Welcome to the 37th Parallel!
America’s Paranormal Highway: The 37th Parallel
The Bloody 37th
Origins of the 37th Parallel
Jim Brandon documented all kinds of high strangeness in the Bay Area in Weird America: A Guide To Places Of Mystery In The United States (1978) full text available free online
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9 Bay Area Counties
(via Wikimedia Commons)
The nine-county Bay Area embraces San Francisco, Marin, Napa, Sonoma, Solano, Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties, and includes the cities of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose, as well as the high technology center of Silicon Valley and the heart of Northern California's wine country.
EAST BAY
Dublin (Alameda Co.)
Livermore (Alameda Co.)
Pleasanton (Alameda Co.)
Sunol (Alameda Co.)
Niles Canyon (Alameda Co.)
San Ramon (Contra Costa Co.)
Blackhawk (Contra Costa Co.)
Diablo (Contra Costa Co.)
Walnut Creek (Contra Costa Co.)
Concord (Contra Costa Co.)
Port Chicago (Contra Costa Co.)
Byron (Contra Costa Co.)
Martinez (Contra Costa Co.)
Hercules (Contra Costa Co.)
Berkeley and U.C. Berkeley (Alameda Co.)
Oakland (Alameda Co.)
Lafayette (Contra Costa Co.)
Moraga (Contra Costa Co.)
Orinda (Contra Costa Co.)
Canyon (Contra Costa Co.)
SOUTH BAY
San Jose (Santa Clara Co.)
Palo Alto (Santa Clara Co.)
Menlo Park (San Mateo Co.)
Moffett Field (Santa Clara County, next to Mountain View)
Mountain View (Santa Clara Co.)
Stanford University (Santa Clara Co.)
NORTH BAY
Sausalito (Marin Co.)
Mill Valley
San Rafael (Marin Co.)
San Anselmo (Marin)
Ross (marin Co.)
Petaluma (Sonoma County)
Santa Rosa (Sonoma Co.)
Bodega Bay (Sonoma Co.)
Monte Rio (Sonoma Co.)
(northeast Bay)
(Solano Co.)
Vacaville (Solano Co.)
Travis AFB
WEST BAY
San Francisco & the Peninsula
"It's the peninsula, but it's not a thing."
https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/9pdnfd/what_in_the_world_is_the_west_bay/
This is Berkeley, Not West Bay (EP, various artists,1994)
The Peninsula
(San Mateo Co.)
San Francisco
(San Francisco Co.)
The Presidio
Culturally connected areas just a short drive outside the BAY AREA proper
Big Sur / Esalen Institute
Santa Cruz
Scott's Valley
Monterey / Carmel
Central Valley
Sacramento (Sacramento Co.) state capitol
Davis / U.C. Davis (Yolo Co.)
Stockton (San Joaquin Co.)
Manteca (San Joaquin Co.)
Gold Country / Sierra foothills
Westpoint (Calaveras Co.)
Volcano (Amador Co.)
Wilseyville (Calaveras Co.)
Sonora (Tuolumne Co.)
The Difference between San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and the Bay Area Explained
https://youtu.be/KWrLj0f4Dgc
The Iconic Sunset Magazine
Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sunset Magazine - "Bible of the West," and "Laboratory of Western Living" - headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area
Sunset Magazine popularized Ranch-style homes and the "California lifestyle"
"The Lane’s introduced, and publicized through their magazine, several “modern” home innovations such as combining the kitchen and dining room in an open floor plan, with a “kitchen island” counter space in between, rather than a formal, separate dining room, as well as stainless steel counter tops, an electric stove and sky lights in a residential house."
https://pressbanner.com/quail-hollow-ranch-volunteers-keep-up-this-local-treasure/
Joseph Eichler began building homes in the East Bay in the mid 1950s and continued through the 1960s. The temperate climate of the East Bay was a perfect match for Eichler’s innovative approach that included open floor plans and glass walls that blurred the boundaries between the indoors and the outdoors, creating the California Modern lifestyle.
https://www.eichlerforsale.com/east-bay-eichlers/
The History of Joseph Eichler and the Homes he Created
Ricraider, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mt Shasta is only the 5th tallest mountain in California but arguably the most famous.
Jane Stanford: The Robber Baroness of Northern California
Authorities who investigated Jane Stanford’s mysterious death said the wealthy widow had no enemies. A new book finds that she had many. https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-robber-baroness-of-northern-california
23 Things the Bay Area is Known and Famous For
https://heyexplorer.com/what-is-bay-area-known-and-famous-for/
San Francisco Restaurants Outnumber Every City In America - no other city even came close.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/san-francisco-restaurants_n_1735091
The foggiest location in the United States is in the Bay Area
According to the Farmer's Almanac, Point Reyes, California has two monikers of notoriety: not only is it known as the windiest place on the West Coast (some clocked at hurricane force levels), but it’s known as the second foggiest place on the North American continent.
https://www.farmersalmanac.com/5-foggiest-places-north-america-20735
San Francisco is the 7th Foggiest Place in the World
https://archive.ph/F1uWl
https://www.farmersalmanac.com/5-foggiest-places-north-america-20735
San Francisco is the 7th Foggiest Place in the World
https://archive.ph/F1uWl
Northern California Strange and Unique Spots
Bay Area Landmarks You Remember Spotting From the Backseat of Your Parents' Car (slideshow)
https://www.sfgate.com/mommyfiles/article/roadside-attractions-Northern-California-Bay-Area-12747257.php#taboola-5
You Know You Grew up in the Bay Area in the 80s if... (slideshow)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Growing-up-Bay-Area-1980s-memories-6580673.php
50 things people who grew up in 1970s San Francisco will remember (slideshow)
https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/1970s-San-Francisco-memories-history-culture-12860729.php#photo-6014818
San Francisco's 16 Greatest Infamous Local Legends
https://sfist.com/2015/04/03/san_franciscos_15_greatest_infamous/
The 10 Most Infamous San Francisco Murders Of The 20th Century
https://sfist.com/2017/02/28/the_10_most_infamous_san_francisco_1/
Bay Area Landmarks You Remember Spotting From the Backseat of Your Parents' Car (slideshow)
https://www.sfgate.com/mommyfiles/article/roadside-attractions-Northern-California-Bay-Area-12747257.php#taboola-5
You Know You Grew up in the Bay Area in the 80s if... (slideshow)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Growing-up-Bay-Area-1980s-memories-6580673.php
50 things people who grew up in 1970s San Francisco will remember (slideshow)
https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/1970s-San-Francisco-memories-history-culture-12860729.php#photo-6014818
San Francisco's 16 Greatest Infamous Local Legends
https://sfist.com/2015/04/03/san_franciscos_15_greatest_infamous/
The 10 Most Infamous San Francisco Murders Of The 20th Century
https://sfist.com/2017/02/28/the_10_most_infamous_san_francisco_1/
Occult Guide To San Francisco
https://www.facebook.com/occultsf
A tour of SF Bay's hidden military fortifications
https://www.cnet.com/culture/a-tour-of-sf-bays-hidden-military-fortifications/
History of the Renaissance Pleasure Faire (Marin Co.)
https://marinmagazine.com/community/history/history-of-the-renaissance-pleasure-faire/
Burritos
If you go into any random burrito shop in the United States (especially a big corporate chain such as Chipotle) chances are you will be served a "San Francisco style" burrito, sometimes known as a "Mission burrito" or a "Super Burrito." If the size is larger than your hand and has a flour tortilla and rice inside then it was invented in San Francisco, the most popular nad well-known style of Burrito in America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_burrito
The Strange Yet True History of the Waterbed in America
https://www.sleepinformation.org/blog/2018/11/12/the-strange-yet-true-history-of-the-waterbed-in-america-cheatsheetcom
Jukebox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukebox
The Radio Industry
"The radio industry was one of the most exciting forms of entertainment throughout the 20th century, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the story literally began. Many people may not realize that the very first broadcast of a human voice was in the Bay on the station that eventually became KCBS."
https://www.playlistresearch.com/sf-radiohistory.htm
Public Radio also known as listener-sponsored or non-profit radio
22 years before National Public Radio (NPR) aired it's first broadcast in 1971, KPFA became the first station in the Pacifica Radio network and the first listener-supported radio broadcaster in the United States in 1949.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPFA
San Franciscan, Lt. Col. Michael Aquino's mother was Betty Ford, the co-founder of KPFA.
biography via Aquino @ Amazon.com for her book, Pegasus in Pinfeathers: Collected Poems 1919-1928. https://www.amazon.com/Pegasus-Pinfeathers-Collected-Poems-1919-1928/dp/1502847361
Free Form Radio
https://www.ksanjive95themovie.com/
"KSAN had a much broader reach than KPFA"
"Dave McQueen was so trusted by the underground that when heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped he was a source trusted by the Symbionese Liberation Army." San Francisco Chronicle, September 5, 2021
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition-sunday/20210905/282437057231796
KSAN What ever happened to, who's where?
https://jive95.com/whos_where.htm
Hundreds of Fruits and Vegetables
Luther Burbank developed hundreds of new fruit, vegetable, and flower varieties, such as the the Santa Rosa Plum, the Russet Burbank Potato, and the Shasta Daisy.
Burbank himself called the Sonoma County region (North Bay) “God’s gift to fruit growers.”
