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Unfinished History

Tennessee Street, 1990s, before the gentrification really took off in "Dogpatch."

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Third Street south from 22nd, 1920, in the heart of the industrial zone that later became known as "Dogpatch".

Photo: Jesse Brown Cook collection, online archive of California I0049181A

"Dogpatch," one of at least two spots in San Francisco that derive this ubiquitous nickname from the L'il Abner comic strip. This is Tennessee Street between 22nd and 23rd Streets, an area that once housed shipyard and other industrial workers, but is a slowly gentrifying area between Potrero Hill and the abandoned shipyards.

20th and Illinois in foreground with strikers from the Bethlehem Shipyards milling about in this 1945 photo. Potrero Hill rises in background with earlier viaduct up 20th connecting Dogpatch and crossing what was once Irish Hill.

Photo: Acme Photo

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-'''"Dogpatch," one of at least two spots in San Francisco that derive this ubiquitous nickname from the [http://www.lil-abner.com/ L'il Abner] comic strip. This is Tennessee Street between 23rd and 24th Streets, an area that once housed shipyard and other industrial workers, but is a slowly gentrifying area between Potrero Hill and the abandoned [[Shipyards_in_Decay--1996 |shipyards]]. A few blocks away at the end of 25th Street is Warm Water Cove, aka Tire Beach, aka Toxic Beach.'''
+'''Tennessee Street, 1990s, before the gentrification really took off in "Dogpatch."'''
-[[Image:Warm-water-cove0891.jpg]]
-[[Image:Warmwater-cove-towards-bay892.jpg]]
-'''[http://www.sfnpc.org/warmwatercovehistory Warm Water Cove] at the end of 25th Street on the bay, just south of the Potrero Hill power plant was for a long time a sewage outlet, enjoying a decade as the "toxic golf course" when local punks and other underground culture vultures would hit golf balls into the bay from its abandoned shoreline. Now the park has undergone a facelift, a native plant garden has been started...
+''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
-[[Image:Warmwater-cove-native-plant-garden0889.jpg]]
+[[Image:3rd-St.-South-from-22nd-Potrero-Dist.--1920.jpg]]
-and to [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/03/BAR5RC8UM2.DTL many artists' chagrin], the city government and local property owners organized a painting party to [http://www.flickr.com/photos/dav/1010122186/ obliterate the remarkable graffiti gallery] that had developed on surrounding walls over a ten year period.'''
+'''Third Street south from 22nd, 1920, in the heart of the industrial zone that later became known as "Dogpatch".'''
-[[Image:Muni graffiti warm water cove.jpg]]
+''Photo: Jesse Brown Cook collection, [http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf129005j4;developer=local;style=oac4;doc.view=items online archive of California] I0049181A''
-'''Abandoned and graffittied MUNI streetcars litter the docks adjacent to Warm Water Cove.'''
+[[The Story of Dogpatch|'''"Dogpatch,"]] one of at least two spots in San Francisco that derive this ubiquitous nickname from the [http://www.lil-abner.com/ L'il Abner] comic strip. This is Tennessee Street between 22nd and 23rd Streets, an area that once housed shipyard and other industrial workers, but is a slowly gentrifying area between Potrero Hill and the abandoned [[Shipyards_in_Decay--1996 |shipyards]].'''
-[[Image:Watrtour%24warm-water-cove-tire-park.jpg]]
+[[Image:20th-Street-viaduct-and-Potrero-Hill-1945-w-strikers-in-foreground.jpg|720px]]
-[[Image:Watrtour%24warm-water-cove-warehouse.jpg]]
+'''20th and Illinois in foreground with strikers from the Bethlehem Shipyards milling about in this 1945 photo. Potrero Hill rises in background with earlier viaduct up 20th connecting Dogpatch and crossing what was once Irish Hill.'''
-''Photos: Chris Carlsson ''
+''Photo: Acme Photo''
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