An Interview with Shari Mueller
It was Christmas Eve, 1974, and a girlfriend of mine was supposed to visit from L.A. but she canceled at the last minute. I felt a little upset, so I decided to go for a walk. Everything was closed for the holiday. I lived right off Union Street and I was [...]

Interviewed by Eric Zassenhaus
I grew up in the Mission, and South of Market, but I didn’t hang out there. I hung out in North Beach. We used to cut school and come into North Beach. It used to rain a lot in San Francisco—at least I remember it being very rainy in the early 1970s [...]

Mauro Saldanha has been driving a Yellow Cab for over 10 years, but as times get tough, and gate and gas costs continue to rise, San Francisco’s taxi drivers are headed for tough times.

For more on the issues effecting cab drivers in San Francisco, see the full project.

Jack Hirschman is a poet, painter, and activist with dozens of books of poetry under his belt and many hundreds of translations. His most recent book, Front Lines, was published by City Lights in 2002. In January 2006, Hirschman became San Francisco’s fourth Poet Laureate.
Do you think you came to poetry through politics, or the [...]

Mike, 3rd and Market St.
I started shoe-shining when I was a youngster, about eleven or twelve years old. I guess it’s been more than twenty years. That’s incredible. How I started out: when Dad didn’t want to give me money for a Friday or Saturday night, it left me no choice but to get my [...]

FIRST DISPATCH
In January 2006, participants in Community Housing Partnership’s Training Institute started the Tenderloin Oral History Project. The group, mostly residents of Single Room Occupancy hotels, explored their community armed with simple tape recorders. This first dispatch provides small glimpses into lives lived in one of San Francisco’s most complex and dense neighborhoods. TOHP will [...]