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During this period, the school underwent several transformations: becoming San Francisco State Teachers College in 1921, San Francisco State College in 1935. [10] The shift to the current Lake Merced campus began during the Great Depression, when the site was still owned by Spring Valley Water Company. In 1939, SF State President Alexander ...
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San Francisco State University's original campus was on Nob Hill, where it was established as the San Francisco State Normal School on Powell Street between Clay and Sacramento Streets. The 1906 earthquake and fire forced a relocation to Buchanan and Haight Streets, where the institution would remain for several decades. [ 77 ]
Sims told Mpls.St.Paul in 2020 that she wanted the bookstore to be "a place people can go for self-empowerment" through "education, connection, [and] the pursuit of knowledge". [4] In 2023, Sims told the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder that every single book carried in the store is by Black, Indigenous, or other people of color. [9]
Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day nationwide, but we love books so much in Minnesota that the "day" lasts from Wednesday through Sunday. During that time, 28 Twin Cities shops will be part of ...
City Lights was the inspiration of Peter D. Martin, who relocated from New York City to San Francisco in the 1940s to teach sociology.He first used City Lights, in homage to the Chaplin film, in 1952 as the title of a magazine, publishing early work by such key Bay Area writers as Philip Lamantia, Pauline Kael, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Ferlinghetti himself, as "Lawrence Ferling".
The store has remained independent and family-owned since its founding, [1] and it is considered a community space for African-American and literary culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. [ 3 ] The former bookstore building, located at 1712–1716 Fillmore Street has been listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark , since 2013.
In 1995, San Francisco State alumni Geoff Marcy and Paul Butler discovered two new Jupiter-sized planets within 35 light-years of Earth, including one that could contain elements for organic life. They discovered another planet about 40 light years away less than three months later.