On 05 February 2009, the Uptown Tenderloin Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places, #08001407 in the weekly list of actions taken on properties: 2/02/09 through 2/06/09.
500 block O’FARRELL STREET
The entire set of survey photos that were submitted to the National Park Service can be seen here.
I have added beautiful old postcards for some of the hotels in Part Three: Uptown Tenderloin. A few examples are shown below:
Volumes One and Two of Up from the Deep are reviewed in today’s issue of BeyondChron.
Look around you, take in everything and remember, for the day will come when your memories are all that remain.
(Beach burr, Rodeo Beach, Marin County.)
Paintings, drawings and photographs of the central city
TWO PERSON ART EXHIBIT AND BOOK RELEASE
PATRICIA ARAUJO and MARK ELLINGER
(Click on image below to read exhibit invitation)
SOMA SEEN – front cover
Copyright © 2002, Patricia Araujo.
Graphite & pastel on aircraft metal, 18″ x 15.5″ framed.
Copyright © 2008, Mark Ellinger.
Giclee print on fine art paper, 13″ x 17.3″ (20″ x 24″ matted and framed).
On 25 July 2008, the State Historical Resources Commission voted unanimously to create the Uptown Tenderloin Historic District, with Federal approval and the district’s addition to the National Register of Historic Places likely to follow in as little as 45 days. Thanks to Leroy and Kathy Looper and Randy Shaw, who spearheaded the effort; to Elaine Zamora and the North of Market/Tenderloin Community Benefit Corporation, Dina Hilliard of TNT (The New Tenderloin), David Seward, U. C. Hastings, and Captain Gary Jimenez of the Tenderloin Station for their rock-solid support; and to Michael Corbett, architectural historian par excellence, for his dedicated work, resulting in the extensive, highly detailed survey that won the state’s approval and for which I had the distinct honor of being the photographer. The entire community was pulled together by this endeavor, which holds such promise for making the Tenderloin a better place for all. Survey photos can be seen here.
300 block EDDY STREET
JEOFLIN at LANGTON GARDENS, 2005
Few people have been as committed to improving their community as Jeoflin Roh. A founding member of the Central City Restorative Justice Project, the Central City SRO Collaborative and the Positively 6th Street Community Fair, Jeoflin’s far-reaching activism in one way or another has touched the lives of all who live in the central city. In the early morning hours of August 2nd, the day of the 7th Annual 6th Street Fair, a brain tumor claimed his life. He was one of a kind, genuinely eccentric, a kind and gentle soul, sometimes unpredictable, often misunderstood, but loved by those who knew him. Jeoflin was the torch bearer for community-based restorative justice in San Francisco, and continued to work until the very end.
Knowing not when we will die,
But knowing that some day we must;
Living life to its fullest without fear of death
Means living each moment as though it were our last.
So you did, Jeoflin, so you did.
My thanks to all who attended Jeoflin’s memorial, especially his family, for helping to give Jeoflin the warm and loving tribute he deserved.
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