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1 INSIDE News Crime Watch Dace Music Home Sales Art FOOD & DRINK NEW NEIGHBORS B. Patisserie Expads Agai A Step Up o Divis Corer PAGE 5 PAGE 6 Added ext-door space provides more seatig Lodo Market ow Maiso Corbeaux THE NEW FILLMORE SAN SANFRANCISCO FRANCISCO APRIL MAY Harlem of the West Updated, expaded book captures the Fillmore i its jazz heyday By Elizabeth Pepi Silva from harlem of the west FROM HARLEM OF THE WEST T The stars aliged at Bop City Photograph by STEVE JACKSON Jr. Oe of the most famous of the Fillmore jazz clubs was Bop City, o Post Street at Buchaa, ru by Jimbo Edwards. Its after-hours jam sessios became a maget for every famous ad ot-so-famous jazz musicia visitig Sa Fracisco ad for may Hollywood stars, too. Oe ight Sammy Davis Jr. sat i, jammig o the bogos. he eighborhood was jumpig. Block after block of orate but slightly wor tur-of-the-cetury Victoria buildigs filled with all matters of fu. Everyoe who was ayoe could be foud there, dressed to the ies, makig the scee ad struttig their stuff. Locals shakig off the workig week drudgery could walk past Billie Holiday as she opeed the door ito the Champage Supper Club or grab a stool ext to T-Boe Walker chattig at the bar of the Texas Playhouse. Cotiuig dow the street, they might fid Joh Coltrae, Chet Baker or Dexter Gordo hagig out at Bop City, occasioally takig the stage to jam with the regulars. Back o the sidewalk, Diah Washigto s smooth vocals floated over the eighborhood as she practiced i her Booker T. Washigto Hotel room. Durig the musical heyday of the Fillmore District i the 1940s ad 1950s, the area kow as the Harlem of the West was a swigig place where you could leave your house Friday ight ad go from club to party to bar util the wee hours of Moday morig. For more tha two decades, music played ostop i more tha a doze clubs where Youg Turks from the eighborhood could mix with seasoed professioals ad maybe eve get a chace to jump ostage to prove their musical mettle. Fillig out the streets i the 20-square-block area were restaurats, pool halls, theaters ad stores, may of them owed ad ru by Africa Americas, Japaese Americas ad Filipio Americas. The etire eighborhood was a giat multicultural party throbbig with excitemet ad music. THE JAZZ ERA PAGES 8 & 9

2 FINAL EXHIBITION OF OUR SPRINGTIME POP-UP We re pleased to preset recet paitigs by Mary Robertso Poet Laureate of the Russia River For more tha 30 years, Mary Robertso has bee capturig the reflected light of the Russia River, which flows by her Guereville studio. Her itimate paitigs explore the beaches, umbrellas, floats ad caoes that surroud her ad always the light. Says artist Waye Thiebaud of Robertso s work: These joyous ad meditative paitigs are colorful simulatios of cotetmet ad sacred play. Mary Robertso, Three Caoes, oil, 22 x 28 iches May 13 - Jue 10, 2017 o p e i g receptio: Saturday, May 13, from 5 to 7 pm A corer of Mary Robertso s studio, with work i progress. For a video tour of her studio, visit our website. Thomas Reyolds Gallery www. thomasreyolds. com 1906 Fillmore Street Sa Fracisco, ca h o u r s: Ope Wedesday to Suday from Noo to 6 pm 2 NEW FILLMORE May 2017

3 NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS Upper Divis Merchats Form New Associatio A s ew busiesses have blossomed ear the Califoria-Divisadero itersectio, so has the desire to see streetscape improvemets i the area. With the ew busiesses has come ew leadership ow rallyig eighbors together i a ew merchats associatio. The group held its first meetig i April. Orgaizer Tim Hayma, ower of the Scopo Divio wie bar, says the shops ad commercial establishmets o Divisadero Street orth of Geary hope they ca brig attetio ad beefits to Upper Divisadero. Whe I realized there was o represetatio here, I got the idea for the merchats associatio, Hayma said. There has bee a commercial reaissace o Divisadero south of Geary as the area has become kow as Nopa. With the growth has come a ew media with trees ad other platigs, plus wider sidewalks ad other safety ad beautificatio efforts. But upper Divisadero has remaied a o-ame eighborhood, ad it has shared i oe of the improvemets. From the 70 busiesses Hayma cotacted, 10 people showed up for the April 5 kickoff. By the secod meetig o May 3, city staffers were preset to discuss ways various city agecies might be able to help. Parkig is a hot butto issue, said Hayma. A lot of parkig spaces have disappeared i this eighborhood due to a couple of differet bus lies. Havig a associatio will give us a voice. Viewed from Pie ad Steier Streets, the pla calls for ew church facilities over a parkig garage, with apartmets o the right. St. Domiic s Plas 5 New Buildigs Church wats to tear dow school, build ew offices, parish hall, garage, apartmets L eaders of St. Domiic s Church are embarkig o a ambitious buildig program that would demolish the 1929 school buildig o Pie Street ad add five ew buildigs atop a 130-car parkig garage. Three of the ew buildigs would house church admiistrative offices, a pre-school ad a much larger parish hall. They would be built o a above-groud podium over a oe-level, mostly udergroud garage. The church buildig, built i 1928, would ot be altered beyod completio of a ogoig $20 millio restoratio project. It s the parish hall that s drivig this whole thig, said parishioer-developer Bill Campbell, who preseted the plas to three doze eighbors at a April 5 hearig. This is the most active parish i Sa Fracisco. Ad there s a great eed for preschools. The first phase of the pastoral ceter ad residetial project is expected to cost $10 millio ad take 18 moths. The church has begu a evirometal impact report for a secod phase We do t kow whe or how, Campbell said which would build about 120 residetial retal uits i two buildigs o the corer of Pie ad Pierce, with two levels of parkig udereath. The retals will geerate reveue to support the church, said Campbell. We appreciate that you spet 30 miutes talkig about how woderful this will be for the parish, oe local residet told Campbell. But it will be a catastrophe for the eighborhood. FIELD PAOLI!"#$%#&'()*&+,#&-./0&1#2$3+4#*+&(5& 1#34$+("(67&5(3&$ 03##&/8)*&.$*9#3&/93##*)*6 Whe: Saturday, May 20, :00 am-4:00 pm Where: UCSF Departmet of Dermatology 1701 Divisadero Street, 3rd Floor Sa Fracisco, CA FACT: Oe America dies of melaoma almost every hour. FACT: More tha 3.5 millio ski cacers i more tha 2 millio people are diagosed aually. FACT: Melaoma is the most commo form of cacer for youg adults years old. FACT: Exposure to taig beds icreases the risk of melaoma. FACT: Oe i five Americas will develop ski cacer i their lifetime. Screeigs will oly be performed to determie the possibility of ski cacer. Medical cosultatio will ot be provided for other ski coditios such as rashes, abrasios, etc. UCSF fully subscribes to the Americas with Disabilities Act. If you require accommodatio, please cotact the Commuity & Govermet Relatios Office at (415) with your suggested accommodatio, or commuity@cgr.ucsf.edu with questios. May 2017 NEW FILLMORE 3

