2005 Jun 1, A 5-day UN World
Environment Day conference opened in SF.
(SFC, 6/1/05, p.A1)
2005 Jun 3, Nicholas Scott Faibish
(12) was mauled to death by 2 family pit bulls at 711 Lincoln Way, SF.
In 2006 a jury deadlocked in a trial that charged his mother, Maureen
Faibish (40), with felony child endangerment.
(SFC, 6/4/05, p.A1)(SFC, 8/1/06, p.B1)
2005 Jun 4, Poets of the
Café Babar, which closed in 1998, reunited at the Bird and
Beckett bookstore in Glen Park to celebrate publication of “New
American Underground Poetry: Vol 1, The Babarians of San Francisco,
Poets From Hell.”
(AR, 6/4/05)
2005 Jun 5, In San Francisco big
city mayors from around the world signed a set of 21 urban
environmental accords, capping a 5-day UN World Environment conference.
(AP, 6/6/05)(SFC, 6/6/05, p.A1)
2005 Jun 10, The Archdiocese of SF
agreed to pay $21.2 million to people who were molested by 5 clergymen.
Insurance covered $14.6 million.
(SFC, 6/11/05, p.B1)
2005 Jun 10, Jeannell Fung Chen
Penn (25), a resident of southeastern Washington, was shot and killed
in San Francisco’s Hunters Point from gunfire likely intended for
someone else.
(SFC, 6/16/05, p.B1)
2005 Jun 14, SF Supv. Chris Daly
said Angelo Sangiacomo (81) had agreed to put 360 of 1,700 new rental
apartments under rent control regulations. The new complex will replace
the current Trinity Plaza at Market and Eighth.
(SFC, 6/15/05, p.B4)
2005 Jun 14, Harold Hoogasian,
Armenian-born flower merchant, died in SF. He ran a flower stand at 250
Post in front of Gump’s for nearly 50 years.
(SFC, 6/15/05, p.B7)
2005 Jun 17, It was reported that
the SF Asian Art Museum has received 42 works by noted Hong Kong artist
Fang Zhaoling (97).
(SFC, 6/17/05, p.E5)
2005 Jun 17, SF enacted its
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing for Commodities Ordnance. It
became the 1st US city take public health and environmental stewardship
into consideration when purchasing products.
(SFC, 6/18/05, p.B2)
2005 Jun 17, William Rice Kimball
(86), philanthropist, died in SF. The Utah-born grandson of E.O. Wattis
founded Kimball Manufacturing, which in the 1950s pioneered the use of
fiberglass plastics and latex. He also helped found Alpine Meadows ski
resort.
(SFC, 6/23/05, p.B7)
2005 Jun 19, The 68th season for
music at Stern Grove was set to open following $15 million in
renovations.
(SFC, 4/13/05, p.E1)
2005 Jun 25, George Lucas and some
2,000 friends celebrated the opening of the Letterman Digital Arts
Center in the Presidio.
(SSFC, 6/26/05, p.A17)
2005 Jun 25, Chet Helms (b.1942),
SF rock music producer, died from a stroke.
(SSFC, 6/26/05, p.A21)
2005 Jun 26, SF hosted its 35th
annual Pride Parade.
(SFC, 6/27/05, p.A1)
2005 Jun 27, SF Mayor Newsome and
Supervisor Tom Ammiano announced their support for a proposed ordnance
to bar city government from buying products made under abusive labor
conditions.
(SFC, 6/28/05, p.B1)
2005 Jul 1, A force of 400 federal
and local law officers raided 11 suspected brothels, 10 in SF and one
in Emeryville, and arrested 27 suspects in what was described as a
major Bay Area sex trafficking operation that preyed on Korean women
brought into the country illegally. A similar operation took place in
southern California.
(http://tinyurl.com/pxmc4)
2005 Jul 1, In SF Edwin Macon Jr.
(44), jailed for domestic violence, died in an isolation cell. He
suffered from heart problems. An autopsy said he died of cocaine
overdose. In 2006 his family filed suit for $10 million.
(SFC, 8/19/06, p.B3)
2005 Jul 5, Deanne Bradford (42)
was shot and killed by her estranged husband, Roger Johnson (41), while
dropping of 4 of her 6 children in Pacific Heights. Johnson soon after
shot himself dead near Ocean Beach in front of relatives that he had
summoned.
(SFC, 7/6/05, p.B1)
2005 Jul 8, The Archdiocese of SF
agreed to pay $16 million to 12 people molested during the 1970s by the
late Rev. Joseph Pritchard.
(SSFC, 7/10/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 8, SF police clashed with
anarchists in the Mission District, who were protesting the G-8 meeting
in Scotland.
(SFC, 7/9/05, p.B2)
2005 Jul 8, In SF a 5-alarm fire
struck at 3330 16th St. near Mission Dolores and spread to adjacent
buildings. It left 66 people homeless with damages estimated at $8.6
million.
(SFC, 7/9/05, p.B1)
2005 Jul 15, In SF District Court
federal prosecutors in the BALCO case dropped 40 of 42 indictments
against 3 men accused of providing performance-enhancing drugs to elite
athletes.
(SFC, 7/16/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 17, Over 20,000 people
hiked through Golden Gate Park for the annual AIDS Walk, raising over
$3 million.
(SFC, 7/18/05, p.B2)
2005 Jul 19, The SF Board of
Supervisors approved a $5.3 billion spending and revenue plan, the
largest budget in city history.
(SFC, 7/20/05, p.B1)
2005 Jul 23, SF temperature
reached a record 82 degrees, beating the 78 high of 1917.
(SSFC, 7/24/05, p.A16)
2005 Jul 29, The SF Planning
Commission voted 4-2 to approve allow Home Depot to open its 1st SF
store at the former Goodman’s Lumber location at the eastern edge of
Bernal Heights.
(SFC, 7/30/05, p.B2)
2005 Jul 31, Nearly 15,000 runners
participated in the SF Marathon. Tony Torres or Cedar Glen, Ca., won
the 26.2 mile event in 2 hours, 31 min. and 57 sec. Sarah Hallas of
Petaluma won the women’s race.
(SFC, 8/1/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul, Modern Luxury Media
purchased San Francisco Magazine. SF Magazine was founded nearly 40
years earlier by KQED as San Francisco Focus.
(SFC, 1/13/06, p.C1)
2005 Jul, Fred Furth (71) paid $5
million to purchase Sacred Heart Church on Fillmore St., along with its
rectory, convent and play yard. He planned to keep it a Catholic
parochial school and rename it the Megan Furth Academy after his
daughter, who died in 2003 at age 31.
(SFC, 7/28/05, p.B1)
2005 Jul, Silver Terrace
Nurseries, the largest vendor at the SF Flower mart, shut its doors.
The Italian-American coop that owned the west end of the Flower Mart
was considering an $18 million sale to AvalonBay Communities, a
Virginia-based real-estate investment firm. The east side of the Flower
Mart is owned by descendants of Japanese American farmers.
(SFC, 8/26/05, p.C1)
2005 Aug 3, Fred Ayatch (35), A
SF, Ca., homeless shelter supervisor, was gunned down near his mother’s
home on Eddy St. near Divisadero. Dennis Anderson (23) was arrested Aug
19 and charged with the murder on Aug 23.
(SFC, 8/4/05, p.B4)(SFC, 8/24/05, p.B4)
2005 Aug 4, Mayor Gavin Newsom
signed a $5.3 billion SF city budget.
(SFC, 8/5/05, p.B4)
2005 Aug 13, In SF Donato Rossi
(74), part-owner of Gino and Carlo, died. He and his partners acquired
the North Beach bar in 1950 and he spent 40 years working there.
(SFC, 8/16/05, p.B5)
2005 Aug 15, Earl Zindars (77),
jazz and classical composer, died in SF.
(SFC, 8/19/05, p.B7)
2005 Aug 16, SF asked for help in
coming up with a plan to create a giant hot zone serving the whole city
with Internet service.
(SFC, 8/17/05, p.C1)
2005 Aug 19, Interstate Bakeries
shut down its SF Parisian (f.1856) sourdough bread factory.
(SFC, 8/20/05, p.B1)
2005 Aug 19, In SF a PG&E
electrical transformer blew up beneath Kearny St. at Post severely
injuring Lisa Nash (47) with burns to over 40% of her body.
(SFC, 9/27/05, p.B2)
2005 Aug 20, Thomas Herrion
(b.1981), San Francisco offensive lineman, collapsed in the locker room
and died in Denver, shortly after the 49ers played the Denver Broncos
in a preseason game. Herrion's was the NFL's first football-related
death since Vikings tackle Korey Stringer died of heatstroke in 2001.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Herrion)(AP,
8/20/06)
2005 Aug 26, In SF the new Int’l.
Hotel, with 88 studio and 16 one-bedroom apartments, re-opened at 848
Kearny Street. Over 50 tenants from the original “I-Hotel” were evicted
Aug 4, 1977. 12 people from the original hotel were 1st in line as
7,500 applicants vied for apartments.
(SFC, 8/27/05, p.B1)
2005 Aug 27, A celebration was
scheduled for the completion of the 16th Avenue Steps in the Sunset’s
Golden Gate Heights, featuring a new tile mosaic.
(SFC, 8/26/05, p.F1)
2005 Aug 27, John Dobson,
Connecticut-based telescope inventor, celebrated his 90th birthday in
SF at the Randall Museum.
(SFC, 8/26/05, p.B1)
2005 Aug 27-2005 Aug 28, San
Francisco’s 10th annual Dragon Boat Festival moved from Lake Merced to
Treasure Island.
(SFC, 8/26/05, p.F1)
2005 Aug, Augustine Falley, SF
Dept. of Building Inspection supervisor, was charged with accepting
bribes over a 12-year period.
(SFC, 8/22/05, p.A1)
2005 Aug, Mayor Newsom named Yomi
Agunbiade (36), a Nigeria-born son of a diplomat, as general manager of
the SF Recreation and Park Dept.
(SFC, 10/7/05, p.F1)
2005 Sep 1, A SF jury awarded $27
million to the family of Elizabeth Dominguez (4), who was killed on Feb
11, 2003, when she was hit by a Muni truck at Potrero Ave and 24th. SF
appealed and settled the case in 2008 for $21 million.
(SFC, 9/2/05, p.B1)(SFC, 3/6/08, p.B2)
2005 Sep 2, It was reported that
the SF Roman Catholic Archdiocese has agreed to pay $4 million to
settle 4 lawsuits by victims of defrocked Monsignor Patrick O’Shea.
(SFC, 9/2/05, p.B2)
2005 Sep 4, Cyclist Fabian Wegmann
of Germany won the $15,000 1st place prize in the 108.1 mile 5th San
Francisco Grand Prix.
(SFC, 9/5/05, p.B1)
2005 Sep 6, The SF Board of
Education voted to invoke a compatibility clause as schools
Superintendent Arlene Ackerman resigned. She said she would remain
until June 30, 2006.
(SFC, 9/7/05, p.B1)
2005 Sep 9, In SF a ribbon-cutting
ceremony was held at Octavia Blvd. and Market Street to mark the
opening of Octavia Blvd., and the culmination of a long battle to rid
Hayes Valley of the 1959 Central Freeway.
(SFC, 1/3/07, p.B1)
2005 Sep 9-2005 Sep 11,The Sierra
Club’s 1st National Environmental Convention & Expo was held at the
SF Moscone Center.
(SFC, 9/10/05, p.B1)
2005 Sep 13, In SF unionized
workers at California Pacific Medical Center in protest over the
administration’s refusal to accept a federal mediator’s proposals for a
new contract.
