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Frank Dunnigan, WNP member and columnist. -
In the fall of 2008, WNP founders Woody LaBounty and David Gallagher asked if I would be interested in writing a series of articles on local history/folklore and thus, Streetwise was born, making its debut as a monthly column in January of 2009. I’m grateful to have been given this opportunity, and also happy that Woody agreed to loan me the column’s name one that he had been using for many of his own WNP articles dating back to the late 1990s.
Now, after 8+ years, the calendar tells me that Streetwise is reaching its 100th column a good time to take a look back to see where we have been.
Balboa Terrace
Developers: Lang Realty Company and Hueter Homes
Constructed: 1920 - 1927
Location: Junipero Serra Boulevard on the west, Monterey Boulevard on the north, San Aleso Avenue on the east, and Ocean Avenue on the south. Here scattered and inharmonious building has been eliminated in favor of a carefully restricted construction program whereby homes are built in groups, block by block, progressively as conditions permit.
The usual way San Franciscans become aware of the residential park of Balboa Terrace is by seeing its name on the old-fashioned streetcar stop shelter on the east side of Junipero Serra Boulevard between Sloat Boulevard and Ocean Avenue. Drivers who take a quick peek beyond are given the pleasure of a wide pedestrian pathway framed by a semicircle entrance with swooping stone benches and ornamental light standards. The landscaping of the gateway, designed by civil engineers Punnett & Parez in 1920, oozes grandeur and pomp.
Have they learnt their lesson? Woke San Francisco board FINALLY hires consultant to re-open classrooms after rejecting the idea for entire year
In June last year, the San Francisco school board rejected a plan to hire a reopening consultant to help get kids safely back in class
M
embers then described a firm recommended by Superintendent Vince Matthews as a crime syndicate because it had worked with charter schools
After overseeing one of the slowest school reopenings in the country, the board has now reversed its decision and agreed to hire outside help
The board was preoccupied with trying to rename so-called racist schools, as parents and children juggled virtual lessons and working from home