A GREAT DAY ON FILLMORE — “One day in 1977 the word went out,” remembers longtime Fillmore resident Dan Max. “Show up on the corner of Fillmore and California on Sunday morning. It was Al Tolkoff’s idea. Al had bought a Hasselblad, and he was gonna take this picture of the locals. He was a psychiatrist, but he was always talking about photography. When Sunday came, a lot of people showed up early. The Donut Hole was the neighborhood hangout. It was rich in the culture of San Francisco at that time — counterculturalists of varying persuasions. By the 1980s, most of these people had dispersed. When they opened Fillamento and the Elite Cafe in 1981, things began to change.”
