Sidewalk Plaques Start Arriving – LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District

Over the last two days, the first five sidewalk plaques in our Leather Legacy Landmarks project have been installed on Folsom Street, between 7th and 9th Streets!

Our historians have identified 77 historic locations in SOMA where we plan to install sidewalk plaques.

We need your help to fund these plaques, donations of any size can be made at: https://sflcd.org/plaques/

Plaque sponsorship is also available, which allows your name to be permanently on a plaque.

A huge thank you goes to Bryan Dahl, aide to Supervisor Matt Dorsey, for his tireless efforts in seeing us through a three-year permitting process.

Thank you also to DPW’s Logan Hehn for finalizing our permits. We would like to thank DPW, and Ruby Yu and Carol Huang for all their work and for installing the plaques. DPW will be installing the first 16 plaques.

Ruby Yu and Carol Huang unveiling the plaque in front of Driftwood. Click for video.

David Hyman unveiling the plaque in front of Mark I. Chester’s studio. Click for video.

Here are the currently-installed locations:

- 1225 Folsom Street, currently Driftwood, formerly the Ramrod, My Place, and Chaps II;
- 1229 Folsom Street, site of Mark I. Chester’s Studio;
- 1250 Folsom Street, currently Mukunda Studio, formerly the headquarters of the National Leather Association.;
- 1347 Folsom Street, currently Powerhouse, formerly the In-Between, the No Name, the Bolt, the Brig, and Powerhouse;
- 1369 Folsom Street, currently the Hole in the Wall, formerly Folsom Street Club, Corn Holes, and Night Gallery.

Installing the plaque at Powerhouse. Click for video.

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