San Jose Modern Tour (October 9th)

Mark your calendars for what will be a first-ever tour of modern commercial architecture in San Jose. Brought to you by the Northern California Chapter of DOCOMOMO and Heather David, author of Mid-Century by the Bay, as part of the DOCOMOMO-US National Tour Day on Saturday, October 9th. The tour runs from 9 am to 6 pm. Tickets are $20 for members and $25 for non-members. Email rsvp@docomomo-noca.org for more information.

Free Film Festival about Architecture

During the month of September, watch free movies about architecture and the built environment!

AIA San Francisco’s Architecture and the City Festival runs from September 1 through September 30, 2010. The festival’s film series celebrates the relationship between architecture and celluloid through documentary films, which spotlight the built environment, the architectural profession, and the ever-mythical architect’s ego.

A different film will be shown on Wednesday evenings at 6 pm at the San Francisco Main Library, Koret Auditorium. The films are free, but registration is required. The films include:

The Last Wright (Sept. 1): “This film offers a provocative, ironic tapestry of an American century, tracing the life, death and rebirth of a Midwest downtown through the prism of The Park Inn,” a hotel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City (Sept. 8): The film explores Burnham’s “compelling concept of what a civilized American city could look like that provided a powerful framework for Americans to make sense of the world around them.”

Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner (Sept. 15): “Infinite Space traces the lifelong quest of visionary genius John Lautner to create ‘architecture that has no beginning and no end.’”

A Necessary Ruin and Other Architectural Shorts (Sept. 22): This film presents a “compelling narrative” about Buckminster Fuller’s Union Tank Car Dome, located north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Constructed in 1958, it was the largest clear-span structure in the world. The evening also features The Image of the City and So What?, among other architectural shorts, followed by a conversation with the filmmaker.

FLOW (Sept. 30): “Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigates what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century—The World Water Crisis.”

Visit AIA San Francisco’s website for additional information about the film festival.

2010 Preservation Bowl-O-Rama

HeritageYP invites you to the 2010 Preservation Bowl-O-Rama!  Join us for a fun evening of bowling at Presidio Bowl in San Francisco: http://www.presidiobowl.com/.

The event will take place on Sunday, September 19, from 5-8 pm.

The cost will be $20 per person, and it will include three hours of bowling and all-you-can-eat pizza. (Shoe rental will be extra.)

Everyone is welcome to attend, and firms, non-profits, government agencies, and students, etc. can form their own teams (just let us know if you have a pre-arranged team when you RSVP). If you don’t have a team, RSVP anyway and we will find one for you. We will have prizes! We will award trophies!

To RSVP: Please email Caitlin Harvey at caitpaige@gmail.com.

Directions by car: The Presidio does not use a street number system for addresses. You can use this map for directions: http://www.presidiobowl.com/4.html. Or you can enter “Moraga and Montgomery Streets” in the address field and “94129″ for the zip code. Do not enter a city. There is a large parking lot in front of the building if you are driving.

Directions by public transit: The #28 and 43 buses stop within a couple of blocks of Presidio Bowl. You can plan your trip here: http://tripplanner.transit.511.org/

Hope you can come!

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Tour of Oakland’s Fox Theater

Wednesday, November 11, tour starts at 6:30pm. Click flyer for more details

Happy Hour at Little Shamrock

HeritageYP invites you to a our monthly happy hour at the historic Little Shamrock on Tuesday, September 29^th from 6:30 – 8:00 pm. Located in the Inner Sunset just south of Golden Gate Park, this bar opened in 1893 during the construction of the California Midwinter International Exposition held in the park the following year. It’s reportedly the second oldest bar in the city. Stop by after work and mingle with fellow preservationists!

Event Details:

HeritageYP Happy Hour

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

6:30 – 8:00 pm

Little Shamrock

807 Lincoln Way
(between 9th & 10th Avenues)

The N-Judah and the # 6, 43, 44, 66, and 71 bus lines stop within two blocks of the bar.

Governor: No state parks to close

Under fire from park supporters and the state’s own attorneys, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said today that no state parks will be completely closed to help solve the state’s budget woes.

Instead, the governor’s new plan, which some say is little more than a shell game to save face, would slash $14.2 million from the park budget this year by closing campgrounds and facilities on weekdays, reducing seasonal and administrative staff and cutting back on things like bathroom cleaning.

The idea is to allow all 279 state parks to remain open this fiscal year. More options would be explored Jan. 10 when legislators consider next year’s budget, according to a statement released this afternoon.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/25/BALH19STOH.DTL#ixzz0SPsySNPB

Tonga Room featured in SF Chronicle article…

As a follow-up to our recent work on the Tonga Room,  John King from the San Francisco Chronicle offers his opinion of the Tonga Room’s situation. Check it out:

http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/king/

HeritageYP Invades Trad’r Sams for Polynesian Pop in the U.S.

On August 25, HeritageYP hosted a happy hour and lecture in one of San Francisco’s historic tiki bars, Trad’r Sams, which originally opened in 1941. Architectural Historian Christopher VerPlanck presented a brief lecture on the history of Polynesian Pop in the United States. His lecture discussed the evolution of Tiki culture from its emergence in the 1930s as bartenders raced to invent the most imaginative cocktails to the development of “High Tiki” in the 1960s as best seen in San Francisco’s famed Tonga Room.

Polynesian Pop Lecture @ Trad'r Sams

Oddball Films historic SF movie night

Join HeritageYP for an evening at Oddball Films for a screening of original rarely seen movies and clips of historic San Francisco. MORE INFO…