4 CRIME WATCH Joi our Premier Club ad ear. 0 o your Moey Market Accout 1900 Fillmore St sterligbak.com % APY* Call or visit to start earig more ow! * A T T O R N E Y S A T L A W Represetatio i trials, arbitratios, mediatios ad appeals for all forms of civil disputes Isurace disputes, serious ijury ad wrogful death, medical ad legal malpractice, elder abuse, busiess disputes Our first coferece is without charge. We work o a cotigecy or billable basis to make our services affordable to you. Assault Geary ad 2d March 24, 2:20 a.m. A ma who was eatig i a late-ight cafe saw a group of me come i ad place their orders. Whe their food arrived, the me claimed they were ot give what they ordered ad demaded a refud. The witess said the group the attempted to steal the tip jar o the couter. Whe the witess grabbed the jar to prevet them from takig it, oe of the me puched him i the face. He the followed the group as it left the restaurat ad called 911. Whe the suspects realized they were beig followed, oe ma broke from the group ad ra toward the witess, hittig him. Whe officers arrived at the scee, they located the group of me ad detaied them, the called i medics to treat the ma who had bee attacked. The suspect who assaulted him was booked for feloy battery at the couty jail. Hot Prowl Baker ad Washigto March 25, 5:20 a.m. A woma who was sleepig was alarmed whe she awakeed to the souds of someoe movig aroud i her bedroom. Whe she awoke, the prowler hurried out of the room. The woma followed the suspect out of the apartmet ad oto the street. The burglar evetually reliquished a set of keys she had take, the resumed flight. The woma who had bee robbed retured home ad called 911. As officers were o the way, she gave dispatch a descriptio ad the last kow locatio of the suspect. Officers coducted a search ad foud the suspect hidig udereath a earby car. Police also foud a large amout of stole property that had bee take from the woma s apartmet. The suspect was booked at the couty jail. Parolee at Large Broderick ad Clay March 29, 10:01 p.m. Officers were dispatched to the area after receivig a witess s report of a ma lookig ito houses ad cars. The caller gave a descriptio, alog with the ma s locatio ad directio of travel. Officers located the ma ad detaied him without further icidet. A computer check revealed he was a parolee recetly released from the Califoria Departmet of Correctios. He will be trasported back to priso. Probatio Violatio, Possessio of Burglary Tools Jackso ad Baker April 10, 1:46 a.m. Officers o the midight watch observed a ma ridig a bicycle without a attached light i the dark, which is a violatio of the THE NEW FILLMORE P. O. Box Sa Fracisco, ca editors@ewfillmore.com Califoria Vehicle Code. They stopped him to ivestigate. A crimial records check revealed he was o probatio for burglary, ad thus subject to a warratless search. Officers foud he was carryig a caister of pepper spray, which is a violatio of the coditios of parole. They also recovered a broke porcelai chip from a spark plug attached to a strig, a tool commoly used i auto burglaries, as well as additioal tools used by burglary suspects. The ma was booked at the couty jail. Possessio of Narcotics, DUI Clemet ad 15th April 15, 10:07 p.m. A driver made a illegal left tur i frot of officers i a patrol car. Officers stopped the vehicle ad cotacted the driver ad his passeger. A records check of the driver showed that his licese had bee suspeded. He also had prior arrests for drivig without a licese, as well as a warrat for his arrest. Whe the driver ad passeger exited the vehicle, officers saw arcotics parapheralia ad a ope bottle of whiskey o the seat. They also foud plastic bags with prescriptio pills ad other arcotics, which beloged to the passeger. They the searched the passeger ad foud ammuitio iside his boot. Suspectig the driver had bee drikig the whiskey, officers coducted a DUI ivestigatio ad foud he was over the legal limit. Both the driver ad passeger were booked at the couty jail. Armed Robbery Fulto ad Masoic April 23, 11:19 p.m. A ma was walkig toward the frot door of his residece whe he heard someoe behid him say, Give me everythig you got. He tured ad saw a ma stadig behid him, holdig a semi-automatic pistol, who added, If you resist, I m goig to shoot you. He haded the robber his cell phoe while a secod suspect ra up ad took his backpack. The two the fled i a seda, headed eastboud. The ma who had bee robbed called the police. Dispatch the received two additioal reports of robberies with a gu occurrig a few miutes after the first icidet. A short time later, several uits coducted a feloy stop o a vehicle with six me iside. The idividuals who had bee robbed the viewed the six suspects ad idetified them. All were placed uder arrest. EDITOR S NOTE: All iformatio comes from Richmod Statio, which serves the eighborhood west of Divisadero Street. No iformatio was released this moth from Norther Statio, which serves the area east of Divisadero. Editors Barbara Kate Repa & Thomas R. Reyolds Productio Editor Giy Lidsay Copy Editor Doa Gillespie Advertisig iquiries ads@ewfillmore.com or Published o the first weeked of each moth. Deadlie: 20th of prior moth Subscriptios by mail are available for $30 per year. Please sed a check Sutter Street, Suite 505, Sa Fracisco, CA Old Courthouse Square, Suite 601, Sata Rosa, CA Coectig the eighborhood Every moth, 20,000 copies of the New Fillmore circulate to homes ad busiesses i the Fillmore, Pacific Heights ad Japatow. 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5 FOOD & DRINK DICKIE SPRITZER Ice cream is i; o mo fro yo O Easter weeked, Salt & Straw opeed its ew ice cream shop o the corer of Fillmore ad Sacrameto ad was promptly greeted by a log lie of customers waitig to try its uusual flavors: ciamo acho ad cajeta, cascara shrub with cadied hibiscus, ad teraga baobab juice ad cocout, amog more tha a doze other optios. Salt & Straw opeed o the same day that Fraiche, the upscale froze yogurt shop, closed at 1910 Fillmore. Yoppi, aother froze yogurt outlet, had closed earlier at 2208 Fillmore, just across the street from the ew Salt & Straw. A block south at 2404 Califoria, Smitte Ice Cream has bee servig up its made-o-the-spot artisa ice cream to wide acclaim for almost two years. To b., ad more to b. Also o Easter weeked, log lies of eager customers greeted the awardwiig b. patisserie as it opeed the doors to its expaded showplace at 2821 Califoria Street, just west of Divisadero. The very civilized salo de thé ow offers eve more of Belida Leog ad Michel Suas s