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Archives for October 2014

The men behind the Glen Park Station window art

October 30, 2014 by Elizabeth Weise

Murray Schneider Sixty years ago Halloween trick-or-treaters trooped along Diamond Street, armed with shopping bags in one hand and bars of Lava soap in the other. If business or homeowners didn’t continue filling their bags, kids might soap merchant windows and the windows of parked Chevys, Fords and Plymouths. Tricksters were pretty benign all those […]

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10th Anniversary Retrospective: Glen Park glories in the Giants – a photo essay

October 30, 2014 by Elizabeth Weise

To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Glen Park Station, before the game was over. Photo: Stephen Labovsky

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Giants win the World Series, Glen Park goes wild

October 30, 2014 by Elizabeth Weise

As the seventh game of the World Series ended with a win by the Giants Wednesday night, San Francisco erupted in a roar of honking horns and the dull thud of firecrackers echoing between the hills. Just as they had in 2012 and 2010, Glen Park neighbors flooded into the streets. They congregated in front […]

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Canyon Market is the prototype of the new Market on Market in the Twitter building

October 27, 2014 by Elizabeth Weise

New Mid-Market food emporium to be 1st in high end SF chain By J.K. Dineen Photo: Liz Hafalia, The Chronicle IMAGE 1 OF 7 Pedestrians walk outside the new locally owned grocery store named Market on Market on the first floor of the Twitter building in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, October 23, 2014. Under construction Market on […]

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A must-see Glen Park pumpkin tradition–Don’t miss it

October 26, 2014 by Elizabeth Weise

For the last 19 years, starting in 1995 when they did their first 5 pumpkins, the Vella family of 354 Sussex has had a Glen Park tradition of carving pumpkins for 4 days before Halloween and putting out 40-60 pumpkins in front of the house on Halloween night. It started out as a father-daughter bonding experience (Charlie & […]

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Emily Bratt’s Family Always Told Stories. At Age 92, She Still Does

October 23, 2014 by Elizabeth Weise

by Murray Schneider Emily Bratt still speaks with a trace of an accent from Flatbush, Brooklyn, where she was born 92 years ago. She has lived in Glen Park since 1950, first settling on Bemis Street when it was nothing more than a dirt path. That move came after she served in the U.S. Army […]

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Crime Report Oct 3, 2014

October 22, 2014 by Elizabeth Weise

Friday, October 3rd, 2014 8:16am Unit Blk Arlington Recovered Vehicle 1:30pm Bosworth/Lyell Stolen Vehicle 2:30pm 500 Blk Arlington Theft from Vehicle Saturday, October 4th, 2014 Nothing to report from Glen Park. Sunday, October 5th, 2014 1:33am 300 Blk Arbor Drugs A resident called police to report men, wearing ski masks, were attempting to break into […]

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Pumpkin Carving at Sunnyside Conservatory

October 22, 2014 by Elizabeth Weise

The Friends of Sunnyside Conservatory invite you to a free Pumpkin Carving at the Sunnyside Conservatory 236 Monterey Boulevard.   Date: October 26th Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM   We supply: child appropriate carving tools a variety of patterns (or do your own creation) light refreshments a few Dia de Muertos masks that could use some coloring.   Please bring: […]

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Swing dancing at Bird & Beckett

October 22, 2014 by Elizabeth Weise

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Glen Park Crime Report, Sept. 20 – 30, 2014

October 14, 2014 by Elizabeth Weise

Saturday, September 20th, 2014 5:35pm 100 Blk Laidley Theft from Vehicle Sunday, September 21st, 2014 10:28am Unit Blk Sussex Dog Bite Monday, September 22nd, 2014 Nothing to report from Glen Park. Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014 1:00pm Unit Blk Chenery Burglary Wednesday, September 24th, 2014 7:55pm Kern/Brompton Auto Boost Thursday, September 25th, 2014 Nothing to report […]

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How did this window at the Glen Park BART station get broken?

October 13, 2014 by Elizabeth Weise

These are extremely thick and durable windows, it must have taken quite a blow to smash it. Anyone know what happened?    

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Glen Park Neighborhood History Project – Oct. 22

October 13, 2014 by Elizabeth Weise

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 6:15pm to 7:45 pm Glen Park Branch of the SF Public Library Second floor meeting room (Announcement attached) Agenda 1. Call for pictures and stories of House-Moving History in Glen Park, Sunnyside, and Diamond Heights! We’ve been contacted by author Diane Donovan who is currently preparing a publication about the history […]

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It’s so hot….that they’ve got a mister going up at Diamond Heights

October 4, 2014 by Elizabeth Weise

Not sure who put it up, but it was much appreciated. Thanks to Michael Rice of the Glen Park Association for the photos.

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Blue elderberry, yellow-eyed grass and aster: Repopulating Glen Canyon

October 1, 2014 by Elizabeth Weise

Story and photos by Murray Schneider Before I retired I taught eleventh graders American history, and each morning I’d drive to school by descending O’Shaughnessy Boulevard. Going down the hill, O’Shaughnessy Hollow was on my right and Glen Canyon was on my left. Glen Canyon, the larger of the two, is 70-acres of natural area, […]

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