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I am beginning to evolve into more interview based filming for my project and subsequent blogs, and have therefore decided to post potential interview questions to this blog in hopes of any form of response, critique or praise. Please comment/add more!
QUESTIONS:
-Can you tell me where you lived when you were in San Francisco?
-How long did [...]

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As I have begun to look into part of my family’s past in relation to the streets of San Francisco, I noticed more than just a passing few connections. It’s beginning to look like my family’s more recent history has been closely intertwined with the foggy city. Not only have the two characters I’ve [...]

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An idea for my final project under the New Jewish Filmmaking Project has arose in my unfortunately-overstuffed brain. I would like to take a look at individual sections of North San Francisco that my family members are continuing to tell me stories about, and that are the areas that I adore. To begin with, [...]

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The streets you resided in as a child stick with you for life. Your childhood home, so to speak, is where memories reside. I bet almost all of you reading this can remember the address, or at least the street name of the house where you began your life.
For myself, and those around me, [...]

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Facebook Experimentations

Hey there everyone,
So I decided to choose the networking option of creating a quiz that would link back to my blog, so I was hoping everyone would take a look. Here’s the link!

Click for quiz ^^
Thanks all!

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Click please :]

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Getting to know Poppy

My grandfather has never been the talker of his family. Normally I would ask him a quick question about his day and then his wife, my adorable grandma, whom I affectionately call Grammy, would interject with a comment about such-and-such family member or what she was making for dinner or something akin to that. However, [...]

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San Francisco Through the Ages

While being unfortunately bogged down with a nasty cold, I was unable to contact my grandfather to set up an interview about his childhood in San Francisco. However, I was able to scan the internet for some useful SF footage and photographs. Here are some of what I found.
This lovely little slideshow video shows some [...]

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If Streets Could Talk…

The streets of San Francisco tell many stories. Walking down Castro, you could learn the plight of the gay and lesbian community of the 70’s or strolling Market, you can easily pass from bustling, industrial, shopping center to an area no one wants to be caught in at night. These streets, and many more, have [...]

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By Sam Abernathey
Watching “Lake 68”, I found myself thrust into a world of history that I was mostly unaware of. The Polish anti-Semitism during the 1930-1970 period was quite intense, but myself, a young American Jew, had not even heard of it before. I found the style of the filmmaking to be something rather personal, [...]

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