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Originally Posted by tech12
They didn't rebuild all of the old projects in the Fillmore in the 90s though, they focused mostly on the most crime-ridden ones.
Speaking of the projects in the Fillmore, here's an old NY Times article from 1981, about lost tourists constantly getting robbed/assaulted near what was once one of SF's worst projects, Yerba Buena Plaza Annex, or "the pink palace" (it was painted pink), which was overrun by drug dealers. It was converted to senior housing in 1982, and later torn down:
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/30/us...s-project.html
some pics of the Pink Palace:
http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=P...es_Full_Circle
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davegla...n/photostream/
And here's another NY times article from 1996, about the poor state the SFHA was in, and which mentions another highrise project in the Fillmore, Yerba Buena Plaza East. It was nicknamed "OC" or "Outta Control", and was another tower that got completely overrun with drug dealers (it was demolished in 1998, and replaced with lowrise projects):
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/24/us...anted=2&src=pm |
That's crazy. Also, unfortunately for the wayward traveler, Interstate 80 drops you right into the middle of that.
I remember when I was young and we lived in the East Bay, sometimes I would go to work with my mom in the city and I will always remember how on edge she was every time she had to walk from the BART station to her office between the Powell Station and City Hall (this was in the early-mid 90's). I went by that area this past summer and it feels much safer than it did then. For years after that friends would go visit San Francisco and stay at Fisherman's Wharf and talk about how nice the city was and I remember thinking about how different my experience was given that I rarely traveled there as a tourist and most of my experience in the City was between Downtown, the Tenderloin, and the Panhandle.