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/burbank-fruit
Unfortunately, according to Wikipedia "Along with breeding plants, Burbank believed human beings should be selectively bred, and he was active in the American eugenics movement and wrote in publications of the American Breeders' Association as an honorary member. He was also elected to the ABA's Committee on Eugenics in 1906,"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Burbank
His fellow eugenicists, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford came to visit him in the Bay Area. After his death he was painted by Frida Kahlo who as noted earlier also lived in the Bay Area. https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-resources/popular-topics/the-vagabonds/
His "neighbor" Jack London was also a eugenicist.
State's little-known history of shameful science / California's role in N @ z 1 s' goal of 'purification'
eugenics and n @ z 1 s California connection
https://tinyurl.com/yc6jrp6z
State's little-known history of shameful science / California's role in Nazis' goal of 'purification'
https://tinyurl.com/54wszr6h
John Adams, co-host of The Afternoon Commute, is the guest on this episode of Trans Resister Radio. Southern California, its history and its mysteries are the topic at hand. As a SoCal native John has a lot of good insight on this topic.
Topics include: California, Irvine, William Pereira, Orange County, agriculture, suburbia, city planning, planned communities, utopia, UC Irvine, dystopian films, brutalist architecture, strip malls, Joseph Eichler, Panorama City, Lakewood, McDonnell Douglas, war based economy, MIC, labor, commute, city, Mexican immigrants, drought, arid climate, weather modification, urban sprawl, Target Town, downtown LA, cooking, fast food, restaurant culture, cronuts, health food, Paul Bragg, aerobics, eastern mysticism, Manly P Hall, Crocker family, Alan Watts, Main Street, Orange, Garden Grove, Walmart, corporations, Long Beach, gangsta rap, cheap entertainment, Jordan Maxwell, cults, the Jesus Movement, Children of God, the Source, Sunset Strip, Annie Hall, Millard Sheets, Home Savings and Loan buildings, Masonic temples
"Cultural Forensics:" California and the Bay Area through the lens of retired U.C. Davis professor, Darrell Hamamoto
California Kingpin Willie Brown
California Model for Techno-Missionary Enslavement
https://youtu.be/jYR30luUpYI
Local Knowledge in the New Investigative Journalism
https://youtu.be/mPt6lLTLVkk
https://www.facebook.com/occultsf
https://www.cnet.com/culture/a-tour-of-sf-bays-hidden-military-fortifications/
Famous People from the Bay Area
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_from_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area
List of films Set in the San Francisco Bay Area, Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_set_in_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area
REEL SF: San Francisco movie locations from classic films
(movie list is on the right side of the menu bar at the top)
http://reelsf.com/
NETFLIX and CHILL: BAY AREA EDITION
https://dothebay.com/p/netflix-and-chill-sf-bay-area-movies
6 Essential San Francisco Movies Shot On Location
https://sanfran.com/6-best-movies-set-in-san-francisco
SAN FRANCISCO IN THE MOVIES (great overview)
https://archive.ph/g5Mr5
55 Movies Filmed in San Francisco (with photos and locations)
https://www.sftourismtips.com/movies-filmed-in-san-francisco.html
These 26 Movies Set in San Francisco Will Make You Want to Travel There ASAP
(with movie trailers)
https://www.purewow.com/entertainment/movies-set-in-san-francisco
28 Oscar-nominated movies filmed in San Francisco (with map and locations)
https://sf.curbed.com/maps/oscar-movies-san-francisco-map-locations-sf
10 Movies Filmed in San Francisco That Defined '90s Pop Culture
https://www.7x7.com/90s-movies-filmed-in-san-francisco-1786442835.html
The 20 Most San Francisco Movies Of All Time
https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/san-francisco/best-movies-shot-in-san-francisco-ranked
10 Greatest Movies Shot in North Beach Mapped
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/sf-movie-filming-locations-north-beach-vertigo-16047563.php
Why 'So I Married an Axe Murderer' is an ode to San Francisco’s North Beach
https://www.sfgate.com/local/editorspicks/article/San-Francisco-Married-Axe-Murderer-Mike-Myers-15973927.php#
The Bay Area’s Ultimate Horror Movie Filming Locations Map
https://archive.ph/xKA95https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/sf-movie-filming-locations-north-beach-vertigo-16047563.php
George Lucas has created some of the most famous, beloved and influential American films in the 20th century such as Star Wars, Indiana Jones and his first feature film - 1973's American Graffitti - a requiem to the society and culture that existed just prior to the Kennedy assassination and the 1960s counterculture which emerged following that event. With that in mind It is ironic that Lucas' first job as a cameraman on Gimme Shelter involved documenting the infamous 1969 concert at Altamont which marked the demise of the 60s counterculture, the two films thematically bookending the decade.
SEE ALSO:
Hell's Angels – Sympathy for the Devil (Myth of the 20th Century - EP69)
view online or download at archive.org (great slides)
https://tinyurl.com/h79khb5k
Bitchute version
https://www.bitchute.com/video/N90l1wJZ09Ln/
Show notes
https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2018/05/09/hells-angels-sympathy-for-the-devil/
George Lucas was born in the Central Valley, just an hour and a half east of the San Francisco Bay Area, in Modesto. Modesto is also an hour and a half south of California's state capital, Sacramento, which is also in the Central Valley. His home and his movie studio are in Marin County in the San Francisco Bay Area (or North Bay, as it's called) and his production company is located at the former San Francisco military base turned national park, the Presidio.
This is his home in San Anselmo
https://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/george-lucas-house/view/google/
George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch is a Fanboy Paradise with Victorian Roots
https://archive.ph/F5ire
12 Things You May Not Know About Skywalker Ranch
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/12-things-you-may-not-know-about-skywalker-ranch/
Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterman_Digital_Arts_Center
San Francisco Bay Area Writers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_San_Francisco_Bay_Area_writers
Writings about the San Francisco Bay Area
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:San_Francisco_Bay_Area_literature
Literary San Francisco
https://archive.ph/zfBLe
City Lights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Lights_Bookstore
Tower books (closed)
http://sacramento.pastperfectonline.com/photo/49683FE1-7540-4B04-A929-337833150350#gallery
Laissez Faire Books (closed)
https://libertyunbound.com/laissez-fair-r-i-p/
Freedom’s Forum Bookstore (closed in 1997*)
https://archive.ph/uEOr9
Bound Together: Haight Street's Anarchist Bookstore
https://hoodline.com/2015/02/bound-together-a-look-inside-haight-street-s-anarchist-bookstore/
Bookpeople (Oakland's legendary book distributor and publisher)
https://archive.ph/vjFdN
Mark Twain
https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=MARK_TWAIN
Jack London
https://archive.ph/G2YEg
John Steinbeck: "People in Salinas Hated Him...They Burned His Books" - His Life, Writings & Times
https://youtu.be/MrBvROjwSjQ
Robert Frost was a San Francisco Kid (Must Read!!!)
https://web.archive.org/web/20201127145843/https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a7827/robert-frost-san-francisco/
Pulitzer Prize winner, Wallace Stegner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Stegner
In 1962, community activists on the Peninsula banded together in an effort to save the area’s wild places from development. They named themselves the Committee for Green Foothills, and chose renowned teacher, writer, and environmentalist Wallace Stegner, who lived in the Los Altos Hills for more than 40 years, to be the founding president.
https://baynature.org/article/wallace-stegner-exhibit-in-los-altos/
A Legendary Writer’s Forgotten Indictment of California’s Racism
https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2022-07-12/essential-california-wallace-stegner-one-nation-essential-california
The Wallace Stegner Bench has some Amazing Views Late in the Day
https://www.hikingproject.com/photo/7075346/the-wallace-stegner-bench-has-some-amazing-views-late-in-the-day
Shel Silverstein lived on a houseboat in Sausalito from 1968 - 1975
The famous author of children's books was also poet, cartoonist, singer-songwriter, musician, and playwright. He's won two grammy awards and was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe.
https://archive.ph/RZoa3
Silverstein's houseboat
https://www.realtor.com/news/unique-homes/shel-silverstein-house-boat-sausalito/
This famous author started his career drawing timeless cartoons as a drafted US troop
https://archive.ph/AaSjN
A Look Back at Shel Silverstein's Adults-Only Children's Book
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/uncle-shelbys-abzs-shel-silverstein
MUSIC
Songs about the San Francisco Bay Area:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_about_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area
Famous Bands from the San Francisco Bay Area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bands_from_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area
San Francisco: A History in Rock and Roll
Bay Area music history is about so much more than what was happening in the Fillmore and Avalon Ballroom for a few years in the late ‘60s.
https://pleasekillme.com/san-francisco-history-rock-and-roll/
Tower Records - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Records
Tales of Tower Records - An Oral history of Tower Records
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TalesofTowerRecords/
How Tupac Forever Changed The Bay Area
https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/california/articles/what-tupac-brought-to-the-bay-area/
How Daly City's Filipino Mobile DJ Scene Changed Hip Hop Forever | KQED Arts (5 min)
https://youtu.be/XbnDXp4lYuk
Fantasy Studios and Records, Berkeley, CA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Records
Artists associated with Fantasy Studios and Records: Dave Brubeck, Vince Guaraldi, beat poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg and comic Lenny Bruce, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Journey, Chris Isaak, Primus, Green Day, Blues Traveler, Rancid, Jawbreaker, Santana, Aerosmith, Tori Amos, Joan Baez, Tony Bennett, David Bowie, Tracy Chapman, Eric Clapton, Counting Crows, Death Angel, Doobie Brothers, Duran Duran, MC Hammer, John Lee Hooker, Huey Lewis and the News, Iggy & the Stooges, Indigo Girls, Wyclef Jean, INXS, B.B. King, Lil Wayne, Taj Mahal, Dave Matthews, Bobby McFerrin, Sarah McLachlan, Pavement, Phish, The Pretenders, Joe Satriani, Tears for Fears, U2 Train, Soda Stereo, Stevie Wonder, Government Mule, Seether, Switchfoot, A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest soundtrack.
