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The A to Z choices made by oldtime San Franciscans. Frank Dunnigan, WNP member and columnist. -
Streetwise - San Francisco A-B-Cs Part #1
by Frank Dunnigan
April 2012
Growing up in the Outside Lands in the 1950s and 1960s, most families did things a certain way, unless they did things that OTHER way as in “You say tomato, I say tomahto.” For almost any subject under the sun, there were always at least two popular choices…
After-School Activities We had the choice of a large well-lighted schoolyard just half a block away at St. Cecilia’s, not to mention two full city blocks of open space at Larsen Park just around the corner. In the end, though, the favorite after-school play spot was the middle of the street on our block of 18th Avenue.