Love Letters to Laurel Heights and Presidio Heights
posted May 06, 2009 8:41AM
With a landscape dominated by stately single-family homes (many with back, side and front yards) and flat, tree-lined streets, this neighborhood comes by its upscale reputation deservedly.
Submit up to a 300-word “love letter” to Laurel Heights and Presidio Heights in the comment box below. We'll publish the 10 best neighborhood letters in our upcoming Neighborhoods Issue and pick one to win Outside Lands tickets.
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comment posted 10:49 PM Jul. 29th
I still remember the night we met. I was tired and cranky, burnt out from another long day at work and the ulcer-inducing stress that is apartment hunting, with a full-time job and a dog, in San Francisco. On a dark, rainy Thursday night, you didn’t seem to have much to recommend you. Compared to my old Russian Hill hood, where a vibrant community was right on my chic little doorstep, I now seemed to have been transported to a place where endless rows of houses bordered busy roads, with no sign of green or scene in-between.
Fast forward three weeks, and I’ve undergone my own Damascean conversion on the road to Presidio Heights; living out my shabby chic fantasy in a rustic cottage in the middle of the city, with a backyard, a porch, and a vegetable plot. At dawn, all I can hear are the birds twittering, a far cry from the high-pitched whine of the 45 bus, and a startling reminder of the way life used to sound before life got in the way.
At weekends and after work, it gets even better, with long, dog-filled walks down Sacramento Street offering peaceful respite from the rigors of city living and gentle nudges into a more balanced way of life. One that gives you solace and comfort, rather than just shots and Cosmos. A movie theater that plays just one movie at a time? A cozy Italian restaurant that still serves melon and prawns? Here are the resolutely unfashionable remnants of a life that’s lived in quiet, familiar enjoyment. Grab onto these while you can. For they’re at the mercy of time and trend.
Loula posted 02:25 PM Jun. 9th
So I was truly torn on whether or not to participate in this contest, for one reason alone. It was a reason that 7x7 magazine reiterated when it came time to select the neighborhood I have come to enjoy so much...It is the fact that the Presidio is continually forgotten as a place where San Franciscans can reside. That's right...Underneath the canopy of the imported Eucalyptus trees lies countless quaint (a nice way to describe an apartments no bigger than my college dorm) former American heroes' housing, where the up and coming "young professionals" escape from the hustle and bustle of the busy streets and escape into a shady grove. Where else in the city can you roll out your front door, go for a hike through the woods, without seeing a high rise or a brightly colored Victorian for miles, and then finish with a ice cold beverage in the "place where the beautiful people of SF reside." The Marina. My Presidio offers an oasis within the limits of SF, but with all access to everything this wonderful city has to offer, all within a short walk. And lastly...we have our own bowling alley. How can you beat that?
skibb31 posted 08:37 PM Jun. 1st
Irving has been gone from his market on Sacramento Street for a long time now. The people in the chic floral boutique where his store used to sit probably don’t spin quarters across the counter the way he did, or offer the kids in the neighborhood free sodas on hot days. I walk by now, thirty years older than my memories, and realize it wasn’t all that long ago when we begged our moms for lunch at Miz Brown’s Feedbag, or Levi’s from Young Man’s Fancy that had to be washed repeatedly before they didn’t stand up on their own. What remains of old Laurel Village lacks the luster of the new, the upscale, and the franchised version we see today, but tucked inside their strollers are people waiting to find an Irving of their own: someone with the wisecrack, the lopsided grin, and the time to stop and tell them a joke on their way home from school. I hope they find him, as we did, once, not so long ago.
lmehren posted 04:00 PM May. 21st










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