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Make Some Green Bucks
Tour Tips, SF History
by Dave Schneider

Editor’s note: Dave Schneider is a long-time San Francisco cab driver and a founding member of United Taxicab Workers. This is the first installment of his Tour Tips for drivers.

Because taxi labor conditions are so poor, please help yourself and use this San Francisco tour info to earn some extra bucks -- granted, union benefits would be better.

How Big Is It?

  • SF city and county's land mass is 49 square miles.
  • It has an estimated population of 809,000 to 846,000.
  • There are about 7.4 million humans in the nine county Bay Area, and a lot of pigeons, dogs and cats and sea gulls, but not quite as many sea lions as there used to be.

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San Francisco,
City of Bridges...

including Harry Bridges

City of Great Views
Birthplace of the United Nations

The stomping grounds of:

the Emperor Norton, Joseph Strauss, Adolph Sutro, William Leidesdorff, Jasper O'Farrell, Sam Brannan, Philo T. Farnsworth, Benny Bufano, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Ruth Asawa, Isaac Stern, Timothy Pfluger, Bernard Maybeck, Julia Morgan, Renzo Piano, Mario Botta, A. Page Brown, Arthur Brown, Willie Brown, Jerry Brown, Dolores Huerta, Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, Leonard Shlain, Robin Williams. The Doggie Diners. Sally Stanford, Herb Caen, Isadora Duncan, Carol Doda, Willy Mays, Joe Montana
and the Parrots of Telegraph Hill
and Dolores Park
. . . and Good-Bye Sea Lions

The Late, Great Herb Caen

Another great San Franciscan was the late columnist Herb Caen, with his penetrating style of news, bonhomie and wit. But he was also a union man who went out on strike. Before the 1994 newspaper strike he said:

"We like to feel that people of good will sit down, especially in this most civilized of cities, and work things out, but sometimes that most ideal situation is not to be found."

Then, once again in the spirit of those who founded the labor movement and lifted millions of Americans to new levels of the good life, it is time to form picket lines and vow we will not retreat another inch."

That much has been sacrificed over the years to win the victories of which we are proud, and to retreat would be to renounce a sacred trust."

This far and no farther."

. . .

Herb Caen
10/28/94

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The Veterans Building

at 401 Van Ness at McAllister, next to the Opera House, hosted a bridge between peoples of peace of a different sort: it's the birthplace of the United Nations: the U.N. Charter was signed there in June 1945, in the room that is now the Herbst Theater.

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THE TAXI DRIVER INSTITUTE

2940 16th Street, Room 314
Between Mission & South Van Ness
(1/2 block from BART station and Muni lines)

Fulfills the City’s Requirement for Getting an A-Card

Taught by a City College Instructor
and Long-Time Taxi Driver

Class is held from 9-5 Tues.-Fri.

To attend, please call for reservations:

701-8294

Class costs $125. Payment may be made in cash,
by money order or by credit card through our web site:

Problems at SFO?

Contact the on-duty shift manager at:

(650) 821-2700 or
(650) 821-2704

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George P. Surmaitis, Esq.
Leung & Associates

“LAWYERS REPRESENTING
THE TAXI COMMUNITY”

Hit & Run/Accidents*
Injured at work*
Attacked by customer*
Personal Injury*
Permit and disciplinary hearings

We speak Chinese and Tagalog.

*NO FEE IF NO RECOVERY – NO
CHARGE FOR INITIAL CONSULTATION

5731 Geary Boulevard
San Francisco, CA 94121
Call us today: (415) 933-9988

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