(SFC, 9/14/05, p.B1)
2005 Sep 15, A fire in SF at 395
Capp St. left 3 people dead.
(SFC, 9/16/05, p.B1)
2005 Sep 19, In SF Arkelylius
Collins (20) was murdered at Third and Kirkwood in a hail of gunfire.
Terrel Rollins (22) was injured. In 2006 Daniel Dennard (21) and Deonte
Bennett (21), members of the Oakdale Mob, were indicted on charges of
murder. Rollins was killed on May 4, 2006, and Dennard was released. On
July 19, 2008, Dennard was shot and killed on Bayshore Blvd. not far
from where Rollins had been murdered. In 2009 Bennett was arrested and
charged in an alleged murder for hire plot.
(SFC, 3/2/06, p.B2)(SFC, 7/21/08, p.A1)(SFC,
1/22/09, p.B8)
2005 Sep 22, SF approved a
promotional ski-jump at Fillmore and Vallejo to be staged by Icer on
Sep 28-29.
(SFC, 9/23/05, p.B1)
2005 Sep 22, A group of Hong Kong
investors purchased the Bank of America Center in San Francisco for
$1.05 billion. Donald Trump had in interest in the deal from a previous
sale by the investment group in NYC.
(WSJ, 9/23/05, p.B3)
2005 Sep 24, The anti-war march in
Washington DC drew tens of thousands. In SF an anti-war march from
Dolores park to Jefferson Square drew 20-50 thousand people.
(SSFC, 9/25/05, A1)
2005 Sep 24, The 2nd annual Love
Parade began at Market and Second streets in SF and was followed by a
celebration at the Civic Center Plaza. 24 floats carried some 200 DJs.
(SSFC, 9/25/05, A21)
2005 Sep 25, The 22nd annual
Folsom Street Fair, a homage to leather fetishists, took place in SF
and drew an estimated 300,000 people.
(SFC, 9/26/05, p.B3)
2005 Sep 28, Dump trucks began
unloading snow on San Francisco’s Fillmore Street for Icer Air 2005, a
ski jump event sponsored Icer, a Nevada-based ski wax and apparel
seller, founded by Glen Griffin and Eric Gordon. Gordon was a
high-school friend of Mayor Newsom.
(SFC, 9/29/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 29, In SF Icer Air 2005
drew thousands of spectators to snow-covered Fillmore Street. One
snowboarder skidded into the crowd and injured 2 people.
(SFC, 9/30/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 30, Google submitted a
competitive bid to provide SF free wireless Internet access using Wi-Fi
technology.
(SFC, 10/1/05, p.A1)
2005 Oct 1, The SF Opera premiered
“Doctor Atomic” by composer John Adams. The libretto was by Peter
Sellars.
(SSFC, 10/2/05, p.A17)
2005 Oct 1, Paul Pena (b.1950), a
blind bluesman, died in SF. The 1999 film "Genghis Blues" won the
audience award at Sundance for best documentary. It was directed by
Roko and Adrian Belic and was about Paul Pena (1950-1955), a blind
bluesman, who journeyed to Tuva to compete in a throat-singing
competition.
(SFC, 10/4/05, p.B5)
2005 Oct 1-2005 Oct 2, In SF
financier Warren Hellman sponsored the 5th annual Hardly Strictly
Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park.
(SFC, 10/3/05, p.C1)
2005 Oct 4-2005 Oct 9, The World
Golf Championships took place at Harding Park Golf Course along Lake
Merced in SF, Ca.
(SFCM, 10/2/05, p.6)
2005 Oct 8, The new M.H. de Young
Memorial Museum, designed by Swiss architects Pierre Meuron and Jacques
Herzog, opened in Golden Gate park for a preview to members. Official
opening ceremonies were set for Oct 15.
(SFC, 10/7/05, p.A1)(SFC, 10/14/05, p.B4)
2005 Oct 9, Kevin Eugene
McGuinness (43), with blood alcohol at .19, crashed into a cab at
Broadway and Webster killing cab driver Zareh Soghikian (76) and Tyler
Brown (21), a SF resident and student at Duke Univ. 2 others were
injured.
(SFC, 10/12/05, p.B4)
2005 Oct 11, Yoshi’s jazz club of
Oakland broke ground a new 420-seat nightclub at the corner of Fillmore
and Eddy streets in SF.
(SFC, 10/12/05, p.B3)
2005 Oct 12, The Treasure Island
board of directors, serving under the direction of SF Mayor Newsom,
fired chief Tony Hall in a decision made behind closed doors.
(SFC, 10/13/05, p.B1)
2005 Oct 14, A trade delegation of
some 300 Chinese officials and business executives visited SF for the
1st Hong Kong-Guangdong Business Conference USA.
(SFC, 10/15/05, p.C1)
2005 Oct 14, Dernae Wysinger (22)
and his 2-year-old son were shot to death in San Francisco’s Potrero
Hill district. Police soon issued an arrest warrant for suspect Joseph
Stevens (22). This marked the 64th and 65th homicides in SF this year.
In 2007 Stevens (23) was convicted for the murders, which were
apparently done in retaliation for another slaying.
(SSFC, 10/16/05, p.B1)(SFC, 3/21/07, p.B3)
2005 Oct 15, The new $202 million
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, designed by Swiss architects Pierre
Meuron and Jacques Herzog, officially opened in Golden Gate park.
(SFC, 10/15/05, p.A1)(SSFC, 10/16/05, p.B1)
2005 Oct 15, In SF a new $200
million, 32-story, 550-room, InterContinental Hotel was to begin
construction at 888 Howard St. Completion was scheduled for Nov. 2007.
(SFC, 10/15/05, p.C1)
2005 Oct 16, In SF Andre Daniels
(31) was robbed and his wife was raped at 73 Brookdale Ave, in the
Sunnyside housing project in Visitacion Valley. Daniels identified
Laron Lewis (26) as one of the assailants and a tip led police to
Damien Ramond (23). On May 20, 2007, Daniels was shot and killed
outside his unit at the Alice Griffith project in the Bayview district.
His death doomed the sexual assault case against Lewis and Ramond.
(SSFC, 11/23/08, p.A14)
2005 Oct 19, In SF escrow closed
on the sale of St. Brigid Church to the Academy of Art Univ. Next day
the SF Planning Commission voted to designate the exterior as a
historic landmark.
(SFC, 10/21/05, p.B1)
2005 Oct 19, Lashaun Harris (23)
threw her 3 children into San Francisco Bay near Fishermen's Wharf. The
body of a third sibling was recovered. Harris had been staying with her
children at a Salvation Army shelter in Oakland. She told authorities
that voices had told her to throw her children into the water. In 2007
a judge ruled that Harris was not guilty by reason of insanity. A jury
had convicted her of assault and second-degree murder.
(AP, 10/20/05)(SFC, 1/18/07, p.B4)
2005 Oct 22, Scott McAlpin (24) of
El Sobrante murdered his SF girlfriend Anastasia Melnitchenko (22).
McAlpin was arrested the next day by US Park police at the Marin
Headlands north of San Francisco. The body of Melnitchenko, was found
in the trunk of his car. McAlpin had 8 previous felony convictions for
domestic violence. In 2008 McAlpin was convicted of first degree murder.
(SFC, 10/26/05, p.B1)(SFC, 12/5/08, p.B2)
2005 Oct 23, The 2nd Annual Nike
Women’s Marathon expected 15,000 runners to benefit the Leukemia and
Lymphoma Society.
(SFC, 10/22/05, p.B3)
2005 Oct 27, In SF Hailu Abje
(44), an Ethiopian immigrant, shot to death dentist David Gong (56) and
then killed himself near the dentist’s Van Ness office. It appeared
that Abje held a grudge against Gong for his dental and gum problems
(SFC, 10/28/05, p.B1)
2005 Oct 27, In SF Grimes Poznikov
(59), the former “Human Jukebox” of Fisherman’s Wharf, died from
alcohol poisoning.
(SFC, 11/1/05, p.B5)
2005 Oct 30, In SF some 20,000
people gathered in Golden Gate Park for a memorial concert, the Family
Dog’s last Tribal Stomp, to celebrate Chet Helms, who died June 25.
(SFC, 10/31/05, p.B1)
2005 Oct 30, In SF the 10th
running of the Illegal Soapbox Society’s Halloween derby was held in
Bernal Heights.
(SFC, 11/1/05, p.E1)
2005 Oct 31, In SF some 30,000
people gathered in the Castro district for the annual Halloween party.
(SFC, 11/1/05, p.B2)
2005 Nov 1, In SF the $250
million, 40-story Hotel St. Regis, located at 3rd and Mission, was
expected to open. 2-bedroom condos were asking $1.8-2.5 million. It was
designed by architect Craig Hartman of Skidmore Owings Merrill.
(SFC, 10/27/05, p.C1)(SFC, 12/14/05, p.B1)
2005 Nov 1, In SF Johnell Kirk Jr.
(39), a homeless drifter, died after being set on fire by Scott Darden
Kinney (43).
(SFC, 11/3/05, p.B4)
2005 Nov 2, SF officials struck a
deal with large supermarket chains to reduce by 10 million the number
of plastic grocery bags given to shoppers by the end of the year.
(SFC, 11/3/05, p.A1)
2005 Nov 2, In SF police arrested
10 anti-Bush demonstrators as some 2,000 people rallied in a march
organized by “The World Can’t Wait,” a group focused on removing Pres.
Bush from office.
(SFC, 11/3/05, p.B4)
2005 Nov 6, In SF the annual
Veteran’s Day Parade was held on Market St.
(SFC, 11/7/05, p.B1)
2005 Nov 6, The Intelligent
Transport Systems World Congress opened in SF for a 5-day meeting and
demonstration of new products.
(SFC, 11/7/05, p.A1)
2005 Nov 6, Prince Charles began a
visit to SF and the Bay Area. Police services for the 4-day tour,
billed to taxpayers, ran to $105,000 in regular and overtime pay.
(SSFC, 11/20/05, p.B1)
2005 Nov 7, In SF developers of
Treasure Island unveiled plans that included 6 residential towers with
some 5,500 housing units, a new ferry terminal and saving 260 acres of
the island’s 400 acres for open space.
(SFC, 11/8/05, p.A1)
2005 Nov 7, In SF Maxuman
Chenier (23), an aspiring rap artist, was shot to death in the
Oceanview district. On Nov 10 Marcus McNeil (19), a suspect in the
murder, surrendered to police in Mansfield, Ohio. He was released after
local prosecutors determined their was not enough evidence for his
extradition.
(SFC, 11/15/05, p.B3)(SFC, 11/18/05, p.B3)
2005 Nov 8, SF voters rejected
Prop B, which would have allowed $208 million in general obligation
bonds for street and sidewalk improvements; Prop A passed for capital
improvements in the SF Community College District; Prop H won making it
illegal for city residents to possess handguns; Prop F won ending
rotating closure of firehouses. Phil Ting, incumbent Assessor-Recorder,
won his election bid. In 2008 an Appeals court agreed with 2006 ruling
that local governments have no authority under California law to
prevent people from owning pistols.
(SFC, 11/9/05, p.B3)(SFC, 1/10/08, p.B3)
2005 Nov 8, A federal judge
ordered a halt to 1983 court-ordered supervision over SF desegregation
policies. The ruling left school assignments in the hands of the SF
School Board.
(SFC, 11/9/05, p.B1)
2005 Nov 9, SF reached an out of
court settlement in a fraud lawsuit against City Tow for $5.7 million.
The Anaheim-based parent company, Pick Your Part, admitted no
wrongdoing and will split the payment between SF and the state of
California.
