It was to give them an outlet creatively and features a variety of performances to do that. This is a graduating senior and also here Maria Rodriguez and a senior at San Francisco state university. They are part of the sorority. Welcome to the show. Hello. First of all, when i told a little bit about the history but tell us how this event started and why. It was founded in 2002 and created by two of our sisters. It started really small in a gym. It was first created because tinati pinays, a lot of them want their daughters to be nurses. A at of us have aspirations not to be nurses. It was a way for us to show what we are truly made of and our true passion through singing, dancing and spoken word. And i said i had interviews with pinays. They were saying the same thing then, that their girls were pressuring them to go into more traditional careers. Is this something pinays still have to fight through . I think it is still ongoing. Little bit of resistance there . Yeah. What do they show
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Hon. Commissioners director forbes and port seven thank you for allowing me the opportunity to tell you about pier 39 birthday celebration. In the late 1970s savvy San Francisco businessman Warren Simmons dreams of building an urban park along the citys underdeveloped waterfront. October 4, 1978 simmons dream became a reality. When he transformed his dilapidated cargo pier into pier 39 and eclectic collection of Specialty Shops restaurants and attractions. The First Public Private Partnership project built along the embarcadero since world war ii pier 30 on pave the way for future development on alongside the bait. In the beginning the property was built in controversy and various legal battles. After opening to the public it was evident that tenant sales were much lower than anticipated. Due to these issues and only three years after opening to the public pier 30 or so to warren souths forte was to take undervalued and underperforming Retail Properties and bring them to their full pot
Report good afternoon members of the commission. Members of the public and port simon lake forbes or director. The first item is to congratulate pier 30 on august 30 ninth birthday. It was october of 1978 that pier 39 opened on schedule i here to here in San Francisco. At its opening pier 39 had 50 stores, 23 restaurants, a diving pool and street performers. Today it is a twolevel open air festival marketplace which owes 60 Specialty Retail shops 20 attractions 14 restaurants including the rock cafe and bubblegum shrimp cold pier 30 on offers breathtaking views of the bait out because Golden Gate Bay bridge and the 300 berth marina and live daily entertainment. One in three visitors to San Francisco goes to pier 39. Today we have kept the paper here. Shes the Senior Vice President of marketing for pier 39 and shes come here to talk to us about the yearlong celebration that pier 39 is kicking off an Senior Vice President she is responsible for the continued development and implementatio
Game that has grown into a huge pastime and for some, an obsession. And then, we continue our tradition of a live artistic cultural performance with our bay area dance group with a performance. All that on our show today. I grew up in the bay area, and dont know if i have ever emissed a Cherry Blossom festival. The past few years, my family has been honored to be in the parade, but i still remember the family comes to San Francisco to a festival that just team seemed to get bigger and bigger and never lost the initial charm. Here to join us through the festival, are george, a longtime volunteer and festival chairman and emcee for the parade, nicky is also here. Shes a grand parade emcee as well as a director and choreographer for the Cherry Blossom Queen Program. Good to see you. Thoank you for having us her. You were showing us this comic book we have to show people. Hold it up for the camera. Its an old dennis the menace comic book from 1977 that actually featured the Cherry Blossom