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Monterey at Joost: 1920 and Today
Congo at Monterey: 1916 and Today
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Monterey and Congo: 1939 and Today
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Monterey and Edna: 1940 and Today
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Congo and Hearst: 1916 and Today
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Monterey and Acadia: 1940 and Today
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Monterey and Baden: 1925 and Today
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Sunnyside Conservatory: 1980 and Today
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Immigrant Dreams and Long Hours: The Delicatessen at Monterey and Edna
The deli on Monterey Boulevard at Edna Street is popular with locals as well as those passing through Sunnyside on their way elsewhere. But few know it has been a deli continuously for the last 72 years, with a succession of owners. This is a story about running a local business, but also about immigrants and opportunity—and danger.
The building was constructed in 1947, part of a strip of postwar buildings that went up on previously empty lots.
The delicatessen first opened that same year, founded by two women well into their fifties, both of whom had some familiarity with restaurant work: Alma Fitch and Frances Swensson.
The deli’s first name—Vienna Delicatessen—was Frances’s choice; she was born Franziska Anzengruber in a little town in Austria, and came to San Francisco in her late teens sometime after the Quake and Fire of 1906.
“Raise Your Gladsome Voices’ this Tuesday at SF History Association meeting
Come to the meeting the SF History Association, Tuesday 29 January 2019, and hear about the first suffrage march in the US, and the Glen Park women at the heart of it.
Presentation by Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project includes 20-minute dramatic vignette ‘Raise Your Gladsome Voices’ — starring local actors as the heroes of this little-known chapter in the fight for California women’s suffrage. Details: https://sanfrancisco.carpe-diem.events/calendar/9366347-america-s-first-suffrage-march-the-glen-park-women-behind-it-at-congregation-sherith-israel/
