21:2821:28, 16 January 2024diffhist+8,429 N
Alexander Books Closes
Created page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>I was there. . .</font></font> </font>''' ''by Teresa Moore, originally published in the ''San Francisco Examiner'', April 26, 2023'' Image:Alexander-interior 20230428 213442339.MP.jpg '''The last day at Alexander Books at 50 2nd Street, just south of Market Street, April 28, 2023.''' ''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' San Franciscans know microclimates. Live here long enough and you learn to pack a sweater, s..."current
14:3014:30, 14 January 2024diffhist+21,385 N
Revolutionary Art on Telegraph Hill: the Coit Tower Murals
Created page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>''' ''by Nancy Snyder'' ''Originally published at [https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/15/revolutionary-art-on-telegraph-hill-the-coit-tower-murals/ counterpunch.org], December 15, 2023'' 792px '''1958 aerial view from south to north of Coit Tower, Alcatraz, and Marin County in th..."
17:0317:03, 12 January 2024diffhist+12,044 N
I Was a Typesetter!
Created page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>"I was there..."</font></font> </font>''' ''by Chris Carlsson, 2024'' 400px|right '''Typesetting on a Compugraphic Jr., fonts (film strips) hanging behind me, c. 1984.''' I learned to type in the 9th grade at Claremont Junior High in Oakland in 1971. Every day we’d spend an hour on old, heavy, dirty manual typewriters, repeatedly pounding the keys of the QWERTY..."