voices, so many books. is she the only child that you have? in a way the only way. in another way i have thousands of children all over the world. she came a little late in life for you, didn t she? not for me. i m just beginning to live. when i m 100 years old, come visit me and i ll tell you more storie stories. and are you going to stay here you think for the rest of your life? i couldn t say at the moment. but i would love to. i love paris. i love the bookshop and it s such a great opportunity to meet diverse people and it s a fantastic place. i love acting and the shop is a theater in itself. does the store now make money every year? the store well, i mean, my father knows more about that than i do. i mean, it seems it s kept going for 50 years which is quite amazing in a way because it s run quite haphazardly. it probably is it. it s a wonderful position opposite notre dame but there s also a lot of problems here that need to be fixed and organized.
[applause] 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 audien
you might imagine. can anybody think of something that could be a bit of a problem with horses pulling cars? yes. well, for one thing, horses were living animals and they could get sick. so some industries, some companies, lost thousands of horses to disease, which was just terrible for business. the other thing is a horse can drop up to 10 pounds of fecal matter on the street every day. so you re talking about up and down market street, tons of these cars going back and forth every day. it was just a public noose nuissance, you might say, and pratches a health hazard. so people were excited to find new forms of transportation. and they came up with one we re all familiar with, the cable car. so here on the left you ll see a cable car next to the horse car on the right. the cable car was a great leap forward because it cut the horses out of the equation. cable cars were a lot more energy efficient. they were very popular in cities all across the united states, including chi
san francisco in mind, not just business owners. i am here today basically to urge you to select an interim mayor who will prioritize our nonprofit sector coming here in san francisco. supervisor daly once again called for a discussion of mayoral character polities and possible nominations. it would be a good idea to try this mechanism out and see how it works. the daily would again be disappointed. supervisor maxwell motion for the question to be tabled until next week. the motion to continue passes. they did not want to push the envelope and vote until they had it in the bag, and no one was able to get all that in the bag, so without that, people were afraid to take the vote. if he took it and your friend was not picked, and of story. for maxwell bought determination to delay the voting, one thing she wanted to do was to make sure she could find a consensus candidate. the next week in december, the board met again for the last in the meeting of the board. st
cars? yes. well, for one thing, horses were living animals and they could get sick. so some industries, some companies, lost thousands of horses to disease, which was just terrible for business. the other thing is a horse can drop up to 10 pounds of fecal matter on the street every day. so you re talking about up and down market street, tons of these cars going back and forth every day. it was just a public noose nuissance, you might say, and pratches a health hazard. so people were excited to find new forms of transportation. and they came up with one we re all familiar with, the cable car. so here on the left you ll see a cable car next to the horse car on the right. the cable car was a great leap forward because it cut the horses out of the equation. cable cars were a lot more energy efficient. they were very popular in cities all across the united states, including chicago. and they really took over in san francisco because cable cars could climb hills were horses could