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Brooklyn Goes to San Francisco - 1956

Submitted by Roland Faust on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 12:31
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IF there is an aesthetic credo to Brooklyn and the Bay Area, it is Do It Yourself, which connotes more than using an Allen wrench from Ikea. D.I.Y. can mean everything from wearing locally designed T-shirts to attending concerts staged in someone’s warehouse apartment, to riding a bike to work.

Several businesses that have opened in both Brooklyn and the Bay Area exemplify the aesthetic ...

"We are cross-pollinating."

- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/fashion/30sanfrooklyn.html?_r=1

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Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area. It is also the western most county (Borough) on Long Island.

San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2008 estimated population of 808,977. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of 46.7 square miles on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second-most densely populated large city (greater than 200,000 population) in the United States.

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Bridging San Francisco Bay - 1937

Submitted by Roland Faust on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 12:27
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The San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge (known locally as the Bay Bridge) is a series of bridges in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, in the United States. Forming part of Interstate 80 and of the direct road route between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries approximately 270,000 vehicles per day on its two decks. It has one of the longest spans in the world.

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The toll bridge was conceived as early as the gold rush days, but construction did not begin until 1933. Designed by Charles H. Purcell, and built by American Bridge Company, it opened for traffic on November 12, 1936, six months before the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Trigger Films for Health - "6 Cans, Count 'Em" - 1970's

Submitted by Roland Faust on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 12:10
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Part of Weirdo Video's Trigger Films for Health collection.

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