breads, pastries ad desserts. There are additioal tables ad chairs for those who wat to try them i the light ad airy moder space. PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRANK WING AT THE MARKET Sausage Just Like His Mom Makes W ith his ready smile ad quick stories, Roberto Davila is a ewcomer who brigs ew life to the eighborhood s farmer s market, held every Saturday from 9 a.m. util 1 p.m. at Fillmore ad O Farrell Streets. He also brigs a uique product, Artesaa Sausages, with a built-i traditio that doubles as quality cotrol. My mother, who s 86 ow, has bee makig sausages for 55 years i El Salvador, he says. Every day she still makes sausages. The brad has bee trademarked i that coutry, Davila says. Ad she makes sure we do it the same way here. She said to us: Do t rui my product. Ad we said: Okay, Mom. I the U.S., Davila grids out the sausages, hadmade i small batches, at a commercial kitche i Sa Mateo. At the Fillmore Farmers Market, he offers three types of Artesaa sausages: bite-sized butifarras, sweet ad mild salchicho ad chorizo. It s really the quality that sets us apart, DICKIE SPRITZER Roberto Davila ad his Artesaa sausages are ewcomers to the Fillmore market. he says. Other sausage makers use filler. With us, it s just meat ad spices. Artesaa also uses o artificial flavors or colors, o soy, o dairy, o MSG, o added hormoes. I time, Davila hopes to achieve the preemiece i the U.S. that his mother has built i El Salvador. But for ow, he appreciates the recogitio he receives by itroducig Artesaa at local farmers markets. People here are much more expressive tha i El Salvador, he says. What we like most is that people come ad tell us that they love our sausages ad they brig pictures of what they ve made ad served. It gives us ideas. But the best feelig might have come last Jue, whe his mother traveled here for a visit. She tasted the sausages ad said: Okay. They re very close to beig as good as mie. STREET TALK Idia, comig ad goig O the same block as Dosa, the majestic temple of souther Idia food at 1700 Fillmore, a ew restaurat has opeed that serves the food of Norther Idia ad the Himalayas. Royal Idia Cuisie has take over the logtime home of Idia Palace at 1740 Fillmore ad refreshed the space ad elimiated the buffet. Ower Ajay Khadka also has Idia restaurats i the Haight ad o upper Market. Up the street, Mehfil Idia Cuisie has give up its corer spot at Fillmore ad Clay, log the home of the late ad lameted Alta Plaza. The liquor licese is beig trasferred to Pacific Stadard LLC. Stay tued for more details. AT LONG LAST BLUE: Drum roll, please: After two years of o-agai, off-agai stops ad starts for Blue Bottle Coffee at the corer of Fillmore ad Jackso, costructio appears to have etered its fial phase. Ad ow there s eve a estimated date for opeig: Memorial Day. OUR MARY: The eighborhood s ow do-gooder Mary Risley (left) was feted at the Ritz o April 7 for 30 years of Food Ruers, her oprofit that delivers food to the eedy. May 2017 NEW FILLMORE 5

6 A row of chadeliers brightes the completely revamped Lodo Market at Sacrameto ad Divisadero, which ow houses Maiso Corbeaux s collectio of wie, beer ad spirits. A Spiritual Rebirth at the Lodo Market By Mark J. Mitchell The widows tell the tale at the corer of Sacrameto ad Divisadero these days: bright ad beckoig, callig passersby ito Maiso Corbeaux, a Aladdi s cave of wies, spirits ad beers. The hagig sig still says Lodo Market, but parters Kyle Nadeau ad Eva Krow the store s ame is a Frech twist o Eva s last ame have stripped the old corer store to its boes ad reaimated it as a destiatio for those iterested i small batch whiskies, collectible wies ad the latest tastes i had-crafted beers ad ales. The ew logo has bee splashed o the street level plate glass. Ad the oce-hidde upper widows bathe a ope sales floor i bright Sa Fracisco light that shies dow o artfully displayed bottles of wies ad spirits from aroud the world. Locals will recogize geeral maager Kyle Nadeau from his years behid the couter at D&M Wies ad Spirits at Sacrameto ad Fillmore. Both Krow ad Nadeau are drive by a passio for the products they sell, ad they ejoy the hads-o ature of retail. They had both worked i the field for some time ad oticed that people were t ejoyig their work. Nadeau sums up their goal: I wat to make retail fu. Kyle started out as a beer aficioado, but his experiece at D&M o Fillmore Street opeed up the world of Champage, fie ad collectible wies ad the uiverse of whisky. It also itroduced him to people who shared those iterests ad, more importatly, had coectios with importers ad producers. After several years, he kew that he had goe as far as he could at the family-owed D&M, ad started to look for ew opportuities. Sittig aroud oe eveig, Krow ad Nadeau started swappig ideas ad both cofessed they d like to have a store to call Maiso Corbeaux offers a depth of collectible wies especially older vitages. their ow. That bega a quest that took them far loger tha either had expected. The trick was fidig a locatio, but locatio aloe was ot eough. They had to fid a locatio with a liquor licese they could buy. The two me origially plaed to ope a flagship store first, the expad to a satellite locatio. I the ed, they took the opposite approach. PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRANK WING While searchig for a home i 2014, Krow ad Nadeau were able to take over space o the lower floor of the secod Bak of Italy Buildig at the corer of Clay ad Motgomery as part of Wigtip, a me s provisioer ad private club. They foud their secodary space first. It took them more tha a year to locate their ideal shop a space they could costruct from the groud up ad stamp with their persoal style. With a locatio i the eighborhood where the Sacrameto ad Divisadero corridors cross, they hope they have foud a wier. The shop is still a work i progress, but is comig together elegatly. It s loaded with desiger spirits, a impressive array of Champage ad sparklig wie, as well as some of the most sought after viticultural vitages from Frace, Italy ad Califoria. While shoppers may be dazzled by the toptier bottligs, there is somethig for all palates ad pocketbooks. A tastig licese is i the works, with wie ad beer tastigs o the premises comig alog soo. Still more excitig is their pla to brig i tastigs that pair their beverages with food. This is a fatastic food tow, Nadeau says. We wat to brig i local chefs for evets. There is such a audiece for tastes i this city. They are excited about what s happeig i the wie ad spirits idustry. Krow ad Nadeau follow the craft beer scee, as well as the burgeoig crossover alliaces betwee craft beers ad had-crafted whiskies ad other spirits. Ad the wie scee is explodig with ispiratio. They say that what sets their shop apart from D&M ad other earby retailers is their great depth i collectible wies especially older vitages ad their coectios with wiemakers ad distillers from across the U.S. ad aroud the world. Ad of course their passio. Come try our ew cocept! We love to fiesta! Olie Orderig & Caterig Call or us today for caterig. 6 NEW FILLMORE May 2017 New food ad beverage meu Fast casual couter service Fresh decor OPEN DAILY from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m FILLMORE STREET Califoria Fillmore (415) (415)

