News from the Heart & Soul of San Francisco
CRIME WATCH | DONNA GILLESPIE I was walking to the Walgreens at Fillmore and Bush when I heard running footsteps behind me. It was 4:25 in the afternoon on the Fourth of July. I turned to see a group of young people, perhaps 20 or more, bolting up the hill. As they surged past me,…
AFTER OUR FRIEND William died, we helped empty his house and put it on the market. His downstairs tenant was moving, and the pregnant cat that lived mostly under the house and on the street was left without a home. It turned out no one wanted a pregnant cat — not the nearby Pets Unlimited,…
CONTRARY TO EARLIER PLANS, California Pacific Medical Center now says it will scale back its operations in the neighborhood when a new state-of-the-art hospital opens next year on Van Ness Avenue. Patients are expected to move into the new hospital in early March. The current hospital will then concentrate on ambulatory care for patients who…
FLASHBACK | BARBARA WYETH Every time I walk past the corner of Fillmore and Pine, I am transported back to the Brown Bag, the stationery store that was a mainstay on the northeast corner for many years. Back in the day, I owned a small business in North Beach, but was struggling. I met Dawn,…
By RANDALL ANN HOMAN The sign for the Elite Cafe, glowing again after a fire left it damaged and dark for months, is a beacon from a time when Fillmore Street was awash with neon signs announcing the street’s vibrant nightlife. Earlier this year, Jim Rizzo of Neon Works put up scaffolding and gave the…