Podcasts Society & Culture Personal Journals The Kitchen Sisters Present 123- San FranciscoStories from the Model City, Part Three

123- San FranciscoStories from the Model City, Part Three

Published: Aug. 27, 2019, 1 p.m.

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In the late 1930s, during the depths of the Depression, 300 craftspeople came together for two years to build an enormous scale model of the City of San Francisco \\u2014 a WPA project conceived as a way of putting artists to work and as a planning tool for the City to imagine its future.

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The Model was meant to remain on public view for all to see. But World War II erupted and the 6000 piece, hand carved and painted wooden model was put into storage in large wooden crates \\u201call higgledy piggledy,\\u201d for almost 80 years.

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The story of this almost forgotten, three-dimensional freeze frame of the City in 1938 leads us on a journey through the streets and neighborhoods of San Francisco \\u2014 contemplating the past and envisioning the future with poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, historian Gary Kamiya, writer Maya Angelou, the current \\u201cKeeper of the Model,\\u201d Stella Lochman, and many more.

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In this final episode of Stories from the Model City, we visit Chinatown, Lawrence Ferlinghetti\\u2019s City Lights Bookstore, The Mission District. We ride along in the Homobile and travel to Playland at the Beach in the 1950s. And we hear more from the citizens of San Francisco about their ideas for the future of their beloved City.

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The Kitchen Sisters produced this story for SFMOMA\\u2019s Raw Material podcast in conjunction with their Public Knowledge program, \\u201cTake Part\\u201d in which the museum partnered with the San Francisco Public Library and artists Bik Van Der Pol to engage the community in a series of talks and events around the Model.

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