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Sunset District pioneer and benefactor.
Carl Larsen: The Gentle Dane
by Lorri Ungaretti
(Originally published in the WNP Member Newsletter, Spring 2009.) Carl Larsen s Chicken Ranch facing the Sunset District sand dunes around Noriega Street and 17th Avenue, circa 1900., 1900 -
In the late 1800s, many speculators began buying land in the Sunset District. By the early twentieth century, landowners in the area included Michael deYoung, Fernando Nelson, and Adolph Sutro. But one of the largest land owners, Carl Larsen, also had other ties to the district.
Larsen did not live in the Sunset District, but he owned a business and a lot of land in the area. Sometimes called the Gentle Dane, he donated land for parks in the Sunset and probably would have given more to his city, but underhandedness after his death prevented any further gifts.
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Wonders of the Crosstown Trail
The 17-mile route avoids the guidebook spots. Here are 12 must-see destinations
By Peter Hartlaub | June 5, 2021 | Updated: June 4, 2021 5:24 PM
The Crosstown Trail is a true San Francisco miracle: a world-class hiking trail created by a band of citizens, who bypassed government bureaucracy and somehow finished the project in 18 months.
As the trail celebrates its second anniversary on June 5-6, 2021, it’s arguably more popular than ever, coming out of a pandemic that acted as a catalyst for producing urban explorers. The 17-mile trail stretches diagonally across San Francisco, from the southeast edge to the northwest corner, and seems to deliberately bypass all the S.F. tourism guidebook standards and trendiest neighborhoods, proving that there’s so much left in the city to be discovered.
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Sleighing it: SFFD revives holiday lights tradition
San Francisco firefighters bring back a 1940s decoration tradition hoping to stoke holiday spirit in city neighborhoods during pandemic
By Peter Hartlaub |
Updated: Dec. 22, 2020 11:50 AM
After the San Francisco Chronicle wrote about a 70-year-old San Francisco fire station decoration contest earlier this month, the SF Fire Department decided to bring it back.
With just 12 days to decorate, firefighters from Ocean Beach to the Haight-Ashbury to Nob Hill to Embarcadero turned their stations into beacons of holiday spirit to inspire some socially distant neighborhood cheer.
See the decorations using the map below, and (safely) visit your local stations. Winners will be announced by The Chronicle later this week, with $6,000 in prize money from San Francisco Fire Credit Union going to charities of the winners’ choice.
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