Bruce Bary News Today

Articles list

Frank Dunnigan, San Francisco, San Francisco neighborhoods, history

Christmas rituals and routines from a San Francisco past.

Frank Dunnigan, WNP member and columnist. - In the fall of 2008, WNP founders Woody LaBounty and David Gallagher asked if I would be interested in writing a series of articles on local history/folklore—and thus, "Streetwise" was born, making its debut as a monthly column in January of 2009. I’m grateful to have been given this opportunity, and also happy that Woody agreed to loan me the column’s name—one that he had been using for many of his own WNP articles dating back to the late ...

Frank Dunnigan, WNP member and columnist. - Light the birthday candles for dear old Stonestown! This is the year that the local shopping center turns 65 and it is also the thirtieth anniversary of its 1987 re-birth as a “Galleria.” First opened in 1952, Stonestown Mall was the brain-child of the Stoneson Brothers, Henry (1895-1958) and Ellis (1893-1952), who were born in Canada, the sons of Icelandic immigrants. Arriving in San Francisco in the 1920s, they began constructing homes at abo...

Frank Dunnigan, WNP member and columnist. - A few months ago, we looked at some long-gone neighborhood businesses whose owners lived among us. Today we look at even more favorite places, including some owned by people or corporations from beyond "the Avenues." Adeline Bake Shop—A West Portal fixture (plus downtown locations) for fifty years. Owned by the Lembo family, living nearby on Wawona Street, Adeline had the best Danish pastry in the neighborhood, but their last shop closed in the l...