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INSIDEUpfrontCrime Watch24Q&A: Jason OlaineHome SalesReal Estate101415 LOCALS BOOKSFinding Fate— and FaithThen CameRedevelopmentAuthor Maya Angelou’sneighborhood rootsAs Fillmore was razed,jazz gave way to rockPAGE 3PAGE 11THE NEW FILLMORESANSAN FRANCISCOFRANCISCO APRILJULY 20132010SupportersRally to KeepMarcus Bookson FillmoreOldest black bookstorein the U.S. is endangeredIJazzFest returns July 6 and 7Poster art bySANDY OSTRAUFillmore Street comes alive with the sights and sounds of jazz on July 6 and 7when the Fillmore Jazz Festival, the largest free jazz event on the West Coast,returns to the neighborhood. Three stages of jazz and blues highlight thefestival, which takes over the street from Jackson to Eddy Streets with art,crafts, food and drink.ENTERTAINMENT SCHEDULE PAGES 8 & 9t had been whispered on the streetfor weeks: The venerable New ChicagoBarbershop had closed and another blackFillmore institution, Marcus Books, wouldsoon be closing, too.Before the lavender Victorian at 1715 Fillmore that houses Marcus Books was movedfrom its original location a few blocks awayat 1690 Post, it was home to Jimbo’s BopCity, a legendary after-hours joint that features prominently in the neighborhood’s jazzhistory. Before that — before neighborhoodresidents of Japanese descent were rounded upand sent to internment camps during WorldWar II — thebuilding hadhousedtheNippon DrugCo. in the heartof Japantown.“Perhaps noother structurein San Francisco has suchan extraordinarystory,”the Chroniclereported in asplashy featurestory in mid“We areMay. But thearticle did notrefusing to letmention thatMarcus Booksthe building hadchanged handsclose.”at a bankruptcysale a few weeks– ARCHBISHOP FRANZ KINGearlier, and thatits street-level tenant, the oldest black bookstore in the country, was endangered.That story went public on Sunday, June9, when the front page of the Examiner proclaimed “Closing Chapter” and a headlineinside reported: “Marcus Books on brink ofclosure.”The next day a phalanx of black leadersassembled at Marcus Books before a group ofreporters and television cameras to decry theevents that had endangered the bookstore.“Complicity!” thundered Rev. Amos Brown,president of the local chapter of the NationalAssociation for the Advancement of ColoredPeople. He inveighed against redevelopmenTO PAGE 5 X
UPFRONTLOCALS MADE GOODBenjamin Britten’s Powerful OperaTHE RAPE OF LUCRETIAMaya AngelouFound Her FateNear FillmoreEverett Auditorium450 Church StreetSan Francisco‘Suppose I really amgoing to be somebody’MISCHIEF & MADNESSA Quest For Power.A Friendship Tested.A Violent BetrayalFor Tickets call the San Francisco OperaBoX OfÚce at or visit merola.org.75th Buddhist Church of San FranciscoGinza JulyBazaar20 - 21, 20131881 Pine Street at OctaviactaviaBAZAARSaturday – Noon - 8PMAM - 7PMSunday – 11AMBON ODORI & TAIKOThis issue of the New Fillmore includes, on pages 11 to 13, anexcerpt from Season of the Witch, a new book by San Franciscojournalist and author David Talbot that chronicles the city’sturbulent years between 1967 and 1982 — including a number of pivotalevents that took place close to home in the Fillmore.Talbot has written a book full of heart and extensive research, but it’snot an easy read. Much of what went on during the aftermath of the ’60scultural revolution here was horrifying and shameful. Among the eventsthat rocked the city: the political assassinations of Mayor George Mosconeand Supervisor Harvey Milk, street riots and the AIDS epidemic.No small measure of the horror and shame occurred right in thisneighborhood — especially the disingenuous destruction wrought inthe Fillmore by the city’s redevelopment agency, which gave rise to aneighborhood history of displacement and hurt that has not yet completelyhealed.