Up from the Deep (The Hotel Project)

Ever heard of the Hotel Von Dorn?

Now you have. (See “Anamnesis” in Part Three: Uptown Tenderloin.)

Brochure, Hotel Herald, circa 1915.

I’ve just added more postcards and these pages of an early brochure to Part Three: Uptown Tenderloin. My thanks to Kathy Looper for so graciously loaning them to me.

On 20 November 2008 I reshot the Hibernia Bank Building at 1 Jones Street. This photo and some recently-unearthed photos from the 1940s have now been added to Part Three: Uptown Tenderloin.

^{HIBERNIA BANK BUILDING – 1 JONES STREET}

On 05 February 2009, the Uptown Tenderloin Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places, #08001407 in the weekly list of actions taken on properties: 2/02/09 through 2/06/09.

^{500 block O’FARRELL STREET}

The entire set of survey photos that were submitted to the National Park Service can be seen here.

I have added beautiful old postcards for some of the hotels in Part Three: Uptown Tenderloin. A few examples are shown below:

Volumes One and Two of Up from the Deep are reviewed in today’s issue of BeyondChron.

“Foggy City” © 2008, Mark Ellinger

Look around you, take in everything and remember, for the day will come when your memories are all that remain.

May 2009 be a good year for us all!

(Beach burr, Rodeo Beach, Marin County.)

Paintings, drawings and photographs of the central city

TWO PERSON ART EXHIBIT AND BOOK RELEASE

PATRICIA ARAUJO and MARK ELLINGER

EXHIBIT EXTENDED THROUGH 15 APRIL 2009

(Click on image below to read exhibit invitation)

If you plan to attend, PLEASE R.S.V.P.

^{SOMA SEEN – front cover}

Golden Gate Theater meets Tower

Copyright © 2002, Patricia Araujo.

Graphite & pastel on aircraft metal, 18″ x 15.5″ framed.

Tenderloin Sunrise

Copyright © 2008, Mark Ellinger.

Giclee print on fine art paper, 13″ x 17.3″ (20″ x 24″ matted and framed).

On 25 July 2008, the State Historical Resources Commission voted unanimously to create the Uptown Tenderloin Historic District, with Federal approval and the district’s addition to the National Register of Historic Places likely to follow in as little as 45 days. Thanks to Leroy and Kathy Looper and Randy Shaw, who spearheaded the effort; to Elaine Zamora and the North of Market/Tenderloin Community Benefit Corporation, Dina Hilliard of TNT (The New Tenderloin), David Seward, U. C. Hastings, and Captain Gary Jimenez of the Tenderloin Station for their rock-solid support; and to Michael Corbett, architectural historian par excellence, for his dedicated work, resulting in the extensive, highly detailed survey that won the state’s approval and for which I had the distinct honor of being the photographer. The entire community was pulled together by this endeavor, which holds such promise for making the Tenderloin a better place for all. Survey photos can be seen here.

^{300 block EDDY STREET}