Robert Barde + Pat Cunneen
Author Spotlight
Bob Barde is the retired Deputy Director of the Institute of Business and Economic Research at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was also Executive Director of the Experimental Social Science Laboratory (aka Xlab).
He has written on immigration and public health for a number of scholarly journals and even has a little piece on maritime history for Sea History. His book, Immigration at the Golden Gate, was published by Praeger/Greenwood in 2008.
Prior to working at UC Berkeley, Barde was Educational Supervisor for “The Africa File” documentary series by TVOntario (Toronto) and was a founding partner and manager of The Best of Africa art gallery (also in Toronto). He is a black belt in traditional shoto-kanstyle karate, has hitchhiked across the Sahara, taken a river steamer to Timbuktu, and is a member of the mighty South End Rowing Club in San Francisco.
Pat Cunneen has been a member of the South End Rowing Club for over fifty years. He was born and raised in San Francisco and was a firefighter in Daly City. Pat is also an engraver and an accomplished artist. He now lives in Santa Rosa, and has been the South End’s de facto historian since the invention of movable type.
Featured Work
South End: Sport and Community at the Dock of the Bay
South End: Sport and Community at the Dock of the Bay is a comprehensive history of the South End Rowing Club, established in 1873 and the oldest rowing club west of the Mississippi. One of San Francisco’s oldest sporting and social institutions, its history mirrors much of the City’s own past.
The history of this iconic part of San Francisco’s waterfront begins by exploring the city’s social and sporting milieu in the early post-Gold Rush days, then covers the South End from its founding to the present. Tracing the Club’s movements from the south end of San Francisco to the fringe of North Beach, separate chapters are devoted to such topics as the gender integration of the Club, its rivalrous relationship with the neighboring Dolphin Club, the transformations of the century-old clubhouse itself, and the mainstay sports of rowing, swimming, handball and running. Along the way South End investigates how the Club’s strong volunteer community that has enabled it to survive for nearly a century and a half as a working-class club, rather an outpost for the rich and famous.
At 574 pages hardback, South Endincludes 380 photos and 175,000 words of deathless prose. $60 plus tax.
You may purchase your very own copy of South End in person at their office, 500 Jefferson Street in San Francisco, or online at Green Apple Books.
Featured Fun
Saturday, September 26, 2020 at 2:00PM – (Virtual) Ask an Author with Robert Barde + Pat Cunneen
Join us for an informal, 30-minute “Ask an Author” Q&A session with Bob Barde and Pat Cunneen, co-authors of South End: Sport and Community at the Dock of the Bay.
Bob Bardeis the retired Deputy Director of the Institute of Business and Economic Research at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was also Executive Director of the Experimental Social Science Laboratory (aka Xlab). He has written on immigration and public health for a number of scholarly journals and even has a little piece on maritime history for Sea History.
This Event is Free but Pre-Registration is Required.