San Francisco Relocation Guide - Antevia
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Potrero Hill, <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong>, California<br />
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<br />
Potrero Hill is a neighborhood in <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong>, California, located on the east side of<br />
the city, east of the Mission District and south of the South of Market area. It is roughly<br />
bordered by 16th Street to the north, Potrero Avenue or U.S. Route 101 to the west and<br />
Cesar Chavez Street to the south. There are many docks located on the eastern edge of<br />
the neighborhood, which are mainly built atop landfill.<br />
Notable features of Potrero Hill include a powder blue water tower, located near 22nd<br />
Street and Wisconsin Street, the Anchor Steam Brewery located on Mariposa Street,<br />
between Carolina and DeHaro Streets and owned by the washing machine heir Fritz<br />
Maytag, and a section of Vermont Street between 20th Street and 22nd Street that has<br />
many switchbacks, similar to Lombard Street.<br />
Notable Residents<br />
OJ Simpson, the star football player who played for Galileo High School, <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong><br />
City College, University of Southern California, and the Buffalo Bills grew up on Potrero<br />
Hill, Wayne Thiebaud, the famous, skillful and prolific painter lived on and painted<br />
Potrero Hill for years, and Robert Bechtle, the photorealist painter has also used the hill<br />
for both a home and subject matter for his art. Peter Orlovsky, poet Allen Ginsberg's<br />
partner, lived at 5 Turner Terrace, one of several Potrero Hill public housing projects, in<br />
the 1950s. Ginsberg probably worked on Howl, a poem that changed the world's<br />
expectations of poetry, in that apartment. Lawrence Ferlinghetti bought a house at 706<br />
Wisconsin St. for $9,995 in 1957. He is a poet and co-founder of City Lights, America's<br />
first all-paperback bookstore.<br />
Transportation<br />
Two freeways run through Potrero Hill, U.S. Route 101 on the western side Interstate 280<br />
on the eastern side.<br />
Public transportation is provided by Muni along several bus lines, including lines 10, 15,<br />
19, 22, 48, and 53. In mid-2006, the Third Street Light Rail Project will be completed and<br />
bus service by the 15 Third line on Third Street will be replaced by a Muni Metro line.<br />
Additionally, there is a Caltrain station located at 22nd Street, near Pennsylvania Avenue.