Borden Dairy

Unfinished History

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Milk boys in a bas relief sculpture on the Borden Dairy building on Potrero Avenue, 1973.

Photo: Max Kirkeberg Collection, diva.sfsu.edu

View North on Potrero from Army Street (now Cesar Chavez), before construction of US101 Freeway. Site of Potrero del Sol Park at right Dec 1955 wnp32.2352.jpg

December 1955, dairy at right where La Raza Park is now.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp32.2352

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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map 1950, showing the site of the Borden Dairy on Potrero Avenue near (then-)Army Street.

Map: historicalinfo.com via San Francisco Public Library

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Demolition of Borden Dairy buildings along Potrero Avenue, 1973.

Photo: Max Kirkeberg Collection, diva.sfsu.edu

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Original door at Borden Dairy.

Photo: Max Kirkeberg Collection, diva.sfsu.edu

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Northerly view from Peralta and Holladay on Bernal Heights, demolition of Borden Dairy underway, 1973, future site of The Farm.

Photo: Max Kirkeberg Collection, diva.sfsu.edu