“We will not accept this (Trump) intimidation.” Zohran Mamdani

SAN FRANCISCO VIA NEW YORK CITY

Lee Heidhues 7.1.2025

The Felon Trump is at it, again.

Spreading racist bigoted anti-immigrant slurs. The incendiary appeal to the worst in people has served the Felon Trump well for 10 years.

The latest target of his obscene vitriol is the just officially declared Democrat nominee for the Mayoralty of the Felon Trump’s hometown.

Nominee Zohran Mondami is having none of it.

Excerpted from The New York Times 7.1.2025

“The president of the United States just threatened to have me arrested,” Zohran Mamdani said in a response on social media, adding that Mr. Trump’s statements “don’t just represent an attack on our democracy but an attempt to send a message to every New Yorker who refuses to hide in the shadows: If you speak up, they will come for you.”

He continued, “We will not accept this intimidation.”

President Trump on Tuesday floated an outlandish claim that Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for New York mayor, was an illegal immigrant and threatened to arrest him if he blocked immigration arrests in New York City.

Mr. Mamdani was born in Uganda and has lived in New York City since 1998, when he was 7 years old. He was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 2018. If elected, Mr. Mamdani would also be the first Muslim to become mayor of New York City. There is no credible evidence to suggest Mr. Mamdani is not, or shouldn’t be, a U.S. citizen.

Mr. Trump’s attack on the mayoral candidate echoed language he has long used to lend credibility to falsehoods. “A lot of people are saying he’s here illegally,” he said of Mr. Mamdani. “We’re going to look at everything.”

When a journalist raised the possibility that Mr. Mamdani “will not allow” ICE to make immigration arrests, Mr. Trump replied, “Well then we’ll have to arrest him.”

Gov. Kathy Hochul, who has so far declined to endorse Mr. Mamdani, rallied behind him after Mr. Trump’s attacks.

“I don’t care if you’re the President of the United States,” Ms. Hochul wrote on social media. “If you threaten to unlawfully go after one of our neighbors, you’re picking a fight with 20 million New Yorkers — starting with me.”

“It’s up to you. New York. New York”

“Logging that’s what this is about.” Not fire prevention

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 6.30.2025

Felon Trump’s attempt to open 59M acres of land to logging will severely impact California. There are 20 national forests in the State encompassing 4.4M acres.

The San Francisco Chronicle took a walk through the forest of bureaucratic procedure which will be required. When it’s all over the Felon Trump’s effort to destroy these national irreplaceable treasures may fail.

The powerful environmental lobby is ready.

Excerpted from The San Francisco Chronicle 6.26.2025

“Logging, that’s what this is about,” said Randi Spivak, public lands policy director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “They don’t like anything that puts a stop to commercialization and exploitation. … Stripping protections from these last unfragmented national forests risks our drinking water, plants, animals and some of America’s most beautiful wild places.”

Last updated Dec. 5th, 2014 California inventoried roadless areas
Map: Emma Stiefel • Source: United States Forest Service; PAD-US; California State Parks

In California, 4.4 million acres across 20 national forests are protected by the rule, according to the Forest Service. It’s nearly 5% of the state’s total lands and includes stretches of such heavily visited forests as the Tahoe, Sequoia, Sierra, Stanislaus and Inyo.

Many of the spots that are protected border wilderness areas and national parks.

The Trump administration is seeking to undo a 25-year-old rule that shields nearly a third of U.S. Forest Service lands from roads and logging, including large swaths of California, notably areas near Lake Tahoe, Yosemite and Giant Sequoia National Monument.

The announcement of the repeal kicks off an administrative process that requires a technical review of what the impact would be as well as inviting public comment. This could take months, a year or even longer. If the rule is changed or eliminated, litigation will almost certainly follow.

