The first online edition of the Glen Park News appeared in August 2009. The staff of the website is marking the occasion with a special trip down the memory lane of our archives. We’ve chosen some stories to have an encore here. We’ll be posting them for the next few months. Look for the cheery […]
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10th Anniversary Retrospective: Who Knew? Glen Park Was Once Redlined
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. During the 1930s, a New Deal agency called the Home Owners Loan Corporation asked mortgage lenders, developers and real estate appraisers to draw up maps assessing the risk of lending money […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Bird & Beckett Bookstore Recognized at City Hall
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Eric Whittington, proprietor of Glen Park’s Bird & Beckett Books, was honored at City Hall on Tuesday with a commendation from Supervisor Rafael Mandelman. (Or “Condemnation,” as Whittington accidentally referred to […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Scenes from the Glen Park Festival, April 28, 2019
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Photos by Bonnee Waldstein The Glen Park Association meets, greets, and signs up lots of new members! Shameless plug! Join or renew your Glen Park Association membership here. The Glen Park […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Curious police presence 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. There was an overwhelming police presence outside Higher Grounds late Tuesday morning. Their comportment suggested they weren’t there responding to a mob hit job, thankfully. They were standing there schmoozing among […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Kern Parking Lot Closed
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. [Edited most recently on January 7] Nearly 50 years of free parking in downtown Glen Park ended abruptly last week when the gravel-strewn lot on Kern Alley was vacated and taped […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Dear Glen Park, Happy New Year
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. It was a clear chilly night in Glen Park on New Year’s eve. A number of people chose to ring in the new year close to home. Manzoni was open for […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Dalere’s Beauty Salon, oldest business in Glen Park, gets a visit from the Mayor
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Fifty years ago, a lot was happening in the world and in San Francisco. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. The Beatles released the White Album […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: More about the SF tree maintenance program: A personal story
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. It’s not often that you post a story of general interest and live it out yourself a couple of days later. That’s what happened with the post linking to the SF Chronicle story […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Departed pets live on in Day of the Dead display
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. For the second year, and by popular demand, Critter Fritters manager Tony has assembled a Day of the Dead display of some of Glen Park’s dear departed best friends. The Day […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Tikkun Olam, on Diamond Street
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. I’ve been seeing him for months now. But the first time he really registered was this summer. He stands outside Canyon Market, a white Styrofoam cup in his hand. Sometimes it’s […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Rollicking Frolicking Pups Celebrate their New Play Area
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. The scene was one of unabashed fun as canine guardians watched their dogs enjoy their inaugural romp in the newly renovated dog park at Walter Haas Playground in Diamond Heights. […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Do you know the name of Glen Park’s baseball diamond? Read this and you’ll never forget it.
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Two Little League teams faced off on the Thelma Williams Baseball Diamond in Glen Canyon Park on a warm Saturday afternoon in April. The players were six years old, maybe seven. […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: The Guys from Gialina
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. by Bonnee Waldstein Arriving at Gialina Pizzeria when the doors open at 5:00 PM, and the stroller crowd and early birds arrive, and before the bench and sidewalk outside fill up […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Why are there SFMTA traffic control officers at Diamond & Bosworth every night? Hint: the $2 million redesign of the intersection doesn’t seem to have done the job
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. By Elizabeth Weise It took nine years of planning, three years of waiting, almost $2 million to fund, a major design snafu and 16 months of soul-destroying disruption to build the […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Ambassadors Don’t Do Politics, They Make Glen Park More Beautiful
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. by Bonnee Waldstein Glen Park Ambassadors Evette Demings (l.), photo by Bonnee Waldstein and Quenise Young, photo courtesy of Mayor’s Office Glen Park is fortunate to have two people […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Downtown Glen Park is Popular at Lunchtime
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. By Bonnee Waldstein Why were six mail trucks parked at various spots around downtown Glen Park today? An avalanche of belated holiday cards to deliver? Nope. Apparently the Village is a […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Lots of Stuff Happening: Notes from the Glen Park Association Meeting 7/19/17
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. By Bonnee Waldstein Photos by Michael Waldstein This is not fake news: The crowd size at the quarterly meeting of the Glen Park Association on July 19 was really really huge. […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: 75 years on, locals remember the Japanese internment.
