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Guess Who? The Shipyard Artists' Community July 24th, 2024


By Carl Nolte, Columnist Oct 12, 2024 - San Francisco Chronicle


If you’ve lived in San Francisco for a while, you know how things change. The city changes and then changes again. Nothing ever stays the same. And sometimes it changes back to what it once was.


People think of North Beach and Telegraph Hill as the center of art and writing in San Francisco — the Beat Generation, the San Francisco Renaissance, the poets — but there was another center for the arts on Potrero Hill, both near to the rest of the city and far away.


Poets and artists once flocked to this lesser known S.F. arts community


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