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Ericka Scott, right, stands with Majeid Crawford in front of the Boom Boom Room at Fillmore Street and Geary Boulevard in February 2024.
Scott said this month that she submitted her proposal under the San Francisco Dream Keeper Initiative, which seeks to invest in The City’s Black communities. She said the tours aim to provide historical context about the neighborhood that she currently finds sorely lacking. “We really created a thriving community that was becoming known around the world as a cultural haven for blues, jazz, food, and just the richness of diversity,” said Majeid Crawford, a Fillmore activist and the executive director at New Community Leadership Foundation, which recently signed onto to support the grant project to begin the steps of reconnecting the Fillmore neighborhood.
Marcus Books didn’t make it in the long run either, closing its San Francisco location in 2014. Marcus Books still operates in Oakland at 3900 Martin Luther King Jr. Way. You can still hear music outside the front door on many nights, as was the case during The Examiner’s walk through the neighborhood. The sounds in the small space are bright and enthusiastic amid the dark lighting, with Chris Gamper and his jazz band rocking out, even with only a few customers in the room.
Miyako Old Fashioned Ice Cream Shop at 1470 Fillmore St. is one such stop. Scott said she worked there as a preteen after begging the shop’s owner, Tom Bennett, to let her work there along with her older cousins and sisters. Scott said she wants her tour to convey this sort of camaraderie and togetherness, as well as the sadder parts of the neighborhood’s history. She said she intends to recruit others with different backgroundsUltimately, Scott said, the tour is meant for those who don’t know the Fillmore’s history, and the tour guides will be people who want to share their connection to it.
The team’s inclusivity has already drawn positive feedback from fans for producing a unique atmosphere at home games — beyond the sight of a plane landing at the adjacent airport. Of course, being inclusive doesn’t matter much if hardly any fans show up to games. But Bay FC continues to pack the house despite what has thus far been sporadic on-field performance.Bay FC has been meticulous about cultivating its fanbase and experience, which the team says it is building for the long-term and not just a single season.
Stewart attributes some of the team’s success thus far to “muscle memory for the Bay Area for how to support a team.”“I do think that there is something unique about women’s soccer in that so many people can look and see themselves represented on the field, and so they feel automatically connected to the team” Stewart said.
In honor of AAPI Heritage Month in June, midfielder Maya Doms was featured in a Visa-sponsored video in which she introduced her teammates to boba, the drink now nearly ubiquitous in the Bay Area that she said “shows how much Asian culture has influenced food preferences in NorCal.”
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