Harmonic Brewing Open for Business in Dogpatch
Matt Kang It started as an idea between three longtime friends who liked to brew beer at home. What if we quit our day jobs, and made beer for a living? After…
Features
Twists and Turns Lead Former Hill Resident to the U.S. Navy
Rebekah Moan Over the past decade and a half former Alabama Street resident Kieron Sinnette experienced all the elements of a rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Sinnette, an immigrant from Trinidad, arrived in San Francisco…
Devoted Activist Retires After 25 Years with UCSF
Annika Darling After a quarter of a century as director of community relations at the University of California, San Francisco, Barbara Bagot-Lopez retires this month. She hopes to use her free time…
Twenty-Third and Hampshire Street Garden Something to Behold
Amber Fletcher Gardening is often praised for the beauty it creates, as well as the benefits it provides the gardener in terms of mental clarity and stress relief. Mission Creek resident Maria…
Carpet Chronicles, II
Paul McDonald My 11 a.m. was at a rundown house in the Excelsior, not far from Highway 280. No one answered the door. I called the potential customer, who showed up about…
Boys and Girls Club Offers Children a Place to Play
Jessica Nemire Three women, Mary and Alice Goodwin and Elizabeth Hammersley, started the Boys and Girls Clubs of America in the state of Connecticut in 1860. They wanted to give kids a…
Hill Resident Judy Baston Expert at Tracing Family History
Jim Van Buskirk Longtime Potrero Hill resident Judy Baston’s passionate commitment to Jewish genealogy earned her the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, awarded at the Association’s annual…
Cork Marcheschi and the Fifty Foot Hose
Nikolas Zelinski The electronic rock band Fifty Foot Hose emerged from San Francisco’s iconic 1960s music scene. Its music, including its sole album, Cauldron, issued in 1967, was influenced by a mixture…
PonoMusic: Rediscovering Music in Potrero Hill
Greg Roensch I leaned forward on the couch and waited for “Heart of Gold” to play over the sound system. As a lifelong Neil Young fan, I’ve probably heard the song a…
Bell and Trunk Flowers, a Business Planted in Potrero Hill
Carlos Cabrera-Lomeli It’s been seven years since Vanessa Marlin took over Bell and Trunk Flowers, located on 18th Street. When asked to be interviewed by the View, Marlin accepted, with an invitation…
Nabe’s Sharon Johnson Works to Empower Youth
Austin Padilla After twenty-seven years working in the financial services sector, in 2000 Sharon Johnson was informed that her company, Mellon US Leasing Corporation, was being sold. She was asked to relocate…