Environmentalists insist that little good will come of revoking the rule. They say the Trump administration’s promotion of the action as a fire prevention measure is simply propaganda.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/forest-logging-trump-20392518.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL2NsaW1hdGUvYXJ0aWNsZS9mb3Jlc3QtbG9nZ2luZy10cnVtcC0yMDM5MjUxOC5waHA%3D&time=MTc1MTM0ODQxODU3MQ%3D%3D&rid=OTJhM2RhZWItNDMzYy00ZjMxLTgyMTQtZTU2ZjE2NDIzNDRl&sharecount=NQ%3D%3D

Everybody tells me how great the music for the chase in “Bullitt” is

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 6.29.2025

**Lalo Schifrin receives his honorary Oscar from Clint Eastwood** **– 2018**

Lalo Schifrin, whose soundtrack is an integral part of Bullitt, passed away at the age of 93. The soundtrack to Bullitt was one of his early musical creations. I have enjoyed listening to it for decades.

The title theme from Bullitt composed by Lalo Schifrin

Bullitt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullitt is one of my favorite movies of all time. Set in San Francisco in the late 1960’s the film captures the mood of the City decades before its explosion into a hi-tech and venture capitol international hot spot.

The photography of 1960’s San Francisco, particularly downtown and North Beach are classic.

And the final scene at San Francisco International Airport is gripping.

What made Bullitt memorable is the chase scene which traverses the streets of the City and ends up in the fiery crash outside the City limits.

“Everybody tells me how great the music for the chase in “Bullitt” is. I didn’t do any music for the chase. Four minutes before the chase, where there is a foot chase in the hospital, I build and build the suspense and the tension. And finally when Steve McQueen finds a way to get to the freeway, at that moment the music stops suddenly. I told the director it would be a mistake to continue the music on the chase. What you have is two cars, the villain’s and Bullitt’s, and they have different sounds. Sometimes you put the camera in the corner of one of the hilly streets of San Francisco and you don’t know what car is coming, so the audience should hear the sounds of the car, so they know whether the villain or Bullitt is coming. You know what? It worked.” – Lalo Schifrin interviewed in 2003 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalo_Schifrin

Excerpted from San Francisco Chronicle 6.29.2025

Lalo Schifrin, the trailblazing composer whose music helped define the sound of 1970s action cinema and turned San Francisco into a sonic landmark for filmgoers around the world, died Thursday of complications from pneumonia. He was 93.

Schifrin’s jazz-inflected, rhythmically daring scores for Steve McQueen’s “Bullitt” (1968) and Clint Eastwood’s “Dirty Harry” (1971) helped establish the musical identities of two of the most iconic films ever set in the Bay Area.

With a deft mix of suspense, funk and atmospheric cool, Schifrin’s work elevated car chases down Potrero Hill and showdowns at Aquatic Park into unforgettable cinematic moments.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/lalo-schifrin-dies-composer-bullitt-dirty-harry-20396440.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL2VudGVydGFpbm1lbnQvYXJ0aWNsZS9sYWxvLXNjaGlmcmluLWRpZXMtY29tcG9zZXItYnVsbGl0dC1kaXJ0eS1oYXJyeS0yMDM5NjQ0MC5waHA%3D&time=MTc1MTIyOTY5NTMyMQ%3D%3D&rid=OTJhM2RhZWItNDMzYy00ZjMxLTgyMTQtZTU2ZjE2NDIzNDRl&sharecount=NA%3D%3D

“You work your side of the street. I’ll work mine.”

Top photo: Steve McQueen as SFPD Detective Frank Bullitt grabs a San Francisco Chronicle from the news rack.

Trump “to quash European Union flagship environmental rules”

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 6.28.2025

When Felon Trump leaves the White House he will leave behind a legacy of environmental degradation. Not only in America but around planet Earth.

Felon Trump is the willing handmaiden of Big Oil. He loves the billionaires who have funded his three presidential campaigns and does their dirty work with no prompting whatsoever.

As the Wall Street Journal reports Trump is pulling all the political levers he can “to quash the European Union (EU) flagship environmental rules.“

What infuriates Big Oil the most is the clunkily titled Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). Big Oil companies whose revenue exceeds 522M are being required to “pinpoint and curb human rights violations and the climate impact on their operations and global supply chains” reports the Wall Street Journal.

