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Welcome to new readers who may have stumbled by here after reading the article about Sunset District blogs in the San Francisco Chronicle. If you didn't see it, make sure to check the other local blogs mentioned:

The N Judah Chronicles
The Avenues Blog
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I started this blog because I had a quite a few photos of the neighborhood I had taken while I was out walking around. I just love our at times quirky architecture. The blend of Victorian, Mediterranean, and 1930's & '40's modern.

I thought other people might be interested in the same things I am. The little details; the history of our neighborhood; funny things like mis-spelled street names.

Is it Pink?

It is no secret to people who know me that I love the color pink. Is this building pink?

I'm not sure, but it really brightens up a foggy day in the Sunset.


I love the paint job and the little details that have been kept. Like these garage door opening guards.
















Here's the front entrance:

Look up and there is a wealth of little details.

Minor Mysteries Solved

While I was looking for a map to see when street sweeping occurs on the far away block I parked my vehicle, I discovered what this building is. Just a substation. A pink substation.

This vault cover at 37th and Judah made me wonder.

Why would City College be linked all the way out here? Probably obvious to most, but CCSF, which I always associate with the school, really stands for City and County of San Francisco and DTIS is the Department of Technology and Information Services. Perhaps it's a link to the N Shelter which announces when the trains are allegedly coming?

Thirty Something

What's wrong with this?


Well, I was standing at this corner:


It's not actually a typo. Just looks like the "thirty" got filled in when the ramp was built.

Matchy Matchy

I like it when people keep their old garage doors, which quite often match the side door into the garage.

This house matches even more, it even has matching shutters.

Decades Apart...

...yet right next door.

These caught my eye because, well, you know how I feel about 1970's architecture. Then I realized that there are few 1970's single family homes, they are mostly apartments.

These four houses encompass a wide range of decades. From the right: 1906, 1978, 1978, 1919.

On just the next block is another range of building dates. The house on the left was built in 1908. The one on the right in 1919, and remodeled in the 1970's, I'm guessing by the shingled mansard. And to the right of that, just an edge shown, 1924.

Tile on Lawton

The tile on this storefront at 25th and Lawton is amazing.

And notice that the walls aren't smooth, they undulate which adds even more movement to the tile design.


It was built in 1936.


I've heard there was a Sun Valley Market at 25th and Lawton. Does anyone know if it was here?