Bay Area Thrash Metal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Area_thrash_metal
Murder In The Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story (Official Trailer)
https://youtu.be/QF10mYS4Ugc
Metallica made their headquarters in the Bay Area in 1983
https://sfstandard.com/arts-culture/music/metallica-san-francisco-mayor-breed-chase-center/
Megadeth's first show was at Ruthie's Inn in Berkeley, Feb. 17, 1984
https://i.redd.it/l9389wuwmuia1.jpg
Punk
The Mab, San Francisco: Louder, Faster, Shorter (1978)
https://youtu.be/ufHdeaKQiiM
Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay
https://eastbaypunk.com
924 Gilman Street: Let's Talk About Tact and Timing
https://youtu.be/Ksgjt4ITZw4
I was at this rave!
After searching for decades I finally found the episode when 48 Hours filmed this rave!
S6.E13 LSD Return Trip (full episode)
https://tranceam.org/lsd-return-trip-1993/
Contemporary underground dance music in the Bay Area (Ghost Ship, Oakland)
https://archive.ph/wKEsk
ART
Street Fair 1959 : Seven minutes of local colour captured on silent 16mm film by Edward Silverstone Taylor: This edited Ektachrome home movie with titles documents a 1959 street fair, upper Grant Avenue, San Francisco--the center of Beat culture. The film includes shots of filmmaker Dion Vigne and his wife Loreon, artist and occultist Marjorie Cameron and her daughter Crystal, artist Wallace Berman and his wife Shirley, and Beat poet and surrealist Bob Kaufman, displaying and selling their art works.
http://www.claytonbailey.com/chronology.htm
Bailey, Clayton G. (b.1939, Antigo, Wisconsin, lives in Port Costa, California) Bailey received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant in 1963, and a National Endowment for the Arts Grants in 1979 and 1990. He has been a Fellow of NCECA since 1982. Often associated with the California Funk Art group, his work has been influenced by art, science, education and entertainment, and his studio is a museum of his life's work. His work often runs counter to the "political correctness" that stifles freedom of thought, and he confronts religious fundamentalism and anti-science with humor and skepticism. He holds U.S. Patent #4440390 for a "cup that squirts in your face," and his work includes numerous other entrepreneurial art ventures, jokes, frauds and hoaxes involving ceramics. He offers to "improve your life with ceramics...be careful if you feel your leg is being pulled."
https://www.confrontationalceramics.com/artists.html
The following seems like such a Discordian thing to do:
He sets-up a temporary pottery shop at Lake Arbutus, Wisconsin, and secretly throws pit fired pottery shards into the lake for future archaeologists to discover ... http://www.claytonbailey.com/chronology.htm
Positively Charged: Copier Art in the Bay Area Since the 1960s
https://sfcb.org/positivelycharged
Exhibit looks at the Xerox copier as the 'Immovable Camera' : Rochester company was integral in the development of West Coast arts movements
https://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/exhibit-looks-at-the-xerox-copier-as-the-immovable-camera/Content?oid=2672915
Mail/Art/Book at the San Francisco Center for the Book: An exhibition of contemporary correspondence art
https://issuu.com/sfcbook/docs/sfcb_mail-art-book_issuu
COMICS
Cartoonist Rube Goldberg (1883 - 1970)
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Rube Goldberg, whose works gave rise to the expression Rube Goldberg machines, had started as an engineer and designed sewer pipes. He later worked for the San Francisco Chronicle and eventually soared to fame with his cartoons depicting gadgets and the character Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts.
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/19th-century-cartoonists.php
Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center (Santa Rosa)
Bay Area writer and illustrator of the comic strip Peanuts (which featured the characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy)
https://schulzmuseum.org/
Reflections with Pleasanton's Scott Adams: Dilbert creator talks comic's 30th anniversary, new business ventures and life as a Trump supporter in deep-blue Bay Area (2018)
https://www.pleasantonweekly.com/news/2018/09/20/reflections-with-pleasantons-scott-adams
America's first new and used comic book store was opened in San Francisco in April of 1968.
America's first used comic book store opened in San Jose in March of 1968.
https://dangearino.com/2018/03/19/what-was-the-first-comic-shop/
Gary Arlington (1938-2014), Owner of the First Comic Book Store in the United States
https://laughingsquid.com/gary-arlington-1938-2014-owner-of-the-first-comic-book-store-in-the-united-states/
The first comic book chain store in America was Berkeley's Comics and Comix (1972 - 2004)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_and_Comix
Robert Crumb (Winters, CA - just outside of Davis)
https://archive.ph/DR1mI
Robert Crumb in Crockett, Halloween 1982
https://tkthompson.me/collections/people/artists-muses/robert-crumb
How Quirky was Berkeley: R. Crumb, the underground comix artist, was here - For several years Robert Crumb (better known as R. Crumb) was a central and colorful figure on the Berkeley underground arts scene.
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2020/01/13/how-quirky-was-berkeley-r-crumb-the-underground-comix-artist-was-here
Creep Show : A new film shines disturbing light on the very dark family secrets of cartoonist Robert Crumb. There’s a lot more there than just Mr. Natural.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-04-23-ca-57938-story.html
A Rare Interview With Robert Crumb on America, PC Culture and Trump
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2020-08-31/ty-article-magazine/.premium/rare-interview-with-robert-crumb-on-pc-culture-and-his-trump-voodoo-doll/0000017f-dbe8-d3a5-af7f-fbee2fd40000
Underground San Francisco Bay area punk zine created by acclaimed Punk cartoonist Ace Backwards (friends with R. Crumb).
https://www.cultjones.com/product/backwards-ace-twisted-image-2/
SKATEBOARDING
Skateboarding began to emerge in 1930s southern California but it was the innovations made by the Santa Cruz Skateboard company that developed into the form most recognizable today. "Santa Cruz Skateboard is the oldest continuous skateboard company in the world."
https://www.surfertoday.com/skateboarding/the-story-of-santa-cruz-skateboards
SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL: NHS celebrates 40 years of skateboarding innovation and the creation of an industry
CNN introduced Wired magazine in January 1993 by saying it was "a combination of high technology with rock ’n’ roll delivery." Rossetto & Co.’s initial advertising campaign -– wild postering and bus signs in five cities -– had the tagline: "Finally, a Magazine for the Digital Age." Here, Wired’s cofounder Louis Rossetto talks with CNN
RAINBOW GATHERINGS
Celebrities who live in the San Francisco Bay Area
https://www.ranker.com/list/celebrities-who-live-in-san-francisco-v1/celebrity-lists
41 celebrities who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/celebrities-who-lived-in-san-francisco-bay-area-7423683.php
20 Celebrities from Northern California
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/northern-california/267849/
8 Stars You Didn’t Know Were From the Bay Area
https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/california/articles/8-stars-you-didnt-know-were-from-the-bay-area/
12 celebrities you never knew lived in the Bay Area
https://www.timeout.com/san-francisco/blog/12-celebrities-you-never-knew-lived-in-the-bay-area-012016
Pixar
Emeryville, CA
Tom Arthur, 2008
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Hollywood by the Bay
List of films Set in the San Francisco Bay Area, Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_set_in_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area
REEL SF: San Francisco movie locations from classic films
(movie list is on the right side of the menu bar at the top)
http://reelsf.com/
NETFLIX and CHILL: BAY AREA EDITION
https://dothebay.com/p/netflix-and-chill-sf-bay-area-movies
6 Essential San Francisco Movies Shot On Location
https://sanfran.com/6-best-movies-set-in-san-francisco
SAN FRANCISCO IN THE MOVIES (great overview)
https://archive.ph/g5Mr5
55 Movies Filmed in San Francisco (with photos and locations)
https://www.sftourismtips.com/movies-filmed-in-san-francisco.html
These 26 Movies Set in San Francisco Will Make You Want to Travel There ASAP
(with movie trailers)
https://www.purewow.com/entertainment/movies-set-in-san-francisco
28 Oscar-nominated movies filmed in San Francisco (with map and locations)
https://sf.curbed.com/maps/oscar-movies-san-francisco-map-locations-sf
10 Movies Filmed in San Francisco That Defined '90s Pop Culture
https://www.7x7.com/90s-movies-filmed-in-san-francisco-1786442835.html
The 20 Most San Francisco Movies Of All Time
https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/san-francisco/best-movies-shot-in-san-francisco-ranked
10 Greatest Movies Shot in North Beach Mapped
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/sf-movie-filming-locations-north-beach-vertigo-16047563.php
Why 'So I Married an Axe Murderer' is an ode to San Francisco’s North Beach
https://www.sfgate.com/local/editorspicks/article/San-Francisco-Married-Axe-Murderer-Mike-Myers-15973927.php#
The Bay Area’s Ultimate Horror Movie Filming Locations Map
https://archive.ph/xKA95https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/sf-movie-filming-locations-north-beach-vertigo-16047563.php
A Film Noir Tour of San Francisco (slideshow)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/A-film-noir-tour-of-San-Francisco-6772673.php#photo-9278303
Cult Film / dark comedy, Harold and Maude (classic 1960s location shots)
http://reelsf.com/harold-and-maude-1971https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/sf-movie-filming-locations-north-beach-vertigo-16047563.php
TV Shows Set In San Francisco / Bay Area
https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/california/articles/13-superb-tv-shows-set-in-san-francisco/
San Francisco on Screen: Where Famous Films and TV Shows Were Shot Around the City
https://www.sftravel.com/article/san-francisco-screen-where-famous-films-tv-shows-were-shot-around-city
The Streets of San Francisco S01:EP2 (1973) full episode w/ Martin Sheen, part 1 - see channel for pts. 2 - 4.
