Story and photos Murray Schneider In anticipation of ringing in 2015, four Glen Park neighbors gave Penny Lane a New Year’s makeover. On December 13, each donned work clothes, pulled on leather gloves and spent the morning weeding Glen Park’s signature easement. A former nineteenth century carriage path, rutted and bucolic Penny Lane […]
Archives for December 2014
Hanukkah in Glen Park
Story and photo by Murray Schneider There’s not much Glen Park Hardware’s Hal Tauber can’t turn his hands to or assist his legends of loyal customers in putting to rights. But who’d have thought Glen Park’s hardware store owner could fashion an industrial-strength Hanukkah menorah. Studying the sturdy Festival of Lights nine-branched candelabrum taking […]
Glen Canyon trail improvements coming along
Story and photos by Murray Schneider The Recreation and Park Department’s 15-month Glen Canyon Trails Improvement Project is expected to be completed in early 2015. Work crews soon will maneuver their last Bobcat earth mover along Alms Road, exiting San Francisco’s 70-acre natural area, leaving in their wake freshly minted recreational trails built with scores […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: A flash mob cleans up a flash flood in Glen Park
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Living in a big city doesn’t mean that people don’t take care of each other, as the rise and fall of “Lake Lippard” in Glen Park during Thursday’s storm shows. About […]
Santa’s coming to Glen Park Dec. 9
The way we live now: Construction on Bosworth
Photos by Susan Sutton According to the workers, this is part of an on-going project by PG&E to update high pressure gas lines throughout the city, after the devastating gas line explosion and fire in San Bruno in 2010 (okay, the workers didn’t say “devastating gas line explosion.)
Bosworth/Diamond intersection update
Dear Glen Park Improvements neighbors and stakeholders: Thank you for you continued interest in the Glen Park Streetscapes Improvements! It’s been quite a while since this project first got off the ground. We initially consulted with Glen Park neighbors in 2013 to design the new elements of the intersection, which included adding more trees, planters, […]