Who’s Behind the Colorful Lights at San Francisco City Hall?

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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It used to take hours or days to change the lights at city hall lights. Now it's done with a few clicks. Reported by Jessica Placzek. Produced and edited by Olivia Allen-Price, Vinnee Tong, Paul Lancour and Julia McEvoy. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller. Ask us a question at BayCurious.org. Follow Olivia Allen-Price on Twitter @oallenprice.

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0:00.0	From K-QED. I'm Olivia Allen Price, and this is Bay Curious.
0:07.0	Tonight, the streets of San Francisco are packed.
0:12.0	We're recording today's episode on St. Patrick's Day, so
0:14.9	plenty of people are dressed in green and are heading out for the night, including
0:19.3	our question-asker Katie Amy. She just got off work not too far from City Hall and she's meeting her best
0:25.5	friend Kim. How's it going? Hi. What's your day? Lots of the state pack at the same time.
0:31.8	They walked down the street a bit and Katie sees something.
0:35.0	Oh my God it just turned green.
0:38.0	Hey, cool.
0:39.0	They stop in front of City Hall.
0:41.0	It's one of Katie's favorite spots. She likes seeing the gray
0:44.9	exterior light up at sunset every night. Most nights the lights are white. For
0:50.3	Pride Week it was rainbow. After Prince died, purple.
0:54.4	And tonight, it's green.
0:56.5	It's such a symbol of San Francisco
0:59.5	and has become more of a symbol as time has gone on.
1:02.8	So Katie had a question for Bay Curious.
1:05.0	I was always just curious who decides what
1:09.0	the lights are going to be at City Hall and then who does them.
1:11.4	Reporter Tina Rubio went to find out.
1:14.0	Support for Bay curious is brought to you by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company,
1:18.0	still family owned, operated, and argued over.
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