Travel+Leisure posted the results of America’s Favorite Cities, 2008. San Francisco was a solid competitor in several categories, here are a few:
1. New York
2. Charleston
3. San Francisco
January 30, 2009 • 3:23 pm 0
SF Has Unaffordable, Noteworthy ‘Hoods
• 11:41 am 0
Weekend Schtuff Jan 30, 31, & Feb. 1
Jan 30: [art/performance] Colorless Spectrum@ Space Gallery [website]
Jan 30: [food/bar] Free oysters on the half shell @ El Rio [website]
Jan 30: [wine tasting] The Zinfandel Winemakers @ The Oak Room [SF Gate]
Jan 31: [performance] Japan Dance Now @ YBCA [YBCA]
Jan 31: [open house] 14 Harris Place open from 2-4pm [Home SF]
Feb 1: [open house] 1391 Clayton Street open from 12-2pm [Home SF]
Feb 1: [club] Sundown Sunday Sessions @ Milk [website]
Weekend Schtuff [SF Schtuff]
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January 29, 2009 • 11:58 am 3
2009 SF Decorator Showcase
The West Coast’s most prominent and emerging interior and landscape designers will converge on 2830 Pacific Avenue to transform the stately four-story Georgian mansion into the 2009 San Francisco Decorator Showcase – California’s premiere design showhouse. Now in its 32nd year, the San Francisco Decorator Showcase will run from April 25 through Memorial Day, May 25, 2009.
The elegant and formal Georgian mansion at 2830 Pacific Ave. was originally designed and built in 1910 by San Francisco architect Nathaniel Blaisdell. The four-story mansion sits on one of the largest lots on the 2800 block of Pacific between Divisadero and Broderick, adjacent to Raycliff Terrace. The main level’s spacious public areas include an elegant parlour, living room, large family kitchen and a formal dining room leading out to a landscaped garden terrace. The second level includes five bedrooms and a formal library. The penthouse level features a stunning wrap-around terrace with panoramic Bay views.
The San Francisco Decorator Showcase is the West Coast’s premiere design showhouse event, featuring the work of the region’s top designers. The San Francisco Decorator Showcase is a benefit for San Francisco University High School’s financial aid program. Over the past 32 years, Showcase has raised more than $10 million and benefited hundreds of Bay Area students.
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Filed under: events , decorator showcase, events
January 28, 2009 • 10:07 am 4
Concrete Gone Soft
There are a lot of homes in sF that have square, concrete back “yards” that go unused due to their hard, drab and unwelcoming qualities. The folks over at 4404 18th Street did a decent job of sprucing up their gray box of a backyard into a comfy, chill space by adding furniture and a little bit of landscaping. Take everything away and you have just another concrete space, but this goes to show you what some money, a little color and imagination can do to a boring outdoor space. The rest of the house is done in a similar fashion–clean and contemporary. Now, about that facade…
4404 18th Street [Home SF]
Filed under: real estate , eureka valley, real estate
• 9:44 am 0
Reduction Roundup XXX
Our weekly installment, Reduction Roundup, will be available for your viewing pleasure each Wednesday. This little gem will bring you some of our favorite price reductions of the week. If you have questions, know of a good reduction that should be featured or want to know about a specific property, just ask…
Reduction 57:
Address: 123 Laurel
Why: Everything must go! Slashing prices by 20%! (said in car salesman voice)
Original $: $3,750,000
Current $: $2,995,000
Filed under: Ggold, price reductions, real estate, reduction roundup , Central Waterfront, price reductions, real estate, reduction roundup
January 26, 2009 • 6:33 pm 0
Schtats in One Place
Our statiscts “tag” gets so much lurve from ya’ll, so we’ve decided to make it easily accessible from every page. You can now click on Statistics in the upper navigation bar to see any of our posts that have involved numbers over the years. We encourage requests and suggestions so that we can provide the type of reports you’d like to see. Tips and comments on every post help improve SF Schtuff’s content greatly, so don’t be shy! Additionally, we are working on more dynamic statistics as we speak write.
On a different note, we are always looking for Schtuffers (contributors) to help out and provide insight, facts, stories, etc. If you have interest in writing, reporting, analyzing, preparing, sharing or anything else on a regular or semi-regular basis, please don’t be shy, we want to hear from you! You can reach us here or at [email protected].
Statistics [SF Schtuff]
• 8:26 am 2
1842 18th Ave.–More Info.
Last September we received an email from a reader inquiring about a particular 1842 18th Ave. “that stands out from the neighborhood. I’ve been told there is a lot of history surrounding the home, but I am finding it difficult to get any information. Do you or your readers happen to know why this home is custom on a double wide lot when most of the neighborhood is more typical of Sunset?” Curbed SF posted the same question to its readers and the most complete explanation, until now, has been:
House was originally located in the Presidio and was moved to that location in t
he teens or twenties, maybe. The house itself is probably from around the turn of the century. That’s what I was told at the estate sale about 2 years ago. I forget what else they said… The place was a disaster inside, but pretty cool. I think it sold for around $1.2 shortly after the estate sale.
