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good afternoon. i m with the department of building inspection. we are approaching the sixth year of our brown bag lunch series here at the department of building inspection where we talk about topics related to construction in san francisco. we invite you to join us on the third thursday of every month here at the building department. we have an exciting lineup of shows this year. and one of them, today, is going to be really exciting because we have a terrific guest today. mr. woody labounty. thank you. woody is the founder of the outside lands? the western neighborhoods project. we ll talk more about that. excellent. and the author of a recently published book, which i have a copy of and it s really fascinating and wonderful. he s going to talk about carville by the sea today. we ll look at slides. he ll tell us about the history of the outerlands, previously uninhabitable area of the city. we will invite your questions. so, please, you in the audience if you h
of building inspection where we talk about topics related to construction in san francisco. we invite you to join us on the third thursday of every month here at the building department. we have an exciting lineup of shows this year. and one of them, today, is going to be really exciting because we have a terrific guest today. mr. woody labounty. thank you. woody is the founder of the outside lands? the western neighborhoods project. we ll talk more about that. excellent. and the author of a recently published book, which i have a copy of and it s really fascinating and wonderful. he s going to talk about carville by the sea today. we ll look at slides. he ll tell us about the history of the outerlands, previously uninhabitable area of the city. we will invite your questions. so, please, you in the audience if you have questions, let us know. woody can help. thank you, woody, for being here. thank you. so we re going to talk a little bit about carville by the sea
so thank you. [applause] everybody, congratulate christina olague. thank you very much. we re going right to work. thank you. çççç want to welcome you . of course, we have former mayor willie brown joining us. we have former supervisor sophie maxwell here as well. we have charlotte, a protocol officer. we have all the members of our board of supervisors, our current board. we have naomi s . harlon, kelly, the kids are here. naomi s mom is here bang today. thank you for being here as well. mrs. lee is here. [laughter] yeah. of all, today has been a very active day of the just wonderful announcements, of decisions being made that really reflected the values of the city. i have another one that reflects the value of this city, someone that i have spent privileged to work with for so many years, one began her career as a special assistant, worked her way up as the purchaser, director of purchasing. before that, one of the most difficult task, kind of reminds me of
went out to the sunset district as late as the 1890 s, you wouldn t see these nice grid streets. what you would see is something like this. the sunset district was almost completely sandunes with little patches of scrub here or there. it was thought to be uninhabitable by a lot of people. some people actually put that on the map, called the great sand waste or the great sand bank. it was cold, foggy. there was no infrastructure out there, of course, in the 1890 s. no gas no. real good transportation. no sidewalks. people didn t want to live out there. however, what it did have is a steamtrain line that ran out lincoln way to the beach. it was basically built to bring picnicers, who wanted to get away for the weekend, to go to the beach for a sunday. right here at the end of the sunset district, at the northwest corner, is where carville gets its start, on a little strip of land, a little block that the mayor at the time owned. and that s where colonel daley put up his little