Today's guest is John Schroeder: multi-instrumentalist/composer/producer (synthesizer, sax, flute, clarinet, guitar, bass, etc), filmmaker/documentarian, writer, painter, international music educator, and one of the founders of Jingletown Gallery, an artists' warehouse space in Oakland in the late 1990s.

John shares some stories about the what and whys of the artists "warehouse movement" in the San Francisco Bay Area during the rise of the first Dot Com era.

You can catch John in the band Doctor Abacus and House of Hamsa, as well you can find his music on all the platforms.

Here's his Bandcamp link: https://bandcamp.com/album/to-surf-the-solar-winds

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Here we go! Welcome to the very first episode of San Francisco 1999.

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Today we are in conversation with Jonathan Youtt, Co-Director of PLACE for Sustainable Living in Oakland, CA “A public serving experiential learning center showcasing and fostering sustainable living practices, urban gardening & homesteading, community resiliency & preparedness, social justice, food security and artistic expression.”

Jonathan also co-founded the Sustainable Living Roadshow, the Big Tadoo Puppet Crew, the Esperanza Sustainability Center, the Clean Fuel Caravan Coalition, he Mission Village Market, and CELLspace!

This is just part one with Jonathan where he shares the story of how CELLspace came to be in 1996 in San Francisco.

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San Francisco 1999 is a show featuring conversations about Arts and Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area from roughly 1995 to 2005. Each episode, different special guests will recollect what it was like living, creating and converging in the city in the last days before smart phones, silicon valley and social media. You can follow me at IG @neiel7 and get updates about the podcast at SanFran99.com

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