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F-Line Street Car Dedicated to Harvey Milk, former San Francisco City Supervisor

November 11, 2008 on 3:04 pm | In Main Category | No Comments

Last week, Tom Nolan, POH Executive Director, in his role as SFMTA Vice-Chair, was at the dedication ceremony for the naming of an F-line street car dedicated to the late San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk.  Milk was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States.  The dedication ceremony coincided with that evening’s MILK movie premiere in the Castro. 

“The streetcar will be a rolling classroom where passengers can learn about the life of Harvey Milk,” San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority executive director Nathaniel Ford said. 

Among those attending the ceremony, in addition to our very own Tom Nolan, were San Francisco Supervisors Tom Ammiano, Bevan Dufty, and Ross Mirkarimi, Assemblyman Mark Leno, San Francisco City Treasurer Jose Cisneros, Harvey Milk’s nephew Stuart Milk, president of the Market Street Railway Board of Directors Rich Laubscher, and Milk’s former campaign manager Anne Kronenberg. 

Kronenberg recalled that Milk, who was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, used to board Muni trains to give campaign speeches to captive audiences. 

“Harvey not only rode Muni, he used it as a campaign office,” Kronenberg said.