7 DANCE Fidig a Home With the S.F. Ballet By Pamela Feisilber Whe Elle Rose Hummel left Greeville, South Carolia, for Sa Fracisco ad a home i Pacific Heights i 2007, she could t kow that less tha five years later, she would be selected to joi the Sa Fracisco Ballet. As a member of the corps de ballet, she s daced i everythig from Nutcracker ad Swa Lake to works by George Balachie ad cotemporary ballets by hot youg choreographers icludig Christopher Wheeldo, who wo a Toy last year for choreographig ad directig a dacecetric America i Paris o Broadway. I Wheeldo s Ciderella, the fial program i the S.F. Ballet seaso, which rus through May 7, Hummel steps out of the corps to portray Clemetie, oe of Ciderella s stepsisters. Whe did you kow you wated to be a ballet dacer? I have two older sibligs, ad my mom put all of us i ballet; I started takig lessos whe I was about five. My brother wet ito sports, ad my sister loved ballet but did t wat to make a career out of it. I defiitely kew I was iterested, but I did t get serious util I was about 12 or 13 that s whe I had to start adjustig A Ciderella story I its fial program this seaso, the Sa Fracisco Ballet reprises choreographer Christopher Wheeldo s Ciderella, which he reimagied i a woderfully Broadway show-y way, full of faciful effects ad uexpected humor. Early o, we meet the Youg Ciderella, Youg Price ad his fried Bejami, all portrayed by Sa Fracisco Ballet School studets. Bejami hooks up with Clemetie, the stepsister portrayed by eighborhood residet Elle Rose Hummel (above). my schedule for ballet ad sacrificig certai thigs. I wet from three or four days of ballet to six, ad my mom had to drive pretty far for my lessos. The whe I was 16, I moved to Sa Fracisco to take lessos with the Sa Fracisco Ballet School. At 16? ad by yourself? Yes, the school has a dormitory o Jackso Street i Pacific Heights. I remember how woderful the trasitio was at such a youg age. It really helped to be with kids my age who loved ballet like me, eve though we came from differet parts of the world. Beig i a ew city ca be loely at first, but Jackso House felt like home, ad my frieds became family. We were so fortuate to be i such a beautiful eighborhood, surrouded by artists who share the same goal. That s how I got ivolved i the eighborhood. The whe I got accepted ito the compay I had to move out, ad I was lucky eough to fid a apartmet here. I thik [S.F. Ballet artistic director] Helgi Tomasso lives o the same street. What about dacig as Clemetie? Clemetie is a bit softer tha her sister, Edwia. She s the more geeky oe. She has glasses ad she s a little clumsy. I see her more as the positive, helpful oe. There s a ERIK TOMASSON sweet side to her. Before Ciderella, Clemetie was the oe who had her place i the household. Where the stepmother ad stepsisters are beig mea or hittig Ciderella, she does t really wat to; you see a little seesaw process with her. The dacers really have to be actors, too, do t they? You ca get really absorbed i the steps, but oce I paste those glasses o, I m Clemetie. I love beig i character. You have to believe it as much as or more tha the audiece does. The costumes are amazig. The sets, too like the table, ad the way it rotates at the begiig as we re eatig the porridge. I love that part of the ballet, because it gives you a momet to get absorbed i it. Ad I ll be dacig Sprig, too. Sprig has the gree wig ad gree costume, gree face pait, eve glitter o the arch of the eyebrows, framig the gree. It always feels like puttig leaves o my face. What is a typical day off like for you? I ll fid time to take a walk dow Fillmore or meet up with a fried. I love La Mediterraee; the people are always super ice i there. I love their salmo. I love the atmosphere it s very authetic ad very cozy ad I like that it s ot super loud. Palmer s has very good driks; sometimes I ll meet with frieds there. I love the atmosphere there, too, ad I ve always ejoyed whatever I ve gotte. Fillmore Bakeshop the food is always really fresh, ad it s very family orieted. Ad Peet s Coffee, right ext to the bookshop it feels like it s bee there forever. It feels like commuity. HAPPY HOUR EVERYDAY, PM PM 20% OFF All Beer & Wie Additioal 20% off for Scopo Divio Members Half Price Tuesdays Rotatig Selectio of Wie Bottles at Half Price 2016 BEST OF THE BAY $1 Oysters Available For Reservatios O Yelp, Facebook, ScopoDivio.com, or Give Us A Call! Scopo Divio 2800 Califoria Divisadero, Sa Fracisco, CA scopodivio.com May 2017 NEW FILLMORE 7

8 HARLEM OF THE WEST REVISITED Together, They Wrote the Book Keepig Alive the Fillmore s Jazz Era This eighborhood has gotte ito me L og before they met, Lewis Watts ad Elizabeth Pepi Silva had somethig i commo: Both had wadered ito Red s Shoe Shie Parlor at 1549 Fillmore to iquire about the extesive collectio of vitage photographs of Fillmore s jazz joits that lied his walls. Ad both had bee kicked out. Before he could retur to try agai, Watts leared that Red Powell had died ad his treasure trove of photographs had apparetly bee lost. Oly years later would he lear they had i fact bee saved ad were i the back room of Reggie Pettus s New Chicago Barbershop. Those photographs became the backboe of a remarkable eighborhood history, Harlem of the West: The Sa Fracisco Fillmore Jazz Era, co-authored by Silva ad Watts ad published by Chroicle Books i The photographs were widely exhibited ad the book sold out. A secod editio was published i But by 2010 the book was out of prit ad hard to fid. I could t go o Fillmore without somebody askig about the book, says Watts. So we decided to republish it ourselves ad do it the way they had always thought it should be doe. The third editio, which premiered April 29, is bigger ad better i every way. It is larger, with more promiet photographs, ad it icludes a hudred more pages, more elegatly desiged, ad may more photographs ad oral histories. Amog the most sigificat additios: photographs ad oral histories from exotic LEWIS WATTS Lottie the Body ad T-Boe Walker o stage at Fillmore s Champage Supper Club. Author Elizabeth Pepi Silva meets Lottie Claibore i Detroit. Fidig Lottie the Body Lottie Claibore studied dace as a tee i New York. While modelig, she was give the ame Lottie the Body ad quickly became kow as a accomplished dacer, sharig the bill with well-kow musicias ad sigers, icludig Carme