Apr 23, 2024
In Part 1, meet and get to know
Nathan, who today owns and operates New Skool Clothing and
Accessories.
Nathan's parents are both from
Myanmar, but fled their home country during years of political
upheaval. They landed in England, where his mom's mom already lived
and where Nathan was born in the early Seventies.
He,...
Apr 19, 2024
In this bonus episode, meet SFFILM Executive Director Anne Lai. Learn all about Anne's upbringing, what drew her to California, her stint with the Sundance Institute, and her arrival in 2020 in San Francisco at the famed San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM).
Anne will walk listeners through the history of...
Apr 16, 2024
Part 2 is the story of how
open-mindedness met opportunity. It's also an explanation for how
an ice cream store opened by someone named Mitchell came to carry
several flavors familiar to both the Filipino- and the
Latin-American community.
Brian shares the story: The
Asian flavors started around 1965 when a customer...
Apr 9, 2024
This oh-so-San Francisco story
begins with two brothers and a dairy farm at Noe and 29th
Street.
Larry Mitchell and his older
brother Jack opened
Mitchell's Ice Cream in 1953. Five years earlier,
the building that now houses the well-known ice cream shop was
going to be torn down for the widening of San Jose
Avenue....
Apr 2, 2024
In Part 2, we hear about
Chloe's first photo show, which took place at The Bearded Lady.
Chloe describes The Bearded Lady as a hub, a place to do and get
everything you could possibly need. It and the Kiki Gallery next
door were both on 14th Street near Guerrero.
Another queer artist, Cathy,
liked Chloe's show and...