https://youtu.be/3f7ytnczKrw
Back to the Streets of San Francisco (1992), full episode
https://youtu.be/Axe9oajEwTc
San Jose Mercury News: 20 best Bay Area Movies of the Decade
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/12/11/here-are-the-20-best-bay-area-movies-of-the-decade/
13 Movies You Didn't Know Were Filmed Oakland, CA
https://www.visitoakland.com/blog/post/9-movies-you-didnt-know-were-filmed-oakland/
Hollywood's San Francisco Roots (part 1)
https://www.marinatimes.com/moviemaking-in-san-francisco-a-love-affair-with-hollywood
(part 2)
https://www.marinatimes.com/moviemaking-in-san-francisco-a-love-affair-with-hollywood-2
(part 3)
https://www.marinatimes.com/hollywoods-san-francisco-roots-the-enduring-love-of-sf-film
The Muppets
“Henson’s two earliest and closest collaborators, Frank Oz and Jerry Juhl, both grew up in the Bay Area — Oakland and Menlo Park, respectively,” Rabben says. “They both worked at Children’s Fairyland in Oakland as teenagers, as did Oz’s parents, who were also puppeteers and very involved with the local puppet community." Also discusses, "San Francisco’s historically rich puppeteering history."
https://archive.ph/vTOGG
George Lucas has created some of the most famous, beloved and influential American films in the 20th century such as Star Wars, Indiana Jones and his first feature film - 1973's American Graffitti - a requiem to the society and culture that existed just prior to the Kennedy assassination and the 1960s counterculture which emerged following that event. With that in mind It is ironic that Lucas' first job as a cameraman on Gimme Shelter involved documenting the infamous 1969 concert at Altamont which marked the demise of the 60s counterculture, the two films thematically bookending the decade.
SEE ALSO:
Hell's Angels – Sympathy for the Devil (Myth of the 20th Century - EP69)
view online or download at archive.org (great slides)
https://tinyurl.com/h79khb5k
Bitchute version
https://www.bitchute.com/video/N90l1wJZ09Ln/
Show notes
https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2018/05/09/hells-angels-sympathy-for-the-devil/
George Lucas was born in the Central Valley, just an hour and a half east of the San Francisco Bay Area, in Modesto. Modesto is also an hour and a half south of California's state capital, Sacramento, which is also in the Central Valley. His home and his movie studio are in Marin County in the San Francisco Bay Area (or North Bay, as it's called) and his production company is located at the former San Francisco military base turned national park, the Presidio.
This is his home in San Anselmo
https://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/george-lucas-house/view/google/
George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch is a Fanboy Paradise with Victorian Roots
https://archive.ph/F5ire
12 Things You May Not Know About Skywalker Ranch
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/12-things-you-may-not-know-about-skywalker-ranch/
Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterman_Digital_Arts_Center
Lucasfilm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucasfilm
Industrial Light and Magic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Light_%26_Magic
Pixar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar
It's all connected! Pixar and the history of surprising film and TV shared universes
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jan/19/movie-tv-shared-universes-star-wars-quentin-tarantino
Lucas' friend and fellow filmmaker, Francis Ford Coppola, has also lived and worked in both San Francisco and Napa, CA for decades.
https://archive.ph/XAhyZ
Coppola's nephew, Nicolas Cage has owned two homes in SF (slideshow)
https://www.okwhatever.org/topics/things/snooping-around-nicholas-cages-house
The most commercially successful filmmaker of all time, Steven Spielberg, attended his senior year of high school in the Bay Area.
No girlfriend! Spielberg’s classmates reveal fictions in ‘Fabelmans’
https://nypost.com/2022/12/03/steven-spielbergs-classmates-reveal-fictions-in-fabelmans/
and of course Lucas, Coppola and Spielberg are all friends and have all made movies together.
https://tongal.com/blog/community-guest-post/lessons-from-the-iconic-duo-george-lucas-steven-spielberg
LITERATURE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucasfilm
Industrial Light and Magic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Light_%26_Magic
Pixar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar
It's all connected! Pixar and the history of surprising film and TV shared universes
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jan/19/movie-tv-shared-universes-star-wars-quentin-tarantino
Lucas' friend and fellow filmmaker, Francis Ford Coppola, has also lived and worked in both San Francisco and Napa, CA for decades.
https://archive.ph/XAhyZ
Coppola's nephew, Nicolas Cage has owned two homes in SF (slideshow)
https://www.okwhatever.org/topics/things/snooping-around-nicholas-cages-house
The most commercially successful filmmaker of all time, Steven Spielberg, attended his senior year of high school in the Bay Area.
No girlfriend! Spielberg’s classmates reveal fictions in ‘Fabelmans’
https://nypost.com/2022/12/03/steven-spielbergs-classmates-reveal-fictions-in-fabelmans/
and of course Lucas, Coppola and Spielberg are all friends and have all made movies together.
https://tongal.com/blog/community-guest-post/lessons-from-the-iconic-duo-george-lucas-steven-spielberg
CULTURE
LITERATURE
San Francisco Bay Area Writers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_San_Francisco_Bay_Area_writers
Writings about the San Francisco Bay Area
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:San_Francisco_Bay_Area_literature
Literary San Francisco
https://archive.ph/zfBLe
City Lights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Lights_Bookstore
Tower books (closed)
http://sacramento.pastperfectonline.com/photo/49683FE1-7540-4B04-A929-337833150350#gallery
Laissez Faire Books (closed)
https://libertyunbound.com/laissez-fair-r-i-p/
Freedom’s Forum Bookstore (closed in 1997*)
https://archive.ph/uEOr9
Bound Together: Haight Street's Anarchist Bookstore
https://hoodline.com/2015/02/bound-together-a-look-inside-haight-street-s-anarchist-bookstore/
Bookpeople (Oakland's legendary book distributor and publisher)
https://archive.ph/vjFdN
Mark Twain
https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=MARK_TWAIN
Jack London
https://archive.ph/G2YEg
John Steinbeck: "People in Salinas Hated Him...They Burned His Books" - His Life, Writings & Times
https://youtu.be/MrBvROjwSjQ
Robert Frost was a San Francisco Kid (Must Read!!!)
https://web.archive.org/web/20201127145843/https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a7827/robert-frost-san-francisco/
Pulitzer Prize winner, Wallace Stegner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Stegner
In 1962, community activists on the Peninsula banded together in an effort to save the area’s wild places from development. They named themselves the Committee for Green Foothills, and chose renowned teacher, writer, and environmentalist Wallace Stegner, who lived in the Los Altos Hills for more than 40 years, to be the founding president.
https://baynature.org/article/wallace-stegner-exhibit-in-los-altos/
A Legendary Writer’s Forgotten Indictment of California’s Racism
https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2022-07-12/essential-california-wallace-stegner-one-nation-essential-california
The Wallace Stegner Bench has some Amazing Views Late in the Day
https://www.hikingproject.com/photo/7075346/the-wallace-stegner-bench-has-some-amazing-views-late-in-the-day
Shel Silverstein lived on a houseboat in Sausalito from 1968 - 1975
The famous author of children's books was also poet, cartoonist, singer-songwriter, musician, and playwright. He's won two grammy awards and was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe.
https://archive.ph/RZoa3
Silverstein's houseboat
https://www.realtor.com/news/unique-homes/shel-silverstein-house-boat-sausalito/
This famous author started his career drawing timeless cartoons as a drafted US troop
https://archive.ph/AaSjN
A Look Back at Shel Silverstein's Adults-Only Children's Book
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/uncle-shelbys-abzs-shel-silverstein
Tower Records, San Francisco (1970)
MUSIC
Songs about the San Francisco Bay Area:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_about_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area
Famous Bands from the San Francisco Bay Area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bands_from_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area
San Francisco: A History in Rock and Roll
Bay Area music history is about so much more than what was happening in the Fillmore and Avalon Ballroom for a few years in the late ‘60s.
https://pleasekillme.com/san-francisco-history-rock-and-roll/
Tower Records - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Records
Tales of Tower Records - An Oral history of Tower Records
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TalesofTowerRecords/
How Tupac Forever Changed The Bay Area
https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/california/articles/what-tupac-brought-to-the-bay-area/
How Daly City's Filipino Mobile DJ Scene Changed Hip Hop Forever | KQED Arts (5 min)
https://youtu.be/XbnDXp4lYuk
Fantasy Studios and Records, Berkeley, CA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Records
Artists associated with Fantasy Studios and Records: Dave Brubeck, Vince Guaraldi, beat poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg and comic Lenny Bruce, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Journey, Chris Isaak, Primus, Green Day, Blues Traveler, Rancid, Jawbreaker, Santana, Aerosmith, Tori Amos, Joan Baez, Tony Bennett, David Bowie, Tracy Chapman, Eric Clapton, Counting Crows, Death Angel, Doobie Brothers, Duran Duran, MC Hammer, John Lee Hooker, Huey Lewis and the News, Iggy & the Stooges, Indigo Girls, Wyclef Jean, INXS, B.B. King, Lil Wayne, Taj Mahal, Dave Matthews, Bobby McFerrin, Sarah McLachlan, Pavement, Phish, The Pretenders, Joe Satriani, Tears for Fears, U2 Train, Soda Stereo, Stevie Wonder, Government Mule, Seether, Switchfoot, A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest soundtrack.
