August 2010Forty Things I Love About Potrero HillBy Debbie FindlingThe hills The views Farley’s Goat Hill Pizza Community gardens Starr King Elementary School The occasional smell of malt from Anchor Steam Brewery McKinley Square Jackson Playground Pera Christopher’s Books Big Think Studios Baked Farley’s pet parade Green Gears Bell & Trunk Flowers Vermont Street between 20th and 22nd Bring Your Own Big Wheel Race Daniel Webster Elementary School Potrero Hill Parents Association Dolci Beauty Lounge Centered Body Pilates The Good Life Grocery Vermont Cleaners Le Sanctuaire Isolation from the rest of the City The I-care-about-my-neighbors community spirit The turn-about at the bottom of Kansas Street at Showplace Square Sunshine Thinkers Cafe Easy access to CalTrain and freeways Scenes from The Streets of San Francisco were filmed on the Hill Allen Ginsberg’s partner, Peter Orlovsky, lived on the Hill in the 1950s The old-timers Potrero Hill Archives Project The Potrero View Just for You Hazels Library The fact that you’ll read my list of 40 and love Potrero Hill enough to send a letter to the View with additional things you love about the Hill! |
This Month's StoriesResidential Areas Exempt from Parking Meter Plan, According to MTA Official City Hopes America’s Cup Runneth Over Starr King Elementary Leads SF Schools in Improved Test Scores Southside a Center for Metal Harvesting History Lives on Wisconsin Street San Francisco Breweries Chug Water Dogpatch Hosts Design Residency Project Monte Cristo Club Serves-Up Salty Fish UCSF - Mission Bay’s Scientist Dave Morgan Studies Segregation Foreclosure Crises Lingers in Bayview Black Population Continues to Dwindle Bayview Foreclosure Fighters Take a Stand Radio Africa & Kitchen Puts Down Roots in Bayview Downtown High School Teaches Environmental Lessons San Francisco Firefighters Distribute Toys, Just Not Through Chimneys Hill Resident Publishes Book About Apple’s Post-Jobs Future Henry Joseph Judnick 1927 ~ 2011 On-going FeaturesCrime & Safety Report: Potrero Hill Resident Works Cases at District Attorney’s Office
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