Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci ended the debate with a resolution rescinding a "curb cut" for the Star Market at Porter Square. The resolution restricts Star Market's ability to enter the loading dock near the residential street at its rear...
When Oakland Mayor Lionel Wilson declared that there could be no more survivors in the fallen freeway, dogged rescue crews ignored him and searched on. For a brief moment on Wednesday, their determination seemed to pay off when a faint voice was heard in the rubble. But it turned out to be from a CB radio...
Others were not so fortunate. Their frustration boiled into anger in the Marina district, where residents who tried to inspect their ruined houses were barred by police. After a shouting match with Mayor Art Agnos, a compromise allowed residents with escorts to enter their homes briefly to collect whatever they could before the buildings were torn down. "Our poor little lives are right here on the sidewalk," said Patrice Gehrke, loading a pickup with furniture and ferns. Diane Whitacre hoisted a drawing board on her shoulder so she could get on with her free-lance work. "The most important thing...
...city of refugees. More than 100,000 had fled, and 250,000 remained, encamped in parks and fields. Rich and poor alike stood in line at improvised soup kitchens and mess halls. Policemen, soldiers and armed citizens proved all too eager to act on Mayor Eugene Schmitz's order to shoot looters. A few miscreants were killed, and ordinary citizens were forced at gunpoint to work in the cleanup. America and most of the civilized world mourned what ranks as one of the greatest calamities suffered by a U.S. city. In the New York Sun, Will Irwin wrote a eulogy...
...greatest comebacks in history. By April 23, plans for the first new downtown building were published, and others followed at a dizzying pace. They moved so fast that within weeks about 1,000 makeshift saloons were doing business and political fighting had broken out again. Ex- Mayor (also ex-Governor and ex-U.S. Senator) James Phelan, who lost a fortune in the disaster, led an attack on the corrupt municipal government with one hand and with the other helped get the reconstruction moving. Checks drawn on San Francisco banks were all but useless right after the quake, but within...