Strong California quake causes injuries, damage

AP, Town Hall ^ | August 24, 2014 | unknown

[WildHighlander57]

What about the mission district; I remember it being not a good place to go. Also Hunters point....

[MeshugeMikey]

Skellenger Lane Vineyard...

[MeshugeMikey]

I live in terribly elitist Marin County...and attend church in far more conservative....[ theologically and otherwise] Petaluma in Sonoma county.

[vette6387]

“What about the mission district; I remember it being not a good place to go. Also Hunters point....”

I worked on Jerrold Avenue in the 70’s. Mission was tolerable then, but Hunter’s Point was bad at night. Used to go to Everett & Jones on 3rd. St for barbeque, but only at noon. Now, those places are changing too as they abut Potrero Hill to the east and south. The RE is just getting too expensive for the people who were living there back then. Patty Hearst was “found” about a half a mile from my office.

[exDemMom]

Napa is still in the Bay Area. It’s in the North Bay.

I grew up in the North Bay and East Bay. I should probably call my mother and see how things are going.

[roadcat]

The thing that has happened in San Francisco is the “rebirth” of areas that were formerly predominantly Black. Places like Potrero Hill, which has marvelous views of the Bay south of the Bay Bridge, and Third Street below it used to be blighted areas of city owned housing, slaughter houses, ship yards, and other old line manufacturing, have been taken over by developers and rebuilt with high-end housing.

It's amazing. I was bussed in 6th grade to Patrick Henry school on Potrero Hill for racial integration, despite living 3 blocks from my regular school in the Mission. There were a lot of blacks there on pot hill, and it wasn't fun for me (O.J. was from there). Now decades later it's a trendy area with hip restaurants and stores, no blacks to be seen. I used to play with my friends around the slaughter houses and ship yards, all that old blue collar stuff is long gone. You won't see many blacks in the Tenderloin, most displaced by asians (Vietnamese, Hmong, etc.). Even Bayview Hunter's Point is changing where the last big enclave of poor blacks live. Lots of Chinese changing things. This is why I say SF is relatively safe compared to other cities back east. You couldn't walk the streets safely in many neighborhoods 40 years ago, it's changed for the better now.

Regarding my sister and her husband in Sonoma, they're conservative with big money and intensely dislike all liberal things and people. People paint the Bay Area with a broad brush as being hard left, but it's mainly the ones in politics creating this perception (and unfortunately the ones who keep them in office).

[vette6387]

“Regarding my sister and her husband in Sonoma, they’re conservative with big money and intensely dislike all liberal things and people. People paint the Bay Area with a broad brush as being hard left, but it’s mainly the ones in politics creating this perception (and unfortunately the ones who keep them in office).”

Yes, and we unfortunately have a bunch here on FR (who probably live in double wides somewhere in “flyover America” and don’t have the mental acuity to take a bent dime out of a Coke machine), who prattle on about how they wish that California would “drop off into the ocean.” I’ll bet you that some of them don’t even know that Fresno is in California and would wonder just where FR went after the “sinking.”