My Changing Neighborhood(s): July 2018

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

NEIGHBORHOOD OPENINGS– BENEFITS HEALTH COLLECTIVE/QUEEN OF HEARTS ART GALLERY (#8 in a series)

Benefits Health Collective/Queen of Hearts Art Gallery has opened at 1207 Sutter Street, selling art and select marijuana products.

They also sponsor various events, such as a pop-up acupuncture clinic happening on August 1 and again on August 8.

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

NEIGHBORHOOD CLOSINGS – MARK MORRIS TIRES (#7 in a series)

Mark Morris Tires (aka Firestone) at 1200 Larkin at Bush has closed.

The parking garage originally built in 1914 is now a big, empty building (over 18,000 sq. ft.) waiting for its next tenants or, more likely, destruction to make way for new condominiums.

Sunday, July 22, 2018

NEIGHBORHOOD OPENINGS – NOB HILL HERB COMPANY (#7 in a series)

has opened at 1528 ½ California Street

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

UPCOMING EVENT – SUMMER WINE WALK

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

PAST AND PRESENT (#1 in a series) – BUSH AND HYDE

There was an article recently in SFGate about OpenHistorySF and their large collection of photographs of San Francisco through the years. (I'd include a link to the article, but I'm unable to find it on the SFGate website.) The article included an interactive map where one could see old photographs taken around one's neighborhood in the past. (click here for a link to OpenHistorySF: http://opensfhistory.org/

It gave me an idea to post old photos rom OpenHistorySF of my neighborhood and then to try and take a current photograph from the same angle as the one from OpenHistorySF.

I was going to call this series 'Then and Now', but David Curran at SFGate had the same idea and started a series with that tagline, so I'm calling mine 'Past and Present' instead.

The first installment is a photograph of Bush Street looking west from Hyde taken in 1920, and below that is a photo from roughly the same angle taken today, 2018.

Bush Street, looking west from Hyde Street, 1920

Bush Street, looking west from Hyde Street, 2018

Black and White, Bush Street, looking west from Hyde Street, 2018

Friday, July 13, 2018

OLD NEIGHBORHOOD, NEW BOUNDARY

I published a blog recently on June 1 (“Where I Live –June 2018”) where I said the southern boundary of my neighborhood (known as mid-Polk/Polk Street/Polkstrasse, etc.) was O’Farrell Street.

About a week ago I happened to get involved in a conversation with two of the new millennial residents who lived in the neighborhood. To them, Sutter Street was the boundary where another neighborhood (lower Polk) began. The general sentiment was, the further south of Sutter one went, the more it became a different neighborhood.

The more I thought about this, the more I realized this was true. South of Sutter mid-Polk becomes Lower Polk. Their boundary was more up-to-date than mine.

So, this is an update to the June 1, 2018 blog mentioned above. The current southern boundary of my neighborhood, is Sutter and Polk (like I'm the final arbiter of this).