April 28, 2008
Ten People Without Homes After Fire In...Little Hollywood?
A three-alarm inferno burned a total of four buildings around 7:30 p.m. last night in the Little Hollywood neighborhood of San Francisco. According to AP, the fire started out "in a wood-frame building with commercial space on the first floor and a residential flat above it." Winds helped carry the flames to two adjacent buildings, leaving a total of ten people temporarily homeless. No one was seriously injured.
In other news, there's a neighborhood in San Francisco called Little Hollywood! Which: we have no idea where it is, exactly. Is it next to Little Hollywood Launderette near the Orbit Room? In Bayview? In the imagination of some crafty real estate agent? Please advise. Not a single report on the fire seems to know where this mysterious neighborhood is either.
Update: Little Hollywood, it seems, is in South San Francisco. No wonder we've never heard of it before.
Update #2: Little Hollywood is, in fact, in SF proper, people. It's not in South San Francisco, which, it seems, does not start south of Glen Park. Crazy!
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lets see if this works, never tried embedding a map into the comments section!
well, i guess it didnt work, b/c the comment preview showed the map, and now it just says "View Larger Map".
either way, mystery solved!!
No love for Little Hollywood, my home for the last 34 years. It's in SF proper, not South San Francisco, and if you want to mark it, it's just a hop, skip, and a jump from Sunset Scavenger where all of SF's trash goes. Nice, huh?
http://tinyurl.com/5fqqcs Link goes to Blanken and Tunnel where the fire was.
It's in San Francisco proper, near Visitacion Valley.
I believe it was named such b/c there were quite a few movie houses on that strip in the 40s/50s, right?
Psychogasm, care to give us some history on the neighborhood?
i think Little Hollywood is in all of our hearts. you know?
same neighborhood as the bizarre neighbor story last year
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/04/05/BAGAAI3FI81.DTL
been by that house before. Munsters on meth house, with radio antennas all over
should have that SFist fellow do a "Blocker" segment so i can get my historical learn on, yo.
this type of information could come in handy, me thinks.
So Little Hollywood is near a dump where as Hollywood is a dump. Fascinating.
I also would like Blocker to do a piece on this neighborhood.
Anyone who takes Caltrain sort of sees this area if you look outside...funny how so many people in SF are "surprised" to hear about this neighborhood....there's plenty of interesting places that aren't in The Mission or the Marina in town...
Is there a little Bollywood that we need to scour our maps for?
bollywood cafe on 19th, next to little baobab.
leavenworth and o'farrell could at least be little india.
hmmmmmmm shalimar....hmmmmmmm.
just so you all know the name is real...visit Little Hollywood Park, check your maps...
Proud Little Hollywood resident.
There's a rather large section of Fremont that I think qualifies as the Bollywood of the Bay Area as they have an all-Indian movieplex. This is apropos of the Niles section of Fremont being the center of the movie making industry in California before it moved to Hollywood. Mac & Mutley did a thing on it a while ago.
Of course, none of these are in San Francisco, so they don't really count.