LIT CITY: SAN FRANCISCO BAR BY BAR
Various
They’re the repositories of so much of the city’s undiscovered history, of anecdotes and information that rarely find their way into ink– some of the best stories out there. And San Francisco, original home of the shanghai and the world’s largest collection of ‘last chance’ saloons, is particularly endowed with bar stories...

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TENDERLOIN ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
James Tracy & Participants in the Community Housing Partnership
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 continue to gather stories meeting once a month to compile, analyze and publish voices from this important community...
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VICIOUS TWIST TAKES A WILD RIDE
Manuel Jimenez
I quit my civil litigation job. I needed a break. Litigation attorneys sit at desks all day, reading severely dry material, pushing paper and conducting ritual abuse on each other...
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TURK STREET...
Bridget Cannon
I didn’t intend to fuck him; it just happened. Something between the coke and the floor to ceiling comic books in his room worked a spell on me so later when we were at the club in SOMA and I asked for a cigarette and he said No have your own; it’ll taste better when I make out with you in a minute...
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TWISTING, TURNING, BUT SOMEHOW MANAGING TO STILL FIND HOPE.
Nicole Henares
San Francisco weather is as neurotic as the city itself. Frequently when North Beach is bathed in sunshine, across town is overcast in milk. When it rains it rarely covers the entire city. 2003 they said, was a record year for restaurants, the best since the dot-com boom, and homicides, with most victims under 25 years old...
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