by Woody LaBounty July 2005 In 2002, an old-timer bought me a beer in Fahey's bar and we got to talking about the older businesses along Taraval street. I asked how long he lived in the Parkside and he gave me a canny sideways squint. "You grew up out here," he nodded, "otherwise you'd have called it the 'Sunset'. People forget that this is the Parkside." Parkside real estate map showing transit lines, published by G. H. Umbsen & Co. Parkside District Improvement Club scrapbooks, circa 1908 - The Parkside as a neighborhood started in July 1905 when a syndicate led by William Crocker announced they had quietly bought land from the estate of Adolph Sutro and others to create a new million-dollar development. The "park" of Parkside was not Golden Gate Park, but rather the stand of trees and plants around Laguna Puerca (now called Pine Lake, and often called "Mud Lake" by old-timers). The area's remoteness at the time is obvious in this quote from a