Big Oil Exxon Mobil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods met with Trump shortly after he took office in January. He told Trump, “he believed CSDDD would bog down U.S. Companies in Europe.”

That was all Trump needed to hear and he is now whining about “unfair regulatory burdens placed on American companies.” And doing everything he can to kowtow to his Big Oil benefactors.

Excerpted from the Wall Street Journal 6.28.2025

Oil executives enlisted President Trump in fights against clean-car rules, drilling restraints and climate laws from New York to California. Now, they have won his support in their effort to quash Europe’s flagship environment rules.

American oil chieftains and their lobbyists have urged Trump and his cabinet members to use ongoing trade talks with the European Union to push for a rollback of two major climate laws in the European Green Deal. Trump officials have pressed their EU counterparts to scale back those laws in recent negotiations, according to people familiar with the matter.

The administration’s willingness to give priority to the interests of the oil executives—alongside those of several other industries—in a dispute with a vital trading partner shows how influential they have become in Trump’s second term. Oil donors sent millions of dollars to Trump’s third presidential campaign last year, and the administration in turn has tried to shore up demand for their products and rescinded U.S. environmental rules.

https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/trump-goes-to-bat-for-big-oil-on-climate-rules-in-eu-trade-talks-e38b35ec?st=vzVF3i&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

San Francisco serves up an empty plate to its Food Bank consumers

SAN FRANCISCO

**Lee and Liz display a locally grown healthy brussel sprouts bunch. Courtesy of the SF Marin Food Bank**

Liz and Lee Heidhues 6.27.2025

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – APRIL 20: Volunteers assemble some of 1600 food bags that SF-Marin Food Bank distributes at a pop-up pantry at Bayview Opera House in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 20, 2020. Work furloughs and layoffs created by coronavirus shelter-in-place orders are driving thousands to seek food assistance. (Scott Strazzante/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Message to San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan – Budget Committee Chairperson

Connie

We just learned today, June 27, 2025. the Mayor and BOS have cut funding for the SF Marin Food Bank.

The Health and Human Services Agency HSA is now administrator of the program.

The weekly distribution days yearly have been cut by 13 percent (seven times)

This will have a serious nutritional impact on the voters in your district

As budget Chair you could have stopped this take away from people of an essential human need. Food.

Lee Heidhues

**Notice distributed to Food Pantry Participants – 6.27.2025**

Doing further research I learned, reading an article in the Marin Independent Journal, that the curtailment of SF Marin Food Bank activities was public knowledge in 2023. See attached article published in November 2023.

**A sampling of the healthy vegetables from the SF Marin Food Bank**

While the article talks only about food distribution in Marin, the area the IJ serves, it should have been obvious to San Francisco that it would not be immune from the cutbacks.

San Francisco officials should have taken action to ensure that there would be no cutbacks. Instead, the consumers who rely on this essential service were only provided with this disturbing news at literally the last minute.

Harvey Lim grabs the bell pepper supplied by the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank in the Richmond District on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023, in San Francisco.

Two Marin food bank pantries to close by 2025 due to funding cuts

Kenyan breaks the woman’s World Record for the mile – 4:06:42

SAN FRANCISCO VIA PARIS

Lee Heidhues 6. 26.2025

It’s a muggy summer early evening at the Stade Charlety in Paris and the world of track and field was tuned in to the starting blocks in anticipation of Faith Kipyegon and her attempt to crash the four minute mile barrier for women. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Kipyegon

Track and field isn’t sexy enough for most Americans. It’s the brute force of football which titillates the carnivorous American.

These hulky overweight muscle bound jocks and fans need to take a look at what athleticism is all about.

Faith Kipyegon ran a 4:06:42 mile. The world’s record for a woman runner

Excerpted from Runners World 6.26.2025

Faith Kipyegon didn’t owe us anything.

At Paris’ Stade Sébastien Charléty on Thursday evening, Kipyegon raced to a 4:06.42 mile effort as part of the “Breaking4” endeavor supported by her sponsor, Nike. Decked out in an aerodynamic kit with a tailor-made speed suit, 3D-printed sports bra, and custom Victory Elite FK spikes, Kipyegon kept on sub-4 pace for the first two laps before falling off the mark in the closing half-mile.

**Faith Kipyegon crosses the finish line in Paris.**

The 31-year-old Kenyan has spoiled running fans around the world time and again for over a decade. She’s set two world records, won three-straight Olympic 1,500-meter gold medals, and earned six World Championship medals. One could rightfully look at her career and say that she didn’t need to accomplish anything else to cement her legacy.

But who other than Kipyegon would be confident enough to take on the pressure? To carry the load of trying to eclipse the “impossible barrier” that people once thought no human could surpass? Of course she would be the one to dare to try. Kipyegon would become the first woman to chase after a sub-4-minute mile.

Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon (R) reacts at the end of her race after taking part in the “Breaking4” event, in an attempt to become the first woman to run a mile in under four minutes, at Stade Charlety on June 26, 2025 in Paris. Triple Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon of Kenya fell well short in her bid to become the first woman to run a sub-four minute mile on June 26. Aided by wavelength technology and 13 pacers, 11 male and two women, Kipyegon clocked 4min 06.42sec over 1.6km in perfect conditions. (Photo by EMMA DA SILVA / AFP) (Photo by EMMA DA SILVA/AFP via Getty Images)

Over 2,000 men have run a mile under 4 minutes in the years since Roger Bannister first achieved it in 1954. No woman has ever come closer than Kipyegon, who set the mile world record at 4:07.64 in Monaco two years ago and ran a 1,500-meter world record of 3:49.04 last year. And just by committing to the sub-4-minute attempt and seeing it through on Thursday, Kipyegon continued down a historic path that she’s been paving throughout her whole career–even though she came up well short of the goal time.

Watch Faith Kipyegon break her own World Record for the woman’s mile. 6.26.2025

https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a65209886/faith-kipyegon-changed-running-forever-breaking4/

Red baiting in New York City “It’s officially hot commie summer”

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 6.25.2025

The barons of the business world and the Felon Donald Trump are beside themselves angsting out over the prospect that a genuine, intelligent, charismatic newcomer could be the next Mayor of New York City.

In his first comments since Tuesday’s mayoral primary, President Trump called Zohran Mamdani “a 100% Communist Lunatic” while insulting his appearance, voice and intelligence. He added that Mamdani’s ascent was “a big moment in the History of our Country!”

The sense of the corporate freak out is already on full display in the mainstream media.

“It’s officially hot commie summer,” Dan Loeb, chief executive of hedge fund Third Point, and a major Andrew Cuomo backer, wrote on X.

**Red baiting the NYC Mayoral candidate**

The Red Scare label is sure to be the framework for the next several months. The corporate world, the Republicans and mainstream media work overtime to obliterate the candidacy of Zohran Mamdani. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohran_Mamdani

Excerpted from The Wall Street Journal 6.25.2025

On Wednesday morning, the world’s epicenter of capitalism woke up to find it might soon have a socialist mayor.

Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s stunning win over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the New York City Democratic primary for mayor shocked Wall Street. Some of the world’s most influential and powerful financiers were left grasping to understand what Mamdani’s victory would mean for their industry—and whether they would leave the city.

**Will Zohran Mamdani have the last laugh next November?**

“It’s officially hot commie summer,” Dan Loeb, chief executive of hedge fund Third Point, and a major Cuomo backer, wrote on X.

Mamdani’s campaign was, up until a few weeks ago, a long shot. On Polymarket, which successfully predicted the outcome of the 2024 presidential election, Cuomo had odds as high as 92.5% on May 27. Negative ads against Mamdani paid for by Wall Street-funded super political-action committees, as well as also-ran candidate Whitney Tilson—himself an investor—blanketed airwaves and filled residents’ mailboxes.

