Cities
The Chinese Grocery Stores of my Childhood
I grew up at this corner, 8th Avenue and Balboa. This particular picture was taken 1939. Though this grocery store predates me by some 30 years, It was still a grocery when I was growing up. In fact, we had lots of grocery stores in the 1970s, seemingly on every corner. Besides this store, I…
Read MoreThe Rarely told Story of How SF’s Congregations have helped shape San Francisco
This post chronicles the 2nd Annual Interfaith Bike Ride, an event co-sponsored by the San Francisco Bike Coalition and Interfaith Council that happened on May 22nd, 2016. “We built this City (on rock on roll)!” goes the old #1 San Francisco-anthem from my youth. I actually detested that song (overly pop) but the title was just THAT…
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