okay, I said this blog was mostly dead, but I came across this other thing: a scale model of the city of San Francisco, commissioned and made by the WPA and completed in 1940, has been found and partly reassembled, and will be displayed in public libraries all over the city. !!!
The model was constructed (from wood) in interlockable blocks, and showed every single building extant in the city at that time (!!!) so if your building was around then, you can see not only the tiny facsimile of it, but its actual color at the time.
The current project, an installation called "Public Knowledge: Take Part," is planned as a library treasure hunt: "A map is available, to be stamped at each branch. There will also be four bicycle tours covering six to eight libraries per ride."
When the exhibition ends in March, “the hope is to put the model back together,” Lochman says. She has identified three locations big enough to hold it: the Light Court at City Hall, the Roberts Family Gallery at the new Howard Street entrance to SFMOMA, and the Ferry Building.
The installation will be on display in various libraries through March 25.
I was going to squee, but I'll leave off. I think I'll organize a tour myself though.
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