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Photographs in this collection have been produced by Heather Do and Kathleen Markham at the request of UC Berkeley Anthropology 136k class, for the purposes of exploring the cultural heritage sites of surrounding Cafe Vesuvio and City Lights Bookstore to embed the rich cultural heritage in the region. This collection documents the walking path from Vesuvio Cafe in the North Beach area, with the intent to gain more of a spacial understanding of different heritage sites located in San Francisco. This collection contains photos taken of the Bay Bridge in San Francisco from the corner of Taylor St and Vallejo St (37.79822°N 122.41334°W),and of Alcatraz Island from the corner of Green St and Jones St in North Beach (37.79870°N 122.41558°W),
Photographs in this
collection were captured on Monday April 11, 2011,
between 7:00 AM and 11:00 AM
Pacific Time, under cloudy and overcast
conditions. Photos were
captured with a Canon XSI (CAM23). Lenses used were a 18-55mm and a 70-200mm telephoto A tripod was used for pictures from Alcatraz and Bay Bridge; Otherwise the stabilizer was off and auto focus was left on. The photos were developed in Adobe
Photoshop Lightroom 3.
Description written by Kenneth
Chiu and Kathleen Salmond, follows Alonso C. Addison’s
proposed virtual heritage
metadata format in his chapter "The Vanishing
Virtual" in New
Heritage: New Media and Cultural Heritage, edited by
Kalay, et al., and
published by Routledge in 2007.
The region now modernly
known as North Beach was once infamous as the Barbary Coast District renown for
prominence in prostitution and gambling which emerged from the destitute
society of those bankrupt by the gold rush. Once an actual beach, it was later,
the area developed into a residential and commercial region by the end of the
19th century, but the remnant influence of the aberrant society. During
the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the region was rebuilt largely through the
use of immigrant labor consisting primarily of Italian and Chinese society; in
fact during the great fires, many Italians were credited for helping to contain
the fire by drenching their houses in red wine[1] . The region was known for the large number of immigrants and became the precursors to the Italian district and Chinatown. Vesuvio and City Lights Bookstore is embedded in this region in a semi liminal region between the two communities which emerged as a consequence of the development of this region; in fact it lies adjacent to Broadway St. infamous for the clubs consisting of nudity and inebriety. Although, our sites of interest came in the mid 1900’s the region largely represented a lack of affluence, prompting the collaboration among many society to be largely accepting of the diversity in which this community is composed. No wonder the Beatnik culture which emerged in the 1950’s in North Beach became largely accepted and although the movement was ephemeral, the society and notions of the past are largely preserved.
All photos Copyright ©2011
Center for Digital Archaeology, Berkeley CA
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For more facts and information about Alcatraz, please visit
www.nps.gov/alca/index.htm
