A Prologue to a Blog?
This entry and blog as a whole are inspired by an article I've written, which you'll hear more about later.

When I first moved to the Outer Sunset, a friend of mine told me that the Sunset is where San Francisco hipsters go to die. I suppose that remains to be seen for me, but I couldn't disagree with the underlying sentiment more. This may look like a suburban wasteland built on dunes and landfill with its miles of identical mid-century, stucco-encased houses. However, before the dunes were leveled, the Outside Lands (as the present-day Sunset was called in the 19th century) was one of the city’s final wild frontiers.

Just look to the unsung history of the settlers of a late 1800’s community who made their homes out of the city’s discarded street cars beside Ocean Beach. This community came to be known as Carville-by-the-Sea. The spirit of these early bohemians is still alive west of 40th Avenue. This blog is about that.