“The demolition of the Fillmore district was the greatest sourceof poison in the city’s black-and-white relations,” Talbot writes. “Theuprooting of the neighborhood’s population not only stirred a simmeringrage among those black residents who clung on, but also wiped out muchof the community’s business bedrock and stable leadership. The subsequentvacuum — a social and economic void as desolate as the neighborhood’sweed-choked vacant lots — would attract various types of mischief andmadness for years to come.”At the top of the madness was the rise and fall of Jim Jones — acharming and politically savvy preacher who took over a former templeon Geary Boulevard located where the post office now stands — andrefashioned it as the People’s Temple. At first embraced and courtedby local politicians, Jones later became infamous for leading one of thedeadliest cults in U.S. history when more than 900 people — many fromthe Fillmore — lost their lives in a suicide pact carried out in the jungleof Guyana.“Jones moved into the Fillmore at its most vulnerable moment,” Talbotwrites. “Urban renewal czar Justin Herman had ‘literally destroyed theneighborhood,’ observed neighborhood activist Hannibal Williams, and‘people were desperate for solutions, something to follow. Jim Jones wasanother solution. He had a charismatic personality that won the hearts andsouls of people. And people followed him to hell. That’s where Jim Joneswent. That’s where he took the people who followed him.’ ”Season of the Witch is available at Browser Books on Fillmore Street andother local bookstores.Sunday – 1-3PMMSATURDAY CULTURALEVENTSLEVYdanceJCCCNC Hula HalauGen TaikoKendo, Ikebana, Tai ChidemonstrationsAccu-pressure BoothBAZAAR MENU ANDACTIVITIESChicken Teriyaki, Kalua Sliders,Daruma Hot Dogs, Gyoza,BBQ Shortribs, Udon, ChirashiSushi, Hibachi Tofu, Spam Musubi,Homemade Baked Goods, Shaved Ice,Beer, Wine, Sake BarHandmade Arts & Crafts, Books,Silent Auction, Childrens Games,3KRWR %RRWK %LQJR 5DIÁH 3UL]HVwww.bcsfweb.org(415) 776-31582 NEW FILLMORE July 2013DWIGHT CARTERJuly 11 at 7:30 pmJuly 13 at 2:00 pmMaya Angelou and UnityAuthor, singer, poet, orator, actress and civilrights activist Maya Angelou has had many jobsin her storied life — including, when she wasgrowing up in the Fillmore, a stint as a calypso dancer atthe Purple Onion in North Beach.Recently Angelou recalled her first job: as a San Francisco streetcar conductor.“I liked the uniforms,” she says. So the 6-foot-tall16-year-old applied for a job. “I had seen women on thestreet cars,” she says. “I just had not noticed they were allwhite. It hadn’t occurred to me.”When they wouldn’t even give her an application,“I was crestfallen,” she says.Then her mother put steel in her spine.“Go get the job,” her mother told her. “You want it,then go get it.”She went back to the office, taking along “a big Russian novel” to read while she waited.“By the third day, I wanted to return home,” she says.“But I didn’t want my mother to know I wasn’t as strongas she thought I was. So I sat there for two weeks. Andfinally a man came out and asked me in.”On Sunday, July 21, Unity Church at 2222Bush Street, near Fillmore, will celebrateits 94th anniversary and author MayaAngelou will join in via an intimate telephoneinterview with Rev. Denese Schellink. In theconversation, Angelou elaborates on her earlyexperiences in San Francisco, where she firstembraced Unity’s teachings. All are welcometo attend the special service, which will includeSan Francisco-themed music as well as icecream and snacks. The celebration will start at10 a.m. For more information, call 474-0440.Her tenacity won him over — along with her claimof experience working as a “chauffeurette for Mrs. AnnieHenderson in Stamps, Arkansas” — her grandmother.“He accepted me and I got the job,” she says. “Thatwas really my mother’s doing. She was so strict — and sosure about me.”“I continued down to Fillmore and waited for the22 car,” she says. “I remember getting on the streetcar. Iremember the wooden seat and the sunlight on it — Iremember all of that. And I thought, ‘Suppose she’s right.Suppose I really am going to be somebody.’ ” Some years later, still in San Francisco, Angelou saysshe was stirred by a powerful spiritual awakening. She wasbrought to Unity Church by her voice teacher, who wasnoted for working with opera stars. He passed around thebook Lessons in Truth, the classic summation of Unity’sphilosophy, and asked her to read a portion.“I read a portion which said, ‘God loves me,’ ” Angelousays. “He asked me to read it again. And I read, ‘God lovesme.’ Then he asked me to read it again. He seemed to beputting me up for laughter,” she says, recalling that all theother students in the room were white and older.“And finally, out of desperation, I read: ‘god. loves.me.’ It still amazes me. I heard it. I don’t mean I just listened to it. I mean my soul heard it,” she says. “That wasover 50 years ago. And I have been a student of Unityfrom that day to this.”Angelou says her mother was again a catalytic force inher life a few years later.“When I was 22, I walked down Fulton Street withher,” she says, between Fillmore and Steiner.“On the corner there used to be a mayonnaise andpickles place,” she says. “And the aroma of the vinegar —I can remember it now, 60 years later.”“My mother said, ‘Baby, I think you’re the greatestwoman I’ve ever met.’ I looked down at her — this prettylittle woman with diamond earrings, a beautiful smile andmake-up — and she owned a hotel. She said, ‘EleanorRoosevelt, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune. You’re in thatcategory.’ ”With that, her mother kissed her and jaywalked acrossthe street to her car. Little treats thatmake you feelpampered.Indulge your senses and nourishyour body & soul with bath andbody care bliss!10 OFF 75 purchase or moreOne per customer. 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NEE PAINCRIME WATCHVehicle Burglary, Possessionof Stolen PropertyBush Street and Van Ness AvenueMay 16, 12:05 p.m.pected of purse-snatching was transportedto Northern Station and the man whoacted as a lookout was released.Plainclothes officers conducting an autoburglary abatement operation received acall about an auto burglary in progress. Thewitness described the suspect as an unusually large man with a bandana covering hisface who had removed two bags from theback seat of a car.As the officers arrived, the suspectshouted, “I didn’t break into no car. I boughtthis stuff from a fat guy for drugs.” Whenthey ran a computer check, they learned hewas on probation for auto burglary.The police then met with another witness, who said he had seen the man working his fingers into the vehicle’s window;he managed to force it open without breaking the glass. Officers then contacted thevehicle’s owner, who identified the stolenbags as her property. The suspect was transported to Northern Station.Stolen Vehicle, Traffic ViolationBush Street and Van Ness AvenueMay 26, 5:08 p.m.Stolen Vehicle Recovery,Possession of Counterfeiting MachineryBush Street and Van Ness AvenueMay 24, 4:35 a.m.Officers on patrol saw a silver DodgeChallenger with dark headlamps drivingin the opposite direction. The car appearedto have fresh front-end damage; the frontbumper was grinding against the front tire.They pulled the car over. As they approachedthe driver, they noted that his movementswere clumsy and repetitive. Officers toldhim repeatedly to roll down the driver’s sidewindow as he continued to fumble withhis wallet. When he opened the windowthey were met with the powerful odor of analcoholic beverage. The driver said he wascoming from a nightclub and was headedhome to the East Bay. An officer helpedhim from the car and showed him the damage. He responded, “Wow.” Officers thenattempted to perform field sobriety tests,but he refused. They handcuffed the suspectand transported him to Mission Station,where a test showed his blood-alcohol content was over twice the legal limit. He wasbooked at Northern Station.Officers received a call from a manwho said he was watching another manusing a screwdriver to remove the hoodornament from a black Mercedes. Whenofficers arrived, they noted a second blackMercedes parked about 15 feet from