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John Maher, founder of the Delancey Street Foundation. Pacific Heights, San Francisco~1973. Delancey Street Foundation was founded in 1971 in San Francisco by John Maher. [1] The program began in an apartment on Polk Street [2] that Maher, a self-described "bum" and "ex-junkie," rented to house people recovering from drug and alcohol use. As ...
Mimi Silbert. Mimi Halper Silbert serves as the chairman of the board, president, and CEO of the Delancey Street Foundation, a residential educational community that provides ex-felons, sex workers, substance abusers, and others with academic, vocational, and social skills. [1] Silbert was the developer of Delancey Street's headquarters, which ...
John Maher (1940 – December 3, 1988) [ 1] was an American former child alcoholic and heroin addict, who founded the Delancey Street Foundation, a nonprofit organization, in 1971. The organization, based in San Francisco, provides residential rehabilitation services and vocational training for substance abusers and convicted criminals.
Folsom Street Fair (FSF) is an annual BDSM and leather subculture street fair, held in September that concludes San Francisco's "Leather Pride Week". The Folsom Street Fair, sometimes referred to simply as "Folsom", takes place on the last Sunday in September, on Folsom Street between 8th and 13th Streets, in San Francisco's South of Market district.
v. t. e. The 504 Sit-in was a disability rights protest that began on April 5, 1977. People with disabilities and the disability community occupied federal buildings in the United States in order to push the issuance of long-delayed regulations regarding Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Prior to the 1990 enactment of the Americans ...
650 Delancey Street October 8, 1977 102 Italian Swiss Colony Building 1265 Battery Street January 8, 1978 ... Mechanics' Institute, San Francisco: 57–65 Post Street
The Embarcadero ( Spanish for "Embarkment") is the eastern waterfront of Port of San Francisco and a major roadway in San Francisco, California. It was constructed on reclaimed land along a three mile long [ 2] engineered seawall, from which piers extend into the bay. It derives its name from the Spanish verb embarcar, meaning "to embark ...
Sources say the women are tourists from Mexico and were pushed onto the tracks while waiting for the train at the Delancey Street and Essex Street subway station around 2:15 a.m.