Juxtapoz Magazine – The Golden City: Mimi Plumb’s Portrait of a Changing San Francisco

Mimi Plumb employed to are living on the edges of the town where the rents ended up inexpensive. Close by, on the summit of the hill, ended up folded layers of radiolarian chert, the fossilized stays of microscopic creatures named radiolaria. A significant crevice in the hillside was a reminder of the ever-current risk of an earthquake.

Warm Drinking water Cove, together the bay, was a spectacle of tires and abandoned autos. One working day Plumb photographed the chimney of the electricity station previously mentioned the fiery destruction of the 25th Road Pier. She viewed planes traveling above the town dump of cardboard hillsides.

“Downtown structures on the much-off horizon reminded me of Oz. My cat, Pearl, saved check out on the rooftop of my flat.” – Mimi Plumb

Plumb’s lifestyle was marked by evenings out dancing at the Crystal Pistol in the Mission, or listening to a punk polka band at the Oasis. Neil, the clarinet participant, wore faux leather-based naugahosen, with spikes protruding from his head. In some cases they played pool at Palace Billiards. At the Exotic/Erotic Ball, a hen male and a nurse hid in the corners. A steely-eyed silver gentleman in his tuxedo stared again at Plumb from behind his mask, the camera flash shining a gentle on him.

Plumb’s days had been used traveling to deserted schools and derelict fuel stations, a billboard proclaiming ‘dangerously close to home made.’

To Plumb the magical clanging of the San Francisco cable cars and trucks was a world absent, and the idealism of the 1960s seemed prolonged gone. The Golden Metropolis of San Francisco, fraying at its edges, showed the rising chasm between the rich and weak.

The photos in The Golden Metropolis, printed by Stanley/Barker, were built in between 1984 and 2020.