Fidelity National Title Company - CENTURY 21 Baldini Realty

THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT
Thousands and thousands of hard shoes hitting hard
sidewalks, moving, moving, always moving, efficiently
moving, effectively moving, glancing at watches and
passersby, nice eye wear, nice bag, a sea of suits,
reflections in glass canyons, glimpses of bay and
bridge, bike messengers, cable cars, taxis ,
cappuccino, newspaper, shoe shine and flower stands
it’s already 5 p.m. Some transplanted New Yorkers
say they find the Financial District both comforting and
familiar, as if they’re not camping out after all. The
Financial District’s gray glassy towers are bordered
by
Washington, Market and Montgomery Streets and the
bay. Times have changed; this is now where San
Francisco gets down to business: insurance, banking,
oil, power, telecommunications and engineering. On
Columbus Avenue, there’s the iconic quartz-aggregate
Transamerica Pyramid, and on California Street, the
dark granite Bank of America World Headquarters.
These monuments leave no doubt as to where the
money is.
FOREST HILL
Forest Hill is another one of those tucked away secret
parts of San Francisco that tourists and even locals
usually don’t see unless they’re visiting someone who
lives there. People make it up to Twin Peaks, but they
rarely take notice of Forest Hill nestled on the other
View of the San Francisco Financial District
from Montgomery Street
side. Since Forest Hill is strictly residential, it’s not much of a draw for visitors. But if you’re into seeing
different parts of San Francisco, walk down the Grand Pacheco Stairway (which some say is the grandest
and most elegant stairway in the city) from Castenada Avenue to Magellan. The residents of Forest Hill
are primarily upper middle class, in part because the houses in the neighborhood are large and
prohibitively expensive for most people.
THE HAIGHT
There are dozens of bars and record shops filled with Jersey girls, Berkeley grads, and environmentally
correct slackers. Rehab centers and outrageous clothing boutiques also color the main drag of Haight
Street from Masonic to Stanyan, where the homeless and other tribes camp out in the lobby of Golden
Gate Park. The intersection of Haight and Ashbury Streets, formerly referred to as Hashbury, was the
gathering lace for Deadheads who came to pay tribute to Jerry Garcia when he died in 1995. Many of
these aimless gypsies remain on this famous corner, playing guitars, stringing colored beads and studying
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