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To: roadcat

Point taken.

But pay top rate for the Saint Francis or the Hilton and walk in the wrong direction and u b in the tenderloin. Ummmm don’t know how to say this but u don’t want to b in the tenderloin.


23 posted on 02/04/2016 5:20:44 PM PST by Drango (“Get me some muscle” - Melissa Click)
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To: Drango
Ummmm don't know how to say this but u don't want to b in the tenderloin.

True, I don't want to be there, you're right. But it has improved lately. It was a craphole 30 years ago. I know, I worked there for a brief time at a building on Polk Street as an I.T. engineer. I was on call 24/7, and had to navigate the hookers and drug dealers in the middle of the night. 30 years ago. But then lots of asian families moved in, parks sprung up and children played during the day. It's better now, although there are still corners with hookers and homeless, close to Market St. The Tenderloin has always been the theater district, and well-heeled people still see plays while navigating the seamier denizens there. Just don't be out too late. It was nice in the 1960s. While in a rock band I played some dance halls there (and at the same building I worked at later in 1985). Redevelopment in SOMA (south of Market) pushed all the seamier people up into the Tenderloin in the 1970s, and it got bad. Now it's flipped again with families living there. Neighborhoods change over time.

Personally, if I were visiting as a tourist (and can pay for the Hilton), I'd rent a luxury home down the peninsula, Belmont or further south, and drive a rental car to get to the city or elsewhere (like Santa Clara for the game). That's what some relatives do, much safer and more luxurious.

26 posted on 02/04/2016 10:34:19 PM PST by roadcat
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