Over the weekend we received more insight from, John Zanardi, stating:
My grandparents bought the house in 1955, and lived there until my grandmother passed in 2006. As far as the history of the house, it was moved there as one of the first homes in the area. The rumor was that General “Blackjack” Pershing had once lived in the house. It had to be moved around Golden Gate Park because the curator of the park wouldn’t allow it through, so it was moved via ocean beach on the great highway past the cliff house and up to 17th ave where it was placed on top of a sand hill. The house is actually sitting sideways with the front porch facing the park. The interior consisted of a large entry hall with vaulted ceilings. Read the rest of this entry »
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• 8:20 am 0
Seductively Sold XXXXI
Guten Morgen,
Another week where we saw far fewer transactions versus the same time in prior years. It’s hard to get a good picture of the market with so few data points, but we’ll take what we can 
. Mortgage rates seem to be holding over the last week, sellers seem to be a bit more realistic and buyers are still out for a bargain. Below are the single family homes, condo/loft/TIC and multi-unit building sales for the week 1/19/09-1/25/09.
Our weekly installment, Seductively Sold will be available for your viewing pleasure each Monday. If you would like to see the actual sales price for the properties listed, you must agree to the terms and conditions and ask…
| Single Family Homes | ||||
| Address | District | Asking $ | Selling $ | D.O.M. |
| 1135 Fitzgerald Ave | Bayview | 388,000 | sign up | 69 |
| 2919 Ingalls St | Bayview | 459,900 | sign up | 49 |
| 414 Head | Ingleside Heights | 479,000 | sign up | 90 |
| 282 Miramar Ave | Ingleside | 499,000 | sign up | 15 |
| 517 Sawyer St | Visitacion Valley | 539,000 | sign up | 28 |
| 687 London St | Excelsior | 579,000 | sign up | 40 |
| 239 Shields | Merced Heights | 579,999 | sign up | 100 |
| 173 Ankeny St | Visitacion Valley | 588,905 | sign up | 44 |
| 2591 47th Ave | Outer Parkside | 628,000 | sign up | 49 |
| 1531 Burrows St | Portola | 735,000 | sign up | 86 |
| 1316 Portola Dr | West Portal | 799,000 | sign up | 66 |
| 1755 21st Ave | Central Sunset | 840,000 | sign up | 40 |
| 2066 20th Ave | Parkside | 875,000 | sign up | 45 |
| 70 Vienna St | Excelsior | 925,000 | sign up | 261 |
| 2525 Lawton St | Central Sunset | 998,000 | sign up | 114 |
| 1570 Portola Dr | West Portal | 1,475,000 | sign up | 81 |
| 3310 Baker | Marina | 5,400,000 | sign up | 168 |
Filed under: Ggold, seductively sold, stats , garrett goldman, real estate, seductively sold, stats
January 23, 2009 • 3:51 pm 0
Weekend Schtuff January 23, 24 and 25
Jan 23: [comedy] Jerry Seinfeld @ Davies Symphony Hall [Contra Costa Times]
Jan 23: [art/music] Sweet Jesus featuring J-boogie @ 111 Minna [going]
Jan 23: [concert] Joey DeFranceso @ Yoshi’s (Oakland) [Yoshi's]
Jan 24: [exhibit] Lunar NY Floral Display @ Conserv. of Flowers [website]
Jan 24: [club] Bootie @ DNA Lounge [DNA]
Jan 24: [open house] 28 Hartford Street open from 2-4pm [home SF]
Jan 25: [open house] 578 Rhode Island Street from 2-4pm [home SF]
Jan 25: [dance] Salsa Sunday’s @ El Rio [website]
Jan 25: [club] Super Soul Sunday’s @ The Endup [webiste]
Weekend Schtuff [SF Schtuff]
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• 9:54 am 0
Beer Week Feb 6-15 2009
SF BEER WEEK will be a ten-day celebration showcasing the Bay Area’s brewing heritage with as many as 150 events. The week will be anchored by the Bistro Double IPA Festival, the Toronado Barleywine Festival and will end with a bang at the Celebrator’s Best of the West Beer Fest. In between there will be beer dinners, cheese and beer pairing events, other gourmet food events savoring our world-class cuisine, meet the brewer evenings, homebrewing demonstrations, music, films, and even a museum exhibition exploring the history of Bay Area brewing, from Monterey to Sacramento and beyond.
Beer Week Venues in San Francisco [SF Beer Week]
Beer Week Venues in East Bay [SF Beer Week]
Beer Week Venues in South Bay [SF Beer Week]
Beer Week Venues in North Bay [SF Beer Week]
SF Beer Week [website]
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