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Title: Save the Castro records
Dates: 1999-2000
Collection Number: 2001-31
Creator/Collector:
Save the Castro
Extent: 2.9 linear feet
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Save the Castro was an ad hoc political organization founded to stop evictions under the Ellis Act, keep chain stores from
moving into the Castro neighborhood, and to minimize the effects of increased tourism from the F line. Collection includes
meeting announcements, flyers, correspondence, information sheets, news clippings, buttons, stickers and t-shirts. Mention
is made of the Castro Citizens Congress, Castro Area Planning and Action, the Eureka Valley Promotion Association, the Coalition
for Sustainable Neighborhoods, and the Castro Neighborhood Council.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. Save the Castro records. Collection Number: 2001-31. GLBT Historical Society
Scope and Content of Collection
Save the Castro was an ad hoc political organization founded to stop evictions under the Ellis Act, keep chain stores from
moving into the Castro neighborhood, and to minimize the effects of increased tourism from the F line. Collection includes
meeting announcements, flyers, correspondence, information sheets, news clippings, buttons, stickers and t-shirts. Mention
is made of the Castro Citizens Congress, Castro Area Planning and Action, the Eureka Valley Promotion Association, the Coalition
for Sustainable Neighborhoods, and the Castro Neighborhood Council. GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_003201
Politics and elections