McRae, ad etertaier Redd Foxx. I the early 1950s, she relocated to the Bay Area, becomig oe of the most popular dacers i the Fillmore clubs. She met Harlem Globetrotter Goose Tatum at the Champage Supper Club ad the two became a fixture i the eighborhood. The club was big ad beautiful, Lottie remembers. Mixed. The show started at midight. The last show was at 5 i the morig. You kow, it was like that i Sa Fracisco. Excitig. She ow lives i Detroit, ad her oral history ad photographs from her collectio have bee added to the ew editio of Harlem of the West. dacer Lottie the Body Claibore, discovered livig i Detroit, ad club ower Leola Kig, who had iitially refused to participate. Whe she saw the book, she realized we were beig respectful, says Silva. Distributio of the ew editio is still beig arraged. For ow, copies are available at harlemofthewestsf.com. A exhibitio of photographs from the book is ow showig at the Africa America Arts ad Cultural Complex at 762 Fulto Street. I m already thikig of thigs I could look ito further, says Silva. I ever thought this was a lifetime project. This eighborhood has gotte ito me. LOTTIE CLAIBORNE COLLECTION Elizabeth Pepi Silva did the research ad writig ad edited the oral histories. Lewis Watts was resposible for editig ad doig the cosiderable digital restoratio of the may photographs that illustrate the story. Together they have captured the facts ad the flavor of the Fillmore jazz era. Elizabeth s Story My itroductio to the eighborhood was i the late 1960s from the backseat of the family car. We would pass through the Fillmore o our way to Sears Roebuck at the top of Geary Boulevard ad Masoic Street. I recall beig fasciated by the blocks of empty lots, woderig what had happeed to all of the houses. I 1986, I was hired as the day maager ad historia of the Fillmore Auditorium. Bill Graham asked me to research ad write a short history of the buildig. I ucovered a itriguig story. The empty lots ad early deserted streets had, for more tha half a cetury, bee a vibrat, thrivig multicultural commuity filled with shops, restaurats ad etertaimet. The Fillmore s veues drew people from all over the world to play o their stages. Ad early all of it had bee wiped away by urba reewal. The aswer to my childhood mystery of the empty lots was fially solved. I fell i love with the Fillmore s history ad became obsessed. Lewis s Story I first came to Sa Fracisco i 1964, ad I had the chace to go to the Fillmore at the ed of its heyday. By 1990 I was a photographer, ad I bega lookig at the Fillmore as a part of my geeral iterest i Africa America commuities. By 1996 I was doig research for a report o the cultural history of the Fillmore for a proposal to make the area ito a Jazz Preservatio District. Red Powell s collectio of photographs ad other artifacts, alog with a growig body of work Elizabeth ad I have foud over the past 20 years, are a remarkable reflectio of the eighborhood s history. The ever-expadig archive has bee used i exhibitios ad documetary films, icludig the kqed productio The Fillmore, for which Elizabeth was associate producer. Joi us for a upliftig Suday with gospel music ad Chef Lawrece s soulful bruch i the historic Fillmore. Seatigs at 11:00am & 1:00pm Reservatios recommeded. ON FILLMORE WHERE the fillmore district 1300 fillmore street at eddy sa fracisco, ca PARKING public garage RESERVATIONS or LIVE JAZZ NIGHTLY NO COVER CHARGE 1419 FILLMORE ST. AT O FARRELL ST SHEBAPIANOLOUNGE.COM 8 NEW FILLMORE May 2017

9 BEN PEASE FROM HARLEM OF THE WEST JAZZ CLUBS IN THE FILLMORE The 1933 opeig of Jack s Taver, also kow as Jack s of Sutter due to its origial locatio at 1931 Sutter Street, marked the begiig of a ew era i the history of Africa America music i the Bay Area. It was the first club i the Fillmore to be maaged by ad cater to Africa Americas. Soo after, the Club Alabam ad the Tow Club joied Jack s. By the start of World War II, with the explosio i Sa Fracisco s Africa America populatio, dozes of additioal clubs set up shop, icludig the New Orleas Swig Club, the Log Bar, the Califoria Theater, Elsie s Breakfast Nook, the Texas Playhouse ad, later, the Champage Supper Club, Leola Kig s Blue Mirror ad Bop City. Other established dace halls such as the Primalo Ballroom ad the Majestic Ballroom (reamed the Fillmore Auditorium i 1952) altered their bookigs to iclude jazz, blues, R&B ad soul. The Fillmore scee bega to be kow worldwide, drawig Hollywood stars ad famous musicias to its streets ad stages wheever they were i tow. from harlem of the west May 2017 NEW FILLMORE 9

10 LOCALS Keepig the Lights O A old world craftsma ca repair ay lamp PHOTOGRAPHS BY DICKIE SPRITZER Yury s Lights & Beyod offers up a warm eveig glow of light at 1849 Divisadero. By Fracie Brevetti A customer walked i to the lightig shop o Divisadero with a vitage lamp from Eglad shaped as a youg boy flyig. It had bee crudely repaired. Each had held a socket. The arms had bee amputated to rewire the lamp, the glued back badly, with wirig pasted o the outside. The Ukraiia impresario of Yury s Lights & Beyod, Yury Budovlya, took o the miserable specime, detachig the arms ad removig the usightly adhesive. He rewired the lamp, soldered the arms back to the body, leavig the surface seamless ad with a seasoed patia. Whe the customer retured, she was so astoished to see her prized lamp beautifully restored that she erupted i grateful dace ad sog. Not watig to offed, Yury mirrored her with a sog ad a dace of his ow, thikig perhaps it was the appropriate America respose. Walkig ito Yury s Lights & Beyod at 1849 Divisadero is like steppig ito a forest of crystal: fixtures swigig from the ceilig, stadig up as floor lamps, glitterig o tables. Ad o shelves agaist the wall, there s all maer of lightig hardware ad bulbs. I buy from auctios, Yury says. Most of the lamps are from Europe, Frace, Italy, Spai ad the Uited States. Ad 99 percet of my lamps are vitage. For Yury, vitage meas aythig from the 1930s to the 1960s. That was the heyday of quality lamp makig, he says. After I ever overcharge, but I buy the best quality. Yury Budovlya, ower of Yury s Lights & Beyod that came the dreck from Chia ad later Swede thik Ikea ad it s all bee dowhill sice. Yury is a old world craftsma who promises to repair your broke table lamp promptly ad had it back to you better tha before, all at a fair price. 10 NEW FILLMORE May 2017

