News from the Heart & Soul of San Francisco
NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY | FROM SF HERITAGE From 1921 to 1972, 2066 Pine Street was home to the Madame C. J. Walker Home for Girls and Women, a community service organization named in honor of one of the United States’ most successful African American businesswomen and philanthropists. The Walker club provided lodging and services to African…
STREET TALK | CYNTHIA TRAINA Since early January, sales at the neighborhood Goodwill store at Fillmore & Post have been climbing steadily — partly due to the economic uncertainty, partly to an operational change set in motion a year ago and launched this year. Bay Area Goodwill stores have reorganized with new merchandising strategies. “We’ve…
STREET TALK | CYNTHIA TRAINA If you’ve passed Mureta & Co. at 2418 Fillmore lately, you may have noticed jewelry hanging on the jade tree out front. It’s free for the taking. The “giving tree” began a few weeks ago when owner John Quillinan, who buys jewelry by the pound, started placing pieces he doesn’t sell onto the tree. No…
By THOMAS REYNOLDS Sometimes it pays to complain. And now there is hope that further destruction of a classic Victorian in the Webster Street Historic District — the city’s first — has been stopped and may even result in something better. The Italianate Victorian at 2229 Webster, like most of its neighbors, was built in…
REVIEW | FRAN MORELAND JOHNS “If two hours of Beethoven won’t lift your spirits,” said conductor Michael Conley, “then nothing will.” He was not wrong. At a Saturday evening concert — billed as “Beethoven!” — a full house at Calvary Presbyterian Church on Fillmore was treated to the Mass in C Major, plus the Fantasy…