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'''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).'''   
'''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''
[[Image:Urban-rats-performance037.jpg]]
'''Urban Rats on "stage" at 16th and Valencia, the "garden of decay," in the early 1980s.'''


''Photo: Susan Greene''
''Photo: Susan Greene''
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'''URBAN RATS performance in Pit'''
'''URBAN RATS performance at 16th and Valencia'''
 
[[Image:Gartland-pit-no-art39.jpg]]
 
'''The infamous Gartland Pit, what was left after arson killed a number of tenants and led to the demolition of the residential hotel.'''
 
''Photo: Susan Greene''


[[Image:Gartland-hotel-october-1958-w-arrow.jpg]]
[[Image:Gartland-hotel-october-1958-w-arrow.jpg]]

Revision as of 17:20, 17 July 2009

Unfinished History

Mission$gartland-cemetery.jpg

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

Urban-rats-performance037.jpg

Urban Rats on "stage" at 16th and Valencia, the "garden of decay," in the early 1980s.

Photo: Susan Greene

{{#ev:archive|ssfGARTPIT1|320}}

URBAN RATS performance at 16th and Valencia

Gartland-pit-no-art39.jpg

The infamous Gartland Pit, what was left after arson killed a number of tenants and led to the demolition of the residential hotel.

Photo: Susan Greene

Gartland-hotel-october-1958-w-arrow.jpg

Gartland Hotel at Valencia and 16th Streets, 1958.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library


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