Street saints
Posted by G.A. Matiasz on November 30, 2013
It was an evangelical church. Or maybe a Baptist church. This whitewashed building has been vacant for years on Market Street, just up from the corner of Church Street. If memory serves me, when it was a still functioning church, it displayed messages simultaneously offering to pray for those “lost souls” who were gay and welcoming all to attend without regard to the state of their souls’ salvation.
Today, the building is looking for a buyer. And someone has added a bit of street iconography to the outside that may or may not be up for long. Saint Billie Holiday and Saint Sarah Vaughan. All they need are flowers, incense and candles. San Francisco already has a Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church. The hagiography is in the streets.
This entry was posted on November 30, 2013 at 7:15 pm and is filed under bebop, jazz, life, Paris of the West, San Francisco. Tagged: bebop, Billie Holiday, jazz, John Coltrane, Paris of the West, Saint Billie, Saint John Cotrane African Orthodox Church, Saint Sarah, San Francisco, Sarah Vaughan, street iconography, street saints. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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