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To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Chenery Park restaurant has closed, we’re told by Ric Lopez of the Glen Park Merchants Association. The restaurant was launched in the fall of 2000 by John Bedard and Joseph Kola. It was […]

  In Remembrance Of My Friend Fadi Malouf — 1956-2014 By Stephen Labovsky Sunday, November 2, 2014 When I first learned about the death of my friend Fadi Malouf on Thursday, my thoughts immediately turned to the last time we were together.  It was just two weeks ago, and I was in The Mission on […]

To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years.   Fadi Malouf, sold jams made by his Grandmother’s recipes at the Glen Park Farmers Market and at his cousin Rick’s Cheese Boutique on Chenery. We will miss him. You can […]

Photos by Stephen Labovsky    

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 & […]

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 […]