We are on the right side of history because Sunset Dunes is a success. It’s good for the environment, good for our local economy, and brings joy to people of all ages. We will soon wonder why this was ever a controversy. We won’t be able to imagine San Francisco without a coastal park and all the benefits it offers.
Read MoreWhat makes a community? A group of neighbors in the northwest corner of the Sunset are so passionate about their community that they’ve asked the city to officially recognize it as La Playa Village.
Read MoreMeet Jasmine Vaucresson. The Sunset resident won a citywide essay-writing contest for high school students recounting their neighborhood’s history and the meaning it has today. Her essay “Sand Turned Gold: The Warmth of the Sunset” was awarded a Fracchia Prize by the San Francisco Historical Society. Jasmine tells the story of the Sunset from when it was sand dunes to the many immigrants who arrived — including her mother — to make the Sunset what it is today.
Read MoreMeet Jeana Loraine, the artist who founded Sealevel — a creative sanctuary and performance space near the ocean in the Outer Sunset.
Read MoreMeet Richard Hansen. His house on Sloat Boulevard doubles as a veritable museum of San Francisco history. Three rooms are dedicated to the photos, maps, and records dating back to the Gold Rush.
Read MoreDiscarded horse-drawn streetcars became affordable housing in the early 1900s, attracting bohemian residents to San Francisco’s undeveloped Outside Lands near the ocean. What happened to this eccentric community?
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