Almost 50 years the leadership of Mayor George Moscone convinced all of San Francisco to embrace a “grand Yerba Buena compromise” vision of a new convention center (now Moscone Center) for the City’s visitor industry combined with a beautiful Yerba Buena Gardens for all the People of the City. And just ten years later the Redevelopment Agency, TODCO, and community stakeholders again all agreed to an even more ambitious compromise vision of building a new civic arts center (now the Museum of Modern Art, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and the Center for the Arts) in Yerba Buena along with a future Yerba Buena residential Neighborhood surrounding it all — now home to 13,000 San Franciscans of all backgrounds, including 2000 seniors.
Touch-and-Go Tragedy: The crash of Air Canada flight 621
On the 5th of July 1970, an Air Canada DC-8 plunged burning from the sky over Brampton, Ontario, leaving behind little more than a…