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| | Savoir fairs / Bay Area knows how to throw a street party |
 | | A street fair is "tremendous public relations for the neighborhood, it's a hell of a good party and it is, for many merchants, their biggest day of the year," said Marsha Garland, head of the North Beach Chamber of Commerce, which sponsors that neighborhood's annual street fair (June 15-16). |
 | | Street fairs attract fans of music al fresco, affordable arts and crafts, ethnic food, expensive beer and serial gawking. |
 | | The first Castro Street Fair, held in 1974, was designed to promote member businesses in a newly formed gay merchants association, said Susan Stryker, executive director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society of Northern California. |
| www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/02/PK192517.DTL&type=printable (1374 words) |
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