11 MUSIC AARON LEE CHESHIRE ISAACS Yury Budovlya repurposed wie bottles to create lightig for Scopo Divio wie bar. I ever overcharge, but I buy the best quality, he says. New sockets ad wirig, ew isulatio, sometimes ew screws ad crystals. Yury works with both idividuals ad desigers. Desigers mostly kow what they wat, he says, whereas idividuals come i with questios ad walk out as frieds. Sometimes people come to me ad they ca t afford it, so I say: What is your budget? ad eve if it s $20, I say okay, I ll fix it, he says. I do t eve take their ame; just their phoe umber. Ad whe they pick it up, I say: Fie, thak you. Come agai. Recetly a woma came i to pay for a job doe gratis whe she was dow ad out. He would t accept the paymet. The real moey is i shades. He says there is a everedig huger for the top hats of light-emittig devices. Ad he eve makes custom shades. Nobody does that, he says of other lamp dealers. It s too expesive like diamods. His plas for the future iclude brigig i more shades all made i the U.S. ad more chadeliers. Brig him a problem ad he ca t wait to attack it. Whe Tim Hayma was opeig his Scopo Divio wie bar o Califoria Street last year ad wated to create a uique decor, he evisioed lamps made of wie bottles. A block away he foud Yury ad elisted him to repurpose wie bottles by addig wirig, hardware ad bulbs. Today they hag from the ceilig over Scopo Divio s bar. Ala Scheider, proprietor of Atique Traders o Califoria Street, has bee Yury s customer for more tha 15 years. Scheider says Yury ca do it all, icludig rewirig old fixtures ad makig ew oes. His kowledge is exceptioal ad his work is very high-quality, Scheider, says, also givig the Ukraiia master accolades for attetive customer service. Yury ad his family left their home outside of Kiev i 1989 just as the Soviet Uio was collapsig. The family did ot emigrate for political reasos, he said, but he recalled: It was tough. You could t go to the syagogue, you could t go to church. His mother, wife ad childre came to joi his sister, who was already here. He says it was the right move. I am very happy i this coutry, Yury says. If you are ot lazy ad have a little bit of brai, a little bit, you ca survive. This is the best coutry. Composer-director Michael Coley: It is a tragedy that dimiishes us all. A World Premiere at Calvary A ppalachia Requiem, a ew work for chorus ad orchestra that gives voice to the evirometal cosequeces of strip miig i Appalachia, will have its world premiere o Suday, May 7, at 3 p.m. It will be performed by the Calvary Presbyteria Church choir ad orchestra at the church at 2515 Fillmore. Composer Michael Coley is also the music director at Calvary. He assumed the positio i 2015, succeedig Alde Gilchrist, who served the church for more tha 60 years util his death i I wet to college o the outskirts of Appalachia ad my parets still live there, says Coley. The piece follows the ormal order of a Lati requiem mass, but I draw its texts from Appalachia poets ad ispiratio from traditioal Souther hyms, folk music ad Native America chats. A pre-cocert talk will be preseted o Saturday, May 6, at 3 p.m. at Calvary by Coley ad Earthjustice attorey Marie Loga. LIZA WALLIS PHOTOGRAPHY May 2017 NEW FILLMORE 11

12 LANDMARKS A ope-air turret remais at 2700 Califoria, but without its origial dome. UNCHANGING A Stick Style Victoria from 1886 looks almost the same as whe it was built PHOTOGRAPHS BY SHAYNE WATSON By Bridget Maley The Victoria-era house at Califoria ad Scott Streets has the beefit of a corer locatio ad richly crafted, elegatly proportioed frot ad side elevatios. The house was desiged for Charles ad Elle Chase by the architectural firm of Curlett & Cuthbertso. The commissio aouced o September 15, 1886, idicated the house cost $9,000. The oly major alteratio to this Stick Style dwellig has bee the removal of the dome over the ope-air turret above the Califoria Street etry. A 1938 aerial photograph shows the dome still remaied o the turret. The loss of the decorative brick chimeys that oce projected above the rooflie ad a expertly iserted side garage are the oly other sigificat architectural chages. A small garde, surrouded by a wrought iro fece, faces Califoria Street, as it did i 1887, but there is o loger a rear garde. A beautifully detailed origial staied glass widow adors the secod story alog the Scott Street elevatio. Charles Metaphor Chase tured to the architectural collaboratio of William F. Curlett ad Walter J. Cuthbertso, who practiced together from about 1883 to Oe of Curlett ad Cuthbertso s most sigificat commissios was the Charles ad Mary Crocker masio o Nob Hill. Aother importat project was the Porter Ashe masio at Va Ness ad Washigto, destroyed i 1906, which purportedly cost $100,000 i Ashe was married to Charles Crocker s iece, Aimee. Chase was a Marylader who vetured to Califoria at a youg age. Arrivig i Sa Fracisco i Jue 1852 aboard the Wifield Scott, which he boarded i Paama, Chase sought adveture ad wealth i the ew ad suddely wildly popular locale. His father had bee a merchat who was deeply ivolved i South America trade. From a strog Catholic lieage, Chase atteded St. Mary s College, a Jesuit istitutio i Baltimore. Before headig west, he was employed with a east coast mercatile firm egaged i West Idia trade. After a short, ufruitful stit i the miig regio, Chase retured to Sa Fracisco to work i the office of the couty surveyor, the trasitioed to the ewspaper busiess. He foud employmet with the Commercial Advertiser, the successor to the Daily Whig, where he was associated with David C. Broderick, who was later elected to the U.S. Seate. Chase cotiued briefly at the Advertiser before establishig his ow pritig firm ad publishig the Spirit of the Times, which he later sold to a parter. He subsequetly co-fouded Chase & Bowley, which became a well-kow auctio house, with Robert Lovelace, RN Home Care Supervisor Better Care Starts With Robert s Support. Lea o Robert. No matter what level of home care you eed, Robert, our Home Care Supervisor, ad his highly traied caregivig team stad ready to help your loved oe have a safer, healthier, ad more idepedet life. See why we re the Bay Area s leadig expert i seior care. Free cosultatio SeiorsAtHome.org Michael W. Perry & Compay Fie Custom Framig Atique Prits & Maps 1837 Divisadero MASSES 5:30 pm (Saturday Vigil) 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30 am 1:30, 5:30 & 9:00 pm WEEKDAYS 6:30 & 8:00 am & 5:30 pm SATURDAY 7:40 am Rosary, 8:00 am Mass 1904 FILLMORE STREET hihosilver.com PRAYERS & SACRAMENTS The church is ope for prayer all day ad ito the early eveig. Liturgy of the Hours (Daily) Morig Prayer 7:15 am/sat 8:00 am Eveig Prayer 5:00 pm Recociliatio Sat 5:00 pm, Su 7:00, 9:00 & 11:00 am, 5:00 pm Adoratio of the Blessed Sacramet Mo & Wed 8:30 am & 6 pm Tue & Fri 8:30 pm A Divisio of Jewish Family ad Childre s Services HHA Licese Bush St. (at Steier) (415) Free Parkig 12 NEW FILLMORE May 2017

