Folder: S.F. Police-Hall of Justice (old)-Interiors-1960s.
Newscopy: "You could have cut the nostalgia with a knife ... Reminiscences flowed like water from a tap ... And yet, though this was a final rite of sorts, the ceremony held in a third floor courtroom of the old Hall of Justice today had a festive spirit about it, in keeping with the occasion. The 'old' Hall is just about half vacated, with transfer of police headquarters, after more than a half-century at the outmoded Kearny st. establishment, to the 'new' Hall at Bryant and Seventh sts. The evacuation will become total next month, when prisoners and courts also are transferred. Some of the old-timers, who couldn't let the event go by the boards without ceremony, decided to hold one [...] Wherefore, Superior Judge Harry J. Neubarth, who once practiced there as a deputy district attorney, presided over a 'Last Trial at the Old Hall of Justice' this morning. This, its sponsors explained, was 'to place into the record the life, the times and the history of the old Hall of Justice before it is torn down.' District Attorney Thomas C. Lynch was chosen as 'prosecutor,' to examine eminent public officials, attorneys and others summoned to testify to great events and lesser moments in the sand-stone structure's history. Just as appropriately, J.W. (Jake) Ehrlich, who spent even more years there opposing Lynch and his predecessors in court on many a criminal case, was the 'defense' attorney. By Joseph B. Sheridan, News-Call Bulletin staff writer."
Newscopy: "Old-timers crowd Hall of Justice courtroom for a nostalgic reunion today. Dec. 14, 1961"
