Bayview-Hunters Point
Bayview-Hunters Point is a great choice, says Pilar. Bayview-Hunters Point was home to the Yelamu Ohlone tribe that built the mission of San Francisco de Asis as "Mission Indians" and sought refuge there from the tragedies brought by the Spanish invasion. There are still many significant Ohlone sites here.
The friars used Hunter's Point as a cattle run until Mexico gave it as a grant to José Cornelio Bernal. He sold it for development in the beginning of the Gold Rush and his agents, brothers John, Phillip, and Robert Hunter built their home and dairy farm here.
As "Butchertown" it was a slaughterhouse district from 1868 (when SF forbade butcher shops within city proper) to 1906, when the industry began to decline. From 1929 to 2006 the area suffered from coal and oil-fired power plants that provided electricity to San Francisco.
From 1870 Chinese shrimp fishermen operated a dozen fishing companies here, until the Navy burned down their village in 1939 to expand the Naval Shipyard.
The area benefitted during the Great Migration from an influx of African Americans, increasing after President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 in June 1941. The order prohibited discrimination in the defense industry and federal agencies based on race, creed, color, or national origin and 40,000 African Americans from the South of the United States migrated to San Francisco drawn by comparatively well-paid Navy jobs. Many of them settled in Fillmore, but quite a few came here working, among other things, on loading the "Little Boy" bomb that was subsequently dropped on Hiroshima.
After the war the jobs were lost and racial discrimination returned in force. On October 1, 1966, a major riot broke out in Bayview/Hunter's Point, the Fillmore and parts of the Haight, after a police shooting of a young man running from a stolen car. Mayor Shelley declared a state of emergency. Curfew, martial law, 1200 National Guard troops, and 359 arrests ended the riot on Oct. 3rd.
Until 1989 Navy ran radiation research here, but don't worry - you are perfectly safe, the area was thoroughly decontaminated and houses some of the most fascinating art sites in SF - Hunter's Point Shipyard Artists studios.
There are so many places I'd like to show you!
Pilar opens a map. She is very excited.
The friars used Hunter's Point as a cattle run until Mexico gave it as a grant to José Cornelio Bernal. He sold it for development in the beginning of the Gold Rush and his agents, brothers John, Phillip, and Robert Hunter built their home and dairy farm here.
As "Butchertown" it was a slaughterhouse district from 1868 (when SF forbade butcher shops within city proper) to 1906, when the industry began to decline. From 1929 to 2006 the area suffered from coal and oil-fired power plants that provided electricity to San Francisco.
From 1870 Chinese shrimp fishermen operated a dozen fishing companies here, until the Navy burned down their village in 1939 to expand the Naval Shipyard.
The area benefitted during the Great Migration from an influx of African Americans, increasing after President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 in June 1941. The order prohibited discrimination in the defense industry and federal agencies based on race, creed, color, or national origin and 40,000 African Americans from the South of the United States migrated to San Francisco drawn by comparatively well-paid Navy jobs. Many of them settled in Fillmore, but quite a few came here working, among other things, on loading the "Little Boy" bomb that was subsequently dropped on Hiroshima.
After the war the jobs were lost and racial discrimination returned in force. On October 1, 1966, a major riot broke out in Bayview/Hunter's Point, the Fillmore and parts of the Haight, after a police shooting of a young man running from a stolen car. Mayor Shelley declared a state of emergency. Curfew, martial law, 1200 National Guard troops, and 359 arrests ended the riot on Oct. 3rd.
Until 1989 Navy ran radiation research here, but don't worry - you are perfectly safe, the area was thoroughly decontaminated and houses some of the most fascinating art sites in SF - Hunter's Point Shipyard Artists studios.
There are so many places I'd like to show you!
Pilar opens a map. She is very excited.
Where shall we go first?