theMercedes that had been vandalized. Threemen were inside the first car, where officersfound a key fob for a Mercedes. When oneofficer hit the lock button on the fob, itactivated the lock and flashed the lights onthe other nearby Mercedes. A records checkon this Mercedes revealed it had been stolen. Officers then checked the trunk of thefirst Mercedes and found various machinesand materials used to manufacture fakecredit cards, along with a number of stolenID cards. The suspects also had lists withpeople’s names and dates of birth.Officers contacted one of the peoplewho had been targeted, who told themhis wallet, credit cards and military identification had been stolen earlier in theyear; he added that someone had tried tosteal money from his bank account. Thesuspected counterfeiter was transported toNorthern Station, where he was booked onnumerous theft-related charges.Burglary, Possession of Burglary ToolsFillmore and California StreetsMay 25, 12:15 p.m.Don’t suffer another day.Our fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeons specialize in:s !NTERIOR !PPROACH (IP 2EPLACEMENTs 0ARTIAL AND 4OTAL NEE 2EPLACEMENTs 4OTAL *OINT 2EPLACEMENTThe Orthopedic Leaders in San Francisco./UR COMPREHENSIVE ORTHOPEDIC PROGRAMS OFFER THE MOST ADVANCEDTECHNIQUES AND TREATMENTS FOR JOINT REPLACEMENT ALLOWING FOR 2!0) 2%#/6%29 SO THAT YOU CAN GET BACK TO THE LIFE YOU ENJOY QUICKLY ANDPAIN FREE #ALL 866-466-1401 TO SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT Saint Francis Memorial HospitalSt. Mary’s Medical Center"USH AT (YDE OWNTOWN3TANYAN AT &ULTON!CROSS FROM 'OLDEN 'ATE 0ARKWWW SAINTFRANCISMEMORIAL ORGWWW STMARYSMEDICALCENTER ORG4 NEW FILLMORE July 2013Security officers in a store observed aman picking up 200 worth of liquor andstashing the bottles in a shopping bag, passing all open registers without paying. Officers met with the loss prevention officerwho had detained the suspect; a computercheck revealed a no-bail burglary warrant.The suspect was transported to NorthernStation, where he was booked.Burglary, Possession of Stolen PropertyFillmore and California StreetsMay 27, 4:07 p.m.A witness watched while one manwalked inside a store and picked up a purse,then ran out again while his companionacted as a lookout. Then both jumped onbicycles and fled.Dispatch gave the police a description of the suspects and their direction oftravel. As officers searched the area, theycame across the purse thief ’s companionloitering in front of a nearby business. Oneofficer went inside to look for the secondsuspect. He found the man with the purseand detained him. A cursory pat searchrevealed the suspect was carrying a can ofpepper spray, which was illegal for him topossess because he had been convicted ofa violent crime in the past. The man sus-NEIGHBORHOOD NEWSSupporters Rally for ‘the Lake of Black Wisdom’X FROM PAGE ONEPlainclothes officers were working in aneighborhood where police had receivednumerous complaints of blatant drug activity. They watched while a car approachedand parked nearby. Officers recognizedthe driver as someone they had arrested inthe past for possession of a stolen vehicle.They ran a computer check on the car hewas driving and learned it had been stolen.When they arrested the driver, they founda baggie of methamphetamine in his frontpocket and a shaved key he was using tooperate the car. The suspect was transportedto Northern Station.Driving Under the InfluenceSacramento Street and Van Ness AvenueJune 2, 2:05 a.m.Robbery With ForceVan Ness Avenue and O’Farrell StreetJune 10, 3:15 p.m.A man was riding Muni and using hisiPhone when someone snatched it. Theman jumped from his seat, leaped out theback door and chased three individualsinvolved in the theft. After several blocks,he caught up to them.One suspect turned on him, punchinghim in the right temple. Then the threesplit up and ran in different directions. Theman who had been robbed continued topursue the individual he believed had hisphone.A witness had called the police, andplainclothes