PART OF CROATIAN HISTORY OF CROATIANS IN SAN FRANCISCO –
THAT’S HOW IT WAS DONE FOR CROATIA!
Mile Boban, the entrepreneur in the construction of the Home of Croatian Associates at 415 Grand Avenue in South San Francisco.
Mayor S.F. Dianne Feinstein and Mile Boban on December 9, 1979.
Pictured, left to right: Annie Boban, Mile Boban, San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein and her second term campaign manager on December 9, 1979.
The attached picture will remind many Croats of San Francisco and the Bay Area during the CROATIAN WEEK IN SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO in October 1980. Through a Filipino, with whom I did some work, something in his house, which I don’t remember the details of, I established contact with the mayor of the City of San Francisco, Diane Feinstein. At that time I was constructing and building the Croatian Hall = Hrvatski Dom at 415 Grand Avenue, in South San Francisco, I kept thinking about how to use this knowledge for Croatian purposes. We decided to have a GRAND OPENING on Saturday October 18, 1980.
Since my English was not the best, I asked my brother Rafa (1944-2004) to go with me to a meeting with the mayor of San Francisco, Diane Feinstein. I invited her and asked her to be the one to cut the ribbon for the GRAND OPENING. She told me that she was sorry but that she couldn’t, because it belongs to the city of SSF and not SF. She told me she was going to ask South San Francisco Mayor Al Acosta to be the one. And it was like that. Through her recommendation, I went to see Mayor Al Acosta, who gladly agreed. At my request and request, the city of South San Francisco agreed to declare CROATIAN WEEK, so that American and Croatian flags are placed on both sides of Grande Avenue. This is how CROATIAN WEEK ended with Croatian and American flags on both sides of Grand Avenue, on the occasion of the GRAND OPENING.
Hrvatski
DIO POVIJESTI HRVATA SAN FRANCISKA – TAKO SE TO RADI ZA HRVATSKU!
Slika, s lijeva na desno: Annie Boban, Mile Boban Dianne Feinsteine gradonačelnica San Franciska i njezin upravitelj za kampanju drugog mandata 9 prosinca 1979.
Priložena slika će podsjetiti Mnoge Hrvate San Francisca i Bay Area prigodom HRVATSKOG TJEDNA U SOUTH SAN FRANCISCU u listopadu 1980. godine. Ja sam preko jednog Filipinca, kod kojeg sam neki posao pravio, nešto u njegovoj kući, čega se više detalja ne sjećam, uspostavio kontakt sa gradonačelnicom grada San Francisca Diane Feinstein. Pošto sam u to vrijeme pravio i izgrađivao Hrvatski Dom 415 Grand Avenue, u South San Francisco, stalno mi se je vrtjela ideja u glavi kako iskoristiti ovo poznajstvo u hrvatske svrhe. Odlučili smo imati GRAND OPENING u subotu 18 listopada 1980.
Pošto moj engleski nije najbolji bio, zamolio sam brata Rafu (1944-2004) da s menom pođe na sastanak kod gradonačelnice San Francisca Diane Feinstein. Ja sam ju pozvao i zamolio da ona bude ta koja će prerezati vrpcu za GRAND OPENING. Rekla mi je da joj je žao ali da ona ne može, jer to pripada gradu SSF a ne SF. Rekla mi je da će se ona obratiti gradonačelniku South San Francisca Al Acosta da on taj bude. Tako je i bilo. Preko njezine preporuke ja smo otišao kod gradonačelnika Al Acosta koji je rado pristao. Na moju želju i molbu pristao grad South San Francisco proglasiti CROATIAN WEEK, HRVATSKI TJEDAN, tako da s obje strane ulice Grande Avenue se stave američke i hrvatske zastave. Tako je završio CROATIAN WEEK sa hrvatskim i američkim zastavama s obje strane ulice Grand Avenue, prigodom GRAND OPENING.
I remember this story! Thank you for sharing!
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