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The Chronicle has a copy of a photo of the old City Hall, badly damaged after the '06 - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2006/01/06/BAGN3GI4NU1.DTL&o=2 The photo was taken by writer Jack London (who died in 1916). I don't know enough about US copyright law to know if this image is out of copyright yet. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 13:59, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot 14:02, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
Hall Refit for Pomp and Happenstance I found this article about the 1990's remodel. Someone can add its info they like. User:calbear22 ( talk) 07:40, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Interesting. [1] -- Kendrick7 talk 19:53, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone know if the trees outside of city hall are Sycamore trees? Jeff Carr ( talk) 21:37, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
The article needs a photo of the 1899 building as it looked before destruction. -- 98.232.188.173 ( talk) 05:29, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
Until the 1980s there was a reflecting pool next to City Hall. If I had any details on this I'd add the info myself! Please help? brain ( talk) 05:00, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
I wish I had a photo that I could lay my hands on, but I found this talk segment while trying to find a picture of the reflecting pool. The last time I was in San Francisco, I was 18 years old (soon to be 19), there was a heatwave, and it was May 1975. After walking through the sprinkler sprays in the park, I looked at the reflecting pool in front of the City Hall and thought it would be nice to paddle in it. I think there were some signs saying to keep out of the pool, but it was San Francisco and I was (and remain) an Englishman. So I sat on the coping, swung my legs round, and slipped in.
Surprise! The notices had given good advice. The pool was unnecessarily deep, and the water was half way up my chest -- maybe 4'6" deep (any passing metric busybody is welcome to provide an equivalent). But it was cool-ish and refreshing, and we didn't carry anything much with us in those days that might be damaged by damp. People accepted wet money then, and I believe that they still do.
So we are still waiting for somebody to supply a photo of the reflecting pool. :( JimInRoses ( talk) 01:41, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
The introductory text states that the City Hall dome is the 5th largest and includes a link to a Wikipedia largest dome article but the latter article does not mention San Francisco City Hall. I'm guessing that the 5th largest claim needs to be more narrowly made. Pegordon ( talk) 20:04, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
I suggest adding a blurb about the Summer 2008 and WWII era 1943 Victory Gardens in front of SF City Hall. I don't remember when the 2008 Garden was disassembled - November 2008? Pegordon ( talk) 20:22, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
The original city hall actually sat up against Market Street and was roughly W-shaped, with a courtyard. Since Jimmy Wales STILL hasn't fixed the site to retrieve forgotten passwords, and I am NOT going to create yet another screen name, someone else needs to upload an image of a map: http://blog.historypin.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Screen-Shot-2013-07-03-at-3.18.06-PM.png -- 98.246.156.76 ( talk) 08:32, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
This article states in the Summary paragraph under the heading
The structure's dome is the fifth largest in the world - taller than that of the United States Capitol by 42 feet.[5][6]
The in the first paragraph under the heading:
===== Architecture ===== it states:
Template:Quotation: It is 19 ft (5.8 m) higher than the United States Capitol...
Haven't found a good source for the correct number but these two are in disagreement with each other.
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For several years, there has been a link on the San Francisco City Hall wiki page to the San Francisco City Hall Virtual Tour(SFCHVT) website. Recently, Alexf decided that now this link was “inappropriate” and removed it. I wrote to AlexF, explained the history and purpose of the site, and asked him what he found “inappropriate” and what I could do to make it more appropriate. He responded that his action was “a question of policy” and that “the community, through consensus, must decide.” He instructed me to "place the link, and your reasoning, in the article's Talk Page," which is what I am now trying to do.
I believe that the SFCHVT site is appropriate for Wikipedia and a valuable addition to the San Francisco City Hall page. I ask that you restore the SFCHVT link and make it available for others who want to learn more about San Francisco City Hall; or let me know what you find wrong with it so that I may fix it. I welcome the wisdom of the community and hope to learn from it. Thanks, and please, gently let me know if I’m not doing this correctly. Budryerson ( talk) 17:25, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
Beyond My Ken writes that my "response has convinced" him that the "operation is a commercial one," and cites Wikipedia's prohibition of "commercial promotion", namely WP:PROMOTION. But anyone who actually visited the unofficial San Francisco City Hall Virtual Tour(SFCHVT) website would see that it contains:
1. No Advocacy, propaganda, or recruitment of any kind;
2. No Opinion pieces;
3. No Scandal mongering, promoting things "heard through the grapevine" or gossiping;
4. No Self-promotion; and
5. No Advertising, marketing or public relations.
All writing on SFCHVT is in an objective and unbiased style, article topics are verifiable with independent, third-party sources, and reference links are often included.
I truly appreciate the time and effort that Beyond My Ken has made, but SFCHVT does not remotely meet a single criteria of WP:PROMOTION. As stated before, SFCHVT is simply not commercial by any possible definition of the word, and it is not promoting anything except its subject matter.
I initiated this discussion in the hope of learning from the community. If there is a problem, I can solve it. If there is something that must change, I will be happy to change it. If Beyond My Ken would say why he believes that SFCHVT is a "commercial operation" or what it is that he finds objectionable, I will fix that, too. Please give SFCHVT a chance. Thank you for your time. Budryerson ( talk) 20:48, 17 August 2018 (UTC)