Bay Area Thrash Metal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Area_thrash_metal
Murder In The Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story (Official Trailer)
https://youtu.be/QF10mYS4Ugc
Metallica made their headquarters in the Bay Area in 1983
https://sfstandard.com/arts-culture/music/metallica-san-francisco-mayor-breed-chase-center/
Megadeth's first show was at Ruthie's Inn in Berkeley, Feb. 17, 1984
https://i.redd.it/l9389wuwmuia1.jpg
Punk
The Mab, San Francisco: Louder, Faster, Shorter (1978)
https://youtu.be/ufHdeaKQiiM
Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay
https://eastbaypunk.com
924 Gilman Street: Let's Talk About Tact and Timing
https://youtu.be/Ksgjt4ITZw4
Operation Ivy's final show was on May 28, 1989 at 924 Gilman. Green Day opened for them, their first show at Gilman under the name Green Day
https://www.reddit.com/r/greenday/comments/jyxsvy/til_operation_ivys_final_show_was_on_may_28_1989/
Watch full-set video of Operation Ivy's final show at 924 Gilman in 1989
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/watch-full-set-video-of-operation-ivys-final-show-at-924-gilman-in-1989/
924 Gilman St. official website
https://www.924gilman.org
10 Bay Area music landmark's (mostly houses) with addresses
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/16/10-awesome-bay-area-music-landmarks-all-fans-should-visit/
Raves:
DJ magazine history of west coast raves
https://www.reddit.com/r/greenday/comments/jyxsvy/til_operation_ivys_final_show_was_on_may_28_1989/
Watch full-set video of Operation Ivy's final show at 924 Gilman in 1989
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/watch-full-set-video-of-operation-ivys-final-show-at-924-gilman-in-1989/
924 Gilman St. official website
https://www.924gilman.org
10 Bay Area music landmark's (mostly houses) with addresses
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/16/10-awesome-bay-area-music-landmarks-all-fans-should-visit/
Raves:
Oakland Rave House circa 1990-1991
DJ magazine history of west coast raves
After searching for decades I finally found the episode when 48 Hours filmed this rave!
S6.E13 LSD Return Trip (full episode)
https://tranceam.org/lsd-return-trip-1993/
The Rave Pioneers: Catching Up With San Francisco's Wicked Sound System,
San Francisco by way of London, how four DJs helped start a West Coast rave revolution
https://www.magneticmag.com/2016/07/the-rave-pioneers-catching-up-with-san-frandiscos-wicked-sound-system/
Vice magazine: DJs Garth ad Geno Anniversary Interview
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4x88gq/wicked-san-fransisco-anniversary-feature
I RAVED in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1990's (mix tape on YouTube)
https://youtu.be/jUoUtUj4Cpk
Throwback Thursdays: San Francisco Raves in the 1990′s, parts 1-4
https://people.uwec.edu/mbirika/RAVE-San_Francisco_90s.pdf
Throwback Thursdays: San Francisco Raves in the 1990′s, part 5
https://www.okayfuture.com/features/throwback-thursdays-san-francisco-raves-1990s-pt-5-coming.html
https://www.magneticmag.com/2016/07/the-rave-pioneers-catching-up-with-san-frandiscos-wicked-sound-system/
Vice magazine: DJs Garth ad Geno Anniversary Interview
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4x88gq/wicked-san-fransisco-anniversary-feature
I RAVED in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1990's (mix tape on YouTube)
https://youtu.be/jUoUtUj4Cpk
Throwback Thursdays: San Francisco Raves in the 1990′s, parts 1-4
https://people.uwec.edu/mbirika/RAVE-San_Francisco_90s.pdf
Throwback Thursdays: San Francisco Raves in the 1990′s, part 5
https://www.okayfuture.com/features/throwback-thursdays-san-francisco-raves-1990s-pt-5-coming.html
Contemporary underground dance music in the Bay Area (Ghost Ship, Oakland)
https://archive.ph/wKEsk
ART
Street Fair 1959 : Seven minutes of local colour captured on silent 16mm film by Edward Silverstone Taylor: This edited Ektachrome home movie with titles documents a 1959 street fair, upper Grant Avenue, San Francisco--the center of Beat culture. The film includes shots of filmmaker Dion Vigne and his wife Loreon, artist and occultist Marjorie Cameron and her daughter Crystal, artist Wallace Berman and his wife Shirley, and Beat poet and surrealist Bob Kaufman, displaying and selling their art works.
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_in_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area
Artists from the San Francisco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Artists_from_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area
Sanctuary: Berkeley’s First Art Colony (1906-1911)
https://www.tfaoi.org/cm/10cm/10cm70.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_in_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area
Artists from the San Francisco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Artists_from_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area
Sanctuary: Berkeley’s First Art Colony (1906-1911)
https://www.tfaoi.org/cm/10cm/10cm70.pdf
The Untold History of the Carmel and Berkeley Art Colonies, vol. one, East Bay Heritage Project, Oakland (1906 - 1927)
https://tfaoi.org/aa/10aa/10aa557.htm
Sausalito's art colony
https://discoversausalito.com/art-galleries-in-sausalito/
Dorothea Lange’s Steep Ravine: How an American Photography Icon Found Her Sanctuary in Marin
https://marinmagazine.com/community/history/dorothea-langes-steep-ravine-an-american-photography-icon-finds-her-sanctuary-in-marin/
Ansel Adams' Childhood Home Hidden in Sea Cliff
https://sf.curbed.com/2013/9/23/10195118/ansel-adams-childhood-home-hidden-in-sea-cliff
Imogen Cunningham
https://www.artnews.com/feature/imogen-cunningham-why-is-she-important-1234571453/
Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera (and the San Francisco's Pacific Stock Exchange)
https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Inside_Frida_Kahlo_and_Diego_Rivera%27s_Life_in_San_Francisco
Funk Art
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk_art
Port Costa Artist's One-of-a-Kind World (Clayton Bailey)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Port-Costa-Artist-s-One-of-a-Kind-World-3000727.php
Funk Art, Big Foot, and Robots: Clayton Bailey, The Mad Potter of Port Costa, Lets It Go
https://themonthly.com/kilduff1609/
Clayton Bailey, founder of "Nut Art," founder of the Discordian-style "First Psychoceramic Church," builder of Tesla coils (Crockett, Port Costa) "1983- ON/OFF the Wonder Robot and Sweetheart, his girlfriend, are invited to attend a Rendezvous With Robots at the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where they meet Nobel Laureate, Glenn Seaborg. Sweetheart, also known as Marilyn Monrobot, the world's most beautiful robot, is ejected from the show because of her large breasts. This results in an international media circus about the robot's rights to have breasts."
https://tfaoi.org/aa/10aa/10aa557.htm
Sausalito's art colony
https://discoversausalito.com/art-galleries-in-sausalito/
Dorothea Lange’s Steep Ravine: How an American Photography Icon Found Her Sanctuary in Marin
https://marinmagazine.com/community/history/dorothea-langes-steep-ravine-an-american-photography-icon-finds-her-sanctuary-in-marin/
Ansel Adams' Childhood Home Hidden in Sea Cliff
https://sf.curbed.com/2013/9/23/10195118/ansel-adams-childhood-home-hidden-in-sea-cliff
Imogen Cunningham
https://www.artnews.com/feature/imogen-cunningham-why-is-she-important-1234571453/
Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera (and the San Francisco's Pacific Stock Exchange)
https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Inside_Frida_Kahlo_and_Diego_Rivera%27s_Life_in_San_Francisco
Funk Art
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk_art
Port Costa Artist's One-of-a-Kind World (Clayton Bailey)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Port-Costa-Artist-s-One-of-a-Kind-World-3000727.php
Funk Art, Big Foot, and Robots: Clayton Bailey, The Mad Potter of Port Costa, Lets It Go
https://themonthly.com/kilduff1609/
Clayton Bailey, founder of "Nut Art," founder of the Discordian-style "First Psychoceramic Church," builder of Tesla coils (Crockett, Port Costa) "1983- ON/OFF the Wonder Robot and Sweetheart, his girlfriend, are invited to attend a Rendezvous With Robots at the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where they meet Nobel Laureate, Glenn Seaborg. Sweetheart, also known as Marilyn Monrobot, the world's most beautiful robot, is ejected from the show because of her large breasts. This results in an international media circus about the robot's rights to have breasts."
http://www.claytonbailey.com/chronology.htm
Bailey, Clayton G. (b.1939, Antigo, Wisconsin, lives in Port Costa, California) Bailey received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant in 1963, and a National Endowment for the Arts Grants in 1979 and 1990. He has been a Fellow of NCECA since 1982. Often associated with the California Funk Art group, his work has been influenced by art, science, education and entertainment, and his studio is a museum of his life's work. His work often runs counter to the "political correctness" that stifles freedom of thought, and he confronts religious fundamentalism and anti-science with humor and skepticism. He holds U.S. Patent #4440390 for a "cup that squirts in your face," and his work includes numerous other entrepreneurial art ventures, jokes, frauds and hoaxes involving ceramics. He offers to "improve your life with ceramics...be careful if you feel your leg is being pulled."
https://www.confrontationalceramics.com/artists.html
The following seems like such a Discordian thing to do:
He sets-up a temporary pottery shop at Lake Arbutus, Wisconsin, and secretly throws pit fired pottery shards into the lake for future archaeologists to discover ... http://www.claytonbailey.com/chronology.htm
Positively Charged: Copier Art in the Bay Area Since the 1960s
https://sfcb.org/positivelycharged
Exhibit looks at the Xerox copier as the 'Immovable Camera' : Rochester company was integral in the development of West Coast arts movements
https://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/exhibit-looks-at-the-xerox-copier-as-the-immovable-camera/Content?oid=2672915
Mail/Art/Book at the San Francisco Center for the Book: An exhibition of contemporary correspondence art
https://issuu.com/sfcbook/docs/sfcb_mail-art-book_issuu
COMICS
Cartoonist Rube Goldberg (1883 - 1970)
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Rube Goldberg, whose works gave rise to the expression Rube Goldberg machines, had started as an engineer and designed sewer pipes. He later worked for the San Francisco Chronicle and eventually soared to fame with his cartoons depicting gadgets and the character Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts.
