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Welcome back. Im excited to talk to you today because so many of us as americans grew up learning about the history of immigration to ellis island. Its often told is a very uplifting and romantic story where immigrants become americans. Not many of us know the history of immigration through angel island. This is in San Francisco. Its an important site for not only what happens back then in the early 20 century, because it is timely today. When we kick up any newspaper we see headlines like this. Does anyone know what some of these headlines are referring to . Right. This would halt their depor...

Good afternoon, im lawrence kornfield. Welcome to our brown bag lunch. The Fire Department as a lot to do with fire escapes in San Francisco. We have tens of thousands of fire escapes in San Francisco. Its sort of like utility wires, until you start looking for them. You dont even see them. Today were going to look at them and for them and talk a little bit about what they are there for and how they should be maintained. What our standards are. So we are right here in front of Building Services office at 1660 mission street. We have one of many buildings served by fire escapes. They are typica...

Good afternoon, im lawrence kornfield. Welcome to our brown bag lunch. The Fire Department as a lot to do with fire escapes in San Francisco. We have tens of thousands of fire escapes in San Francisco. Its sort of like utility wires, until you start looking for them. You dont even see them. Today were going to look at them and for them and talk a little bit about what they are there for and how they should be maintained. What our standards are. So we are right here in front of Building Services office at 1660 mission street. We have one of many buildings served by fire escapes. They are typica...

Do with fire escapes in San Francisco. We have tens of thousands of fire escapes in San Francisco. Its sort of like utility wires, until you start looking for them. You dont even see them. Today were going to look at them and for them and talk a little bit about what they are there for and how they should be maintained. What our standards are. So we are right here in front of Building Services office at 1660 mission street. We have one of many buildings served by fire escapes. They are typically used when theres a required means of existing or egressfrom the building. This building has a main ...

Creates a gap. Thats why speaker not understood failed dramatically. speaker not understood . Push on the wall again and leans over. This is the technical issue of strained versus unrestrained walls. The fact the wall is leaning over its trying to move away from the soil to unload itself. This is a buttress wall and the buttresses come down in the spaces between each of the garages. An interesting, unusual design, but we see it around the city. Heres another one, gigantic buttress retaining wall. Here is a good wall. Cobble stone against a rock face in russian hill. Right, what is that, about ...