Never thought about that one. In San Francisco, "Brotherhood Way" was designed to be a boulevard for churches and places of worship. Back in the 1950s and 1960s we used it as a drag strip for hot rods, until the city began using the police to bust up the races, and built concrete barriers to stop the races. I used to race my '56 and '63 Chevys there and got caught up in a bust-up by police with the police chief checking out my engine.
Anyway, in the last decade the city broke the rules against non-worship buildings and started planning and building residential housing, ruining the peaceful religious context. It was "Brotherhood Way" long before any "brothers" inhabited it.
It was “Brotherhood Way” long before any “brothers” inhabited it.”
Didn’t U have the “Sons of Italy” in SF ?
Yeah, my son's FIL raced there as well. Over in Oakland we used the Outer Highway, the frontage road on the west side of 880 across from the Coliseum. We had a small-block rail on the trailer there one night with an OPD car watching. So we sat, waiting for them to leave. Finally, they drove up and said "We'd like to see it go, but we can't wait here all night!"