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SF History Expo 2012

A two-day free pop-up expo at SF’s historic Old Mint with 30+ mini museums and rare historic films | Sat & Sun 3/3, 3/4
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In 2012 the two-day San Francisco History Expo at the Old Mint (in SoMa) showcases 30+ mini-museums set up by local and neighborhood organizations featuring oral histories, artifacts and photographs.

There will also be a special exhibition of 42 photographs, “Elegant Pit Stops,” a display of historic garages in the city, plus historic films, special programs and “celebrity” appearances of legendary San Francisco personalities including Emperor Norton.

2nd Annual San Francisco History Expo
March 3-4, 2012 (11a-4p)
The Old Mint, 88 Fifth Street, SF (SoMa)
– FREE but donations requested.

Presentations:
All presentations will take place in the north Counting Room on the main level of the Old Mint. 

Saturday, March 3

  • 11:15 AM to 12 Noon — Woody LaBounty: Carville-By-The-Sea, San Francisco’s Streetcar Suburb
  • 12:15 to 1 PM — Mike Phipps: Cable Car Operations in the Late 19th and early 20th Centuries
  • 1:15 to 2 PM — Chinese Historical Society of America artist-in-residence Charlie Chin: Dr. Sun Yat-Sen and the Three People’s Principles
  • 2:15 to 3 PM — Mark Kessler: Elegant Pit Stops
  • 3 to 4 PM — Authors’ Forum: Bill McGrane, Tricia O’Brien, Grant Ute, and John Ralston

Sunday, March 4

  • 11:15 AM to 12 Noon — Walt Bilofsky and Anne Schnoehelen: Treasure Island — The Magic City, Past and Future
  • 12:15 to 1 PM — National Japanese American Historical Society: World War II Congressional Gold Medal Recipients
  • 1:15 to 2 PM — Ruth Gottstein, 89 year old daughter of Coit Tower muralist Bernard Zakheim: Creation of the Murals
  • 3:15 to 4 PM — Michael Castleman: Grace Under Fire

Film Schedule
Both Saturday and Sunday
Films will be exhibited in the corner room on the Vault Level.  

11:30 AM to 12:30 PM — San Francisco Media Archive

  • Welcome San Francisco Movie Makers (1960)
  • Italian American Communities in San Francisco (1930s—1950s)
  • Blackie the Wonder Horse Swims the Golden Gate (1938)
  • Chinese American Communities in San Francisco (1941)
  • San Francisco in Cinemascope (1958)

1 to 2 PM — Ron Ross, San Francisco History Association

  • Pre-1906 San Francisco viewed from Magic Lantern Slides
  • From the collection of Ron Ross, Founder and President of the San Francisco History Association

2 to 3 PM — Selections from the California Audiovisual Preservation Project

  • Film Footage of the Panama Pacific International Exposition (1915)
  • The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
  • Go Western Pacific to San Francisco (1935)
  • California Railroad Museum Library
  • Zellerbach Family Home Movie (1929)
  • The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley