In the heart of S.F.’s depleted downtown, the embers of an artists’ enclave still glow.
Fifty years ago, soon after the Transamerica Pyramid went up, Gary Snyder put down the whole building in a broadside he wrote, printed and distributed. Copies are still on both the outer and inner walls of buildings in that part of San Francisco known as the Financial District, or the Barbary Coast or North Beach. The broadside, which was originally unsigned, was included in “The Old Ways,” a book of Snyder’s writings published by City Lights in 1977.
For the past 18 months, I have worked in a cubbyhole in an office building and art gallery on Montgomery Street in the shadow of the Pyramid. I have met artists and revolutionaries of the 2020s and I have done some of my best writing there. I might borrow and recycle the opening of Snyder’s broadside, especially the part in which he explained, “in the spiritual and political loneliness of America of the fifties, you’d hitchhike a thousand miles to meet a friend.
“I have a love/hate relationship with The City,” Herrera told me. Who doesn’t? “During the pandemic, there was often not another living soul on these streets. I got to know the buildings. I built a bond with the neighborhood and I fell in love with it all over again. My occupation now feels less superficial than before.”
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