officers arrived. They pursuedthe juvenile who had taken the phoneand caught him. The suspect returned theiPhone and apologized to the man he hadrobbed. Officers retrieved video footageof the incident from the Muni bus. Theybooked the suspect at the CommunityAssessment and Resource Center.Burglary, Possession of Stolen PropertyFranklin and Post StreetsJune 11, 1:41 p.m.Dispatch received a call about a manand a woman who had broken into a car,reached into it and pulled out a small blackwallet. The two then fled toward Van Ness.The caller described the pair, and plainclothes officers detained them. As policewere running a computer check, the witness rode by on his motorcycle and yelled,“Nice work, you got them.” Officers metwith the caller, who identified both suspects. A search of the man revealed a GPSdevice and an iPhone police traced to theburglarized car. The two were booked atNorthern Station.city government and predatory lending.“Black folks used to have a place to gather,”he lamented.Supervisor London Breed recalled thatshe bought her first book at the store.“To lose an institution like the MarcusBooks store is really the most devastatingthing that could happen to African Americans,” she said. “When African Americanswere enslaved, we could not read. It wasagainst the law to teach African Americansto read.”Archbishop Franz King of the St. JohnColtrane Church emphasized the building’s link to the neighborhood’s history asthe Harlem of the West.“John Coltrane played in this building,”he said. “Duke Ellington played in thisbuilding. This building is more than just alearning institution. This is where we cancome to commune with those spirits thattalked about music as an instrument thatcan change the thinking of the people.”Attorney Julian Davis had worked withthe group to come up with a plan to savethe bookstore. He put together an offerto buy back the building from real estateinvestors Nishan and Suhaila Sweis for the 1.6 million they had paid a few weeks earlier, plus a 50,000 profit.“We are appealing to the people whobought this building at a bargain-basementprice,” said supervisor Breed. “It’s worthmore to us than just money. It’s our history. It’s our culture. It’s who we are as apeople.”The money would come from WestsideCommunity Services, a neighborhoodnonprofit that uses the bookstore as a placeto provide outreach for its services.“This is one of our last great institutions here,” said Mary Ann Jones, whoheads Westside. “Many people come to usbecause we have support services here. Tolose this institution would devastate ourcommunity.”Jones recalled that her mother, neighborhood activist Helen Jones, had helpedsave the building when it was caught in thecross-hairs of redevelopment in the 1960s.“My mother laid down in front of thisbuilding the first time they tried to bulldoze it,” she said. “I think that our ancestors are looking down upon us and askingus to do something.”The legal issues surrounding thesale of the building are both simpleand complex.The building had been owned for manyyears by members of the family of Julianand Raye Richardson, professors at SanCo-owner KarenJohnson talksto a customer atthe counter ofMarcus Books.SUSIE BIEHLERSAN FRANCISCO . . .Francisco State who founded MarcusBooks in 1960. Matriarch Raye Richardson, now 93, until recently lived upstairs inone of the flats with her daughter BlancheRichardson, who operates a branch ofMarcus Books in Oakland. The other flat isoccupied by her daughter Karen Johnson,who with her husband Greg Johnson operates Marcus Books on Fillmore.The family took out a 950,000 loan onthe building in 2006, in the frenzy of thereal estate boom, and payments had ballooned to about 10,000 a month by 2009.The threat of foreclosure hung over thebuilding.Things came to a head when BlancheRichardson declared bankruptcy. The Johnsons had 60 days to buy the building. Whenthey did not come up with the money intime, the building was sold at a bankruptcyauction to the Sweises for 1.64 million.The Johnsons then had 