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Panhandle Bandshell Uses Recycled Car Hoods

4 by Doug Gunzelmann on August 20, 2008

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The Panhandle Bandshell built in San Francisco’s Panhandle Park is a nearly all reclaimed/repurposed materials amphitheatre. With the goal of educating about recycling, creating a free performance space, and installing a working piece of art the Bandshell truly wears many hats. Made from 65 used car hoods, reclaimed wood including French doors, old circuit boards for decoration, 3,000 plastic water bottles, and recycled steal the Pandhandle Bandshell was built with a modular design so it could be broken down for transportation and rebuilt in a new location.

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The effort was tackled by a team of various art groups and individuals from the San Francisco Bay area including The Finch Mob, Rebar, Christopher Guillard, and Mark Sinclair. The Panhandle Bandshell is open to performers from poets to puppeteers and serves to enrich the community as an artistic venue that celebrates the witty reuse of what was once trash.

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Doug is in perpetual motion and a self-proclaimed adventure junkie, that has had a longtime love affair with the great outdoors.

“I love being a part of the active world. The stuff that blows my hair back is adventure (all shapes and sizes), photography, mountaineering, Muay Thai, and seeing natural beauty in all its forms. The living earth is the framework on which I build my life and free time. My ideal trip would be BASE jumping at Sotano de Las Golandrinas in Mexico (closest I could come to skydiving through the jungle!). I work towards keeping it real, green, and healthy. ”

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4 responses to “Panhandle Bandshell Uses Recycled Car Hoods”

  1. design
    design
    August 24, 2008 at 3:52 am |

    The Panhandle Bandshell built in San Francisco s Panhandle Park is a nearly all reclaimed/repurposed materials amphitheatre.

  2. Fubbus
    Fubbus
    August 25, 2008 at 5:32 pm |

    Chicken ride! That thing’s been down for over a year. Use the past tense, felllas.

  3. Car
    Car
    December 11, 2009 at 4:00 am |

    Great ideas.

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