Posted on 05/19/2016 7:20:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
“Well you busted me. I haven’t been to Bayview in almost 20 years.I guess I shouldn’t be surprised it has gentrified with all the .com money.”
That’s what did it. All that dreary City-owned housing on the southeast side of Potrero HIll is gone. Replaced wtih up-scale places with teriffic views of the Bay. I used to go down to a little hole-in-the-wall waterside burger joint on Third St. that overlooked the drydocks in the now defunct shipyard. We had a birthday party there last February, only the building has been replaced by an up-scale restaurant with seriously up-scale prices. The old American Can Plant is now offices and all the packing houses are long gone. Everything from Army St (pardon me Ceasar Chavez) to the Giants ballpark is all new or rebuilt. People here badmouth San Francisco, and it’s government today deserves all the ridicule and trash talk you can muster up. But when it comes to a vibrant place, SF really has no equal.
Ha! I’m at a startup right across from Facebook (in the industrial park that Facebook now owns).
I just got back from a quick pre-sunset mountain bike ride that took me through that underpass and down to the park north of FB, got back, looked at FR, and what do I read...
...but posts from the guy who developed the property.
Small world.
Didn't claim that. But why don't the powers that be convene a review panel at least before they take action like this? Knee-jerk reactions simply reinforce that "Police are Pigs" meme the BLM people just love using for their own ends. And they will.
Pandering to them is madness.
people killed by illegals in SF and nobody resigns.
“The last 5 or more SF Police Chief’s ended in disgrace”
Pretty bad pattern there. I don’t know if it could have been avoided, because they usually are forced to pick a replacement very quickly. At one time, Heather Fong was Police Chief, the first Asian woman to do it. She always seemed overwhelmed by what she had walked into.
OFF TOPIC::I do recall Fajita-Gate. That happened around the same time as the murder trial for Diane Whipple, that poor girl who was mauled to death by huge dogs.
The dogs belonged to two rather unlikable lawyers, who never even dialed 911 for help.
Army St.? Ha ha. Good one. I use to slum down there at the flea market.
Those old projects on Potrero are where OJ grew up if I recall correctly.
I did some business in China basin right before they built Pac Bell Park. It was easy to see the potential then.
I was also down in the peninsula in the ‘90s when a lot of the old time defense tech companies were shutting up shop.
I read recently that SF is more expensive than Manhattan now. Hard to believe.
And to think Dirty Harry took place in this city only a little over 40 years ago (and was quite prescient). They’d have to make loads of changes to that film ... probably enough to warrant a title change to “Dirty Sanchez”.
“the facts are still emerging”
So why has the Chief, with 30 years of service behind him, already been forced to resign?
An IA rat is the new chief? I’m sure that’s going over well with rank-and-file.
You attack a policeman, we shoot you.
You attack a fellow citizen, we shoot you.
You riot, we shoot you.
You act like civilized human beings, we leave you alone.
Clear?
“Army St.? Ha ha. Good one.”
Yeah, I worked for a company that “was connected” with the city government in the early 70’s ( one of the streets that borders the Catholic Cathedral is named after the guys dad), so we were “obligated to take a table or two at the monthly fundraiser at the Catholic Church on Precita St. (Where they finally found Patty Hearst). On the third Wednesday of every month the church had a “Pasta Feed” with plenty of wine. The DA’s office showed up, along with the people from the Public Defender’s office, and most of the judges and the mayor and his staff (Moscone used to show up until he Dan White showed up in his office). We always said that if you were going to have to go before the bar of justice in SF, you needed to try and not go on the 3rd Wednesday! BTW, the priests were Franciscans (I think) and they wore hooded vestments tied off with a rope. One of them we called “Father Little Dog,” because he packed a Chihuahua up one of his sleeves.
Wasn’t Heather Fong a trannie?
I did some business with The City back in the 90s on the international terminal. They had a rule that 1% of a project had to be spent on art and on a billion dollar project like the airport that was a huge chunk of change. They were throwing money out of windows basically to anybody who could come up with a plan on art for the new terminal. Took them forever to pay me but eventually they did. That was my first experience with heavy handed politically correctness. I had to certify I did not discriminate before they would do business with me. LOL.
It's also the proper place to dump your trash.
It's not so good to live, work or visit, unless you are trash.
Thank you for the context. You are correct and I enjoyed learning from your observations. Third Street is totally fixed up. The area around the SF Chronicle building is not as sketchy as 20 years ago. The building going up in SOMA are amazing and swank. Lots of money and spoiled Ebay workers.
I had to go there last month, to the Philippine consulate on Sutter Street. I thought there were tons of weird looking people everywhere. Once in awhile, I actually heard English being spoken. I don't want to go back there anytime soon.
This is a shame. Chief Suhr was one of the best to occupy this position in some time. He was an experienced SF cop who ran a precinct and understood what policing meant, not this PC crap that the libtards spout. But after the latest shooting there had to be a fall guy to placate the libs and so it was Suhr.
The homeless are really out of control in SF. But there is no will to really change things, that would eliminate the $250 million that is wasted every year on a huge bureacracy that has done nothing to fix the problem.
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