
24th and Mission: the plaza by the station
Local name: 24th Street Mission BART Plaza / Plaza Sandino
Here you will see why the artists placed the train on human hands.
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Highlights include 24th and Mission: the plaza by the station, Balmy Alley, Battery East Viewing Platform, City Lights Bookstore and Publishers and Jack Kerouac Alley, Clarion Alley, Coit Tower and the summit of Telegraph Hill.
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Local name: 24th Street Mission BART Plaza / Plaza Sandino
Here you will see why the artists placed the train on human hands.
Here you will see why the artists placed the train on human hands.
The finale will return the collective method to the children’s project and the first walls received by the women artists.
Here you will see what distinguished an earthen artillery position from a brick fort and why it was never completed.
A dispute over a small book will take the route from the fight for city land to freedom of the press.
The alley will show how the right to a wall must be gained, lost, and regained.
Here it will become clear why the hill kept the name of a vanished device and then gained a new landmark.
This stop will explain how the designers preserved the outline of the airfield while also bringing seawater back to part of the lowland.
The finale will show how merchants kept the neighborhood in its original place and made the street a route for visitors.
Here the route begins with the moment when a transportation terminal had to become an escape route.
This stop will show the engineering concession that allowed the bridge to be built over the fort rather than in its place.
The final stop will explain why official recognition of one of the bridge’s chief engineers came seventy years late.
An archaeological find will show just how far people pushed back the shoreline.
Here begins the story of the price Indigenous people paid for the missionary order.
This stop connects the struggle for public land with temporary homes after the earthquake.
This stop will show how a Black regiment became the Army's public representative at a world's fair.
An ordinary waterfront platform will become the place where a professional career gets another chance.
Here the route moves from a finished mural to the workshop where collaborative painting is taught across generations.
Here, a private initiative turned the replacement of a dangerous elevated roadway into a restored route from the barracks to the water.
Here you will learn who prepared the former base for civilian life and why the old guardhouse was retained for the park’s new entrance.
This stop will show how the awkward architecture of the facade became part of the image and its protection.
Here, a building of their own and a shared mural turn out to be two parts of the same victory over debt.
Here, the everyday work of the mine depot that prepared barriers for the entrance to the bay will be revealed.
This stop will show the political cost of keeping earth beneath the central lawn.