Mark Casey

Review of San Francisco Center for the B...

My only experience with the San Francisco Center f...

My only experience with the San Francisco Center for the Book was going to the Roadworks Steamroller Printing Festival today on Rhode Island Street at 16th in Potrero Hill. This was a really cool event in which rather than using presses to put ink on paper in linoleum pressing, they used actual steamrollers. There was a modern looking steamroller, and a very old looking, coal-fired, steam-powered steamroller, that they kept saying was "seven tons of steel." In addition to the print-making there were (1) many booths selling prints and objects related to the printed word, (2) a DJ with great taste in music but who made the music a little too loud for young children, (3) a Whole Foods booth where children could paint, (4) an open house a the SFCB.

This was a really fun event. Really the only negative was the music being too loud for my young children. Other than that, it was fun. My boys didn't get at all tired of watching the steamrollers go back and forth over the prints. And the prints themselves were beautiful. If they turn down the volume we'll go back next year.