(SFC, 11/10/05, p.B2)
2005 Nov 10, In SF ground breaking
was scheduled for a $270 million, 55-story, 709-unit luxury condominium
at One Rincon Hill. The project included a 2nd 45-story tower.
Completion was set for December 2007.
(SFC, 11/11/05, p.B1)
2005 Nov 11, SF service workers
ended a 2-month strike at Pacific Medical Center by ratifying a labor
contract that includes a 16% wage increase for 800 workers over the
life of the contract, retroactive from November 2004 to June 2008.
(SFC, 11/12/05, p.C1)
2005 Nov 13, In SF the Rolling
Stones performed at SBC Park sparking a swarm of noise complaints to
City Hall.
(SFC, 11/15/05, p.B1)
2005 Nov 15, SF city supervisors
passed new laws requiring spaying and neutering of pit bulls, five
months after the fatal mauling of a 12-year-old boy by his family's pit
bulls.
(AP, 11/16/05)
2005 Nov 17, SF City Engineer
Hanson Tom ordered that no construction permit be issued for 2
residential towers on Rincon Hill pending more seismic safety study.
(SFC, 12/8/05, p.A1)
2005 Nov 18, The SF Fine Arts
Museums board named John E. Buchanon Jr., director of the Portland Art
Museum, to succeed Harry Parker as director effective Feb 1, 2006.
(SFC, 11/19/05, p.A1)
2005 Nov 23, In SF 2 killings on
Turk Street raised the city’s homicide toll this year to 90, 2 more
than in all of 2004.
(SFC, 11/24/05, p.B1)
2005 Nov 25, Mayor Newsom traveled
to China to lead a delegation along with Sen. Diane Feinstein to
celebrate the 25th anniversary of San Francisco’s sister-city
relationship with Shanghai.
(SFC, 11/25/05, p.B1)
2005 Dec 3, In SF the new Museum
of African Diaspora officially opened at 685 Mission St.
(SSFC, 11/27/05, p.B1)
2005 Dec 3, Peter Haas Sr. (86),
former CEO and president of Levi Strauss, died in SF.
(SFC, 12/5/05, p.B4)
2005 Dec 6, SF hired Nathaniel
Ford Sr. to run the Municipal Transportation Agency (MUNI) for a 5-year
contract with a base salary of $298,000. Ford was enticed away from the
Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority where his base was $205,000.
(SFC, 12/7/05, p.B4)
2005 Dec 6, In SF police officer
Andrew Cohen (39) was suspended for producing department videos that
mocked minorities. 24 other officers were soon suspended for their
involvement in the video productions. In 2006 18 officers filed a $20
million lawsuit against SF for defamation and discrimination.
(SFC, 12/8/05, p.A1,16)(SFC, 12/10/05, p.A11)(SFC,
8/11/06, p.B7)
2005 Dec 14, SF officials
said the $600 million Third Street light rail line was a year late and
expected to come into service by the end of 2006. It was running about
$21 million over budget.
(SFC, 12/15/05, p.B3)
2005 Dec 15, SF officials said all
the SF police officers suspended for their roles in a controversial
video production have been reinstated.
(SFC, 12/16/05, p.A1)
2005 Dec 15, Utah Archbishop
George Niederauer was named Archbishop of San Francisco.
(SFC, 12/16/05, p.A1)
2005 Dec 23, Robin Hodes (79),
SF-based jazz trumpeter, died.
(SFC, 1/24/06, p.B5)
2005 Oct 25, Barry Nielson (48),
SF architect, died from injuries of an assault on Oct 21 at Bryant and
Mariposa.
(SFC, 12/28/05, p.A1)
2005 Dec 26, It was reported that
the Roxie Cinema will become part of San Francisco’s New College due to
a $200,000 donation. Owner Bill Banning will continue as art director
under salary to New College.
(SFC, 12/26/05, p.D1)
2005 Dec 26, Terrell Anderson
(23), father of a 2-year-old and basketball player for City
College, was shot and killed in the early hours outside the Velvet
Lounge in North Beach.
(SFC, 12/28/05, p.A1)
2005 Veronica Monet, former San
Francisco based escort, authored “Sex Secrets of Escorts: Tips From a
Pro.”
(SFC, 11/23/05, p.E1)
2006 Jan 9, In SF a suspected was
found bomb in the Starbucks restroom at 1401 Van Ness Ave. The next day
SF police arrested Ronald Schouten (44), who they believe planted the
bomb. Federal agents soon reported that no explosive material was
contained in the device and that Schouten would likely not be charged.
(SFC, 1/11/06, p.A1)(SFC, 1/12/06, p.B1)
2006 Jan 12, The Beat Museum, a
tribute to the literary generation that helped inspire the 1960s
counterculture, opened in San Francisco. The museum, founded by Jerry
Cimino, was formerly housed in Monterey, California.
(Reuters, 1/15/06)
2006 Jan 18, SF Mayor Newsom said
he is convinced some cable car conductors were stealing fare money.
(SFC, 1/19/06, p.A1)
2006 Jan 19, The SF Board of
Education voted to close, merge and relocate more than a dozen schools
to cut losses due to declining enrollment.
(SFC, 1/20/06, p.A1)
2006 Jan 21, Abortion foes
converged in SF for a 2nd Walk for life. Pro-choice demonstrators
staged a counter marched.
(SSFC, 1/22/06, p.B1)
2006 Jan 30, Fairmont Hotels &
Resorts announced that a group of investors including Saudi Prince
Alwaleed bin Talal has agreed to buy the luxury hotel chain for about
$3.3 billion in cash and some $600 million in assumed debt. A new
Canadian company will take over outstanding shares from the
Toronto-based sellers.
(SFC, 1/31/06, p.E3)
2006 Feb 10, SF Mayor Gavin
Newsom, in response to the SF Chronicle’s use-of force series, said he
will push the SF Police Dept. to create a computerized tracking system
for identifying problem officers.
(SSFC, 2/12/06, p.A1)
2006 Feb 23, The construction firm
Tutor-Saliba Corp. agreed to pay $19 million to settle claims that it
overcharged for building the int’l. terminal at San Francisco’s airport
and violated city minority contracting laws.
(SFC, 2/24/06, p.A1)
2006 Feb 25, It was reported that
researchers in SF had discovered a new virus, dubbed XMRV, inside
tumors of some men with prostate cancer.
(SFC, 2/25/06, p.A2)
2006 Feb 27, In SF Allen Leung
(56), a Chinatown businessman and community leader, was gunned down in
his export-import business at 603 Jackson St.
(SFC, 3/1/06, p.A1)
2006 Feb 28, The San Francisco
Board of Supervisors passed a resolution (7-3) asking the city’s
Democratic congressional delegation to seek the impeachment of Pres.
Bush.
(SFC, 3/1/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 1, The name of the SF
Giant’s ballpark changed from Pac Bell Park to AT&T Park.
(SFC, 2/4/06, p.C1)
2006 Mar 1, Father Harry Carlin
(89), Jesuit priest and former president of St. Ignatius in SF, died.
He led the 1965 $2 million purchase of 11 acres for a new school campus.
(SFC, 3/7/06, p.B5)
2006 Mar 2, In SF Ashlyn Dyer (27)
was knocked unconscious during a morning run in the Presidio by a hit
and run driver. She died of her injuries on March 12.
(SFC, 3/14/06, p.A1)(SFC, 3/16/06, p.B3)
2006 Mar 12, SF held its 154th
annual St. Patrick’s Day parade.
(SFC, 3/13/06, p.B1)
2006 Mar 23, Sundance Cinemas said
it had signed a purchase agreement for the AMC Kabuki multiplex in San
Francisco. Sundance hoped to develop a national chain.
(SFC, 3/24/06, p.B6)
2006 Mar 23, Karen Eklund (31) of
Antioch was shot 11-20 times and killed by police in SF following a
40-mile pursuit that ended in Mission Terrace. She had been sought on a
federal warrant in an identity-theft case. In 2007 her daughter (14)
filed suit against the CHP saying the killing was unjustified.
(SFC, 3/24/06, p.B3)(SFC, 11/3/07, p.B2)
2006 Mar 23, Adolph Gasser
(b.1912), SF businessman and pioneer in the photographic industry, died.
(SFC, 4/3/06, p.B8)
2006 Mar 25, In SF an evangelical
Christian concert, dubbed “Battle Cry for a Generation,” drew some
25,000 teens to AT&T Park.
(SSFC, 3/26/06, p.B1)
2006 Mar 27, In SF several
thousand protesters marched down Market Street in a peaceful call for
legal status for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the US.
(SFC, 3/28/06, p.A1)
2006 Apr 1, The body of Kimberly
Millen (21) of San Bruno was found in Richmond, Ca. The body of her
friend Sophia Sciutto-Creps (27) of South San Francisco was found April
5 in Golden Gate Park. Evidence in the case was found at Lake Merced in
SF on April 3. Both women had disappeared on March 27. Police arrested
Jasmilla Ford (26) on April 16 for the murder of Millen. Police
arrested Ford’s brother Troy Richardson (24) on April 17 for the murder
of Sciutto-Creps. Both women were believed to have been killed in
Ford’s Oakland home on March 27.
(SFC, 4/6/06, p.B1)(SFC, 4/18/06, p.B1)
2006 Apr 5, SF picked Google and
EarthLink to bring free Internet access to the city.
(SFC, 4/6/06, p.A1)
2006 Apr 18, In SF thousands
gathered for the 100 year anniversary of the 1906 earthquake.
(SFC, 4/19/06, p.A1)
2006 Apr 18, A $1.43 billion joint
contract was awarded to American Bridge and Fluor to build the
single-tower eastern suspension span of the Bay Bridge.
(SFC, 4/19/06, p.B4)
2006 Apr 20, In SF federal and
local agents raided a chapter of the Hells Angels in the Dogpatch
neighborhood of Potrero Hill. They found a pound of methamphetamine in
the garage of Michael Demetrescu (46). Agents targeted 16 locations
including Livermore and San Mateo County recovering weapons and a total
of 6 pounds of methamphetamine. On April 25 Demetrescu was found dead
of suspected suicide at Ocean Beach.
(SFC, 4/21/06, p.B1)(SFC, 4/26/06, p.B2)
2006 Apr 23, Some 10,000 people
marched in SF to denounce a bill in the US House of Representatives
that would make illegal immigration a felony.
(SFC, 4/24/06, p.A1)
2006 Apr 24, The annual Goldman
Environmental Prizes were awarded in San Francisco. The winners
included Craig Williams (58) for helping to persuade Congress to order
the Defense Dept. to consider alternatives to incinerating chemical
weapons; Tarcisio Feitosa (35) of Brazil for his campaign against
rampant logging; Olya Melen (26) of Ukraine for her suits forcing the
government to scale back a large canal project impacting wetlands; Yu
Xiaogang (35) of China for his reports on damages caused by new dams;
Silas Siakor (36) of Liberia for his documentation showing how logging
was used to fund civil war; and Anne Kajir of Papua New Guinea for her
work to get reimbursements from logging companies to peasants.
(WSJ, 4/24/06, p.B7)
2006 Apr 27, A fiery crash in the
San Francisco’s Castro District killed one person and left at least 8
vehicle gutted.
(SFC, 4/28/06, p.B1)
2006 Apr 30, Some 100,000 rallied
in Washington DC, SF and other US cities to urge the Bush
administration to take decisive action to stop the genocide in Darfur.
(SFC, 5/1/06, p.A1)
2006 May 1, In the SF Bay Area
KQED of SF and KTEH of San Jose announced their merger under the name
Northern California Public Broadcasting.
