Have you seen Bayview lately?
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. I had a friend that lived on Potrero Hill and went up there all the time in the 90s. It was slowly gentrifying even back then from what I recall. I moved away from the Bay Area in the 90s and remember being gobsmacked reading during the first .com bubble a NY Times story about valet parking in the Mission. That wasn’t the Mission I left. LOL.
“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 We had a birthday party there last February, only the building has been replaced by an up-scale restaurant with seriously up-scale prices.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.