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''Potrero Hill Rec Center with a view of downtown. Mid 1990s.''
'''Potrero Hill Rec Center, 23rd and Arkansas Streets, with a view of downtown. Mid 1990s.'''


== Play Hoops Where Young O.J. Simpson Hung Out ==
This is the best place in the City to play pickup basketball; the excellent indoor courts were built partly with money donated by O.J. Simpson, who grew up in the neighborhood and hung out here as a kid. (An interesting 2004 novel, [http://www.curledup.com/intmartn.htm ''Winners,''] by Eric Martin passes through this site too, and gives an unusually insightful account of life in San Francisco's Sunset district and the Potrero Hill projects during the dot-com boom of 1999-2001.)
 
'''Potrero Hill Rec Center, 23rd and Arkansas Streets.'''
 
This is the best place in the City to play pickup basketball; the excellent indoor courts were built partly with money donated by O.J. Simpson, who grew up in the neighborhood and hung out here as a kid.


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adapted from [http://www.sfgate.com/offbeat/whome.html Dr. Weirde's Guide to Weirde San Francisco]
adapted from [http://www.sfgate.com/offbeat/whome.html Dr. Weirde's Guide to Weirde San Francisco]


photos by Chris Carlsson
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'''Southerly view from back of Potrero Hill Rec Center field, over the Potrero Hill Housing Projects, Bayview/Hunter's Point in distance, beyond the freeways.'''
 
''Photos by Chris Carlsson''
 
 




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Revision as of 17:08, 26 August 2008

Pothill$pot-hill-rec-ctr-view.jpg

Potrero Hill Rec Center, 23rd and Arkansas Streets, with a view of downtown. Mid 1990s.

This is the best place in the City to play pickup basketball; the excellent indoor courts were built partly with money donated by O.J. Simpson, who grew up in the neighborhood and hung out here as a kid. (An interesting 2004 novel, Winners, by Eric Martin passes through this site too, and gives an unusually insightful account of life in San Francisco's Sunset district and the Potrero Hill projects during the dot-com boom of 1999-2001.)

Pothill$pot-hill-rec-ctr.jpg

Potrero Hill Recreation Center in the mid 1990s.

adapted from Dr. Weirde's Guide to Weirde San Francisco

Pothill-projects-with-big-southern-view1228.jpg

Southerly view from back of Potrero Hill Rec Center field, over the Potrero Hill Housing Projects, Bayview/Hunter's Point in distance, beyond the freeways.

Photos by Chris Carlsson



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