(SFC, 5/2/06, p.A1)
2006 May 4, In SF Terrell Rollins
(22), a witness in a murder case, was shot dead at 269 Bayshore Blvd.
His testimony led to the indictment of 2 men on murder charges in March.
(SFC, 5/5/06, p.A1)
2006 May 9, The SF Board of
Supervisors voted 7-4 to close a 1.5 miles stretch of JFK Drive in
Golden Gate Park to cars on Saturdays on a 6-month trial basis. On May
15 Mayor Newsom vetoed the plan citing a need for further study.
(SFC, 5/10/06, p.B4)(SFC, 5/16/06, p.B1)
2006 May 10, UCSF announced that
Ray Dolby, founder of Dolby Laboratories, and his wife Dagmar were
donating $16 million of help pay for a new stem cell research center in
SF.
(SFC, 5/12/06, p.B9)
2006 May 11, In SF 2 officials of
the defunct Pacific Cement company, including founder Ricardo Ramirez,
were arraigned on felony and grand theft charges for using inferior
concrete on Bay Area projects from 2001-2005. In 2008 Ramirez pleaded
guilty to a single environmental count. He was expected to serve a year
of home detention and pay $427,000 in fines and restitution.
(SFC, 5/12/06, p.A1)(SSFC, 7/9/06, p.A10)(SSFC,
6/1/08, p.A1)
2006 May 15, In SF the 77-year old
PG&E plant in Hunters Point officially closed.
(SFC, 5/15/06, p.A1)
2006 May 18, SF Mayor Newsom
issued an executive directive for all city departments, that currently
use diesel fuel, to switch to biodiesel fuel by the end of 2007.
(SFC, 5/19/06, p.B3)
2006 May 21, In SF some 62,000
runners participated in the annual Bay to Breakers race. Gilbert Okari
(27) of Kenya won in 34 minutes and 20 seconds. Among the women
Ukrainian Tetyana Hladyr won in 39:09. Mayor Newsom finished the 7.46
miles in 59:04.
(SFC, 5/22/06, p.A1)
2006 May 22, Braxton Bilbrey (7)
of Arizona swam from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco in 47 minutes.
(AP, 5/22/07)
2006 May 24, Pogo (48), one of the
oldest gorillas in the world, died at the SF Zoo.
(SFC, 5/25/06, p.B1)
2006 May 28, In SF Barry Bonds hit
his 715th home run passing the Babe Ruth record of 714 and approaching
Hank Aaron’s 755 record.
(SFC, 5/28/06, p.A1)
2006 May 28, In SF tens of
thousands jammed the Mission District for the 28th annual Carnaval. 81
official units participated in the “Land of Childhood Dreams” parade.
(SFC, 5/28/06, p.B1)
2006 Jun 12, In SF Superior Court
Judge James Warren struck down a voter approved ban on handgun
possession. Proposition H, pass last November, would have outlawed
possession of handguns by all city residents except law enforcement
officers and other who need guns for professional purposes.
(SFC, 6/12/06, p.B1)
2006 Jun 20, SF Mayor Gavin
Newsome proposed a $200 million health plan, San Francisco Health
Access Program, to provide an estimated 82,000 uninsured residents with
health care.
(SFC, 6/22/06, p.B1)
2006 Jun 22, In SF, Ca., Edwin
Torres (47), former Moraga broker, was sentenced to 90 months in prison
for defrauding people of over $5 million in a Ponzi scheme. He was
released on bail with a promise to return on August 11. Torres jumped
bail.
(SFC, 9/1/06, p.B2)
2006 Jun 24, Denice Denton (46),
UC Santa Cruz Chancellor, jumped to her death from the roof of the
42-story Paramount apartment building in SF. She had assumed office on
Feb 14, 2005, and soon called for some $600,000 in upgrades to her
university provided housing.
(SSFC, 6/25/06, p.A13)
2006 Jun 25, SF celebrated its
36th annual Pride Parade. Some 200 groups passed before hundreds of
thousands of spectators.
(SFC, 6/26/06, p.A1)
2006 Jun 27, SF Supervisor Aaron
Peskin introduced the Food Service Waste Reduction Act to the Board of
Supervisors. The act would require city restaurants to stop using
polystyrene as of Jan 1, 2007.
(SFC, 6/27/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 5, The Canaan Lutheran
Church agreed to sell the 4 Star movie theater at 2200 Clement to Frank
and Lida Lee, the theater owners since 1992, for $1.45 million
following a mediation session. The Lees beat a 150 day deadline by one
week.
(SFC, 12/8/06, p.E1)
2006 Jul 8, SF opened its Mission
Bay Branch Library. The 27th branch, a $4 million, 7,500-sq.-foot
space, opened in a mixed use building on Fourth St.
(SSFC, 7/9/06, p.B1)
2006 Jul 18, The Club Deluxe on
Haight Street in SF celebrated the 1st anniversary of its open mike
poetry and jazz. It was initiated by New York poets Jennifer Barone and
Ingrid Keir and jazz musician Dan Heffez.
(SFC, 7/22/06, p.E1)
2006 Jul 19, Construction began in
SF on the $46 million Jewish Museum set to open in 2008.
(SFC, 7/20/06, p.B1)
2006 Jul 24, SF City Attorney
Dennis Herrera announced that his office had obtained a civil
injunction and $20,000 in penalties against Carlos Romero for his
graffiti. This marked the 1st time SF has filed a civil suit against a
graffiti tagger.
(SFC, 7/25/06, p.A4)
2006 Jul 25, SF Supervisors gave
final approval to a plan to provide health care coverage to the city’s
estimated 82,000 uninsured residents.
(SFC, 7/26/06, p.B1)
2006 Jul 26, SF police officer
Nick-Tomasito Birco (39) was killed when a Dodge van carrying 4 robbery
suspects broadsided his patrol car at Cambridge and Felton. Steven
Wayne Petrilli (19) was charged the next day with murder, manslaughter,
evading police and robbery.
(SFC, 7/27/06, p.A1)(SFC, 7/28/06, p.B1)
2006 Jul 28, SF Mayor Gavin Newsom
signed a record $5.7 billion 2006-2007 budget.
(SFC, 7/29/06, p.B3)
2006 Jul 30, Andrew Cook (25) of
Texas won the SF Marathon in 2 hours and 26 minutes. Julia Stamps (27)
of Santa Rosa won for the women in 2 hours and 54 minutes. William
Goggins (43) of SF collapsed and died after completing 24 miles.
(SFC, 7/31/06, p.A1)
2006 Aug 1, SF Mayor Newsom
launched SF Connect, a nonprofit corporation to manage volunteers and
donations for numerous social issues.
(SFC, 8/1/06, p.A1)
2006 Aug 7, Sue Bierman (82),
former SF supervisor (1992-2000) died in a car crash in Cole Valley.
(SFC, 8/8/06, p.B5)
2006 Aug 11, In SF Ed Jew,
operator of a Chinatown flower shop, filed to run as supervisor for
District 4. He won a surprise victory in November. In 2007 he faced
residency questions and an FBI investigation regarding money accepted
from a businessmen facing permit problems. On January 10, 2008 he
resigned from the Board of Supervisors. Jew had been accused of
violating the city charter by not living in the district he
represented. On November 6, 2007, federal prosecutors obtained a grand
jury indictment of Jew on five felony bribery, fraud and extortion
charges, accusing him of running a scheme to shake down Sunset District
businesses for $84,000 in bribes. His trial on federal charges was
slated to being in July 2008.
(SFC, 5/22/07,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Jew#Resignation)
2006 Aug 12, Thousands of people
gathered across from the White House, even though President Bush was
out of town, to condemn US and Israeli policies in the Middle East. In
SF thousands of protesters decried US Mideast policy and Israel’s
military actions in Lebanon and Palestine. A smaller group demonstrated
on behalf of Israel.
(SSFC, 8/13/06, p.B1)(AP, 8/12/07)
2006 Aug 14, In San Francisco
Aubrey Abrakasa (17) was shot and killed in the Panhandle of Golden
Gate Park, while on his way to work. Police knew some of the
individuals involved but, as of 2009, due to lack of witnesses the case
remained unsolved.
(SFC, 4/4/09, p.B1)
2006 Aug 19, The new $108 million
SF County Jail, designed for 768 prisoners, opened in San Mateo County
next to the existing jail built in 1934 and designed for 550.
(SFC, 8/17/06, p.B8)
2006 Aug 21, Will Smith (59)
opened fire at Fort Funston, a popular hang-gliding area, injuring 2
people before killing himself. Hang gliding pilot Dan Murray (48) died
from his wounds on Aug 26.
(SFC, 8/22/06, p.B1)(SFC, 8/23/06, p.B4)(SSFC,
8/27/06, p.B2)
2006 Aug 29, Omeed Aziz Popal
(29), a native of Afghanistan, killed one pedestrian in Hayward, Ca.,
and injured another 16 at 11 locations in SF in a driving rampage. SF
police finally rammed him down at California and Spruce streets. In
2008 a SF judge ruled that Popal was legally insane.
(SFC, 8/30/06, p.A1)(SFC, 8/1/08, p.B1)
2006 Sep 5, The lower deck of the
SF Bay Bridge reopened after being shut down for the 3-day Labor Day
weekend due to demolition work.
(SFC, 9/5/06, p.B1)
2006 Sep 8, SF Mayor Gavin Newsom
said 50 new security cameras will be installed in public housing
projects around San Francisco over the next 18 months.
(SFC, 9/9/06, p.B1)
2006 Sep 11, In SF measures to
turn back a surge in violence included police enforcement of a
long-ignored curfew for young teenagers as well as more police in high
crime neighborhoods.
(SFC, 9/12/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 16, In SF Zachary
Roche-Balsam (19) was killed when he tried to stop a robbery of 2 women
after a party in the Ingleside Heights neighborhood. In 2007 police
arrested and charged Vernon Anderson Jr. (21) with the murder.
(SFC, 4/11/07, p.B2)
2006 Sep 22, SF hotel workers
ratified a new 5-year contract to end a 2-year dispute with their
employers.
(SFC, 9/23/06, p.B2)
2006 Sep 23, The SF Blues Festival
continued for the 2nd of 3 days at Fort Mason. The Love Festival parade
ended at the Civic Plaza.
(SSFC, 9/24/06, p.B1)
2006 Sep 24, The 23rd annual
Folsom Street Fair took place in SF.
(SSFC, 9/24/06, p.B1)
2006 Sep 28, The new $440 million
Westfield San Francisco Centre, a retail, office and entertainment
complex, opened and Fifth and Market at the site of the former
Emporium. The complex included Bloomingdale’s, the retailer’s 2nd
largest US store.
(SSFC, 8/6/06, p.F1)(SFC, 8/11/06, p.D1)(SFC,
9/28/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 30, SF city crews began a
cleanup and sweep of Golden Gate park to oust an estimated 100-200
people living there. Crews planned to continue the task for the next 90
days.
(SSFC, 10/1/06, p.B3)
2006 Sep, The Bank of San
Francisco began operating as a program to provide banking services to
low income residents not qualifying for regular bank accounts. The
program was formed under the auspices of SF, the Federal Reserve and 15
banks and credit unions.
(SFC, 12/4/07, p.A1)
2006 Oct 3, Jeannik Mequet
Littlefield donated $35 million to the SF Opera. She had married Edmund
Littlefield in 1945 and he went on to head the Utah Construction Co., a
family firm that had built the Hoover Dam.
(SFC, 10/4/06, p.A1)
2006 Oct 4, Richard Goldman, SF
philanthropist, announced a $10 million grant to the SF Symphony.