Mamdani’s platform includes increasing taxes on those making more than $1 million a year. He has said he would make the city more affordable by freezing rents on rent-stabilized apartments, investing $70 billion in publicly subsidized housing, providing free bus service and opening government-operated grocery stores.

**Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani protesting the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza.**

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/wall-street-panics-over-prospect-of-a-socialist-running-new-york-city-da7db7e4?st=7aMPXb&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Top photo: Zohran Mamdani like any solid New Yorker rides the subway.

Felon Trump Ends Protection for 58M Acres of National Forests

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 6.23.2025

While the Felon President Trump is waging war in the Middle East back home he is busy destroying decades of environmental protections. Protections backed by presidents of both parties.

Callous Trump doesn’t care. As long as his golf courses remain pristine playgrounds for his wealthy corporate bankrollers.

Excerpted from The New York Times 6.23.2025

The Trump administration said on Monday that it would open up 58 million acres of back country in national forests to road construction and development, removing protections that had been in place for a quarter century.

The unspoiled land in question includes Tongass National Forest in Alaska, North America’s largest temperate rainforest; Reddish Knob in the Shenandoah Mountains, one of the highest points in Virginia; and millions of acres of the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho.

“Most Americans value these pristine backcountry areas for their sense of wildness, for the clean water they provide, for the fishing and hunting and wildlife habitat,” said Chris Wood, the chief executive of Trout Unlimited, an environmental group.

When President Bill Clinton used executive authority to protect the forests weeks before leaving office in 2001, it was hailed by conservationists as the most significant step since President Theodore Roosevelt laid the foundation for the national forest system. It blocked logging, road building and mining and drilling on 58 million acres of the remaining undeveloped national forest lands.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced plans to repeal the 2001 “roadless rule” that had preserved the wild nature of nearly a third of the land in national forests in the United States. Ms. Rollins said the regulation was outdated.

“Once again, President Trump is removing absurd obstacles to common-sense management of our natural resources by rescinding the overly restrictive roadless rule,” Ms. Rollins said in a statement. She said the repeal “opens a new era of consistency and sustainability for our nation’s forests.”

Environmental groups said the plan could destroy some of America’s untouched landscapes and promised to challenge it in court.

Edvard Grieg memorialized the beautiful Norwegian landscape with his Peer Gynt suites. Trump wants to destroy America’s environmental legacy.

They ain’t cheap. High Costs Ended the Love Affair With Cars

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 6.21.2025

It’s about time. I can say with no small amount of braggadocio that we realized early on that a car is an expensive and wasteful encumbrance.

Even the Wall Street Journal, which gains a substantial part of its advertising income from the behemoth auto industry and its ancillary gatekeepers; i.e. the gas industry felt it time to write about the insidious cost of owning a car. And its impact on the average car owners budget.

It ain’t cheap.

There are a few of us who realized early on how wasteful and expensive is a climate destroying waste of resources. The automobile.

We have never owned a car and successfully fought off the blandishments of the auto industry advertising for nearly six decades. We purchased property. We raised a family, went to work, did our shopping and traveled.

Excerpted from The Wall Street Journal 6.20.2025

You love them, you want them, you can’t live without them…and they’re costing you a fortune in repairs, insurance and shockingly expensive replacement parts. Dan Neil on why our national obsession with the automobile has turned dangerously codependent.

Most of the yelling is about money. According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the total cost to own and operate an automobile averaged a frightening $12,296 in 2024, roughly 30% higher than a decade ago. Driving the numbers are new-vehicle prices, now averaging $48,883, according to Cox Automotive’s latest data. With middle-income buyers priced out of new cars, demand for used cars has strengthened, now averaging around $25,500.

Go ahead, throw a dish. It’ll make you feel better.

Among the major stressors: car insurance. Lexis-Nexis Risk Solutions’ annual report found average insurance costs rose 10% in 2024, after soaring 15% in 2023. Full-coverage policies now average $2,680 annually, up 12% from June 2024, says Bankrate.

