Outside Hospitality HouseTurk Street, The Tenderloin
Friday noon
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Michael passed by as I was taking photos of a new subject for i live here:SF. He asked if he could be a part, so of course I said yes.
Michael is a San Francisco native. He grew up in the Fillmore and watched it be destroyed by redevelopment efforts. He later became a construction worker to rebuild the Fillmore Center, the very area where he and his family was forced to leave.
Now he lives in the Tenderloin and is looking for a nice girlfriend.
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my friend tatiana is cute AND single. better catch her b/4 it's too late!
Man, what a tough situation. You can't stop people from trying to recreate a place, but at what cost. Who's to say what's real, or best, except those that live there...before & after.
I have no answeres.
Good wishes Michael!
You know, that's a very important subject -- the destruction of the Fillmore... Oh, the old Fillmore wasn't a pretty place and crime was rampant but it was a larger crime against humanity to displace all those people... Obviously money and racism had a lot to do with it...
So sad to see block after block just totally wiped out -- it just sat like that for ten or fifteen years looking like something right out of Heroshima or Nagasaki... I hate the look of what they have there now -- absolutely sterile without a past or a soul... Cold and impersonal... A real insult to humanity...
ha! Could you be the one sought? That last sentence...tenderloin? ha!
Somehow it got me imagining him watching you walk away while singing, "It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing!" do wap! <3
Love the color contrast and capture...everything works!
:) Michael makes me smile looking for a girlfriend. that's a definition of hopeful.
Killer shades, man. He looks like quite an interesting character. ; )
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