Photo by Lola Chavez

Now an apartment building, 3535 19th St. used to be the home of Temple B’nai David.  One writer to the Jewish News Weekly wrote,  ” All I know is that it closed in 1978 and had one of the few mikvahs  in San Francisco.”  It remains a wonderfully elegant building.  A mikvah is a bath or pool where Jewish women take a monthly bath.

Earlier Today

Gazillions for Art in Public Places
A reader passed on the Ford Foundation news of $100 million in new grants “awarded to projects that incubate and produce creative work across all disciplines.”

Earlier Today By Mark Rabine

Great Scott! It’s Movie Night in the Mission!

6 A.M. 50°; cool and clear. And the forecast for this evening, around 7:30 expect the same, only warmer (but not much). Even the Dolores Park ghosts are expected to reappear for “Back to the Future”. Otherwise, Happy Buddha Day.

Cecil B. Demented Eats Here

If Zuni, Range and Foreign Cinema are good enough for the Pope of Trash, as Mary Ladd sez, aren’t they good enough for the parents?

Where’s the Beef?

Seized by a sudden fit of in loco parentis, the Supes voted to make Mondays Eat Your Vegetables Day. Measure now goes to Mayor Getty’s table at Chez Panisse for approval.

Skin ‘Em Alive

Not satisfied with paying $25,000 to $35,000 a year for roomcleaners, dishwashers, servers, bellpersons and others, now the Hoteliers are demanding their workers pay more for health care. “Employees have to have to have some skin in the game,”said the lawyer for W and the St. Francis. Hilton Hotel workers, Local 2 Unite Here, responded by walking off the job. (photo credit SFAppeal).

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