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This event is in the past.It took place on December 21, 2025 at San Francisco Historical Society.
History Exhibition
History ExhibitionRare photographs reveal how 1950s-70s urban renewal razed the Western Addition, displacing tens of thousands of Black and Japanese American families. The Burden Archive images, many never before exhibited, document what San Francisco destroyed in the name of progress.
Historical exhibition
Urban transformation
Community impact
Rare photographs
Tips
🚶docent tours available Saturday afternoons
🏮Commercial St makes a lovely walk to Chinatown
We Were Here: Views of San Francisco's Urban Renewal
Chinatown
History ExhibitionHistory ExhibitionRare photographs reveal how 1950s-70s urban renewal razed the Western Addition, displacing tens of thousands of Black and Japanese American families. The Burden Archive images, many never before exhibited, document what San Francisco destroyed in the name of progress.
Historical exhibition
Urban transformation
Community impact
Rare photographs
Tips
🚶docent tours available Saturday afternoons
🏮Commercial St makes a lovely walk to Chinatown
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