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/19th-century-cartoonists.php
Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center (Santa Rosa)
Bay Area writer and illustrator of the comic strip Peanuts (which featured the characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy)
https://schulzmuseum.org/
Reflections with Pleasanton's Scott Adams: Dilbert creator talks comic's 30th anniversary, new business ventures and life as a Trump supporter in deep-blue Bay Area (2018)
https://www.pleasantonweekly.com/news/2018/09/20/reflections-with-pleasantons-scott-adams
America's first new and used comic book store was opened in San Francisco in April of 1968.
America's first used comic book store opened in San Jose in March of 1968.
https://dangearino.com/2018/03/19/what-was-the-first-comic-shop/
Gary Arlington (1938-2014), Owner of the First Comic Book Store in the United States
https://laughingsquid.com/gary-arlington-1938-2014-owner-of-the-first-comic-book-store-in-the-united-states/
The first comic book chain store in America was Berkeley's Comics and Comix (1972 - 2004)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_and_Comix
“In the ’90s, when zines started to go mainstream, everything came from the Bay Area. There’s vibrancy here, a freedom . . . that you don’t find anywhere else. It’s like Burning Man—if you had something like that in New York, people would just say, ‘Oh, that’s stupid.’” In fact, the Bay Area’s reputation as an independent cartooning hub dates back to the ’60s. During the height of the counterculture, San Francisco and Berkeley formed the epicenter of an underground movement, attracting visionary artists like Robert Crumb, Vaughn Bode (an underground cartoonist and one of the forefathers of graffiti/aerosol art) , and Trina Robbins. Later, in the black-and-white boom of the late ’80s and early ’90s, it was host to a gaggle of hopeful start-ups like Viz and Studio Proteus. Today, our area retains its rep as a rebel’s paradise, with the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, well-known publishers like Image Comics in Berkeley and Last Gasp in San Francisco, and some of the country’s biggest comics-oriented shops. Artists agree that there’s a certain unique spirit here, where creators come to write and draw on their own terms...Although the two biggest mainstream comics publishers, Marvel and DC, are located in New York, “the Bay Area was really ground zero for independent comics.” https://themonthly.com/feature1007/
Robert Crumb (Winters, CA - just outside of Davis)
https://archive.ph/DR1mI
Robert Crumb in Crockett, Halloween 1982
https://tkthompson.me/collections/people/artists-muses/robert-crumb
How Quirky was Berkeley: R. Crumb, the underground comix artist, was here - For several years Robert Crumb (better known as R. Crumb) was a central and colorful figure on the Berkeley underground arts scene.
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2020/01/13/how-quirky-was-berkeley-r-crumb-the-underground-comix-artist-was-here
Creep Show : A new film shines disturbing light on the very dark family secrets of cartoonist Robert Crumb. There’s a lot more there than just Mr. Natural.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-04-23-ca-57938-story.html
A Rare Interview With Robert Crumb on America, PC Culture and Trump
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2020-08-31/ty-article-magazine/.premium/rare-interview-with-robert-crumb-on-pc-culture-and-his-trump-voodoo-doll/0000017f-dbe8-d3a5-af7f-fbee2fd40000
Underground San Francisco Bay area punk zine created by acclaimed Punk cartoonist Ace Backwards (friends with R. Crumb).
https://www.cultjones.com/product/backwards-ace-twisted-image-2/
SUBCULTURES
SKATEBOARDING
Skateboarding began to emerge in 1930s southern California but it was the innovations made by the Santa Cruz Skateboard company that developed into the form most recognizable today. "Santa Cruz Skateboard is the oldest continuous skateboard company in the world."
https://www.surfertoday.com/skateboarding/the-story-of-santa-cruz-skateboards
SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL: NHS celebrates 40 years of skateboarding innovation and the creation of an industry
https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2013/10/20/nhs-celebrates-40-years-of-skateboarding-innovation-and-the-creation-of-an-industry/
Thrasher is a monthly skateboarding magazine, founded in 1981 by High Speed Productions, Inc. of San Francisco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrasher_(magazine)
Thrasher: the story of the ultimate skateboard magazine
https://tinyurl.com/43uj32wp
Thrasher is a monthly skateboarding magazine, founded in 1981 by High Speed Productions, Inc. of San Francisco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrasher_(magazine)
Thrasher: the story of the ultimate skateboard magazine
https://tinyurl.com/43uj32wp
3 Iconic San Francisco Spots That Shaped Skateboarding History
https://www.7x7.com/3-iconic-san-francisco-spots-that-shaped-skateboarding-history-1787343972.html
History of Skateboarding
https://skatesphere.com/history-of-skateboarding/
SIDESHOWS
Welcome to the Bay Area Bay Area Movement (origin circa 1984) https://youtu.be/5Mvx_TZl9R8
MOTORCYCLE CLUBS
Link to excellent podcast on Hell's Angels below.
The Gypsy Jokers got their start in San Francisco.
Gypsy Joker MC (Motorcycle Club) - One Percenter Bikers
Meet the East Bay Dragons, the oldest Black motorcycle club in the West (5 min.)
https://youtu.be/jtKhLbCZxVk
East Bay Rats Motorcycle Club (30 min.)
(McInnes appears to be plainly admitting he's an intel agent but I can't deny he's hilarious, and the shenanigans and scenery are breathtaking. This made me homesick, lol.)
https://youtu.be/A8-rm6gep4c
CYBERPUNK
Mondo 2000 was a glossy cyberculture magazine published in California during the 1980s and 1990s. It covered cyberpunk topics such as virtual reality and smart drugs. It was a more anarchic and subversive prototype for the later-founded Wired magazine.
wiki.cbc.cybersecurity.nmt.edu/doku.php?id=mondo_2000
Mondo 2000 was a glossy cyberculture magazine published in California during the 1980s and 1990s. It covered cyberpunk topics such as virtual reality and smart drugs. It was a more anarchic and subversive prototype for the later-founded Wired magazine.
Mondo 2000 - Issue 16 : Fun City MegaMedia : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Beyond Cyberpunk!
https://www.7x7.com/3-iconic-san-francisco-spots-that-shaped-skateboarding-history-1787343972.html
History of Skateboarding
https://skatesphere.com/history-of-skateboarding/
SIDESHOWS
Welcome to the Bay Area Bay Area Movement (origin circa 1984) https://youtu.be/5Mvx_TZl9R8
MOTORCYCLE CLUBS
Link to excellent podcast on Hell's Angels below.
The Gypsy Jokers got their start in San Francisco.
Gypsy Joker MC (Motorcycle Club) - One Percenter Bikers
Meet the East Bay Dragons, the oldest Black motorcycle club in the West (5 min.)
https://youtu.be/jtKhLbCZxVk
East Bay Rats Motorcycle Club (30 min.)
(McInnes appears to be plainly admitting he's an intel agent but I can't deny he's hilarious, and the shenanigans and scenery are breathtaking. This made me homesick, lol.)
https://youtu.be/A8-rm6gep4c
CYBERPUNK
Mondo 2000 was a glossy cyberculture magazine published in California during the 1980s and 1990s. It covered cyberpunk topics such as virtual reality and smart drugs. It was a more anarchic and subversive prototype for the later-founded Wired magazine.
wiki.cbc.cybersecurity.nmt.edu/doku.php?id=mondo_2000
In the early Nineties I was an avid consumer of Mondo 2000, a wildly glossy magazine filled with digital eye-candy, day-glo tressed and tattooed models draped in computer gear, and techno-hippie political screeds. The folks who published Mondo 2000 from their communal home in the San Francisco Bay area were inspired by the science-fiction novels of Bruce Sterling and William Gibson, the punk DIY ethic, and the seemingly non-stop advances in computer graphics, virtual reality, and smart drug technology. These people seemed to me, at the time, to be the embodiment of some of the future people I’d read about in comic books. I was also beginning my travels in cyberspace and became a member of a San Francisco-based conferencing system called The Well, run by the folks who published the Whole Earth Review. Remember, this was before the World Wide Web was invented; it was the time of dial-up entities like bulletin boards, AOL, Prodigy, Genie, and others. Mondo 2000 soon had its own forum on The Well...
Rand Hoppe, interview with Robert Kirby
Mondo 2000 was a glossy cyberculture magazine published in California during the 1980s and 1990s. It covered cyberpunk topics such as virtual reality and smart drugs. It was a more anarchic and subversive prototype for the later-founded Wired magazine.
