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Articles by Peter Linenthal
Saints Dance in Potrero Hill
The architecture of Saint Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, 500 De Haro Street, blends Russian Orthodox, Japanese Shinto, and Craftsman styles. Long lines of people can be seen at the House of Worship on Saturdays, when Food Pantry volunteers distribute groceries to hundreds of families as part of one of San Francisco’s largest independent nutrition assistance programs. Morning Prayer is offered Monday through Friday, with Sunday services.
Neighborhood Mosaics
Helen Bruton installing her mosaic mural at Starr King Elementary School. Matson Photograph from Sisters in Art by Wendy Van Wyck Good San Francisco is blessed with numerous publicly accessible, vibrant mosaics, several of which can be seen in Potrero Hill. This scene of Bay Area native animals was made by Helen Bruton in 1955.
Yard-long Potrero Photos
‘Yard-long’ group panoramic photographs become popular in the early-1900s. The images were often taken with a Kodak Cirkut camera, which rotated on a tripod, making every face recognizable. The horizontal rotation was so slow that one rising student appears twice in this writer’s high school graduation photo; he ran from one end of the group to the other as the camera lens turned. Though their heyday has passed, in their time yard-longs sold well; everyone in the photo wanted a copy.
Real Estate Redlining on Potrero Hill
“Racial segregation does not just happen; it is made,” wrote Ira Katznelson, author of Fear Itself. The Home Owners’ Loan Corporation was established by the U.S. Congress in 1933 to address an avalanche of home foreclosures triggered by the Great Depression. Over three years, HOLC refinanced more than one million residences. Home ownership rose dramatically, as new buyers secured low-interest, long-term loans.
A Quarter Century of Potrero Hill History
More than 200 people filled St Teresa’s Church last month to celebrate the neighborhood and snack on Goat Hill Pizza and Loard’s Ice Cream. Featured was a conversation between Goat Hill co-owner Philip De Andrade and former District 10 Supervisor Sophie Maxwell. Maxwell’s son Rama’s death from Hodgkins lymphoma propelled her environmental justice work, including successfully collaborating to shutter the Hunters Point and Potrero power stations.
Bob Hayes at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House
Bob Hayes served as the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House’s photography teacher, operating from a cramped darkroom with donated chemicals and paper from the early-1970s until his death in 2006. Tall and soft-spoken, Bob seemed to be at every Nabe meeting or event, camera hanging from his neck, capturing what was happening.
1936 Soap Box Derby | Potrero View
The first All-American Soap Box Derby, advertised as ‘the greatest amateur racing event in the world’, was held in San Francisco on July 31, 1936. The event drew thousands of spectators and a hundred participants to Carolina Street between 19th and Mariposa streets. Racers sped past the Pioneer & Queen Lily Soap factory at 18th Street, now Pioneer Square, to a rope net which caught those whose brakes failed.
Top Best Baby Books for Baby's First Year
1. On the Night You Were Born, 2. Time for Bed, 3. Everywhere Babies, 4. We Are Family, 5. Full, Full, Full of Love, 6. Look, Look!, 7. Little You, 8. Someday, 9. Jazz Baby, 10. "More More More," Said the Baby. A baby's closest buddy is a board book, which is ideal for storytime, bedtime, and even teething. But it can be difficult to know where to begin with so many baby books available. Here are some tried-and-true classics that strike the perfect balance between learning and enjoyment.
Art History on 18th Street
Many Potrero Hill and Dogpatch apartment complexes are products of a 1990s building boom. Between 1988 and 2000, 3000 live-work lofts, intended to provide artists with housing and workspace, were built. However, the spaces were generally too expensive for the creative class, instead nicknamed ‘lawyer lofts’. An exception is 1695 18th Street, an innovative structure built after years of disputes over open space, affordable housing, and live-work lofts.
An Unusual Past and Uncertain Future
The brick building with black columns at 312 Connecticut Street, just up the slope from Goat Hill Pizza, has an unusual history and an uncertain future. For the last 30 years it’s been home to the San Francisco Gurdjieff Society, which bought it in 1993 for $280,000, and has been making extensive renovations ever since. The three-story building features 8,300 square feet of usable space, has been seismically upgraded, with a top-floor apartment and gymnasium featuring a 16-foot ceiling.
18th Street: Then & Now
San Francisco Chronicle, February 11, 1907 | A 1908 newspaper article noted that ‘At 18th & Texas & 18th & Connecticut a new business center is springing up, and some retail merchants have moved there from other parts of the city.’ When industries expanded in Dogpatch, then known as a part of The Potrero, many homes were built on the hills above, in what’s now called Potrero Hill.
Events Archives | Potrero View
Last month, Starr King and Daniel Webster elementary schools, The New School San Francisco, and Live Oak School collaborated with PREFund, a nonprofit that encourages Potrero Hill families from a diversity of incomes to raise their children in the community, to produce Maker Fest, one of a number of individual and collective school events held… Keep Reading For Kids October 27, Mission Bay Parks typically holds a Halloween festival for kids, either at Mission Creek Park or Mission Bay Kids’...
Flu Strikes ‘the Potrero’ as Part of 1918 Pandemic
Photo: Courtesy of Peter Linenthal, Potrero Hill Archives Project During World War I shipbuilding by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation was in such high demand that on July 4, 1918 four destroyers were launched from Pier 70. But there were reports of the spread of an influenza-like illness throughout the United States. By the beginning of October 1918, there were 169 cases of flu in San Francisco, which jumped to 2,000 by the middle of the month.
22 Great Indie Books Worth Discovering
Thuss’ (Fertility Zero, 2015, etc.) sci-fi novel tells the story of a small group of people trapped in a nightmarish town in the Nevada desert. Every four years, Dale B. Yeager rides his antique BMW motorcycle 2,600 miles from Virginia to southern California so that he may place flowers on his parents’ graves.
Development Threatens Historic Power Plant Buildings
Dogpatch and Potrero Hill residents, along with their neighborhood associations, are unhappy Earlier this fall, more than 100 people turned out to view a Blattner Hall, California College of the Arts’ new 64,000 square foot four-story Progress continues on Rebuild Potrero, a decade-long effort to revitalize the Potrero A new development complex in Dogpatch pays homage to an early technology
Former Potrero Power Plant Site Eyed for Preservation
Map of Proposed Development at the Potrero Power Plant Site, historic brick buildings in orange. Buildings C, D & F are little known, hidden and off-limits behind PG&E fencing.
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Part of FLUSH: a Protest Project by San Francisco artist, Elaine Badgley Arnoux. Photograph: Peter Linenthal San Francisco artist, Elaine Badgley Arnoux, had a vision after coming across a pile of toilets in her apartment building’s basement; she saw our 45th president sitting on top.
Underground History
History buried for more than a century is regularly discovered during construction projects in San Francisco. Earlier this spring, foreman Mike Handyside led a team removing tons of old bricks to make way for the foundation of a development underway at 16th and Carolina streets. One brick caught Handyside’s eye.
Jon W. Smith on his 65 years in the neighborhood at Potrero Hill History Night 2017
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