Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
02 Dec 2003 18:20 PST
The Palo Alto paper isn't readily available, but other area papers
are. For instance, the earliest article I found on Mr. Conley goes
back to 1990:
The San Francisco Chronicle
MARCH 7, 1990
SF Motel Fights State Over Its Swimming Pool
Art and the question of safety
The sign beside the Phoenix Motel's eye-catching swimming pool says:
''This is not a swimming pool. This is art.''
Chip Conley, owner of the Phoenix at 601 Eddy Street in San Francisco,
is appealing an obscure state law that demands, for safety
considerations, that the bottoms of public swimming pools be white.
''A boring and silly law,'' Conley snorted yesterday. ''White might be
right for Bakersfield, but it shouldn't be imposed on us in San
Francisco.''
The 45-foot oval pool is in the sculpture garden of a spot that a
decade ago was the Caravan Lodge, a motel that had X-rated movies and
catered to swinging couples and Tenderloin hookers. Times, however,
have changed. The Phoenix is now eminently respectable. Next door is
the hip new restaurant, Miss Pearl's Jam House....
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There are several hundred other articles available that mention Mr.
Conley, covering a range from 1990 to 2003. They cannot be posted
here due to copyright restrictions.
However, if there is a particular story that is of interest to you, I
can certainly instruct you how to obtain the information through an
on-line search of newspaper archives (the search itself is free, but
there would be an additional charge for you to retrieve the text of
the articles).
Would that meet your needs? If so, I can post the instructions as an
answer to your question.
