The Potrero View -- August 2010August 1970 View Covers Assaults, Drugs & ReligionBy Judy Baston“Mobile Drug Clinic for Hill Rejected,” “Assault Wave Hits Elders,” “Community Tree Planting Program Gets Underway,” “St. Teresa Welcomes New Pastor,” and “Drug Figures Meaningless.” With these stories The Potrero View’s first issue was born 40 years ago this month. In 1970, there was barely a glimmer of the building boom that would affect the neighborhood in ensuing years. A request in the View’s January 1972 ... Library Reopening Prompts Increase in Business on 20th Street CorridorBy Sarah McdonaldThe 20th Street commercial strip has experienced an increase in traffic since the San Francisco Public Library’s Potrero Hill branch re-opened last March. Businesses located on the street had suffered a sales decline as a result of several factors, including the loss of a popular deli in 2006, the closure of the library for renovations in 2008, street repairs that disrupted parking last summer, and the Great Recession.... Patri’s Masthead a Reminder of Potrero’s Labor HistoryBy Peter LinenthalIn 1973, Potrero View publisher Ruth Passen decided that her newspaper needed what every paper had, a distinctive front page nameplate displaying the paper’s title. And she knew who to call, her old friend Giacomo Patri. Ruth and husband Joe knew a wide circle of artists that included Giacomo in North Beach in the 1960s. Rents there rose. The Patris and many of these artists found better deals in homes and apartments on then quiet Potrero Hill, the Patris at 21st and Arkansas. It was one reason the... |
This Polaroid photograph of the building at Third and 19th streets ran above the fold on page one of the View’s first issue. The candy factory was long gone, and the building was being proposed as the site of a new clinic to serve the Hill, a plan that never came to pass. However in 1976 the Caleb G. Clark Potrero Hill Health Center opened at 1050 Wisconsin Street on the Hill’s southern slope. |
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This Month's StoriesPotrero Hill’s Street Names Tell California’s History Potrero Hill Crime Statistics Demystified Forty Things I Love About Potrero Hill The Fantasticks Still Thrill After 25 Years at SF Playhouse Business Blooms for Potrero Hill Mosaic Artist Locally Produced Honey All the Buzz On-going FeaturesPublisher's View: 40th Anniversary
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