[jg6544]

My old neighborhood! It's my favorite part of the City. "Cow Hollow" (north of Vallejo St.; so-named because that's where the people in the big houses used to keep their livestock) is also a fairly fashionable neighborhood and Union Street can be interesting, but there's too much traffic. When I lived there, the area south of California Street was referred to as "Pacific Lowers". My understanding is, the neighborhood began to be developed as soon as the cable car lines got out that far. There used to be a line that ran along Jackson all the way to Fillmore, but unfortunately, it was taken out sometime in the 1950s.