Firefighter in San Francisco but more importantly hes the grandson of victor who managed the development of the murals on the coit tower so welcome pete thank you pete clapping all right. Moving right long we have a distinguished guest arriving sometime soon so rather than buy time i may introduce the next speaker on the program thats i want you to recall it was the board of supervisors who decided to appropriate this money that lilly left to do the right thing in San Francisco and that altercation keeps going with the president of our board of supervisors david chiu clapping. good morning, everyone. The sun is shining on Telegraph Hill i want to thank you for being part of this wonderful, wonderful event and let me start by saying i think for every person here we all have our personal contentions with Telegraph Hill my coit tower 22 years ago i visited San Francisco and climbed up the stairs and looked at the bay and moved to the city a few years ago 18 years ago every sunday i ran up
Ran up here to the top of coit tower this is a special place and we all know for decades coit tower has banana amazing similarly place starting in 1893381 years ago you look great but thank you lilly for your friendship thank you to our grandfather in 1933 im sorry during the Great Depression painted 27 murals that depict our strugglers of working families and labor here in San Francisco that really is a very much part of what our city is about and who we stand for. Over the decades weve had so many members of our community the friends of pioneer park struggled to put together the resources and visit in where we are and more recently thank you to the Telegraph Hill folks yes give it up for them clapping are so many of you who handled the baton to protect the symbol of San Francisco thank you all for your effort i know the mayor is coming but the mayor responded to the request of all i have us on Telegraph Hill and working with our rec and park and our Arts Commission thank you to close
After the great earthquake they came through the newly opened panama canal and it was the moment when this city of the back from the earthquake this moment has a context were proud to welcome you here. The funding for this project came from sooifgz e savings nearly 1. 7 million from savings from our bond measures im very very proud of that clapping with that funding we were building to obviously restore the murals and murals have been restored here over time and the reason it didnt take quite frankly because lilly your building was perfect but not waterproof. So we replaced the roof and repainted the lobby ceiling to bring it up to date and i cant wait for you to see that the murals pop and it didnt look like the coit tower youve ever seen its truly particularly weve renovated bathrooms and thanks to our Proud Partnership our new vendor weve improved the Visitor Experience its really, really beautiful clapping you will see not only the murals but the Museum Quality gift shop this contr
Was in the days when everything was outsourced to private enterprise but she get them up first and treated asia mascot of the firefighters and after her return in the 63 made an honoree of the Engine Company and rode along where the firefighters or which were in parade she tend to prove this relationship with firefighting throughout her life. She died in 1929 and left 1 3rd of the estate to 76 to be used for the purpose of adding to the beauty of the city the city adduced r use to see to build the tower on itself hill and it is the statute of 3 firefighters down in Washington Square so lets here it for this beautiful lady clapping. thank you thank you do you want to say a few words. All of that is true and even if youre not a firefighter your pretty cute but really thank you, thank you so much for this beautiful restoration of my gift to the city its incredible and enjoy it and take care of it. Thank you lilly clapping. i would be remiss if i didnt mention a special guest hes a firefig
For the purpose of adding to the beauty of the city the city adduced r use to see to build the tower on itself hill and it is the statute of 3 firefighters down in Washington Square so lets here it for this beautiful lady clapping. thank you thank you do you want to say a few words. All of that is true and even if youre not a firefighter your pretty cute but really thank you, thank you so much for this beautiful restoration of my gift to the city its incredible and enjoy it and take care of it. Thank you lilly clapping. i would be remiss if i didnt mention a special guest hes a firefighter in San Francisco but more importantly hes the grandson of victor who managed the development of the murals on the coit tower so welcome pete thank you pete clapping all right. Moving right long we have a distinguished guest arriving sometime soon so rather than buy time i may introduce the next speaker on the program thats i want you to recall it was the board of supervisors who decided to appropriat