13 SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY PHOTOGRAPHS Charles Metaphor Chase built the home at 2700 Califoria Street i offices i the Merchats Exchage Buildig dowtow. Soo Chase brached out ad bega cultivatig ad auctioig livestock, joiig the firm of Killip & Compay. Accordig to The Builders of a Great City, published i 1891, Chase formed, with Killip, Covey ad Dickey, the Bay District Racig Associatio. They leased lad, erected buildigs ad created a successful racetrack located at 2d Aveue ad Fulto at the edge of Golde Gate Park. The book oted: This eterprise cost i the eighborhood of $150,000, of which the getlema amed cotributed a fractio over $81,000. The eterprise was quite successful, ad has cotributed much to the improvemet of the breed of horses i Califoria. Chase served as presidet of the State Board of Agriculture ad was a reget of the Uiversity of Califoria. He served o the State Board of Forestry, ad was a active Maso. Of Chase, The Builders of a Great City also oted: A getlema of quiet maers, of varied iformatio ad extesive kowledge of the world, he is a very good represetative of that class of Sa Fraciscas who quietly ad uobtrusively perform their parts i promotig the prosperity of the city ad state. Chase married his first wife, Elle, i 1856, ad she preceded him i death i March Four years later, Chase married Kate Bowley, the widow of his former parter. The Jauary 11, 1899, editio of the Sa Fracisco Call oted Chase s death at his Califoria Street home at the age of 67. His obituary i the Jauary 15, 1899, editio of Breeder ad Sportsma said of Chase: Possessig excellet judgmet, a fie busiess mid ad the strictest itegrity, he devoted much time to advacig the iterests of livestock breeders, ad felt a great pride i the success which crowed their efforts. Chase s widow, Kate, remaied i the house for several years after his death. The, i the 1930s ad 40s, the house was reted to Alma Woodhead, the widow of Suset Magazie fouder William Woodhead, who died i By 1953, the Oka family owed the house. James Kaeharu Oka ad Kosumi Yuri Oka had bee set to a Japaese itermet camp durig World War II. They retured to Sa Fracisco, raised a family ad lived out their lives i this house. The Oka estate sold the house i Today the house is owed by Matthew ad Jeifer Cook. A real estate aget ad developer, Matthew Cook watched closely as a cliet was reovatig the house. As the project was about to be sold, he ad his wife decided to purchase the house themselves. We just fell i love with it, he says. We had see the work that wet ito the remodel ad we just could t let it go to someoe else. The City s Best St. Fracis Wood Offered at $6,800,000 Comig Soo! This exquisite 4BD/4.5BA home is oe of the crow jewels of St. Fracis Wood. 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14 NEIGHBORHOOD HOME SALES Sigle Family Homes BR BA PK Sq ft Days Date Askig Sale 2838 Sacrameto St , /7/2017 5,795,000 6,100, Filbert St , /10/2017 5,995,000 6,350, Pacific Ave /a 130 4/14/2017 7,495,000 6,400, Locust St , /16/2017 6,995,000 8,255, Locust St , /13/ ,500,000 9,300, Pacific Ave , /17/ ,995,000 10,225, Pacific Ave , /30/2017 6,900,000 10,350,000 Gavi Coombs Sells 2-4 Uit Ad 5+ Uit Apartmet Buildigs Do t Be Shy. Good Relatioships I Life Are Importat. Gavi Coombs, Vice Presidet Parago Commercial Brokerage 15 Year SF Market Vetera Gavi GCoombs@Parago-re.com Broker # NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT AND PUBLIC HEARING We re lookig foryour iput! O May 3, 2017, the Sa Fracisco Plaig Departmet released the Draft Evirometal Impact Report (EIR) for the Sa Fracisco Public Utilities Commissio s proposed Biosolids Digester Facilities Project (BDFP) (SF Plaig Departmet Case No ENV). Digesters treat the solid waste i wastewater at the Southeast Treatmet Plat i the Bayview. The BDFP would replace ad relocate the outdated existig solids treatmet The Draft EIR is available for a 45-day public review ad commet period. For more iformatio o where to view the Draft EIR ad how to commet: sf-plaig.org/sfpuc-egative-declaratios-eirs or call (415) Codos / Co-ops / TICs / Lofts 1450 Post St # /10/ , , Va Ness Ave /20/ , , Lyo St # /31/ , , Califoria St # /a 11 3/26/ , , Pacific Ave #1-S /a 18 4/4/ , , Baker St # /23/ , , Washigto St /30/ , , Gough St # /24/ ,000 1,185, Divisadero St # , /21/2017 1,099,000 1,250, Uio St /a 8 3/31/2017 1,089,000 1,280, Sacrameto St # , /30/3017 1,099,000 1,301, Washigto St # /12/2017 1,150,000 1,307, Califoria St # , /13/2017 1,285,000 1,340, Pacific Ave # , /17/2017 1,099,000 1,351, Filbert St #1S , /21/2017 1,388,000 1,388, Gree St # , /6/2017 1,495,000 1,425, Pacific Ave # , /22/2017 1,395,000 1,440, Gree St # , /14/2017 1,099,000 1,450, Sacrameto St # , /27/2017 1,799,000 1,835, Sacrameto St , /5/2017 1,895,000 1,925, Greewich St # , /13/2017 1,895,000 2,150, Lagua St , /21/2017 2,349,000 2,235, Buchaa St /a 10 4/6/2017 2,270,000 2,317, Locust St # , /10/2017 2,250,000 2,400, Divisadero St , /1/2017 2,950,000 3,025, Baker St , /17/2017 2,895,000 3,050, Sacrameto St # , /11/2017 3,695,000 4,000, Jackso St , /5/2017 7,495,000 7,250,000 Sprig sales spike as rai subsides The view of the Presidio from 3515 Pacific. After a raiy start to the year, the traditioally busy sprig real estate seaso got off to brisk start i March, as more ivetory hit the market ad some sellers became more realistic about pricig. There were 35 sigle-family home ad codomiium sales i Pacific Heights, Lower Pacific Heights, Cow Hollow ad Presidio Heights from mid-march to mid- April. That s a 35 percet icrease from the same period last year ad icludes some expesive properties, with o sigle-family home sellig for less tha $6 millio. Three of those homes had bee o the market for more tha four moths ad required price reductios to attract buyers. O the other side of the coi was 3515 Pacific, sittig directly across from the Presidio (above), which sold for $10.35 millio i late March, makig it Sa Fracisco s largest sigle-family home sale so far this year. That home sold i just 13 days ad for a whoppig 50 percet more tha its origial price. The word o the street is that the buyers lived i the home behid it o Jackso Street ad paid the substatial premium because they wated to preserve the views ad esure the home o Pacific Aveue could ot be rebuilt higher. Data ad commetary provided by PATRICK BARBER, presidet of Pacific Uio. Cotact him at patrick.barber@pacuio.com or call PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING Thursday, Jue 1, 2017, 10:00 a.m. (or later) Call (415) for more iformatio SF City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlto B. Goodlett Place, Room 400 Sa Fracisco, CA Para ua copia de este material e español o para más iformació e español, por favor pógase e cotacto co osotros e (415) o Timothy.Johsto@sfgov.org. (415) Timothy.Johsto@sfgov.org. Joi us at FREE Earthquake Safety Fair Jue 15, 2017 from 12 pm - 7pm at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Tier 3 Property Owers: Retrofit Your Soft Story Property TODAY! The Departmet of Buildig Ispectio (DBI) ecourages owers of soft story properties with 3+ stories, 5-15 uits to tur i their permit applicatios ad complete work i advace of the due dates below. Through the Madatory Soft Story Program, property owers are improvig the seismic safety of their buildigs ad protectig the lives of their teats ad families. Compliace Tier Submittal of Permit Applicatio with Plas Completio of Work ad CFC Issuace 1 09/15/ /15/ /15/ /15/ /15/ /15/ /15/ /15/2020 You may be able to add accessory dwellig uits to your property whe udergoig a seismic available. Visit sfdbi.org/softstory for more iformatio. sfwater.org/digesters sf-plaig.org 14 NEW FILLMORE May 2017

