News from the Heart & Soul of San Francisco
[nggallery id=5] By Tessa Williams “Serendipity,” reads an assemblage of vintage letters affixed to a wall at Timeless Treasures, Joan O’Connor’s antiques store on Sutter Street near Pierce. “Bananas,” reads another. “Slow down,” a third. An establishment that celebrates the relationship between words and objects, Timeless Treasures specializes in vintage letters, available in a vast…
Chase — formerly Chase Manhattan Bank and now the consumer banking unit of JP Morgan Chase — hopes to open a new branch bank at 2429 California Street. At a neighborhood meeting on September 27, representatives of the bank presented plans for a banking office fronted by a secure ATM lobby next door to Mollie…
NEW NEIGHBOR | Yuni Salon A bright orange awning at 2434 California Street heralds the arrival of Salon Yuni. Owned by local resident Yuni Cho, the salon manages to be both homey and starkly modern, with a mostly white interior accented by fuchsia touches and eight orange client chairs. Cho says the decision to open…
Athleta, the women’s athletic apparel brand that is now part of the Gap’s corporate family, is moving forward with plans to open a retail store at 2226 Fillmore Street, the longtime home of the Junior League’s Next-to-New resale shop. The city’s board of appeals has rejected a request to review whether Athleta should be considered…
By TESSA WILLIAMS Now that Bumzy’s Chocolate Chip Cookies is finally open on Fillmore near O’Farrell, the neighborhood will get to sample a recipe that’s been baked and savored by three generations of cookie lovers. Sheila Harris-Young’s mother taught her to bake when she was growing up in Washington, D.C., and she remembers first making…
FILLMORE JAZZ FESTIVAL | July 3 & 4 A decade ago, the artist Ken Auster became enamored of some artistic cowboy boot sculptures. He didn’t buy them, but they stayed on his mind — ones that got away. Then about a year ago, Auster was stunned to see what he thought were the same boot…
Home furnishing stores — which took a big hit during the last decade — are seeing a resurgence on Fillmore, especially in the block between Pine and Bush, home to Zinc Details, Design Within Reach, the Shade Store and newcomer Ruby Living Design. Today the block got something new in modern home design when BoConcept…
Neighbors in search of Fillmore Street’s famed make-up artist to the stars Nellie Muganda needn’t look far. She’s followed her muse — and a more favorable lease — down the hill to 2118 Union Street.
The lingerie shop My Boudoir blazed the trail from Fillmore to Union Street last November. The boutique, which debuted at 2029 Fillmore in 1998, is a family operation run by mother Geraldine Nuval-Weibull and daughter Delilah Nuval. Inside its tiny new space at 2285 Union — which is half the size of the Fillmore location…
NEW NEIGHBOR | Hello Candystore Next door to OTD, Charles Phan’s latest gastronomical phenon, at 2226 Bush is a new women’s clothing collective called Hello by Candystore Collective. It’s owned by Jennifer Jones, who first got hooked on the ’hood while operating a holiday pop-up store for a few weeks last December in the space…