And whatever you do, don’t mention depreciation. In 2024, the AAA calculated the average new vehicle loses an eye-watering $4,680 in value every year, over the first five years. Edmunds reported that in the last quarter 2024, one in four consumers were underwater on a car loan—meaning that they owed more than the vehicle’s market value.

It’s surprising how many of the current discontents are the consequences of good intentions. Take, for example, collision repair.

The cost of fixing damaged cars has skyrocketed 28% since 2021, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The collision-repair industry blames the rising cost of replacement parts; a shortage of trained technicians; and the increasing complexity of new cars, with special scorn directed at Advanced Driver-Assist Systems, or ADAS.

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/americas-love-affair-with-the-car-has-soured-over-money-4b73670f?st=prjfcu&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

A little ‘Brand New Car’ music courtesy of The Rolling Stones

The true San Franciscan will never forsake this City’s downtown.

SAN FRANCISCO – DOWNTOWN

Liz and Lee Heidhues 6.20.2025

The true San Franciscan will never forsake this town.

**The temperature was a windy 59 degrees at noon on Montgomery and Sutter Street**

On the Summer Solstice, a cold day in San Francisco, we ventured downtown to the place we have spent our time and money boosting the city’s economy and seeing the sites for decades.

**Patrick & Co. a historic 150 year old business on Market Street.**

**Liz stretches out her purchase of hard to find large size rubber bands at Patrick & Co. on Market Street.**

Fortunately, despite the economic tumult impacting this international city brought on by the pandemic there are still businesses which have survived and still prosper.

**Maxferd J&L which calls itself the “Oldest Pawn Shop in the Country” at the corner of Kearny and Sutter Street.**

On this day we shopped at several of them and poured some money into the economy.

**The Sherman Clay & Co. building on Sutter Street.**

The 150 Patrick & Sons Stationery store; Cinta Aveda Beauty School and historic Macy’s in Union Square

**Liz holding her purchase from Aveda as a smoker eyes the blogger.**

Sadly there are too many boarded up businesses which gives downtown a somewhat morose feeling. Which proves that the City’s full recovery from the pandemic will always be problematic.

People got accustomed to sitting at home and shopping on-line.

**Liz disembarks the 38R Muni bus to begin her Summer Solstice shopping trip.**

Market Street which has been car free since 2020 has become a pedestrian, cyclist and public transit thoroughfare making it a much friendlier place to shop and dine.

Brick and mortar shopping has been dealt a serious blow. Not just in San Francisco. But countrywide in America.

**A 4th of July display at Patrick & Co., the 150 year old brick and mortar store, awaits the intrepid shopper**

**The Wilkes Bashford store. The place for the well connected politically and socially in San Francisco to shop for clothes.**

**Teuscher Chocolates of Switzerland on Sutter Street.**

**A local citizen takes a nap on the Union Square steps.**

While downtown Liz chatted up the store clerks in Macy’s. One clerk in “The Cellar, where foods and housewares can be found, is May, a native daughter. We traded stories about the schools both of us and our kids attended in our youth. An integral part of San Francisco lore is to learn which high school you attended.

**Everyone shops at Macy’s. Even an SFPD officer on his break.**

Upstairs on the the 7th floor we found the same sales associate who helped us during a holiday shopping trip in December 2023. She is stationed right next to the Cheesecake Factory and, as decades long Macy’s shoppers, she made sure we got the best sale prices for our purchase.

**The well stocked shopper on the way home after pouring several hundred dollars into the local economy. Proof that people of all ages still appreciate what San Francisco has to offer.**

**The final stop**. **Liz and Lee toted our haul into the lobby of the Union Square Building where Liz renewed acquaintances with the concierge Andre. A venue where Liz taught ESL as a Berlitz Language School instructor**.

Before catching the Muni 38R bus home in front of the Westin St. Francis Hotel Liz chatted up the longtime Concierge “Andre” at the historic Union Square Building at the corner of Geary and Powell Streets. Liz taught ESL at the Berlitz Language School in this building and explained San Francisco’s vibrant street life just outside their classroom window which enthralled students from all over the world.