Posted on 01/12/2020 9:59:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
??? 49ers played at Candlestick for many years after leaving Kezar Stadium. Candlestick is in the city limits of SF, isn’t it?
In many ways, it was WW2 that sealed SF’s doom.
SF was the primary intake center for draftees in the western divide of the country (I don’t recall if it was everything west of the Mississippi or the Rockies?)
Anyway, many of the dysfunctional and depraved that failed their draft screening generally decided to settle in SF rather than return home and face the shame of friends and family.
So, basically, the weak, psychologically/mentally unfit, communist and homosexuals of a large portion of our country was condensed into San Francisco.
DINKS.
Yep. NYC has more invaders than houses still.
Absolutely, categorically incorrect unless, of course, you are speaking of only during your perhaps relatively short lifetime.
Don't just take my word for it, consider why folks for the last 50 years to just recently were willing to pay more than top dollar to live and work there.
It’s the lower downtown area. To get away, just pick the street with the highest incline, go up and do that one or two more times. The homeless don’t go upward.
That said, at the lower parts, it’s astonishingly bad.
Darn, I was thinking of opening a ‘Scotch Tape Boutique’, but maybe now I’ll reconsider...
And four hundred restaurants closing in 2019.
Yes that’s true. I thought Candlestick Park was in South San Francisco, which is a separate city but I think I’m wrong. Culturally, the SF snobs do not consider that area “San Francisco”.
Only in the sense that there is always a new sucker who thinks SF is "great" and they can make a go of it where others have failed. The turnover is extraordinarily high.
A lot of San Francisco's character disappeared during the dot-com boom in 1999-2000, when flaky Internet companies were willing to use their investors' money to pay exorbitant rents to take over retail and restaurant spaces at a time when available office space was almost non-existent. After that, rent levels stabilized at a high plateau and only big risk-takers and financially strong chain stores could afford to operate (at a loss) anywhere near downtown.
It's a twenty-year-old problem that reaching its zenith now.
Yeah and it is about 3 times further away from downtown SF than the Raiders’ stadium in Oakland
I think CP was in the Bayview Heights area of the city of San Francisco. So San Fran is little further south
*ouch*
I liked the location of the Oakland Colleseum Bart station, Airport. Stayed at the hilton a few times on other peoples dime.
Then on my own dime, I stayed at the motel 6. A guard shack and crossing arm at the entrance. Two buildings. The front building with the office for guests. The back two story building for working girls who hung out of the balcony and let you know they were available.
Yep. So is San Jose. Want to buy a house?...
No young people. Of course not town is mostly fags.
all they really need is a grocery store and gas. Trader Joes can feed you well, most everything else you can buy online. Storefronts will be gone like a 1970s mall with a few specialty boutiques here and there and restaurants for the well heeled. I moved out of SF in 2016, the weather and setting are wonderful.
“Makes it easier for geezers, harder for young families to stay.”
My state has insane homestead laws for seniors. My uncle who was worth 1 million dollars and a nice house was only paying $298.00 per year property tax.
It won’t be changed because we have lots of seniors and they won’t vote it out.
My cousin who inherited my uncles house now pays $2800 per year on the same house
Has South of Market ever been a nice place?
The drive from Salinas to SLO is amazing. Mile after mile after mile of grape vinyards. Not seperate vinards. Just one vinyard. You never saw so many grapes, and the vinyard is wide, wide wide. It stretches back as far as the eye can see.
Perhaps someday California can be liberated.
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