(SFC, 10/5/06, p.E1)
2006 Oct 7, Fleet Week in SF
featured a waterfront parade of US and Canadian ships as well as an air
show. The 2-day Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival opened in Golden
Gate Park.
(SFC, 10/7/06, p.B1)
2006 Oct 8, The 138th annual
Italian Heritage Parade took place in SF.
(SSFC, 10/8/06, p.B1)
2006 Oct 17, Miriam Engelberg,
cartoonist and writer, died in SF. She had recently authored “Cancer
Made Me a Shallower Person.”
(SFC, 10/20/06, p.B9)
2006 Oct 21, In SF Joseph James
Melcher (25) opened fire on 3 people in Japantown and 2 died. He was
arrested the same evening. On Nov 21 Melcher was also charged with
killing Robert Stanford (21) on Aug 27.
(SFC, 10/24/06, p.B1)(SFC, 11/23/06, p.B1)
2006 Oct 22, The Oracle OpenWorld
convention opened in SF. Some 42,000 attendees were expected to pump
$60 million into the city’s economy by the close on Oct 27.
(SFC, 10/23/06, p.E1)
2006 Oct 26, In SF the first
Amateur Erotic Film Competition opened at the Castro Theater.
(SFC, 10/26/06, p.B1)
2006 Oct 31, In SF gunfire broke
out between two groups at a massive Halloween street party in the
city's Castro district, wounding at least 10 people, including innocent
bystanders.
(AP, 11/1/06)
2006 Oct 31, Enrico’s Sidewalk
Café in SF’s North Beach district closed after negotiations for
a new lease collapsed. Enrico Banducci had opened it in 1958.
(SFC, 11/1/06, p.B5)
2006 Nov 8, Democratic gains in
Congress were seen around the world as a rejection of the US war in
Iraq that led some observers to expect a reassessment of the American
course there. The victory would make Nancy Pelosi, Representative of
SF, the 1st woman and the 1st Californian to serve as speaker of the
House. Pelosi promised a 6-pronged action plan: A new direction for
America, to be enacted within 100 hours of becoming speaker.
(AP, 11/8/06)(SFC, 11/8/06, p.A1)(Econ, 11/11/06,
p.38)
2006 Nov 14, The SF Board of
Education voted 4-2 to phase out the JROTC from schools over the next
two years because of the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy
regarding gay service members. The SF Board of Supervisors mandated
foot patrols by city police, in a 9-2 vote overriding a veto by Mayor
Newsom. The board also voted to ban the use of plastic foam to-go
containers by city restaurants and to effectively decriminalize the
use, sale and cultivation of marijuana by adults.
(AP, 11/15/06)(SFC, 11/15/06, p.B1)
2006 Nov 16, Nancy Pelosi was
unanimously named speaker-elect by US House Democrats, the first woman
set to take the post that is second in line of succession to the
presidency.
(AP, 11/16/06)
2006 Nov 16, In SF federal agents
arrested 24 people on drug charges following a 4-month undercover
investigation targeting gangs in the Western Addition.
(SFC, 11/17/06, p.B3)
2006 Nov 28, In SF Genevieve Paez
(53) was shot execution style outside her home in Visitacion Valley.
She worked as a customer service supervisor for the US Postal Service.
The next day Julius Kevin Tartt (39), a South San Francisco letter
carrier, was found dead in Livermore from a self-inflicted gun shot. It
was suspected that Tartt killed Paez.
(SFC, 11/29/06, p.B1)(SFC, 12/2/06, p.B1)
2006 Dec 4, In Oregon rescuers
found SF residents Kati Kim and her 2 daughters near Grants Pass. They
had been missing for 9 days while on a road trip. James Kim, who went
to seek help on Dec 2, was still missing.
(SFC, 12/5/06, p.A1)
2006 Dec 6, James Kim, a San
Francisco man who struck out alone to find help for his family after
their car got stuck on a snowy, remote road in Oregon was found dead,
bringing an end to what authorities called an extraordinary effort to
stay alive.
(AP, 12/7/06)
2006 Dec 22, SF police officer
Bryan Tuvera (28) was shot in the head in a gunbattle that left Marlon
Ruff (33), a 2-year fugitive, dead in the Sunset District. Tuvera died
hours later.
(SFC, 12/23/06, p.A1)(SSFC, 12/24/06, p.A1)
2006 Dec 27, It was reported that
the SF Dept. of Parking and Traffic had begun a 90-day test run using
cameras to scan license plates in search of cars with unpaid citations.
Metal boots were immediately attached to cars with at least 5
outstanding tickets.
(SFC, 12/27/06, p.B1)
2006 Dec 29, In San Francisco
gunmen opened fire on 4 people in a car at Innes Avenue and Mendell
Street in the Bayview district. 3 people were killed and the 4th
hospitalized.
(SSFC, 12/31/06, p.B1)
2006 Dec 31, In San Francisco
members of the Baker’s Dozen, a choral group from Yale, were assaulted
on 15th Ave. near Lake Street. Police went under criticism for not
making any arrests.
(SFC, 1/13/07, p.A8)
2006 A new federal government
complex at Seventh and Mission was expected to be completed. It was
designed by Thom Mayne, winner of the 2004 Pritzker Prize.
(SFC, 3/21/05, p.C1)
2006 A 211 hot line for social
services, modeled after the 911 hot line, was introduced in San
Francisco by United Way. In 2008 the service was extended other Bay
Area counties.
(SFC, 2/9/08, p.B2)
2006 Goldman Sachs acquired the
Art Institute of California-San Francisco.
(SFC, 1/4/07, p.B10)
2006 SFO was expected to serve 51
million passengers by this time.
(SFC, 6/27/96, p.A185)
2006 Family and friends of San
Francisco-based Stefan Lyon (11) traveled to Kakamega, Kenya, to
supervise the conversion of a cowshed into classroom. The project was
begun by Stefan Lyon with funds raised by selling cookies and selling
“My Adventures with Stitch,” a book about his pet rat.
(www.stefanlyon.com)(SSFC, 12/7/08, p.B1)
2006 At least 34 people leaped to
their deaths from the Golden Gate Bridge this year.
(SFC, 1/18/07, p.A1)
2006 In SF the number of homicides
for the year totaled 85, with 28 of them in the Bayview neighborhood.
(SFC, 1/15/08, p.B1)
2007 Jan 1, In SF the minimum wage
rose 3.6% to $9.14 per hour following a mandatory 2003 requirement for
annual cost of living adjustments. SF police reported a decline in
homicides to 85 in 2006, down from 96 in 2005.
(SFC, 1/2/07, p.E1)
2007 Jan 1, Tillie Olsen (94),
writer and SF labor activist, died. In 1961 she won the O. Henry Award
for best short story for her “Tell me Riddle.” In 2008 Ann Hershey
completed her documentary “Tillie Olsen: A Heart in Action.”
(SFC, 1/10/08, p.E1)
2007 Jan 5, SF signed a contract
with EarthLink and Google to install and operate a free wireless
Internet service across the city.
(SFC, 1/6/07, p.A1)
2007 Jan 8, The San Francisco
Hyatt Regency, opened in 1973, was sold by Strategic Hotel Capital LLC
to Dune Capital Management and DiNapoli Capital Partners, privately
held investment funds in a deal pegged at over $200 million.
(SFC, 1/9/07, p.E3)
2007 Jan 9, Steve Jobs introduced
the iPhone at the annual Macworld Expo in SF. The 4GB version would be
sold for $499 starting in June. A television set add-on called Apple TV
was planned to hit stores in February for $299. Apple dropped the word
“Computer” from its name.
(SFC, 1/10/07, p.C1)(WSJ, 1/11/06, p.C1)(Econ,
1/13/07, p.57)
2007 Jan 9, The National Park
Service announced that it signed a 60-year lease with San Francisco
developer to restore Fort Baker and build a hotel called “Cavallo
Point, the Lodge at the Golden Gate.”
(SFC, 1/10/07, p.B1)
2007 Jan 12, In San Francisco a
gunman killed a couple parked in a car in the Mission Terrace district
leaving two children, aged 5 and 13 months, in the back seat. The boy
sought help knocking on neighbor’s doors.
(SFC, 1/16/07, p.A1)
2007 Jan 13, In SF the Muni Metro
T-Third line began operations. Cost overruns totaled at least $154
million since work began in 2002.
(SFC, 1/13/07, p.B1)(SFC, 1/15/07, p.B2)
2007 Jan 13, It was reported that
Kink, a Web-based pornography distributor, had purchased the 1912 old
armory building on Mission St. in San Francisco for $14.5 million.
(SFC, 1/13/07, p.B1)
2007 Jan 17, The SF Police
Commission approved Mayor Newsom’s request to add surveillance cameras
at 8 additional high-crime locations.
(SFC, 1/18/07, p.B3)
2007 Jan 27, In Washington DC tens
of thousands converged on the National Mall to oppose Pres. Bush’s plan
for a troop increase in Iraq. Thousands marched in San Francisco.
(SSFC, 1/28/07, p.A15)
2007 Jan 28, Jim Gray (63), an
acclaimed computer scientist, was last heard from shortly after he set
out from San Francisco for the shark-infested waters of the Farallon
Islands, about 25 miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge.
(AP, 2/1/07)
2006 Jan 31, Jennifer Merritt (31)
was shot in the arm and head while riding a bicycle in the San
Francisco Ingleside Heights neighborhood. She died from her wounds on
Feb 11. Police had no explanation.
(SFC, 2/12/07, p.E6)
2007 Feb 1, In SF Mayor Gavin
Newsom admitted to having an affair with Ruby Rippey-Tourk, his
campaign manager’s wife.
(SFC, 2/2/07, p.A1)
2007 Feb 1, John Bryan,
underground press writer and editor, died in SF. He had started the
Open City Press, San Francisco’s 1st alternative paper, in 1964.
(SSFC, 2/11/07, p.B7)
2007 Feb 7, In SF Mayor Gavin
Newsom met with Lithuania’s Pres. Valdas Adamkus at the Fairmont Hotel
following an address at the World Affairs Council. Pres. Adamkus,
accompanied by a Lithuanian business delegation, was here for a one
week visit seeking US trade opportunities and potential investors.
(www.president.lt/en/news.full/7476)
2007 Feb 12, In SF John Konstin,
owner of John’s Grill on Ellis St., reported the weekend theft of his
Maltese Falcon, a copy of the statuette used in the 1941 eponymous film.
(SFC, 2/13/07, p.A1)
2007 Jan 12, In SF Mia Sagote (30)
and Leslie Siliga (29) reportedly doused Leslie May (49), a homeless
woman from the Tenderloin, with gasoline and burned her alive at
Candlestick Point in retaliation for May’s report to police implicating
them in a personal robbery.
(SFC, 2/15/07, p.A1)
2007 Feb 13, Heather MacAllister
(37), creator of the Fat Bottom Revue burlesque act in SF, died in
Portland, Ore., through assisted suicide after a battle with ovarian
cancer.
(SFC, 2/26/07, p.B1)
2007 Feb 21, Mayor Newsom and
Philip Mangano, the government’s head of homelessness, announced that
SF had received $19.7 million in federal funds to help fight
homelessness.
(SFC, 2/22/07, p.B1)
2007 Feb 21, The SF Police
Commission approved a computerized system to track problematic behavior
by police officers.
(SFC, 2/22/07, p.A1)
2007 Feb 27, In SF a 75-foot wide
chunk of Telegraph Hill slid down a granite and sandstone slope above
Broadway following recent rains. 120 residents were forced to leave
their homes pending repair of the hillside, which could take months.
