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‘Honey, you got one of me’

RUTH DEWSON, the longtime proprietor of Mrs. Dewson’s Hats and the self-proclaimed Mayor of Fillmore Street, helped start the Fillmore Jazz Festival in 1984. She recalls approaching promoter Terry Pimsleur, who had started the Union Street Festival, about creating a similar street fair on upper Fillmore, where new businesses were opening and trying to improve…