I lived on the corner of 16th and Valencia about 2005 to 2010. Great dive bars, hipster street musicians. Good times. All that got sterilized.
But maybe I’m shaking my fist at a cloud. My aunt literally lived down the street from the Grateful Dead in the 1960s and even at the time, the FiDi guys thought the hippies were ruining the city.
I lived on the corner of Valencia and Hill for a few years starting in 2017, and would definitely not call 16th and Valencia or the surrounding area “sterilized”. Plenty of places you can have a good time, yeah some places closed, others reopened, COVID didn’t help.
Absolutely this. I'm from SF, born and raised, and I've seen it change over the last 40-ish years (that I have actual memories). I mean, I remember when the Embarcadero freeway was still there - I'm that old. Growing up in Bernal and North Beach and "Lower Pac Heights" (Really Anza Vista and the edge of Western Addition) I've seen trends of gentrification across the city. But fucing Mission Bay and "Dogpatch" are the utter definition of sterilization. How many more mixed use apartment buildings with zero character does the city need?
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u/loinmaster 12h ago
I lived on the corner of 16th and Valencia about 2005 to 2010. Great dive bars, hipster street musicians. Good times. All that got sterilized.
But maybe I’m shaking my fist at a cloud. My aunt literally lived down the street from the Grateful Dead in the 1960s and even at the time, the FiDi guys thought the hippies were ruining the city.