Thanks for that information.
Did you home have a good view?
Most of the bay area was blue collar. Our family was. It was also 100% union.
With gentification...everything did change.
Yes. We were on the upper north side of Bernal Heights, facing the inner Mission District. The rear dining room and kitchen, as well as an upstairs bedroom had a sweeping view of the city, from Twin Peaks and the GG Bridge towers at the left, Civic Center to the financial district, and the Bay Bridge and Potrero Hill at the right. My dad would often be at an open window, daydreaming while looking upon the city. Back then in the 1950s, there were many animated lit advertisements on buildings and billboards. My favorite was a brewery in the center that poured beer into a mug that slowly filled complete with foam. These animated ads were banned a few decades later and disappeared, a real shame.
Due to increasing crime, my mom moved to the peninsula and sold the home in the early 1970s after renting it to others for a couple years. Same day we turned over the home to the buyers, they showed us a scale model of the home with remodeled improvements. The buyer was a writer for Sunset Magazine. They planned to add a floor, expand the dining room and make various improvements for about $60,000. We thought they were nuts, because we sold the house for $23,000 and they wanted to put in another $60K! A few years later, they didn't seem crazy at all because various homes on the street were undergoing upgrades by yuppie buyers adding wine cellars, decks and jacuzzis. Something the blue collar sellers couldn't afford and cashed out. Now the neighborhood is completely gentrified with $1.5 million dollar homes (greatly improved homes).