15 ART Searchig for the Pyramid of Cats More tha half a cetury after it was created, a eighborhood artist s drawig of cats is still i demad By Kay Roberts My house is full. I have too much art. I eed to dowsize. Ad so, ispired by Marie Kodo s bestseller, The Life-Chagig Magic of Tidyig Up, I bega to dig aroud dowstairs for art I could sell or doate. I was lookig for a old prit I kew was aroud somewhere, but istead I foud a woderful cat poster I did t recogize. Oe cat was piled o the back of aother, from a big lio o the bottom to a perky black house cat o the top. My husbad ad I are cat people, but we had o idea whe or how we had acquired the prit. Perhaps it was from his mother, a amateur artist who loved cats. Or maybe it came from a fried i the Presidio Brach Library o Sacrameto Street, where I worked i the 1970s. We obviously liked ad saved it, but it was ever framed ad has o piholes from beig hug o the wall of our so s room. What should I do with it? It was siged Mario Seawell, Eter the Iteret. I quickly foud out that Mario Seawell is a Califoria artist ad that the Thomas Reyolds Gallery o Fillmore Street shows her work. So I ed the gallery: Are you iterested i this poster or ca you suggest how I might sell or doate it? I see the Sa Fracisco Fie Arts Museums ow a copy ad I am ot iterested i sellig o ebay. I received this prompt reply: Thaks for your message, which comes as a aswered prayer for someoe iquirig recetly about where to fid the Pyramid of Cats. I am copyig Diaa Dee o this message ad leave it to the two of you to work out arragemets. Mario Seawell will be pleased. I quickly heard from Diaa Dee, who wrote: I recetly cotacted Mr. Reyolds regardig Mario Seawell s cat pyramid prit, as I ve bee uable to locate oe. The prit was i my gradparets home whe I was a very youg child ad ow hags i my aut s home. I ve always loved it ad bee mesmerized by it. I m ot sure what you would prefer to do with your copy, but I m very iterested, obviously. I work at a oprofit metal health ceter ad I also do wildlife rehabilitatio (upaid). I hoestly ca t afford much, but I would still like to kow what you would be askig for it. Soo Diaa ad I became pals, Mario Seawell s Pyramid of Cats This has certaily bee a lot of fu I the back parlor of a classic Victoria flat o Sacrameto Street, there lived for may years a puctilious bookkeeper by day who by ight was trasformed ito a Bohemia artist ad writer. With her right had she paited as Mario Seawell. With her left had she wrote as M.C. Wells. I both her right-haded paitigs ad her left-haded writigs, she spet a lifetime explorig the quirks ad cotradictios of her dual persoalities. That lifetime came to a ed o April 7, whe Mario Seawell died at age 88. While her paitigs are lush with rich color ad filled with stories ad symbolism, it was oe of her drawigs, Pyramid of Cats, from 1961, that became her best-kow work ad her biggest commercial success. Two good frieds who admired my drawig of a pyramid of cats suggested I go ito the poster busiess, she wrote i a book about her work, This Has Certaily Bee a Lot of Fu. Oe fiaced the productio; the other ad I split the cost of a small ad i The New Yorker. We immediately received 3,000 orders. The Sa Diego Zoo gift shop became a steady customer. Decades later, her Pyramid of Cats cotiues to be i demad. sharig what we kew about Mario Seawell s Pyramid of Cats. Diaa wrote that her aut purchased the poster whe she was i college ad the left it at her parets house. She remembers starig at the etire poster, but also lookig at the cats as idividuals. She wrote: Sometimes I d test myself by tryig to ame each species or remember their order. I was captivated by the detail i the drawig ad I m pretty sure that poster started my overall fasciatio with big cats ad aimals i geeral. My gradparets both passed away ad my aut reclaimed her poster at some poit. It s wor ad is ot framed. I m ot sure if it ever was. The poster ow hags i the beach house that has bee i my family for geeratios. A couple of summers ago, I texted Mario Seawell s ame to myself ad started lookig for a copy. I was usuccessful, ad had little hope of fidig it to begi with, for some reaso. This past summer, I did the same ad was t so quick to give up. O a whim, thikig I might ot receive a respose at all, I set Mr. Reyolds a message after fidig a coectio betwee the gallery ad Ms. Seawell. Now here we are, thaks to the thoughtfuless of both of you. I was touched by Diaa s story ad happy this eglected poster, which had ligered too log i my storage room, would have a good home. I told Diaa she could drop by ad I would be pleased to give it to her. Well! Remember the old cartoo about how obody kows you re a dog o the Iteret? I just assumed, sice the artist, her gallery ad I were i the Bay Area, that so was Diaa. Not so. Diaa lives i New Hampshire. So I wet lookig for a mailig tube, ad the oe I foud brought back memories of aother happy art story. We had kept a tube acquired years ago o a walkig trip i Frace. At the ed of our walk, we wadered ito a little art shop outside Chartres, attracted by some colorful prits. We dallied a log time ad fially chose oe, but the artist-shopkeeper had overheard that I really liked aother oe better. She said: I ever do this, but I really like you two, so I am givig you the secod oe. I love those prits eve more because of her geerosity. The tube we had packed ito my backpack to brig home so log ago was clearly waitig for aother art trip. Off it wet to New Hampshire, with Mario Seawell s Pyramid of Cats iside, to live with a woma who had bee ispired by it whe she was just a little girl ad loved it ever sice. Ad ow Diaa has recetly become a full-time iter for the wildlife orgaizatio where she voluteered. The Thomas Reyolds Gallery tells us its philosophy is that art is good for you ad ca improve your life. Through this experiece, I have discovered that art ca ot oly make life better it ca eve chage your life, as it did for Diaa. Ad I saw light that flows as a river, pourig its golde spledor betwee two baks paited with the wodrous colors of sprig. Date Alighieri, Paradiso xxx JUDITH SKINNER Fie Garde Desig sfskier@aol.com May 2017 NEW FILLMORE 15

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