"10th at Folsom Street,” 1982
“Langton between Folsom and Harrison Streets,” 1979
Bobbie Washington and her daughter Ayana, 28 Langton Street, 1982
Painting Mural, Langton Street, 1980
Longtime neighbors, Langton at Folsom Street, 1981
Helen and her husband, Chester, at the Helen Cafe, 486 6th Street, 1980
Shantiben Dahyabhai Patel, Park Hotel, 1040 Folsom Street, 1980
Transbay Terminal Newsstand, 1982
Chinese jumprope in front of Bessie Carmichael School, Folsom Street, 1980
“Front parlor of one of six apartments from which 90 Fillipinos were recently evicted, Russ Street,” 1980
These photographs were taken at the cusp of a remarkable transformation. Part of the South of Market District of San Francisco had been altered structurally: 5000 residents and 700 businesses were displaced to make room for a new convention center… I moved to the South of Market in 1978, as the first posts were being poured for San Francisco’s redevelopment project now known as the Moscone Convention Center. I began to ask who had lived and worked in this ten-block area that had been clear-cut and was not a massive hole in the ground. How would this new development affect the lives of my neighbors who had lived in the South of Market for generations?
Janet Delaney