Practices. If we can go to the Public Comment on this item. Commissioner mar and yee . There were a lot of take aways for myself, and i mean, that it was nice and comforting that we had really the largest con tining ent and i felt like we were in San Francisco, even though we are in brooklyn and it is one of the boroughs that are larger than San Francisco and it was interesting to hear some of the streets and the pedestrians itself and the message that they are trying to get across is that the human beings make the mistakes and pedestrian ans will make the mistakes and they can be distracted and we should Pay Attention to that. And one of the things that was interesting, was the opening sort of keynote address, in which the professor there talked about streets in a very different way, and just prior to i guess, in the maybe, in a 1920s or so, and the streets were, quickly changed because of the auto industry. And in which they made and they basically had a campaign, the tree belongs to
That innovation hangar brings, the historic evolution of at t that we get to lead is all a part of this historic is documenting and one thing i think our youth need to understand where we as people come from in San Francisco and what history allows us to be that innovation wasnt just something that an app discovered. It was the spirit of people that have been here for generations. And over 100 years ago if i get to teach the young tech kids what history was then hopefully we appreciate what innovation was across Many Industries across to board about the spirit of people and what we do for each other to bring in a strong community. You are going to find this out if you read this book that i have just been handed thats going to be part of this celebration, the jewel, a city that it is called. I take you back to this very building that we are in. The good symbol of what bernard may back designed this full arts and suggest to you that this began that movement 100 years ago and now the help
May Beck Foundation along with recreation and Parks Department that have done so much even when i was director, phil was there, that we forged together this partnership to include this 20 million renovation in detail; in historic detail, historic confirmation of something that the beautiful and historically significant. Thats part of the celebration. The palace of fine arts is already transforming itself to a show case center to show then and tomorrow theme that was in the 50s continues to be demonstrated today and as we go forward we can have another hundred years of innovate spirit. The california Historic Society the may Beck Foundation, innovation hangar and at t are all partnering with our recreation and Parks Department to recapture this of this national exhibition. I want to say a big thank you to all the organizers. It takes an incredible effort to remind people where we came from. There is a lot of handout of hours that people spent for this opportunity. I want to thank all th
July 13th is our first day but were not allowed to actually maintain it yet at that point. Yeah, we are. I already talked to oh, we are. [laughter] this is how we work, very collaborative. [laughter] so, okay. I want to thank some of these people are here, and some of them are not. If you are here, try to make your way up towards the front here because we all want to hug each other, okay. Kim barnes, our founder of friends of Lafayette Park. We wouldnt be here today without kim barnes. applause art persico, a moving force, our second president of friends of Lafayette Park. Our fourth, mi stefan franz, shila clement. applause our gardeners who have been here throughout helping us on our clean and green days, out on saturdays. If youre here, marianne bertacelli. Supervisor farrell. Phil has been here every step of the way. This started with this started with two organizations that have now merged into a really wonderful one organization. Those two former organizations were brought us two
Incredible then now and tomorrow story as itself as noted back in 1915 when the exposition took place. More than 11 8000000 people from all around the world came to a park. Today we have millions of visitors to Golden Gate Park and some of our other incredible cultural attractions. The then for us also celebrates the decades and decades that the exploratorium was in this site where millions of people and families and kids passed through this very space to explore and to learn and to focus on community. The then has also been about more than 40 years that the theatre just across the way here has hosted Community Music and theatre events again welcoming our Diverse Community from all around the city. The now, is i hangar and the incredible celebration that is going to take place and the now that we are so proud to be focusing on right here. The now is the joyous and really really remarkable park that this has become thanks to our partnership with the may back foundation. The mayor noted