Staff Report Date: July 6, 2015 To: Visual Arts Committee From: Mary Chou Re: Place Names for Scott Oliver’s Points of Departure, Masonic Avenue

Streetscape Improvement Project Points of Departure, by artist Scott Oliver, consists of three unique, sculptural signposts located in the new plaza design at the corner of Masonic and Geary. Each signpost has arrows with place names and distances corresponding to responses from the community to a particular question. The place names were gathered through a survey distributed to pedestrians passing through the existing plaza during the week of March 9th, and an online survey; the artist collected approximately 600 surveys at the site, and 38 online. The surveys were also translated into and distributed in Spanish, Tagalog, Russian, and Chinese. Below are the place names sorted by post and by row. The place name is followed by the distance in kilometers and the bearing (direction). The text on the arrows will not include the bearing but will have a mileage equivalent. The bracketed, all caps, language indicates place names that will be translated back into their original language. Staff is requesting approval of the place names. The wording on each arrow may change a bit due to spatial constraints; the final, edited text and the layout of text on the posts will be approved by the Visual Arts Committee at a later date. Motion: Motion to approve place names (part of Design Development deliverables) for Scott Oliver’s artwork Points of Departure, for the Masonic Avenue Streetscape Improvement Project. POINTS OF DEPARTURE List of Place Names POST 1. Where are you going right now? (25 place names, 5 rows, 5 arrows in each row) Row 1 [RUSSIAN] Home, Sacramento & Divisadero; 0.98 km; 39º [SPANISH] To work, Sunnyside School; 5.77 km; 181º Al’s Attire, North Beach; 4.03 km; 62º Cliff House for lunch; 5.84 km; 266º To work, Thoreau Center for Sustainability; 2.01 km; 350º

Row 2 Presidio Veteran’s Housing; 2.27 km; 337º Breakfast, Howard’s Café, 9th Ave. & Irving; 2.63 km; 219º Roosevelt Middle School; 0.96 km; 267º Department of Motor Vehicles; 1.17 km; 147º Grace Cathedral; 3.2 km; 71º Row 3 Sonia’s house, Divisadero & Fulton; 1.03 km; 125º Corner Store; 0.02 km; 278º [RUSSIAN] To work, Jewish Community Center; 0.60 km; 360º Work, Boudin’s, Fisherman’s Wharf; 4.46 km; 48º Accounting apt., Bush & Market; 4.38 km; 77º Row 4 [CHINESE] Home, Monterey Blvd. & Edna St.; 5.65 km; 179º Land’s End; 5.15 km; 274º My apartment, California & Laurel St.; 0.55 km; 337º 9th Circuit Court of Appeals; 3.23 km; 94º Hamilton Rec. Center; 0.98 km; 76º Row 5 [TAGALOG] To my house, Geneva and Mission; 7.3 km; 175º [CHINESE] Lunch, D & A, 5th Ave. & Clement; 1.4 km; 273º Back to work at Trader Joe’s; 0.13 km; 355º Cesar Chavez Student Center, SF State; 7.2 km; 202º Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA; 16.8 km; 83º POST 2. Where were you born and when? (44 place names, 8 rows, 7 arrows in rows 7 & 8, 6 arrows in rows 5 & 6, 5 arrows in rows 3 & 4, 4 arrows in rows 1 & 2) Row 1 (1920-1929) [RUSSIAN] Saratov, Russia, 1929; 10,023 km; 83º Tokyo, Japan, 1925; 8,266 km; 269º Children’s Hospital, 1928; 301º At home, Patagonia, AZ, 1923; 1,274 km; 123º Row 2 (1930-1939) Pioneer Hospital, Artesia, CA, 1939; 587 km; 138º Bronx Hospital, New York, NY, 1937; 4,137 km; 85º Chinese Hospital, 1934; 3.71 km; 66º [CHINESE] Shanghai, China, 1934; 9,879 km; 268º

