Potrero and Army-The Farm

Unfinished History

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c. 1925 view of Army and Potrero

Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA

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c. 1940s view of Army and Potrero

Photo: Private Collection

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Same view, c. 1940s. At right is the Borden Dairy, demolished in the 1970s.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp14.12499

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Similar view from top of steps on Holladay on Bernal looking north, Sept. 4, 2016.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Views of the Army Street freeway interchange, which from 1974 to 1987 was the site of the community collective FARM.

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La Raza Park, former site of the Lot and the Farm, 1974-1987

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Potrero del Sol community garden at foot of Potrero and Cesar Chavez, adjacent to La Raza Park.

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New skate park put into La Raza Park in 2008, Bernal Heights looming in distant background.

Photos: Chris Carlsson


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