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'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>''' | |||
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'''Urban Rats, a San Francisco political agit-prop group in the early 1980s, carried on an active campaign over the | '''Urban Rats, a San Francisco political agit-prop group in the early 1980s, carried on an active campaign over the "Gartland Pit," targeting especially the Reverend Floyd Andrews, a shyster preacher running the Christian Spiritualist Church of America at 635 Dolores St. He had plans to "develop" the site as a home for women with drug problems (who would then work for the Reverend's church, while turning over their various support payments to him).''' | ||
''Photo: Susan Greene'' | |||
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'''URBAN RATS performance in Pit''' | |||
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'''[[The GARTLAND FIRE!|Gartland Hotel]] at Valencia and 16th Streets, 1958.''' | '''[[The GARTLAND FIRE!|Gartland Hotel]] at Valencia and 16th Streets, 1958.''' | ||
''Photo: San Francisco History | ''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library'' | ||
Revision as of 00:31, 2 January 2009
Unfinished History
Urban Rats, a San Francisco political agit-prop group in the early 1980s, carried on an active campaign over the "Gartland Pit," targeting especially the Reverend Floyd Andrews, a shyster preacher running the Christian Spiritualist Church of America at 635 Dolores St. He had plans to "develop" the site as a home for women with drug problems (who would then work for the Reverend's church, while turning over their various support payments to him).
Photo: Susan Greene
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URBAN RATS performance in Pit
Gartland Hotel at Valencia and 16th Streets, 1958.
Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library