Hidden San Francisco Stop L4 Sailors Union of the Pacific
Channel: Chris Carlsson
Date: 2020-07-13

In February 2020, Pluto Press published Hidden San Francisco: The Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories by Chris Carlsson. This video is the third of a baker's dozen of "stops" (there are 85 "stops" in four themed chapters, and an additional 44 "stops" in five walking tours in the appendix) turned into short videos. I hope it will whet your appetite for both buying the book (available at http://www.chriscarlsson.com/hidden-san-francisco-the-book/) but more importantly for going out into San Francisco and peeling back the layers of histories to find out how the hell it turned out like this! 



For more details on the rotten conditions of sailors in the 19th century, we just added a new page at Foundsf.org about their self-documenting project, the "Red Record," where legal claims made against the violence of captains and first mates were brought to court in San Francisco. Check it out here:
http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Red_Record