(SFC, 2/28/07, p.A1)
2007 Feb, In SF Workers began
moving into the new federal building at Seventh and Mission. The $144
million structure was designed by Thom Mayne.
(SSFC, 2/25/07, p.A1)
2007 Mar 3, SF held its annual
Chinese New Year parade, ushering in the Year of the Pig.
(SSFC, 3/4/07, p.B1)
2007 Mar 16, SF Mayor Newsom said
he plans to open a new courthouse to crack down on nuisance crimes such
as public urination, panhandling, graffiti and prostitution. Antwanisha
Morgan (17) was shot and killed outside the Bayview community youth
center. On March 29 a boy (14) was charged in the drive-by murder.
Another suspect (17) was arrested April 2, and 2 more (aged 15 &
16) on April 5. In 2009 a juvenile court judge ruled that all 4
suspects participated in the slaying of Morgan.
(SFC, 3/17/07, p.A1)(SFC, 3/21/07, p.B1)(SFC,
3/30/07, p.B4)(SFC, 4/7/07, p.B2)(SFC, 1/17/09, p.B1)
2007 Mar 19, In SF the Haight
Asbury Free Clinic opened a new drop-in center for the homeless.
Services at the 13th and Mission location included phones, showers,
drug detox and case management.
(SFC, 3/20/07, p.B1)
2007 Mar 27, SF city leaders
approved a ban on plastic grocery bags after weeks of lobbying on both
sides from environmentalists and a supermarket trade group. San
Francisco would be the first US city to adopt such a rule if Mayor
Gavin Newsom signs the ban as expected.
(AP, 3/28/07)(SFC, 3/28/07, p.A1)
2007 Mar 27, United Commercial
Bank of San Francisco said it had concluded negotiations to
become the sole owner of the Business Development Bank of Shanghai. In
1992 the Business Development Bank of Shanghai was established as
China’s first foreign-owned bank.
(Econ, 4/7/07, p.73)
2007 Apr 11, The Evelyn and Walter
Haas Jr. Fund announced a $15 million donation for renovations at the
Presidio. Plans included 24 new trails.
(SFC, 4/11/07, p.A1)
2007 Apr 13, In SF Mayor Newsom
brokered an agreement to ban cars from Golden Gate Park’s main road for
6 months of the year and to make permanent a Sunday ban for a smaller
area. The deal still required approval from the board of Supervisors.
(SFC, 4/14/07, p.B1)
2007 May 1, Thousands of
protesters marched in SF, Oakland, San Jose and across the Bay Area to
call for immigration reform and in opposition to recent federal raids
that have netted thousands of illegal immigrants.
(SFC, 5/2/07, p.A1)
2007 May 20, San Francisco’s 96th
annual Bay to Breakers race drew some 60,000 runners. Joe Spinale (53)
died of a heart attack after crossing the finish line.
(SFC, 5/21/07, p.B1)(SFC, 5/22/07, p.B2)
2007 May 31, SF Mayor Gavin Newsom
proposed a $6.06 billion budget for the 2007-2008 fiscal year, a 5.4%
increase over the previous year.
(SFC, 6/1/07, p.B12)
2007 Jun 2, In San Francisco, Ca.,
Hugues de la Plaza (36), a French national, was found dead in his
apartment in Hayes Valley. Police labeled his stabbing death as a
possible homicide or suicide. In 2009 a French probe called his death a
homicide. The French probe concluded that de la Plaza was stabbed in a
surprise attack outside his apartment.
(SFC, 1/27/09, p.B1)(SFC, 2/27/09, p.B1)
2007 Jun 12, In SF Supervisor Ed
Jew surrendered under charges that he lied about where he lived in
order to run for office. Jew posted bail and was released. The SF
school board approved a 3-year contract for Carlos Garcia offering the
ex-superintendent of Nevada’s Clark County (Las Vegas) a salary of
$255,000.
(SFC, 6/13/07, p.A1)(SFC, 6/13/07, p.B4)
2007 Jun 21, In SF Mayor Newsome
described a plan to reduce the number of trash cans in SF as part of a
larger pledge to reduce litter by 50% over the next 5 years. Some 305
of 5,000 cans have been removed since January due to alleged
inappropriate use by neighbors.
(SFC, 6/27/07, p.B12)
2007 Jun 24, SF held its 37th
annual Pride Parade.
(SFC, 6/25/07, p.A1)
2007 Jun 24, Tod Pellman, a marine
and energy engineer in SF, was reported to be developing a wind turbine
for residential use.
(SSFC, 6/24/07, p.C1)
2007 Jun 26, The SF school Board
passed the district’s annual budget, including a 2% cut to each school.
(SFC, 6/28/07, p.B1)
2007 Jul 4, In SF some 300
skateboarders rolled down the Embarcadero in a 3-mile, police-escorted
rally promoted by Emerica, an Orange County shoe and skateboard apparel
company.
(SFC, 7/5/07, p.B1)
2007 Jul 5, It was reported that
SF faced a $4.9 billion unfunded liability for health care for retiring
city workers. Other local governments and school districts in
California also faced unfunded costs.
(SFC, 7/5/07, p.A1)
2007 Jul 10, In Baseball’s
All-Star game the American League beat the National League 5-4 at
AT&T Park in SF.
(www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,2028,00.html)
2007 Jul 12, Jim Mitchell,
co-founder of the Mitchell Brothers O’Farrell Theater in SF, died of an
apparent heart attack in Sonoma County, Ca. He and his brother Artie
had opened the adult theater in 1969 and went on to pioneer
pornographic films. In 1991 Jim shot Artie to death in Corte Madera and
served just under 3 years at San Quentin Prison for voluntary
manslaughter.
(SFC, 7/14/07, p.A7)
2007 Jul 25, In SF faulty PG&E
breakers caused a power outage that knocked out a number of Web sites.
(SFC, 7/26/07, p.C1)
2007 Jul 27, SF Mayor Newsom
signed a $6.06 billion spending package, the largest budget in SF
history.
(SFC, 7/28/07, p.B3)
2007 Jul 30, Bill Walsh (75),
former head coach of the SF 49ers football team, died at his Woodside
home following a long battle with leukemia.
(AP, 7/31/07)
2007 Aug 2, Armen Baliantz
(b.1921), SF restaurateur born in China to Armenian parents, died. Her
Bali’s Restaurant at Pacific and Battery, had closed in Feb, 1985.
(SFC, 8/4/07, p.A1)
2007 Aug 3, In SF “The Hotel
Casablanca,” an opera composed by Thomas Pasatieri, premiered at the
Cowell Theater. It was based on a1907 opera, “A Flea in Her Ear,” by
Georges Feydeau, and set in Texas in 1948.
(SFC, 8/6/07,
p.E1)(www.sfopera.com/p/?mID=53&eID=3)
2007 Aug 4, The SF Dept. of Public
Works cleaned up the Warm Water Cove Park near Third and 24th streets
as volunteers pitched in to paint over graffiti on a long stretch of
wall despite protests by pro-graffiti artists.
(SSFC, 8/5/07, p.B3)
2007 Aug 4, Barry Bonds of the SF
Giants hit his 755th home run tying a record set by Hank Aaron. The
Giants lost to the San Diego Padres 3-2 in 12 innings.
(SSFC, 8/5/07, p.A1)
2007 Aug 7, In SF Barry Bonds his
record breaking 756th homerun. He had just tied Hank Aaron’s record on
August 4. The Giants lost to the Washington Nationals 8-6.
(AP, 8/8/07)
2007 Aug 8, In SF Donald Fisher
(78) and his wife Doris, founders of Gap (a chain of clothing stores),
announced plans to build the Contemporary Art Museum of the Presidio.
(SFC, 8/8/07, p.A3)
2007 Aug 25, SF held its 2nd
annual Jug Band Festival at the Golden Gate Park band shell. The annual
Renaissance Fair also took place in GG park for a 4th year.
(eyewitness)(www.sffaire.com/)
2007 Aug 28, EarthLink, the
Atlanta-based Internet provider, announced that it no longer believed
that providing citywide Wi-Fi for San Francisco was viable for the
company. Chicago abandoned plans for a city-wide Wi-Fi network to
access the Internet as EarthLink underwent restructuring.
(SFC, 8/30/07,
p.A1)(www.fool.com/investing/general/2007/08/30/too-windy-for-wi-fi.aspx)
2007 Aug 28, Burning Man became
Burnt Man four days early, and a San Francisco performance artist was
arrested on suspicion of igniting the signature figure of the
counterculture festival in the remote Nevada desert.
(AP, 8/28/07)
2007 Sep 2, In SF a free concert
in Golden Gate Park celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Summer of
Love featuring dozens of veterans of the era. Boots Hughston bankrolled
the $120,000 budget for the party.
(SFC, 8/30/07, p.E1)(SFC, 9/3/07, p.A9)
2007 Sep 3, The SF Bay Bridge
reopened 11 hours earlier than scheduled following the replacement of a
section of the upper deck east of Treasure Island.
(SFC, 9/4/07, p.A1)
2007 Sep 8, In SF “The Singularity
Summit: AI and the Future of Humanity” opened at the Palace of Fine
Arts. The singularity term was used to describe the day when machines
become smart enough to reprogram themselves. Peter Thiel, founder of
PayPal, was the principal backer.
(SFC, 9/7/07, p.A16)
2007 Sep 9, Phil Frank (64),
longtime resident of Sausalito, Ca., and creator of the Farley and
Elderberries comic strips, announced his retirement. His Farley strip
had run in the SF Chronicle for decades.
(SSFC, 9/9/07, p.A1)
2007 Sep 12, Phil Frank (b.1943),
creator of the Farley and Elderberries comic strips, died from a brain
tumor. His Farley strip had run in the SF Chronicle for decades.
(SFC, 9/14/07, p.A1)
2007 Sep 20, The SF Giants told
Barry Bonds, a 15-year baseball star with the Giants, that his career
with the Giants would end with the conclusion of the 2007 season. The
decision was made public the next day.
(SFC, 9/21/07, p.A8)(SSFC, 9/23/07, p.A1)
2007 Sep 24, In SF
union-represented security officers at 14 buildings in the Financial
District went on strike protesting contract negotiations that have been
fruitless for 3 months. Workers returned to their jobs on Sep 27
following some progress in negotiations.
(SFC, 9/25/07, p.C1)(SFC, 9/28/07, p.C1)
2007 Sep 25, In SF Mayor Gavin
Newsom suspended Ed Jew from his seat on the Board of Supervisors and
swore in Carmen Chu (29), a deputy director in his office of policy and
finance, as interim supervisor.
(SFC, 9/26/07, p.A1)
2007 Sep 26, Barry Bonds went 0
for 3 in his last baseball game with the SF Giants.
(SFC, 9/27/07, p.A1)
2007 Sep 27, The Cleveland adult
toy firm GVA-TWN said they would acquire Good Vibrations, a SF sex toy
retailer.
(SFC, 9/28/07, p.C1)
2007 Sep 29, SF held its 35th
Blues Festival. The 4th SF Lovefest paraded on Market Street.
(SSFC, 9/30/07, p.B1)
2007 Sep 30, In SF the 24th annual
Folsom Street Fair celebrated leather culture and sexual fetishism.
(SFC, 10/1/07, p.B1)
2007 Sep 23, Jack Davis (b.1940),
director of San Francisco’s SomArts Cultural Center, died following a
traffic accident near Ventura, Ca.
(SFC, 10/3/07, p.B7)
2007 Oct 5, The San Francisco
Opera premiered “Appomattox,” by composer Philip Glass and librettist
Christopher Hampton.