Mondo 2000 - Issue 16 : Fun City MegaMedia : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Beyond Cyberpunk!
http://www.streettech.com/bcp/BCPgraf/streettechTOC.html
Where It All Began: Images From Wired's Early Days
Where It All Began: Images From Wired's Early Days
CNN introduced Wired magazine in January 1993 by saying it was "a combination of high technology with rock ’n’ roll delivery." Rossetto & Co.’s initial advertising campaign -– wild postering and bus signs in five cities -– had the tagline: "Finally, a Magazine for the Digital Age." Here, Wired’s cofounder Louis Rossetto talks with CNN
Wired Magazine Turns 25 With a Brainy Party
Guests included Serena Williams, Anna Wintour, Kevin Systrom and Stewart Brand.
TECHNOPAGANS
How Erik Davis invented networked mysticism
Profiling the Cali technopagan thinker behind the ideas of outsiders from Genesis P Orridge to Oneohtrix Point Never (OPN)
Wired Magazine: Technopagans
May the astral plane be reborn in cyberspace
https://www.wired.com/1995/07/technopagans/
Boing Boing: Technopagans
MTV News, 1991, on San Francisco's technopagan culture
https://web.archive.org/web/20120426030717/http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/mtv-news-1991-on-san-francis.html
The Zen Pagan: Technopaganism (Winterstar 2022)
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thezenpagan/2022/02/technopaganism-winterstar-2022/
Genesis P-Orridge
TECHNO-CATHOLICS
Techno Cosmic Mass
In 1995, Fox and his students met regularly with members of the Bay Area rave community in preparation for launching the Techno Cosmic Mass in the United States. in 1996 and subsequently presenting it in Oakland, with the active support and encouragement of Jerry Brown, former presidential candidate and later mayor.
https://www.thecosmicmass.com/past-masses2
Re-Creating Ritual - Matthew Fox
SFGate: Prayer Party -- Techno Mass Rocks Religious in Oakland / Music, dance celebrate spirituality
New York Times magazine: Raving My Religion
ROBOTS
Survival Research Labs
BURNING MAN
Silicon Valley's Secret Weapon: The Shadow History of Burners by Steve Outtrim
The Rainbow Gathering was co-founded by Barry "Plunker" Adams...Adams emerged from the Haight-Ashbury scene in San Francisco and is the author of Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?, Wikipedia
California and Bay Area origins of RENAISSANCE FAIRS:
California and Bay Area origins of RENAISSANCE FAIRS:
History of the Renaissance Pleasure Faire (Marin Co.)
https://marinmagazine.com/community/history/history-of-the-renaissance-pleasure-faire/
ZINES
The Untold History of Zines… Doug Biggert on Tower Mag Hell
By Mark | August 10, 2014
http://markmaynard.com/2014/08/the-untold-history-of-zines-doug-biggert-on-tower-mag-hell/
RE/SEARCH Publications
V. Vale has been doing counterculture publishing since 1977, when he founded the Punk tabloid, Search & Destroy, San Francisco’s first. It was published at City Lights Bookstore, where V. Vale worked, and was funded by $100 each from Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg. Then in 1980, V. Vale launched RE/SEARCH, which is best known for its impact on the total world of underground culture.
Researchpubs.com (has picture of Pranks)
DISCORDIANISM
Kerry Thornley (North Bay)
The Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture (2003) by Adam Gorightly
In a 13-part series he defended nearly every taboo, among these exhibitionists, voyeurs, fetishists, ped0philes, transvestites, nymphomaniacs, obscene phone callers, animal lovers, and sadomasochists. p. 161 - 162
The Early Discordians Revealed!
Historia Discordia
Documenting the Origins, History, and Chaos of the Discordian Society
Discordianism and the Church of the Subgenius
Kerry Thornley, Robert Anton Wilson and other Discordian founders lived next to Bohemian Grove (in Monte Rio) for a time.
Church of the Subgenius
Interesting comment from the article above
The Church of the Subgenius - Night of Slack (January 21, 1984)
https://youtu.be/ast5PPR8VNw
FOOD CO-OPS
Consumers' Cooperative of Berkeley, est. 1936
A Brief History of Cooperatives in California
UTOPIAN SUBCULTURES
Beatniks
Whole Earth Catalog
The full story of Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth Catalog can be read in the print version or listened to or the audiobook, Surveillance Valley by Yasha Levine. The full text and the entire audiobook are available for free in the section on the Internet, below.
A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area
In Search of the Old Radical Bookstores of Old San Francisco
Design Radicals: Spaces of Bay Area Counterculture
Examining the legacy of design activism within [U.C. Berkeley's College of Environmental Design] and its relationship to Bay Area counterculture, Design Radicals: Berkeley in the '60s establishes the historical significance of local experiments in design pedagogy and practice. As San Francisco emerged as the hub of counterculture pilgrimage routes in the late-1960s, radical politics and social change galvanized design ideals in Berkeley. The East Bay became the site of bold experiments in graphic arts, environmental activism, handcraft pedagogy, and self-build technologies.
Includes tracing the origins of the light show to beatnik culture and Buckminster Fuller.
The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area
SEXUAL SUBCULTURES
Radical Faeries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Faeries
Harry Hay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hay
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisters_of_Perpetual_Indulgence
Society of Janus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Janus
N@MBL@
*Freedom's Forum bookstore owner was publishing a journal advocating inappropriate relationships between adults and children and distributing other related materials.
Former San Franciscan scandalized in New Zealand's Parliament
The allegations
Timeline
Peron's side of the story
How the history of the San Francisco Bay Area affects your day to day life:
Denim Jeans
The Remarkable History Of Denim (How It Became an Icon in Fashion)
https://sewport.com/learn/denim-history
https://sewport.com/learn/denim-history
The Birthplace of the Caffè Latte
If you go into any random burrito shop in the United States (especially a big corporate chain such as Chipotle) chances are you will be served a "San Francisco style" burrito, sometimes known as a "Mission burrito" or a "Super Burrito." If the size is larger than your hand and has a flour tortilla and rice inside then it was invented in San Francisco, the most popular nad well-known style of Burrito in America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_burrito
The Martini
Where was the Martini invented? Name is a clue to Bay Area origin
Martini and Myth, Part 1
Martini and Myth Part 2: California Cocktail Courts
SEE ALSO:
Court of Historical Review
and
The Courtroom That Literally Relitigated History
Another case decided by court of historical record:
History of the Fortune Cookie
Popsicles
How An 11-Year-Old Oakland Boy Invented The Popsicle
First marketed at Neptune Beach:
Bendy Straws
Hot Tubs! aka Jacuzzis
Waterbeds
Jukebox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukebox
The Radio Industry
"The radio industry was one of the most exciting forms of entertainment throughout the 20th century, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the story literally began. Many people may not realize that the very first broadcast of a human voice was in the Bay on the station that eventually became KCBS."
https://www.playlistresearch.com/sf-radiohistory.htm
Public Radio also known as listener-sponsored or non-profit radio
22 years before National Public Radio (NPR) aired it's first broadcast in 1971, KPFA became the first station in the Pacifica Radio network and the first listener-supported radio broadcaster in the United States in 1949.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPFA
San Franciscan, Lt. Col. Michael Aquino's mother was Betty Ford, the co-founder of KPFA.
biography via Aquino @ Amazon.com for her book, Pegasus in Pinfeathers: Collected Poems 1919-1928. https://www.amazon.com/Pegasus-Pinfeathers-Collected-Poems-1919-1928/dp/1502847361
Free Form Radio
https://www.ksanjive95themovie.com/
"KSAN had a much broader reach than KPFA"
"Dave McQueen was so trusted by the underground that when heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped he was a source trusted by the Symbionese Liberation Army." San Francisco Chronicle, September 5, 2021
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition-sunday/20210905/282437057231796
KSAN What ever happened to, who's where?
https://jive95.com/whos_where.htm
I actually housesat for two of the original broadcasters at KSAN for twelve years. One of them went on to become the co-host of NBC Overnight.
SEE ALSO:
The [Secret] History of FM Radio
Part 1: The Musical Dream - It Became Your Life – w/ Dr. Hans Utter and host, Jan Irvin - #243 (2016)
https://altcensored.com/watch?v=Iz5iV27Yaz0
The [Secret] History of FM Radio, Part 2: Context and Networks, The Radical Left and Negative Intelligence. - #245
Dr. Hans Utter returns to continue our investigational series into history of FM radio.
https://altcensored.com/watch?v=oiy0JbFssIc
Episode 249: Dr. Hans Utter returns to continue our investigational series into history of FM radio, titled “The [Secret] History of FM Radio, Part 3: A Conspiracy of Networks, Facing the Aquarian”
https://altcensored.com/watch?v=hjNevaEo-ns
Episode 250: Dr. Hans Utter returns to complete our investigational series into history of FM radio, titled “The [Secret] History of FM Radio, Part 4: I am the Network: No Translation without Transformation”
https://altcensored.com/watch?v=RDxbBnXmHdc
Television
The Edison of 202 Green Street: How a 21-Year-Old Genius Invented the Television—In the Shadow of Telegraph Hill
The Internet
READ HERE (full text):
https://we.riseup.net/assets/583212/Surveillance_Valley_Yasha_Levine.pdf
https://altcensored.com/watch?v=Iz5iV27Yaz0
The [Secret] History of FM Radio, Part 2: Context and Networks, The Radical Left and Negative Intelligence. - #245
Dr. Hans Utter returns to continue our investigational series into history of FM radio.
https://altcensored.com/watch?v=oiy0JbFssIc
Episode 249: Dr. Hans Utter returns to continue our investigational series into history of FM radio, titled “The [Secret] History of FM Radio, Part 3: A Conspiracy of Networks, Facing the Aquarian”
https://altcensored.com/watch?v=hjNevaEo-ns
Episode 250: Dr. Hans Utter returns to complete our investigational series into history of FM radio, titled “The [Secret] History of FM Radio, Part 4: I am the Network: No Translation without Transformation”
https://altcensored.com/watch?v=RDxbBnXmHdc
Television
The Edison of 202 Green Street: How a 21-Year-Old Genius Invented the Television—In the Shadow of Telegraph Hill
Microsoft
"Microsoft started in the California Bay Area as a remote engineering site in Mountain View and a sales office in San Francisco."
