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'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>''' | |||
[[Image:Oj-at-pothill-rec-ctr-1970s.jpg]] | |||
'''O.J. Simpson returns to his original stomping grounds at the Potrero Hill Recreation Center in the late 1970s.''' | |||
''Photo: Potrero Hill Archive Project'' | |||
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23rd and Arkansas Streets. | '''Potrero Hill Rec Center, 23rd and Arkansas Streets, with a view of downtown. Mid 1990s.''' | ||
This is the best place in the City to play pickup basketball; the excellent indoor courts were built partly with money donated by O.J. Simpson, who grew up in the neighborhood and hung out here as a kid. | This is the best place in the City to play pickup basketball; the excellent indoor courts were built partly with money donated by O.J. Simpson, who grew up in the neighborhood and hung out here as a kid. (An interesting 2004 novel, [http://www.curledup.com/intmartn.htm ''Winners,''] by Eric Martin passes through this site too, and gives an unusually insightful account of life in San Francisco's Sunset district and the Potrero Hill projects during the dot-com boom of 1999-2001.) | ||
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Potrero Hill Recreation Center in the mid 1990s. | Potrero Hill Recreation Center in the mid 1990s. | ||
[ | adapted from [http://www.sfgate.com/offbeat/whome.html Dr. Weirde's Guide to Weirde San Francisco] | ||
[[Image:Pothill-projects-with-big-southern-view1228.jpg]] | |||
'''Southerly view from back of Potrero Hill Rec Center field, over the Potrero Hill Housing Projects, Bayview Hill (with [[Candlestick Swindle|Candlestick Park]] in upper left corner) and [[San Bruno Mountain|San Bruno Mountain]] in distance, beyond the freeways.''' | |||
''Carlsson | ''Photos by Chris Carlsson'' | ||
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Latest revision as of 22:33, 23 April 2011
Unfinished History
O.J. Simpson returns to his original stomping grounds at the Potrero Hill Recreation Center in the late 1970s.
Photo: Potrero Hill Archive Project
Potrero Hill Rec Center, 23rd and Arkansas Streets, with a view of downtown. Mid 1990s.
This is the best place in the City to play pickup basketball; the excellent indoor courts were built partly with money donated by O.J. Simpson, who grew up in the neighborhood and hung out here as a kid. (An interesting 2004 novel, Winners, by Eric Martin passes through this site too, and gives an unusually insightful account of life in San Francisco's Sunset district and the Potrero Hill projects during the dot-com boom of 1999-2001.)
Potrero Hill Recreation Center in the mid 1990s.
adapted from Dr. Weirde's Guide to Weirde San Francisco
Southerly view from back of Potrero Hill Rec Center field, over the Potrero Hill Housing Projects, Bayview Hill (with Candlestick Park in upper left corner) and San Bruno Mountain in distance, beyond the freeways.
Photos by Chris Carlsson