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The Real Housewives of GP: Thesis on Neighborhood Activism Wins Award

June 12, 2017 by Heather World

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Map from the 1948 Transportation Plan for San Francisco.

Read about the GPA’s very own Zoanne Nordstrom and the other neighborhood women who saved Glen Canyon from becoming a freeway in the 1970s!

U.C. Berkeley scholar Justin Germain has won the 2017 Charlene Conrad Liebau Library Prize for Undergraduate Research (upper division) for his research paper titled “Housewives Save the City from the ‘Cement Octopus’! Women’s Activism in the San Francisco Freeway Revolts, 1955 – 1967”

The Glen Park library has a copy of the thesis, you can ask for it at the desk. You can also print it from the link above.

See all winners here.

 

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🎃HALLOWEEN STREET CLOSURE🎃

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Chenery Street ( between Diamond & Elk) will be CLOSED TO NON-RESIDENT TRAFFIC on Halloween (October 31) from 5PM-9PM
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👻We hope you’ll don a costume and join us on Haunted Chenery Saturday, October 31 from 5 to 9 for car-free trick-or-treating from Diamond St. to Elk St.

🎃 COME CHECK OUT THE SPOOKY THEMED CARS & ENJOY SOME TREATS!Trunk or Treat at St. John Catholic School (TK - 8) 925 Chenery ( school yard)
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