Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Neighborhood (#4)

I just made a new/old wallet series of SF neighborhoods. Each wallet has a different grouping of San Francisco neighborhoods. When you move to a new neighborhood, you make it your own but don't always forget about your old hood so your current one, depending on how far you moved, becomes a bit bigger- that's why the "Haight Wallet" sometimes will include the Sunset or West Add.
I've also found a few handmade things that incorporate someone's personalized map of San Francisco.

Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas by Rebecca Solnit


Gangs of San Francisco - awesome 1800's symbols from neighborhood gangs of sf.

Speaking of The Haight, The Chutes seems like an odd thing to form a gang around but maybe it was just that dangerous. This excerpt is from the GoSF page: "The Chutes opened in 1895 on Haight Street between Cole and Clayton streets. The main attraction was a water ride in which daring patrons careened in an uncontrolled flat-bottomed boat down a 350 foot water flume, hitting a pond at up to 60 miles per hour. The park also boasted a merry-go-round, a zoo and a shooting range."

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