Ora Thornton placed a call to us today and ordered for our portable restrooms and hand wash station for the exciting event that is coming up this weekend.  She explained that the Bayview Opera House will be celebrating phase one of the historic building renovation this Saturday from 1-4pm.  There will be performances by Dance Team and will be welcomed by Mayor Gavin Newsom and Supervisor Sophie Maxwell.  Ora is expecting a fairly large crowd and needed additional restrooms to accomodate all of the people that will be attneding the event.  The Bayview Opera House is located on 4705 Third Street in San Francisco.  We look forward to working with Ora and being a part of this historic event.

I received a call from Keri Steinberg from Jansport Backpacks this week and they are having an event this Friday night at  the Mezzanine in San Francisco.  Jansport, Om Records & Mezzanine are presenting Spring Sessionsfrom 10pm - 4am.  Artists that will be featured will be the Hudson Supreme Beings of Leisure, Samantha James, J Boogie’s Dubtronic Science & Black Spade.  

Keri had inquired to see if we had  temporary fencing that could be used as a cool way to hang her products from the wall that would be displayed during the event.  She had a very specific size that she needed and that it could only be a 6×6 panel chain link fence.  I explained to her that we did have that in stock and that we would be happy to set it up and deliver it as soon as she needed it.  Apparently, she had called a few companies and they did not have panels shorter than 10′ long.   I explained that we had all different sizes of fence that could accommodate her and that we would be ready for her next call!

With all of the anticipation of the Olympic torch coming to San Francisco, our phones have been ringing consistently for the last several days.  We have received calls from local event coordinators to the Chinese Consulate looking for temporary site services for their last minute parties that seem to have just sprung up. 

There is a lot of buzz in the air and certainly in the media of what we might expect with the spectators that will be crossing lines with the protests that will be going on along the course of the event.  Toilets, temporary fencing and barricade are all items that are being ordered on an emergency basis in preparation of tomorrow’s event that starts at 1pm at Willie McCovey Cove in San Francisco.  We currently have four (4) separate events going on at the same time and we know that there will be a few more as we get closer to tomorrow.  I am also talking to my colleagues whom are also scrambling to keep up with the requests for services.  It is pretty exciting.

Over the last several months our company and employee’s have gone through the growing pains of learning a new business and keeping faith that we made the right choice when we decided to add sanitation services to our customer base.  We always thought it would be great to do more for the people we served and that it might be an easier method of growing our revenues, than trying to just do more temporary fence.

There are only a few companies that offer both services and we thought that we could do it better!  This week I heard from Bill Kelleher at Stuart Rental Company in Fremont and he was coordinating an event on Treasure Island in San Francisco, CA.  He wanted to know our availability for a certain weekend and that he wanted to rent some of our popular green bicycle barricade for crowd control.  I told him that we were certainly available and appreciated the business and that we also could provide the portable toilets and VIP toilet trailers at the same time if they were on his list of things that were needed.  Bill almost fell out of his chair, “You do that also”?  I explained that we did and that it was a new service that fit just like cake and ice cream.  We were hired that same day by and it confirmed in my mind that we are definitely on to something. We look forward to more desert!

Hanson & Fitch, Inc. was hired again this year to set temporary fence for office for the San Francisco New Years Eve Event.

The event has traditionally brought thousands of people to the Embarcadero to watch the firework/pyrotechnic show at the strike of midnight.

We typically set up the fence a few days before the event to allow the many other vendors that will be bringing their services to the Embarcadero time to set up their booths for this very exciting night.

Our image of the fence panels we supplied was taken a few days before the event. The weather on New Year’s Eve was excellent and all had a great time.