San Francisco Architectural Heritage
Advisory/Information

9/19/07

1. Heritage lecture
2. Lecture in Berkeley

1. Seats still available for the first of Heritage's 2007 Ballroom Lectures, Thursday, September 20, 6:00 p.m., featuring Arthur Bloomfield on "Gables and Fables: A Portrait of San Francisco's Pacific Heights." Copies of the book on sale at members' discount. Author will sign copies. Light refreshments. $7 Heritage members/$10 general public. Call 415-441-3000 to reserve a seat or hit reply to this e-mail and indicate the number of seats you wish to reserve. Doors open at 5:30.

2. Wednesday, September 19, 5:30 to 7 p.m. A CONVERSATION “On Learning from Disasters”, with Bay Area cultural historians Stephen Tobriner, author of “Bracing For Disaster: Earthquake Resistant Architecture and Engineering in San Francisco,1838-1933” and Gray Brechin, author of “Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin.” At University Press Books/Berkeley, 2430 Bancroft Way. 548-0585. http://www.universitypressbooks.com