Row 3 (1940-1949) Sebastopol, CA, 1947; 76 km; 334º Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, OK, 1947; 95º [SPANISH] Hospital General, Guatemala City, Guatemala, 1948; 4,060 km; 129º Stanford-Lane Hospital, 1945; 1.64 km; 54º [TAGALOG] At home, Bulacan Province, Philippines, 1940; 11,206 km; 264º Row 4 (1950-1959) Tehran, Iran, 1959; 11,824 km; 91º [SPANISH] Hospital de Maternidad, San Salvador, El Salvador, 1956; 4,233 km; 129º Travis AFB, Fairfield, CA, 1955; 70 km; 39º Incheon, South Korea, 1954; 271º Ketchikan, AK, 1952; 2,072 km; 340º Row 5 (1960-1969) [SPANISH] Ahuacatlán, Mexico, 1965; 2,538 km; 137º Mt. Zion Hospital, 1963; 0.81 km; 68º [CHINESE] At home, Liaoning Province, China, 1963; 8,935 km; 271º Lying-in Hospital, Chicago, IL, 1960; 2,990 km; 81º Jackson Memorial Hosp., Miami, FL, 1962; 4,170 km; 109º Ukiah, CA, 1961; 166 km; 336º Row 6 (1970-1979) At home, Grass Valley, CA, 1979; 200.27 km; 37º Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI, 1971; 3,852 km; 241º Ramathibodi Hospital, Thailand, 1972; 12,744 km; 263º Kaiser Medical Center, Redwood City, CA, 1972; 38 km; 149º [SPANISH] My grandma’s house, Albuquerque, NM, 1978; 1,447 km; 102º St. Marien–Hospital, Cologne, Germany, 1979; 8,989 km; 82º Row 7 (1980-1989) Syangja, Nepal, 1989; 12,207 km; 267º San Juan Island, WA, 1987; 1,198 km; 358º [CHINESE] Gaoyou People’s Hospital, Yangzhou, China, 1989; 9,892 km; 269º SF General Hospital, 1982; 4.68 km; 129º Jackson Hole Medical Center, WY, 1982; 1,172 km; 57º [SPANISH] Hospital Regional de Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, 1981; 5,840 km; 111º [RUSSIAN] Kharkiv, Ukraine, 1987; 10,036 km; 84º Row 8 (1990-2006) St. Luke’s Hospital, 2006; 4.5 km; 148º Antony, France, 2001; 8,962 km; 83º At home, Livingston, MT, 1992; 1,317 km; 48º

An Orphanage, Calcutta, India, 1994; 12,575 km; 265º St. George’s Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1993; 11,157 km; 253º Sana’a, Yemen, 1996; 13,946 km; 99º Providence Hospital, Portland, OR, 1992; 860 km; 358º POST 3. Where do you want to go that you have never been? (42 place names, 7 rows, 6 arrows in each row) Row 1 Edinburgh Castle, Scotland; 8,126 km; 77º French Quarter, New Orleans, LA; 3,097 km; 106º [CHINESE] Galapagos Islands; 5,372 km; 143º Sutro Baths; 5.8 km; 268º Butchart Gardens, Vancouver B.C.; 1,202 km; 356º Outer Space; 80-122 km (This arrow will point to the sky and can be placed anywhere in the row to work with the other arrows.) Row 2 [CHINESE] The North Pole; 5,807 km; 3º Blue Lagoon, Iceland; 6,749 km; 67º [RUSSIAN] Ground Zero, Manhattan, NY; 4,131 km; 86º Embarcadero Cantón, Artemisa, Cuba; 4,118 km; 114º Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA; 553 km; 138º Kilauea Summit, Hawaii; 3,770 km; 237º Row 3 Top of the Transamerica Building; 4.2 km; 67º La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain; 9,574 km; 88º Visit my cousin in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan; 10,637 km; 266º [RUSSIAN] Lake Baikal, Russia; 8,759 km; 276º Machu Picchu, Peru; 7,689 km; 137º “Northern Lights,” Denali, AK; 3,416 km; 327º Row 4 Petra, “the Rose City,” Jordan; 12,104 km; 93º Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, Africa; 15,567 km; 106º Salt Flats of Bolivia; 8,629 km; 138º Mount Erebus, Antarctica; 15,567 km; 240º Holi (“Festival of Colors”), Manipur, India; 12,104 km; 265º [SPANISH] The Moon; 384,400 km (This arrow will point to the sky and can be placed anywhere in the row to work with the other arrows.) Row 5

[RUSSIAN] Family graves, Khmelnytsky, Ukraine; 9,865 km; 84º Egyptian Pyramids, Giza, Egypt; 11,998 km; 94º Joshua Tree National Park; 732 km; 126º Great Barrier Reef, Australia; 11,270 km; 258º “Rainbow Mountains,” Gansu, China; 10,443 km; 270º Golden Gate Park; 1.32 km; 206º Row 6 Torngat Mountains, Newfoundland, Canada; 4,717 km; 60º Trift Bridge, Gadmen, Switzerland; 9,425 km; 85º [CHINESE] Disney World, Orlando, FL; 3,919 km; 105º Meteor Deep, South Sandwich Trench, Atlantic Ocean; 13,772 km; 138º Easter Island, Chile; 7,346 km; 169º Presidio Bowling Alley; 2.13 km; 330º Row 7 Space Needle, Seattle WA; 1,094 km; 0/360º White Cliffs of the Missouri River, MT; 1,510 km; 42º The Mutter Museum, Philadelphia, PA; 4,052 km; 87º Woodward’s Garden, circa 1880; 2.8 km; 124º The Farallon Islands; 50 km; 259º Right Here (This arrow will point to the ground and can be placed anywhere in the row to work with the other arrows. There will be no distance listed on this arrow.)