(SFC, 10/8/07, p.E2)
2007 Oct 7, In SF the annual
weekend Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, sponsored by Warren
Hellman, ended in Golden Gate Park.
(SFC, 10/8/07, p.E2)
2007 Oct 9, Enrico Banducci (85),
the impresario of San Francisco’s North Beach, died.
(SFC, 10/10/07, p.A1)
2007 Oct 27,
In San Francisco thousands of people called for a swift end to
the war in Iraq as they marched through downtown, chanting and carrying
signs that read: "Wall Street Gets Rich, Iraqis and GIs Die" or "Drop
Tuition Not Bombs."
(AP, 10/28/07)
2007 Oct 28, Robert LaRue Miller
(b.1935), self described “painter with light,” died. He had worked with
Frank Oppenheimer to create the SF Exploratorium in 1969.
(SSFC, 11/18/07, p.B6)
2007 Nov 6, SF Mayor Gavin Newsom
declared victory. The vote tally was expected to take as long as 2
weeks due to a state-mandated hand count.
(SFC, 11/7/07, p.A1)
2007 Nov 15, Barry Bonds, former
SF Giant, was indicted on 4 counts of perjury and one count of
obstruction of justice related to a December, 2003, grand jury
investigation on the BALCO steroid ring. A revamped indictment was
unsealed last May.
(SFC, 11/16/07, p.A1)(AP, 11/15/08)
2007 Nov 19, California Sec. of
State Debra Bowen sued Election Systems and Software, a Nebraska voting
machine company, for allegedly selling nearly 1,000 uncertified
machines to San Francisco and 4 other counties. Bowen sought
reimbursements of nearly $15 million.
(SFC, 11/20/07, p.D1)
2007 Nov 20, In SF large grocery
stores stopped using plastic bags as a new city ordnance banning the
bags took effect.
(SFC, 11/20/07, p.D1)
2007 Nov 28, Joseph Hokai Tang
(28), musician and violin dealer, was arrested for fraud following a
performance in Eugene, Oregon. In 2008 he pleaded guilty to 10 fraud
counts and admitted to bilking at least 120 people out of $400,000
worth of instruments. In 2008 he was sentenced in SF District Court to
37 months in prison.
(SFC, 5/12/08, p.A1)(SFC, 10/21/08, p.B1)
2007 Nov 29, The jazz club Yoshi’s
in San Francisco held its grand opening at 1330 Fillmore.
(SFC, 11/30/07, p.E1)
2007 Dec 7, Barry Bonds pleaded
not guilty in San Francisco to charges he'd lied to federal
investigators about using performance-enhancing drugs.
(AP, 12/7/08)
2007 Dec 13, In SF Dr. David
Kessler, onetime commissioner of the FDA, was fired as dean of the UCSF
School of Medicine by Chancellor Michael Bishop. Kessler said he had
been labeled as a “whistle blower” after he attempted to uncover
financial irregularities that predated his 2003 appointment.
(SFC, 12/15/07, p.A1)
2007 Dec 22, In SF Leonard Milo
Hoskins (49), a computer software developer, was last seen alive in the
city’s Mission Terrace neighborhood. His body was found Feb 1 in a van
owned by housemates Richard Carelli (38) and Michelle Pinkerton (38),
who left town after their van was towed from the area during a police
investigation. Murder warrants were later issued for the couple. On
April 7 Carelli and Pinkerton were arrested in El Rosario on the Baha
peninsula after they were tracked down by James Spring (39) of San
Diego.
(SFC, 2/14/08, p.A1)(SFC, 2/15/08, p.B6)(SFC,
4/9/08, p.A1)
2007 Dec 25, A Siberian tiger
named Tatiana (4) escaped its enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo,
killing Carlos Sousa (17) of San Jose and mauling two others. The same
animal had chewed a keeper’s arm during an attack last December. Police
later reported that one of the three victims of the tiger attack was
intoxicated and admitted to yelling and waving at the animal while
standing atop the railing of the big cat enclosure.
(AP, 12/26/07)(SFC, 12/26/07, p.A1)(SFC, 12/27/07,
p.A1)(AP, 1/18/08)
2007 Dec 31, In San Francisco
Albert Collins (30) shielded his daughter (9) from gunfire in the
Sunnydale public housing project and was killed becoming the city’s
98th homicide victim.
(SSFC, 1/6/08, p.B1)
2007 Michael Krasny, SF talk radio
host, authored “Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life.”
(SSFC, 11/4/07, p.M1)
2007 SF awarded a sewage contract
to Norcal, even though a lower bid was given by S&S Trucking. In
2008 a state court of appeal said the SF Board of Supervisors illegally
overruled city staffers in handing the contract to Norcal.
(SFC, 10/1/08, p.B1)
2007 The SF 49er lease at
Candlestick (3Com) Park expired this year.
(SFC, 9/15/96, p.A11)
2007 In SF the number of homicides
for the year totaled 98, with 24 of them in the Bayview neighborhood.
(SFC, 1/15/08, p.B1)
2008 Jan 10, Ed Jew resigned from
his seat on the SF Board of Supervisors effective as of noon on Jan 11.
Carmen Chu (29), Jew’s temporary replacement, agreed to finish his term.
(SFC, 1/11/08, p.A1)(SFC, 1/12/08, p.B1)
2008 Jan 28, In SF one worker was
killed and 2 others badly injured when a 5-story tower of a
decommissioned power plant collapsed during demolition in the Hunters
Point neighborhood.
(SFC, 1/29/08, p.D2)
2008 Feb 9, In San Mateo County,
Ca., police found John Alfred Dennis Jr. (59), an Oakland historian and
respected college teacher, slain in a vehicle at Montara State Beach.
The driver of the vehicle was arrested.
(SFC, 2/11/08, p.D1)
2008 Feb 19, The SF-based Sharper
Image retailer filed for bankruptcy protection. The 184-store chain
planned to close 96 stores nationwide. The Sharper Image brand name was
later sold to Hilco Organization and Gordon Brothers Group LLC for $33
million in partnership with Windsong Brands LLC and Bluestar Alliance.
(SFC, 3/8/08, p.C1)(SSFC, 6/29/08, p.C5)
2008 Feb 22, California state
Senator Leland Yee introduced a bill to let Daly City purchase the
68-acre Cow Palace property, owned by the state, and tear it down for
redevelopment.
(SFC, 2/28/08, p.A1)
2008 Feb 26, In SF the New College
of California received official word that the Western Association of
Schools and Colleges (WASC) had revoked accreditation.
(SFC, 2/28/08, p.B1)
2008 Feb 28, In SF the new
InterContinental Hotel opened at Fifth and Howard streets just in time
for the 75th annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopedic
Surgeons.
(SSFC, 2/24/08, p.C1)
2008 Mar 11, The SF Board of
Supervisors passed a law requiring chain restaurants to post nutrition
information on their menus.
(SFC, 3/12/08, p.C1)
2008 Mar 21, The California
Academy of Science named David Mindell (55), a human evolutionary
researcher at the Univ. of Michigan as the institution’s new science
chief. The new academy building in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park was
due to open in 6 months.
(SFC, 3/22/08, p.B1)
2008 Mar 22, Michael Kassel (54),
San Francisco blues musician (the Hellhounds) poet known as Vampyre
Mike, died after a long illness. His books included “Graveyard Golf”
and “Going for the Low Blow.”
(SSFC, 4/20/08, p.B6)
2008 Apr 9, The California Supreme
Court rejected San Francisco’s appeal of a lower court ruling that
limited its ability regulate handguns as approved by voters in 2005.
(SFC, 4/10/08, p.B1)
2008 Apr 9, In SF officials
rerouted the rout of the Beijing Olympic torch at the last minute
avoiding most protestors and spectators.
(SFC, 4/10/08, p.A1)
2008 Apr 10, In San Francisco Luis
Solari (38) was shot and killed in an apparent incident of road rage.
His 2 young sons survived as his car spun out of control before
stopping on I-280.
(SFC, 4/11/08, p.A1)
2008 Apr 21,
It was reported that the 4th generation Oqo Model 02 personal
computer, which weighed one pound and clipped onto a belt, was
available for a starting price of $1,300. It had been developed over
the last 8 years in SF in a venture begun by former Apple and IBM
engineers.
(SFC, 4/21/08, p.D1)
2008 Apr 24, James Day (89),
co-founder of San Francisco’s KQED TV station (1954), died in NYC. In
1995 he published “The Vanishing Vision: The Inside Story of Public
Television.”
(SFC, 4/30/08, p.B9)
2008 May 18, In SF the 97th
running of the Bay to Breakers drew some 60,000 participants, of which
33,000 had officially registered.
(SFC, 5/19/08, p.A1)
2008 May 23, George Frederick
Jewett Jr. (81), former director of Potlatch Corp.,, philanthropist and
sailing buff, died in SF. He had chaired 5 America’s Cup syndicates.
(SFC, 5/26/08, p.B3)
2008 May 25, SF held its 30th
annual Carnaval parade on Mission Street.
(SFC, 5/26/08, p.B2)
2008 May 29, A judge in SF
sentenced Mark Allen Davis of Tiburon, Ca., to 81 months in prison and
to pay over $328,000 in restitution for mail and wire fraud and
identity theft charges. He had falsely promised customers information
on government foreclosures using ads in over 100 newspapers across the
US from 2004-2007.
(SFC, 5/31/08, p.B3)
2008 Jun 3, SF voters (61%)
approved Proposition G endorsing plans for a major housing and
commercial development at the Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick
Point. Voters also passed Proposition A, a $198 annual school parcel
tax, which would expire in 2028.
(SFC, 6/4/08, p.A1, B1)(SFC, 6/5/08, p.B1)
2008 Jun 8, The new $47.5 million
SF Contemporary Jewish Museum, designed by Daniel Libeskind, opened on
Jessie Square next to St. Patrick’s Church on Mission St. It was
created in the former 1907 PG&E power station designed by Willis
Polk.
(SSFC, 6/8/08, p.A1)
2008 Jun 10, SF supervisors gave
final approval to a program to create a $3 million fund to provide
rebates for residents and businesses that install solar power systems.
(SFC, 6/11/08, p.B3)
2008 Jun 13, In SF it was reported
that Ingersoll-Rand of Montvale, NJ, had agreed to hand over 12.3
acres, that included the former Schlage Lock Co. factory in Visitacion
Valley, to Universal Paragon Corp. after the developer agreed to drop a
$100 million lawsuit alleging polluted groundwater at an adjacent
parcel. New development at the site will include 1,250 residential
units, 3 parks and several stores.
(SFC, 6/13/08, p.D1)
2008 Jun 21, In SF a father and 2
sons were shot and killed in the Excelsior district during a minor
traffic encounter. On Jun 25 Edwin Ramos (21), an alleged member of
MS-13, was arrested in El Sobrante on murder charges.
(SFC, 6/26/08, p.A1)
2008 Jul 7, Bruce Conner (b.1933),
SF-based artist, died. His collages and prints looked back to classics
of surrealism. His work was later said to look like a bridge between
the Beat generation and postmodernism.
(http://daily.greencine.com/archives/006353.html)(SFC, 7/8/08,
p.B5)(SFC, 5/4/09, p.E3)
2008 Jul 13, Terry Childs (43), a
San Francisco computer engineer, was arrested on felony charges for
allegedly plotting to hijack the city’s computer system. Childs, who
continue to draw his $127,735 annual salary, refused to provide
passwords to the network system and was held in lieu of a $5 million
bail. Mayor Newsom met with Childs on July 21, who provided system
code. Cisco engineers had the system back under control by July 22.
