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KQED History Group Save The Cliff House Art
By Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez for KQEDMar 13, 2001 Sutro Baths bathing suits. Italian porcelain muses. A carved wooden grizzly bear. A cowboy sculpture from Playland-at-the-Beach. An oil painting of San Francisco’s wealthy 24th mayor, Adolph Sutro. These eclectic items, and more — roughly 60 items in total — were saved from the closure of San […]
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SF Chronicle – Non Profit Buys Cliff House Artifacts
By Matthias Gafni for the SF ChronicleMarch 14, 2021 Nicole Meldahl had trouble sleeping. For a little over two weeks, her nonprofit Western Neighborhoods Project had raised $180,000 to buy as many historic items as it could from the Cliff House, and now it was the day of the auction.
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SF Cable Car Museum Donates 15K
We would like to thank the San Francisco Cable Car Museum for making a significant contribution of $15,000 to our cause. Learn more about this local treasure on their website.
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SF Weekly – Saving the “Cliff House Collection”
“That didn’t sit well with a group of local organizers who believe the collection belongs to the public. Spearheaded by a community history nonprofit, the Western Neighborhoods Project, and two local fine art galleries, the effort, dubbed Save the Cliff House Collection, aims to raise enough money to buy some of the collection’s most culturally valuable […]
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Minnesota Street Projects Partners with us!
Special Announcement! The Save the Cliff House Collection is excited to announce our partnership with Minnesota Street Project Art Services. Half the battle of securing and preserving the targeted collection from the Cliff House is ensuring that its transport and storage is at and beyond museum quality standards. Minnesota Street Project Art Services stepping in […]
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Sf Chronicle – SF Man Arrested in Cliff House Burglary
A San Francisco man suspected of breaking into the iconic Cliff House and stealing historic memorabilia in January, nearly one month after the restaurant announced its permanent closure, has been arrested and charged with burglary, authorities said.
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SF Examiner – Cliff House Memorabilia Goes Up For Auction
OLIVIA WYNKOOP for the SF Examiner History buffs working to keep Cliff House collection in public viewFunds needed to buy up historic building’s contents at auction …“Both Muses are being auctioned off separately, creating the tragic possibility that they will be split up and never seen together again. Unless we can line up the chance […]
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CBS KPIX Interview
Nicole Meldahl, Executive Director of the Western Neighborhoods Project explains the importance of the collection.
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SF Chronicle – Restaurant Items Stolen From Cliff House
Authorities are searching for two people suspected of stealing historic memorabilia from San Francisco’s Cliff House nearly one month after the restaurant announced its permanent closure.
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