News from the Heart & Soul of San Francisco
WOODY LaBOUNTY traces the circuitous history of a little wooden building on the 1800 block of Eddy Street — which turns out to be the oldest frame church in San Francisco, moved twice since it was built on Market Street in 1854 as the first St. Patrick’s Church. In 1873, the building was moved west…
STREET TALK | CYNTHIA TRAINA If you’ve been on the 2200 block of Fillmore lately, you may have noticed new signage in the windows of the boarded-up storefronts bought last year with funds from investor Neil Mehta. It’s the branding of what they’re billing as the Upper Fillmore Revitalization Project. Emptied storefronts now display the…
THE TALK OF the neighborhood is on the front page of today’s New York Times. It’s the fallout from a lawsuit filed by Jesse Powell, the crypto pioneer and founder of Kraken. He’s suiting the residents of 2500 Steiner, the tower at the corner of Jackson and Steiner, who don’t want him as their neighbor.…
“THERE’D BEEN A rainstorm,” says longtime neighborhood resident Monte Travis, a respected San Francisco attorney. “I looked out the living room window and saw this. I grabbed my camera, opened the kitchen window and took the picture. My timing was very lucky, as the rainbow proved quite ephemeral.” Travis is far more than an amateur…
By TAM PUTNAM & FAITH HANNA “Forty years ago,” Vicki Evans says, “I could have sold you a $100 Hoover you would have kept and passed on to your firstborn.” Evans, who runs Phil’s Electric in Cow Hollow — and serves many in the neighborhoods along Fillmore Street — remembers that back then, almost every…