(SFC, 7/16/08, p.B1)(SFC, 7/23/08, p.B1)
2008 Jul 29, The SF Board of
Directors voted 8-3 to ban the sale of tobacco products at most
pharmacies in the city.
(SFC, 7/30/08, p.B1)
2008 Jul 30, In SF Mayor Gavin
Newsom signed into law a $6.5 billion city budget.
(SFC, 7/31/08, p.B1)
2008 Jul 31, Ivan Miranda (14) was
killed in the SF Excelsior district in a gang motivated attack. Rony
Aguilera (17), an illegal immigrant from Honduras, was charged in the
sword attack. Aguilera had veen arrested in 2007 in an assault case,
but was not referred to federal authorities under a recently discarded
city sanctuary ordnance.
(SFC, 11/14/08, p.A1)
2008 Aug 3, Some 19,000 runners
participated in the 31st annual SF Marathon. Chad Worthen (34) of
Sacramento won with a time of 2:31:52. Lauren Gustafson of Millbrae won
among the women with a time of 2:52:33.
(SFC, 8/4/08, p.B1)
2008 Aug 4, In SF Mayor Newsom
signed into law stringent green building codes for new construction and
renovations of existing structures in the city.
(SFC, 8/5/08, p.B1)
2008 Aug 9, In SF the 10th annual
Gumball 3000 Rally, an 8-day, 3,000 mile trip across the West Coast,
North Korea and China, began with a parade that included some 100
participants who had apparently paid the $120,000 entrance fee.
(SSFC, 8/10/08, p.B3)
2008 Aug 29, In SF the 4-day Slow
Food Nation opened at the Civic Center Plaza and continued at Fort
Mason, where tickets to the Taste Pavilion sold for $65. The Slow Food
movement had begun in Italy in 1986.
(SSFC, 8/31/08, p.A1)(Econ, 9/13/08, p.38)
2008 Aug 31, SF closed vehicle
traffic to 4.5 miles of its waterfront streets for the city’s first
Sunday Streets day encouraging thousands to come out for the 9 a.m. to
1 p.m. event.
(SFC, 9/1/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 2, In SF, Ca., Mark
Guardado (45), president of the San Francisco chapter of the Hells
Angels Motorcycle Club, was shot and killed during a fight in the
Mission District. Christopher Ablett (37) of Modesto, a member of the
Mongols Motorcycle Club, was later identified as a suspect in the
killing. Ablett surrendered to police in Oklahoma on Oct. 4.
(SFC, 9/4/08, p.B1)(SFC, 9/12/08, p.B1)(SFC,
10/7/08, p.B3)
2008 Sep 5, In SF Western artist
Thom Ross displayed 100 wooden Indians on horseback on the same stretch
of Ocean Beach that was used in a 1902 photo of Buffalo Bill Cody and
his Wild West Show featuring live Indians on horseback.
(SFC, 9/6/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 12, The SF Opera said it
had received a commitment from board chairman John A. Gunn (64) and
wife Cynthia Fry Gunn for a gift of $40 million. John Gunn served as
chairman and CEO of Dodge and Cox Investment Managers.
(SFC, 9/13/08, p.A2)
2008 Aug 31, BJ Papa (72),
influential SF jazz musician, died in North Beach. He was born as
William Jackson in Alabama and got the jazz bug while stationed at
Letterman Hospital in SF.
(SFC, 9/17/08, p.B5)
2008 Sep 21, Oracle’s 5-day
OpenWorld customer conference opened in SF with some 43,000 people
attending.
(SFC, 9/22/08, p.D1)
2008 Sep 27, Kirsten Brydum (25),
a community activist from San Francisco, was robbed and murdered while
bicycling in New Orleans. She had helped organize the “Really, Really
Free Market” held monthly in San Francisco’s Dolores Park.
(SFC, 10/3/08, p.B1)
2008 Oct 4, In SF the 8th annual
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, backed by financier Warren Hellman,
continued or its 2nd day in Goldengate Park with an audience of some
40,000. The next day the festival drew some 100,000 fans. SF also
celebrated its annual LoveFest, begun in 2004, with a downtown parade
that drew tens of thousands of spectators.
(SSFC, 10/5/08, p.B1,B3)(SFC, 10/6/08, p.E1)
2008 Oct 6, It was reported that
Atherton, Ca., philanthropist Lorry Lokey (81) had pledged $75 million
to the Stanford Univ. School of Medicine for a major stem cell research
center. In 2007 he had pledged at least $33 million.
(SFC, 10/6/08, p.B1)
2008 Oct 9, Wells Fargo
& Co. proceeded with plans to acquire Wachovia as Citigroup said it
would not pursue additional legal actions to halt the takeover. The
Federal Reserve approved the acquisition on Oct 12.
(SFC, 10/10/08, p.A1)(SFC, 10/13/08, p.A15)
2008 Oct 10, Ed Jew, former San
Francisco supervisor, pleaded guilty to one count each of mail fraud,
bribery and extortion as part of a scheme to shakedown Chinese
immigrant owners of tapioca drink shops in the sunset District for
$84,000 in bribes. In 2009 he was sentenced to 64 months in federal
prison.
(SFC, 10/11/08, p.B1)(SFC, 4/4/09, p.A1)
2008 Oct 19, In San Francisco over
20,000 runners took part in the 5th annual Nike’s Women’s Marathon.
They raised over $18 million for leukemia and lymphoma research. Arien
O’Connell (24) of NYC ran the fastest time, but did not win because she
did not register as an “elite” runner. On Oct 22 Nike recognized
O’Connell as “a winner” in the race.
(SFC, 10/20/08, p.B1)(SFC, 10/21/08, p.B1)(SFC,
10/23/08, p.A1)
2008 Oct 22, Federal immigration
officials arrested several members of the MS-13, Mara Salvatrucha,
street gang after conducting raids in SF, Richmond and south San
Francisco. 29 people were indicted on multiple charges including
murder, car theft and extortion.
(SFC, 10/23/08, p.B8)(SFC, 10/24/08, p.B1)
2008 Oct 24, Merl Saunders
(b.1934), jazz pianist, died in SF. He was best known as co-captain of
guitarist Jerry Garcia’s solo excursions outside the Grateful Dead.
(SFC, 10/25/08, p.B1)
2008 Oct 30, In California Randall
Cover (46), a former city of Sonoma Water Department supervisor, was
indicted by a federal grand jury in SF for receiving $102,795 in
kickbacks from Underground Express. In November a suit was filed
against 2 former employees of San Francisco’s Public Utilities
Commission for taking thousands of dollars in kickbacks from Sheldon
Morris and his Novato plumbing company, Underground Express.
(SFC, 11/1/08, p.B2)(SFC, 11/25/08, p.B1)
2008 Nov 11, Tim Lincecum, pitcher
for the SF Giants, was named winner of the Cy Young Award.
(SFC, 11/12/08, p.A1)
2008 Nov 23, In San Francisco’s
North Beach Brian Goggin unveiled his art installation, “Language of
the Birds,” a $120,000 effort that involved hundreds of people.
(SFC, 11/24/08, p.A1)
2008 Dec 1, A federal jury in SF
cleared Chevron Corp. of responsibility for any human rights abuses
during a violent protest on a company oil platform in Nigeria a decade
ago.
(AP, 12/2/08)
2008 Dec 9, SF Mayor Gavin Newsom
announced $71 million in cuts that included the loss of jobs for nearly
400 city employees.
(SFC, 12/10/08, p.A1)
2008 Dec 20, San Francisco Police
Chief Heather Wong (52) announced her retirement. She became the city’s
first female police chief nearly 5 years ago.
(SSFC, 12/21/08, p.A1)
2008 Dec 31, SF ended the year
with 98 homicides. In Milwaukee, Wisc., the total number of homicides
dropped 32%, from 105 in 2007 to 71 in 2008, the lowest number since
1985. Detroit had 344 slayings, a 13% drop from the 396 in 2007;
Philadelphia's 332 killings were a 15% drop from the 392 in 2007; and
the 234 homicides in Baltimore were 17% less than the 392 the year
before. Cleveland recorded 102 homicides in 2008, down from a 13-year
high of 134 in 2007. Homicides in New York rose 5.2%, to 522 from 496
the year before. Slayings in Los Angeles were down to 376 in 2008
compared to 400 the prior year. Preliminary data in Chicago showed 508
homicides were reported in 2008, the first time the city had more than
500 murders since 2003 and about 15% more than the 442 homicides
reported in 2007. Washington, D.C., ended 2008 with 186 homicides, up
from 181 in 2007.
(SFC, 1/2/09, p.1)(AP, 1/3/09)
2008 Willie Brown, former mayor of
SF (1996-2004) and speaker of the California State Assembly
(1981-1995), authored his autobiography “Basic Brown: My Life and Our
Times.”
(WSJ, 2/7/08, p.D9)
2009 Jan 2, In SF the AsianWeek
newspaper, founded in 1979, published its final print edition. It
planned to continue a presence online at www.asianweek.com.
(SFC, 1/1/09, p.C1)
2009 Jan 5, Alexander James
Trabulse (61) was arrested at San Francisco Airport, after arriving
from France. He had been charged 3 days earlier with mail fraud.
Authorities said he had sent account statements to investors in his
Fahey Fund that inflated the hedge fund’s returns by as much as 200
percent.
(SFC, 1/9/09, p.C1)
2009 Jan 8, The San Francisco
Board of Supervisors elected David Chiu (38) as its first Chinese
American president.
(SFC, 1/9/09, p.A1)
2009 Jan 20, In SF Edgar Diaz
(23), a member of the Down Below Gang, was sentenced to 40 years in
federal prison after admitting that he took part in 3 murders: Beverly
Robinson in April 2004, and Kenya Taylor and Antoine Morgan in June
2004.
(SFC, 1/21/09, p.B2)
2009 Jan 27, In SF the new $29
million SPCA pet hospital held its official grand opening.
(SFC, 1/27/09, p.B1)
2009 Feb 7, San Francisco ushered
in the Year of the Ox with its annual Chinese New Year parade.
(SSFC, 2/8/09, p.B1)
2009 Feb 11, San Francisco city
leaders banned floats, beer and nudity for the upcoming 98th annual Bay
to Breakers run. On Feb 27 city officials agreed to allow nudity and
registered floats free of alcohol.
(SFC, 2/12/09, p.A1)(SFC, 2/28/09, p.B1)
2009 Feb 23, In SF Leticia Hunter
(33) was shot and killed in the Tenderloin district. On March 17 three
men were charged with murder, assault and cocaine trafficking
conspiracy.
(SFC, 3/18/09, p.B3)
2009 Feb 23, California’s
Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco introduced a bill to legalize
the recreational use of marijuana.
(SFC, 2/24/09, p.B1)
2009 Feb 27, San Francisco handed
out pink slips to 262 city employees, with most cuts coming from the
Recreation and park Dept., the Human Services Agency, and the Dept. of
Public Works.
(SFC, 2/28/09, p.B1)
2009 Apr 14, San Francisco
Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi proposed legislation for the city to sell and
distribute medical marijuana.
(SFC, 4/15/09, p.A1)
2009 Apr 21, San Francisco Mayor
Gavin Newsom formally declared his 2010 campaign for California
governor.
(SFC, 4/22/09, p.A1)
2009 Apr 30, The San Francisco
Municipal Railway announced plans to raise adult bus and streetcar
fares, effective July 1, by 50 cents to $2.00, the largest one-time
raise in nearly a century. Sweeping service cuts were also approved.
(SFC, 5/1/09, p.A1)
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