![]() ![]() "We are ready to grow."Įven the dump has changed. "The development they are talking about would be gigantic," Epps said. "We went from good to bad to ugly and back to good," Epps said.Īmong the changes: Apartment houses on the north end of the neighborhood, a big new town house development at Candlestick Cove, and the biggest of all is in the planning stage - a new neighborhood just over Bayshore Hill where Candlestick Park now stands. So Little Hollywood is no stranger to change. However, Levi's are now made overseas, Ghirardelli moved to the East Bay and Schlage closed in 1999. ![]() "Schlage Lock was one of those famous San Francisco names, like Levi's and Ghirardelli Chocolate," Epps said. There were good jobs in the area back then: the now-vanished repair shops the roundhouse and switching yard of the Southern Pacific Railroad, just over the county line the vast Schlage Lock complex on Bayshore, just inside San Francisco's city limits. The first houses went up in the early 1920s - Craftsman houses in what was called the Bayshore Tract - "where land and water meet," a reference to nearby Candlestick Cove. Visitacion Valley is an older neighborhood, but Little Hollywood is fairly new. They enjoy talking about the past and worked on a book about nearby Visitacion Valley, just across busy Bayshore Boulevard. "And it's very family-centric."Įpps and Morine are among the area's activists. "Every house on the street I'm on is different," Morine said. The rest are a mix - African American, white, Filipino. Nearly two-thirds of the residents are Asian, mostly Chinese. The place is so small that residents recognize all the cars parked on the block if a strange car shows up, they know.īut it's a small town with a San Francisco flavor. ![]() "You get to know your neighbors," he said. Morine is a native San Franciscan who grew up in the Bayview and likes Little Hollywood for its small-town feeling. "It's a local legend," said Russel Morine, who has lived in Little Hollywood for 15 years. The house has a grand name - Casa Bahia Loma- but no one can tell if the stories are true. It is called Little Hollywood because it was built in the late '20s and early '30s, and many of the houses look like they belong in Southern California - the Hollywood Hills in particular.Īnd there are also rumors that Mae West, one of the real Hollywood's blond bombshells, used to have a secret hideaway in a Southern California-style house that stands at Blanken and Tocoloma avenues. ![]() "But it's a great little pocket, a well-kept secret." "We've been kind of left off the map," said Epps. Houses rarely come on the market, and when they do they run in the middle $600,000 range. It is a quiet neighborhood, a family neighborhood, a blue-collar district, and affordable - at least by San Francisco standards. A place for familiesīut Epps and others in the area are quick to point out that Little Hollywood is no dump. "The dump is our neighbor forever," said Edie Epps, a neighborhood historian. The south end of the neighborhood is the city's recycling facility - the city dump. With the cooperation of Janieck, a singer-songwriter from the Netherlands, who recently collaborated with Lost Frequencies, is also bearing its fruits.It's shaped like a piece of pie, and the short end is the triangle where Bayshore Boulevard passes under the freeway. The philosophy of the song connects straight to the mindset of the Berlin based DJ and producer, who also, as usual, about to play over 100 shows around the world in 2017. The composition details a lifestyle à la Hollywood with a man finding himself in his own cosmos while getting notably cast in stone. 1 in Germany) Frans Zimmer is back with another meaningful track. With lyrics that read, “we’re living in our own little Hollywood, we’re washed up stars, everything’s gon’ be good”,” who would’ve expected any differently?Īfter last year’s platinum & gold singles “Please Tell Rosie” & “Bad Ideas” (Airplay No. The official video for the single Little Hollywood by Alle Farben & Janieck! Stream or buy the song on Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Deezer, and Amazon:Įcho winner & 1Live Krone-nominated artist, Alle Farben, who has sold over 1.5 million records in the last three years and maintained a spot in the German Airplay Charts for 103 weeks, delivers his new hit single “Little Hollywood” right in time for this spring and summer season. ![]()
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