READ HERE (full text):
https://we.riseup.net/assets/583212/Surveillance_Valley_Yasha_Levine.pdf
LISTEN HERE (full audio):
https://youtu.be/j-aVCT5oxJo
Anton LaVey's Church of Satan was founded in San Francisco.
LSD, MDMA and the Atomic Age
The U.N.
San Francisco — the birthplace of the United Nations
The Sierra Club
The 1960s Counterculture
Aleister Crowley's Church of Thelema
In 1971, Crowley's Thelemic church was resurrected from near death in San Francisco's East Bay, which Thelemites refer to as the Beast Bay.
Anton LaVey's Church of Satan was founded in San Francisco.
LSD, MDMA and the Atomic Age
We will get into Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin and Owsley Stanley being neighbors. Speaking of Sasha Shulgin's neighbors, Glenn Seaborg lived down the road from his fellow Bohemian Club member, Sasha, and was one of a number of other Manhattan Project scientists residing in the East Bay (see the menu on the lower, left).
David Hawkins -- Manhattan Project's reluctant historian
In fact the Manhattan Project was formed at the Bohemian Grove in Sonoma County.
Dr. Seaborg likes to describe the exclusively elite campground and club, The Bohemian Grove, as a place, "where all the important people in the United States decide the agenda for our country the following year."
The "other Manhattan Project" (aka CHEM^TRAILS and H@@RP) was also formed at the Bohemian Grove by scientists who resided in the East Bay
Luther Burbank developed hundreds of new fruit, vegetable, and flower varieties, such as the the Santa Rosa Plum, the Russet Burbank Potato, and the Shasta Daisy.
Burbank himself called the Sonoma County region (North Bay) “God’s gift to fruit growers.”
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/burbank-fruit
Unfortunately, according to Wikipedia "Along with breeding plants, Burbank believed human beings should be selectively bred, and he was active in the American eugenics movement and wrote in publications of the American Breeders' Association as an honorary member. He was also elected to the ABA's Committee on Eugenics in 1906,"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Burbank
His fellow eugenicists, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford came to visit him in the Bay Area. After his death he was painted by Frida Kahlo who as noted earlier also lived in the Bay Area. https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-resources/popular-topics/the-vagabonds/
His "neighbor" Jack London was also a eugenicist.
State's little-known history of shameful science / California's role in N @ z 1 s' goal of 'purification'
eugenics and n @ z 1 s California connection
https://tinyurl.com/yc6jrp6z
State's little-known history of shameful science / California's role in Nazis' goal of 'purification'
https://tinyurl.com/54wszr6h
Excellent analysis of the history of California. Has some great info on Northern California as well. TRR#151 John Adams interview, California Dreamin', The Age of Transitions with Aaron Franz, December 10, 2015 (mp3 download available):
John Adams, co-host of The Afternoon Commute, is the guest on this episode of Trans Resister Radio. Southern California, its history and its mysteries are the topic at hand. As a SoCal native John has a lot of good insight on this topic.
Topics include: California, Irvine, William Pereira, Orange County, agriculture, suburbia, city planning, planned communities, utopia, UC Irvine, dystopian films, brutalist architecture, strip malls, Joseph Eichler, Panorama City, Lakewood, McDonnell Douglas, war based economy, MIC, labor, commute, city, Mexican immigrants, drought, arid climate, weather modification, urban sprawl, Target Town, downtown LA, cooking, fast food, restaurant culture, cronuts, health food, Paul Bragg, aerobics, eastern mysticism, Manly P Hall, Crocker family, Alan Watts, Main Street, Orange, Garden Grove, Walmart, corporations, Long Beach, gangsta rap, cheap entertainment, Jordan Maxwell, cults, the Jesus Movement, Children of God, the Source, Sunset Strip, Annie Hall, Millard Sheets, Home Savings and Loan buildings, Masonic temples
California Kingpin Willie Brown
Subjects: Tom O'Neill's book on Operation Chaos; 50s - 60s, alphabet agencies take a keen interest in the Bay Area. Prep work to bring in
D@RPA Valley / Pent@g0n Valley / NAT0 Valley. The internet was "not just meant to bring us email and entertainment to educate the population" it was intended from the beginning to be a military / intelligence infrastructure. The "Tech Triangle": Berkeley, Stanford, Davis
UC Davis, people think it's "podunk", "There's a lot more there than meets the eye, and that's exactly why a lot of operations are run out of Davis."
"San Francisco is the financial capital of the state of California its probably the financial capital of the far west. There's a Pacific Stock Exchange [which] doesn't get a lot of press. There's a U.S. Federal Reserve in San Francisco. It's a Masonic city."
Organized crime moving from the east coast to the west coast.
Opium trade.
Jim Jones, SF Mayor Moscone, Dan White (and his infamous Twinkie Defense), Cult City by Daniel J. Flynn, FIAT LUX, Chesa Boudin, Sabbatean Frankists.
California Model for Techno-Missionary Enslavement
https://youtu.be/jYR30luUpYI
Local Knowledge in the New Investigative Journalism
https://youtu.be/mPt6lLTLVkk
The most expensive place to live in America:
SFGate says Atherton is the most expensive ZIP code in the country for the fifth straight year.
As of 2023 it's now been ranked #1 for the sixth year in a row (and has been the most expensive zip code on and off since at least 1990).
According to Wikipedia:
Atherton is known for its wealth; in 1990 and 2019, Atherton was ranked as having the highest per capita income among U.S. towns that have with a population between 2,500 and 9,999, and the area covered by its zip code is regularly ranked as having the highest cost of living in the United States.
The SF Chronicle describes how Atherton became the most expensive city in the United States
I also wanted to find statistics from before the tech boom, as close to the time as when I was growing up as possible. The oldest list I could find for a single year, contains 228 zip codes.
Forbes: The Most Expensive Zip Codes (2003, based on 2002 information)
49 of those zip codes are in southern California.
99 of those zip codes are in northern California (91 of those being Bay Area cities and towns and the other 8 just a short drive from the Bay Area proper).
The top 5 for that year include 3 locations in Florida, 1 in Colorado and 1 in the state of New York
Bay Area locations:
Hillsborough was #7
Ross was #10
Diablo was #15
Alamo was #28
Danville came in at #65
and San Ramon came in at #185
Housing 1998-2018: America's Most Expensive Zip Codes, Then And Now
Overview of top 40 (Atherton was still number 1 in 1998)
50 Bay Area Zip Codes Make List of Most Expensive in United States (2021)
The 25 most expensive zip codes in the United States, USA Today (2022)
18 are in California. 9 are in southern California, 9 are in northern California. San Ramon made the list @ #16 out of 25, the average home price being $1,127,000. It's next door neighbor, Danville made it on the list twice coming in at #3 and #7, depending on which part of town.
The average home price in Diablo (3.6M), Alamo (2.3M) and Atherton (10.2M) are also so far beyond the cities on this USA Today list, and the population so much smaller (and Diablo and Alamo are both unincorporated) that they're not even included. Same with Woodside (3.5M) where Shirley Temple used to live, it's incorporated but only has just over 5000 residents.
Nearly A Quarter Of America’s Richest People Live In California. Here’s Why. (2019)
The humble 5 bedroom, 2 bathroom house I grew up in in San Ramon the year that my Dad lost it.
Online real estate photo after it was painted.
The list above was compiled 4 - 5 years after my dad lost our family home in San Ramon due to illness.
My parents lived in San Ramon from 1977 - 1998. We lived in another house in San Ramon for a couple of years while our house was being built. My Dad bought our second house in San Ramon for $100,000 in 1979. It is currently valued at $1.4 million.
I grew up in our second home in San Ramon from age 9 to just a few days before my 19th birthday. My parents continued to live in that second San Ramon house for close to 20 years.
When my parents first moved to San Ramon it was more affordable and more accessible than it has become.
Even when San Ramon was more affordable and more accessible than it is now, Diablo (two towns down the road at the base of Mt. Diablo) has always been one of the wealthiest towns in America. It also has an "old money" aesthetic (by west coast standards).
Diablo, Alamo Ranked As Some Of Nation's Priciest Zip Codes
Diablo, CA
Inside view of Diablo's rich history (2002)
In high school I briefly dated a guy who was a musician in a bunch of punk bands that later became famous. Ironically (or not) he lived with his parents in Diablo.
I had a classmate in college who told our class that her great-uncle was prosecuted for war crimes during the Nuremberg trials. She was from Alamo.
The town next door to both San Ramon and Diablo (on either side), Danville is always on these lists. It's also home to a boarding school called the Athenian School where one of my best friends went to High School when we were growing up, She was the granddaughter of the actor and composer, Frank DeVol.
The next town over from Diablo and Danville is Alamo. When I was in high school I went to a friends house who lived in Roundhill Country Club in Alamo. Roundhill is very similar to Diablo and the Diablo Country Club and they are right next to each other. She also lived in a very old house by Bay Area standards with an old money aesthetic. One of the first things she did when I arrived was show me a secret passageway in their home. She said she didn't know if the secret passageway was constructed during Prohibition or before that and said she had no idea as to the purpose of its existence.
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