Mar 282012
Chinatown
Broadway Tunnel
This is the Chinatown side of the Broadway Tunnel. It is dedicated to Robert C. Levy and has a plaque that reads:
Robert C. Levy
1921-1985
City and Engineer and superintendent of
Building Inspection
City and County of San Francisco
He devoted his life to high standards of professionalism in engineering and to this city which he loved
January 1986
Dragon Relief by Patti Bowler – Bronze – 1969
The windows you see are the offices of San Francisco District Health Center #4 of Chinatown.
Patti Bowler lived most of her life with her husband Carson in Bodega Bay. The sculpture is part of the San Francisco Civic Art Collection and part of the earliest Art Enrichment projects.
NICE! I very much like the dragon relief, which seems so appropriate for Chinatown.
Such a stylized dragon!
A health center right above the tunnel with all that car exhaust? Yikes.
I have always wondered about that sculpture above the tunnel. And I never knew there are offices up there. I learned so much, thanks!
I don’t like these tunnels, the rapid descent into the dark never knowing if you’ll come out on the other end, always looking for the light at the end of the road, sweaty hands gripping the steering wheel, eyes twitching while waiting for someone to smash into the side of your car…argh!
Well, I’m sort of kidding. But I do like the dragon thingy. That’s very nice. I just never knew that SF was so artistically oriented.
Well, now I appreciate that tunnel more…don’t know why I didn’t realize it had a dragon sculpture on it.
Neat sculpture…rather sad that the artist has sort of disappeared.
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