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Howie Dudune, Ko Takemoto and Chuck Peterson. Ko Takemoto was a SFSU classmate of the late Dudune, a jazz saxophone player. He’d come to the Glen Park bookstore to listen to […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Glen Park’s Leo Parker describes horror at UPS shooting
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. from the San Francisco Chronicle Witness recounts UPS rampage in San Francisco: ‘He could have easily shot me’ By Evan Sernoffsky Updated 7:13 pm, Thursday, June 15, 2017 A UPS worker’s deadly […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Remembering Tom Coulter, Owner of Glen Park Station Bar
Trendy bars and restaurants have come and gone in the dozen or so years since Glen Park has become a well known and highly desirable neighborhood in San Francisco. One stalwart constant in the Glen Park village since 1926 has been the Glen Park Station bar. That was the year the building was moved from […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Hank Greenwald, long-time Giants announcer and Diamond Heights resident, discusses life, baseball and his connection to 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. Hank Greenwald sat at Destination Bakery, nursing a cup of hot chocolate, reminiscing about a broadcast career that witnessed him announce 2,798 consecutive San Francisco Giants games before he retired in […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Capt. McFadden’s take on crime and safety in the Ingleside Station
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Story and photos by Bonnee Waldstein The monthly Ingleside Station Community Meeting found its way into St. John the Evangelist Elementary School in October. The two-dozen or so attendees seemed to […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Notes from the quarterly Glen Park Association meeting
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Held April 21, 2016 at St. John School. By Bonnee Waldstein The Spring meeting of the Glen Park Association was dominated by two issues affecting the entire City as well as […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Modern and Past: A former news boy reminisces with the Glen Park News’ newest paper carrier
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Long ago, when I was 12-years old, I delivered the San Francisco Call Bulletin to Bobo Olson, the world middleweight boxing champion. After school, I’d bicycle along 34th Avenue between Judah […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: 40 years later, McAteer grad still helping out at his old school
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Fernando Aguilar took a minute or two to suit up on the former J. Eugene McAteer High School gridiron. The field, now home to the School Farm at the Academy of […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Plans start for a “Greenway” between the village and the 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. By Michael Rice, president, Glen Park Association I am happy to share great news about improving open space in Glen Park. The Glen Park Association has been awarded a $40,000 grant to […]
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 […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Chenery Park restaurant closes
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 […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Fadi Malouf, the man behind Grandma’s Homemade jams, died on Wednesday
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 […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Glen Park glories in the Giants – a photo essay
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
10th Anniversary Retrospective: 10 fascinating facts you didn’t know about Glen Canyon
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. 10 Fascinating Facts You Didn’t Know About Glen Canyon In honor of Outdoors Week, each day we’ll highlight 10 amazing facts about some of San Francisco’s favorite outdoor spaces. We’ve covered […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: A park story told in suitcases, cardboard boxes and journals
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 Canyon Park is a quiet natural space that can seem far removed from our enormous city, which surrounds its hillsides and thickets. The volunteers who spend their Wednesdays come with […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Glen Park’s Silver Tree day camp: A San Francisco tradition
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. As Silver Tree Day Camp prepares to conclude its seventy-third summer in Glen Canyon, visitors over the past few years have noticed that many things have changed . . .and yet […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Painters in the 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. It was one of those summer days in Glen Canyon when the temperatures tipped the low seventies and all was well with world. On scene to take in the canyon’s ambience, […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: UPS Deliveryman Gets a Surprise on Daily Rounds
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Leo Parker, Glen Park’s UPS man for over two decades, is used to delivering packages to Glen Park residents. He’s not so accustomed to receiving them. Today as his truck whizzed […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Protest against tree cutting in Glen Canyon
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Enduring intermittent rain, about 30 people from various San Francisco neighborhoods gathered at Bosworth and Elk streets on Thursday evening to protest the impending destruction of trees in Glen Canyon as […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Glen Park Online: Useful (or just interesting) stuff revealed
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. And other news from the Glen Park Association Sometimes it takes an incident, or string of them, to propel a person to action, or in-depth research. Such was the case recently […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Man steals tip jar at Cafe Bello, swings at barista
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Shortly before 3 p.m. on Friday, July 6, while Cafe Bello customers quietly sipped coffee, a man in his twenties walked up to the counter and stole approximately $20 from the cafe’s […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Cheese Boutique saved!
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Final word arrived Wednesday that the Cheese Boutique, a part of Glen Park for 19 years, will not close. Instead it will move next door, to 660 Chenery, into the space […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Manzoni – a fuller review
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. To the unexpected accompaniment of large earth-moving machinery, the long-awaited Manzoni restaurant opened its doors Monday evening and filled up with Glen Park diners almost immediately. Owner Manhal Jweinat, beaming high-wattage […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Battling the Fennel Forest 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. The green space that straddles St. John’s Elementary School at Bosworth Street between Chilton and Burnside Streets is known mostly to dog walkers and the rare, brave idle stroller; and possibly […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Glen Park Elementary turns 100
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 School, a century strong, celebrated its 100th birthday on September 24th, putting on public display $5.5 million worth of building improvements. Children, parents and SFUSD officials circled the festivities, […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Further Updates for Bosworth Condos
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. It seems that work has moved slowly on the Bosworth Condo project, and some wonder if work has even come to a halt. The sad structure on Rousseau remains unsightly and […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Second firefighter dies, neighbors rally around Engine Co. 26
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White announced Saturday that Firefighter Tony Valerio died at San Francisco General Hospital at approximately 7:30am. The announcement came at a 10:30 am at a press […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Glen Park Farmers Market Opening
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Photos by Michael Waldstein.
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Valentine Card Party at Sunnyside Conservatory
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Kids of all ages were caught red-handed at Sunnyside Conservatory on Saturday, making valentines from recycled materials. This was the second time this party was held since the official opening of […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Car break-in news from Capt. Cassanego
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Captain’s Message from Ingleside Station: I’ve been writing in the newsletter and speaking at community meetings about car break-ins for many weeks. We know the criminals are breaking into several parked […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: What was up on Diamond St. on Wednesday?
Was there something in the water on Diamond St. yesterday? GP incidents from the San Francisco Police Dept. Ingleside newsletter. 08:15 am 1600 blk Diamond Battery Officer Giannini responded with several other officers to a battery call. The officers located the victim who told them that he was the foreman of a new home construction […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: LaRouche followers’ call to impeach Obama gets little traction in GP
Most people who walked by the literature tables set up by Lyndon LaRouche followers on the corners of Diamond and Chenery Tuesday around noon ignored the calls to impeach the President. Others engaged them in somewhat heated debate. There appeared to be few who agreed with their message. To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website […]