San Francisco’s Panhandle Bandshell To Be Shut Down

by Scott Beale on August 27, 2007 · 8 comments

Panhandle Bandshell

According to Jim at SFist, San Francisco’s wonderful Panhandle Bandshell, which is made of recycled materials and that our friends at The Black Rock Arts Foundation worked on so hard to make a reality (see my previous post), is now being shut down.

The San Francisco Recreation & Park Department has refused a request to extend the permit for the bandshell, therefore it will cease operation in September. Alexandria Rocha has more on this story over at The San Francisco Examiner.

photo credit: Brad Immanuel

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{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

1 SierraNightTide August 28, 2007 at 11:20 am

Are there any efforts to save the bandshell?

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2 Beach August 28, 2007 at 1:38 pm

This is terrible. The bandshell was so cool. Is there any way to make it permanent?

-beach

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3 Jason Miller August 28, 2007 at 4:30 pm

It’s a little misleading to say “shut down” when it will have run it’s originally scheduled course. I live right near it and love it and will be sad to see it go, but it isn’t being “shut down” – it’s coming down at the time it was originally planned to come down – the date that has been posted on the bandshell information posters since day one.

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4 john gunn August 30, 2007 at 8:23 pm

THANK GOD..
that ugly grafitti magnet has been there for way too long.

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