San Francisco (as you very well know) is a city rich with history and tangled with politics. With a collective attention span of roughly 6 months, it can be easy for many of us to lose sight of historical precedents that mirror many current events. With that in mind, we here at SFist would like to occasionally lend our platform to friends at the Tenderloin Geographic Society, who have spent considerable amounts of time building an extensive archive of interesting ephemera, surprisingly informative detritus, and otherwise overheard conversations. Our first topics of conversation: 70s-era blogs and the Bay Guardian's attempts to unionize.

By Tenderloin Geographic Society

Blogs in 1976 were printed on paper, and some of them still are: The Potrero View, for example.

Potrero Hill may have just triumphed over Lower Haight as CurbedSF's Neighborhood of the Year, but back in the day the Hill was just an excitable little bump, as evinced by this 1976 issue of the Potrero View. Just look at those exclamations!

All kidding aside, voter turnout in this District has always been significant in comparison to other San Francisco neighborhoods, which, no doubt, lent them this valuable edge. What can we expect of this outcome? Lower Haighters not possessed of single-speed bicycles can be expected to wreak The Warriors-style vengeance upon Hill-dwellers, meting out the particular cruelty of the smote adversary.

Or, everyone will go on about their daily business and wonder what this really means. Bragging rights in modest San Francisco? Please, you jest.