La Fleur Hair & Nail Spa Flowers on Potrero Hill
Jessica Zimmer “I make people beautiful. When they’re happy, I’m happy,” said Teresa Do, owner of La Fleur Hair & Nail Spa, on 20th Street. Do, who immigrated from Ho Chi Minh…
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Dancing the Tango in Dogpatch
Rebekah Moan Perhaps Dogpatch’s best-kept secret is the Thursday night Argentine Tango class, taught at Christy Coté’s 701 Minnesota Street home studio. For the last four years, Coté has facilitated what some…
Anchor Remains Anchored in Potrero Hill
Michael Iacuessa Five months into the purchase of Anchor Brewing Company by Japanese beer giant Sapporo, Anchor president Matt Davenport has promised that the company will continue to be San Francisco’s largest…
Potrero Hill Recreation Center to be Renovated
The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department will begin renovating the Potrero Hill Recreation Center, at 801 Arkansas Street, this spring. The facility will remain open, on its regular schedule…
22nd Street Staircase to be Erected
A staircase will ultimately replace a steep and rugged dirt path that follows 22nd Street between Missouri and Connecticut streets. The project is being led by Friends of the Potrero…
A Day in Dogpatch, Potrero Hill, and Environs – January 2018
Brett Yates Last year, I recounted in this column that, while walking home from an automobile repair shop, I discovered Martita’s Kitchen, a Mexican restaurant on Marin Street located amidst the mostly…
Longtime Potrero Hill Resident Ron Miguel Moves Across Town
Despite decades engaged in public forums, former San Francisco Planning Commission president Ron Miguel is a private person. Don’t expect a tell-all memoir from him anytime soon; he’d rather talk…
Feminist Group Flourishes on the Hill
As its name suggests, the feminist group/women’s circle, Seismic Sisters, wants to make a rumble. Started on Potrero Hill in 2012 by Kim Christensen, the group meets monthly or so…
Cobblestones Unearthed on Vermont Street
Jacob Bourne When Vermont Street resident, Louis Epstein, was a child in the early 1940s, he lived in the Mission, on Peters Avenue. He remembers the commonplace sight of cobblestones lining the…
Potrero Hill Artist Lights Up Salesforce Tower
Jim Campbell, a contemporary artist who specializes in works featuring LED lights, has been a De Haro Street resident since 1987. Originally from Illinois, Campbell moved to California in the…
New Paintings on Display at Christopher’s Books
Greg Roensch If you walk by quickly you might not notice anything different about Christopher’s Books. It’s still a gem of a neighborhood bookstore, that’s graced the 18th and Missouri streets corner…
Pizza, Pancakes and Hot Chocolate Available on the Hill
Sam Arneson Every time my Dad took me to Potrero Hill – to develop View articles, or hangout with friends – he wanted coffee. The deal between us was that before he…
Jon W. Smith on his 65 years in the neighborhood at Potrero Hill History Night 2017
Peter Linenthal, Potrero Hill Archives Project Jon W. Smith has most likely lived in the Potrero Annex-Terrace housing complex longer than anyone else. In 1952, he and his family landed at the Channel Projects, on Iowa…
Good Life Grocery Grapples with Bottle Bill Fines
As reported, in a series of View articles in 2015 and 2016, The Good Life Grocery store on 20th Street has been fined for violating the State’s “Bottle Bill,” the…
A Day in Dogpatch, Potrero Hill, and Environs – July 2017
In anticipation of this month’s day of activities, I had the best haircut of my life at Dogpatch Barber and Shave. Not by my own reckoning but, more importantly, according…
UPS Shooting
PV Staff Last month, 38-year-old Jimmy Lam shot and killed San Franciscans Wayne Chan, 56, and Benson Louie, 50; as well as 46-year-old Michael Lefiti, of Hercules, California, at the UPS San…
Goat Hill Pizza’s Potrero Hill location Closed for Summer Renovations
Goat Hill Pizza’s 300 Connecticut Street location closed last month for renovations, with plans to reopen in September. “We’re redesigning the restaurant to accommodate dedicated delivery to Potrero Hill, Dogpatch…
A Day in Dogpatch, Potrero Hill, and Environs – June 2017
At the start of John Cheever’s classic short story “The Swimmer” the main character is lounging in the backyard of a friend’s home in upper-middle-class suburbia, where everyone has a…
Ninth Annual Peace March
The ninth annual Peace March, coordinated by the Equal Opportunity Council of Potrero Hill, was held last month. Daniel Webster, Starr King, and Live Oak elementary schools participated in the…
Wagly Pulls Out of Potrero Hill
In July, 2016, The Potrero View reported that Washington-based pet care startup, Wagly, planned to launch a “comprehensive” animal boarding facility, grooming service, and veterinary clinic in Potrero Hill. The…
A Day in Dogpatch, Potrero Hill, and Environs – May 2017
Fourteen years after the University of California, San Francisco built its high-technology research campus on an abandoned Southern Pacific railyard in Mission Bay, much of the surrounding area still feels…
Third Rail, A Drinking Car Without Wheels
Third Rail, located at 20th and Third streets, isn’t the “fancy” bar people may think it is, according to owner and operator Jeff Lyon. “People sometimes apologize for ordering ‘just…
A Day in Dogpatch, Potrero Hill, and Environs – March 2017
If you live in Dogpatch you probably already know, but it bears repeating: Neighbor Bakehouse, located at 2434 Third Street, is the best bakery, certainly in San Francisco, possibly in…
Carolina Island Potrero Hill’s Newest Park
Prompted by the mugging of an elderly man and regular littering of hypodermic needles, Potrero Hillians living along the median on Carolina Street, between 22nd and 23rd streets, began meeting…
A Day in Dogpatch, Potrero Hill, and Environs – February 2017
There are many perfect days to be had within the plentiful sunshine and amiable neighborhoods of Southeast San Francisco. For a lazy, or not-so-lazy, day off, Dogpatch, Potrero Hill, and…