Photograph of demolition of the Commons on the San Francisco State campus, circa January-March 1973, to clear the site of SF State campus with crane and heavy equipment to remove debris. The Huts where student organizations were located appears in this image to have been cleared during the Winter Break. The Gallery Lounge that was not on the construction site remained a venue for exhibits and lectures. The Speakers Platform (the first college-sanctioned free speech platform in the nation) is located on the triangular grass section in front of the Gymnasium. The Student Union was completed in October 1975 and named the Cesar Chavez Student Center on May 5, 1994.

Photograph of a large excavation site on the San Francisco State campus following the demolition of The Commons, a student dining facility built in 1953. Heavy equipment and construction activity are visible as the site is cleared and prepared for new development. The Commons and nearby temporary huts that housed student organizations were removed in early 1973 to make way for the construction of the Student Union, completed in 1975 and later named the César Chávez Student Center in 1994.

Identifier: TP-ATA-1265
Date: 1973
Context: Credits: Some descriptions were developed with the assistance of ChatGPT, an AI language model by OpenAI.
Geographic Coverage: San Francisco, CA
Temporal Coverage: 1970s
Type: Still Image
Format: 35mm Slide
Source: San Francisco State University Archives
Rights: Public
Views: 554

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