60 days after theclose of escrow on April 19 to vacate thebuilding. By the June 19 deadline to vacate,their new attorney, Julian Davis, had puttogether the offer to re-purchase the building for the sale price, plus a 50,000 profit.He conveyed the offer to the attorneyfor the new owners, S. Seth Kershaw ofLast and Faoro in San Mateo, but was toldthe price was now 3.2 million — twicewhat they had paid.When the family did not vacate thebuilding, Kershaw asked U.S. BankruptcyJudge Dennis Montali to evict them. Montali denied the motion. Neither MarcusBooks nor Karen and Greg Johnson are inbankruptcy.While Davis was pursuing alegal resolution, supporters ofthe bookstore made good ontheir vow to fight to save the bookstore.“When folks begin to attack our culturalinstitutions, they attack our very existencehere in San Francisco,” said Ed Donaldson,a housing activist with the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment.“We cannot tolerate it. We have to standup and fight.”Archbishop King of the St. John Coltrane Church is also active in the alliance.“We are refusing to let Marcus Books close,”King said. “The Sweises see this building asa profit to turn. We see what they’re doingas a destruction of the African Americancommunity.”So the alliance began turning up theheat on the new owners to sell the buildingthey bought just two months earlier. Morethan 16,000 people have signed an onlinepetition backing the bookstore.On Sunday, June 16, several dozensupporters of the bookstore went to theSweises’ church, the St. Nicholas OrthodoxChristian Church in Diamond Heights,where the Sweises are deacon and subdeacon.They took along signs that read: “Praythe Sweises do the right thing: Save Marcus Books.”“We expect more from people who aredeacon and sub-deacon at a church,” saidGail Meadows, one of the bookstore’s supporters who went to their church.On July 2, a group of about two dozensupporters went to the Sweises’ neighbor-hood in South San Francisco to knock ontheir neighbors’ doors and leave flyers.“The way many people see this is ifthe Johnsons and their supporters are notcomfortable in their home, why should theSweises be?” said Donaldson.Bookstore backers have also called fora boycott and an investigation of two cabcompanies, Royal and Big Dog, owned bythe Sweis family.“They’re not happy about the communityaction,” said Davis, the attorney for MarcusBooks. “They’re pissed off. We don’t knowif they’ll dig in or feel the pressure.”He added: “At this point they’d have toformally evict the Johnsons, and that couldtake some time — especially in San Francisco. Are they going to want to do that —to keep going down this long road? Or sayscrew it, we’ll take a modest profit and keepeveryone happy.”For their part, neither the Sweises northeir attorney have had any public comment about the issue.Back on Fillmore Street, KarenJohnson is at her usual post at thefront of Marcus Books.“It’s getting to be more promising,”she said. “It really makes me feel goodthat everyone is speaking some truth thatthey’ve been touched by this place. I’vebeen touched by this place, too. I’m just theclerk where people come in to dip from thelake of black wisdom.”“Fighting to save Marcus Books”newfillmore.com videoJULYJUJULYULYLY 11212–212–212–212–21SAN FRANCISCO’S SUMMER BACH FESTIVALSOLDOUBach’sBacha ’ss MASSMASS IN B MINORMINORR HanHandel’sa del’del s ESTHERESTHERHERER Biber’sBBiberib ’ss SSALZBibeiberSALZBURGALZBBURG MASSTLIMITEDLLIMIMITEDED TICKETS REMAREMAINEM INN GOOOONLINENLIN NNE TTODAYODAYD( 5) 6621-7900(415)621 790000a ericanbameamericanbach.orgca bacbacaach.orh.or.orgJuly 2013NEW FILLMORE5
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BOOKS Th en Came Redevelopment As Fillmore was razed, jazz gave way to rock PAGE 11 LOCALS Finding Fate — and Faith Author Maya Angelou's neighborhood roots PAGE 3 INSIDE Upfront 2 Crime Watch 4 Q&A: Jason Olaine 10 Home Sales 14 Real Estate 15 Supporters Rally to Keep Marcus Books on Fillmore Oldest black bookstore in the U.S. is endangered I
