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1980s: O’Donoghue’s, an Irish pub on Monterey Boulevard

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Recently the building at 714-716 Monterey Blvd was put on the market. It’s a good moment to recall one tenant of the commercial space there, O’Donoghue’s Pub. Opened in 1986, it closed about 2000, and was run by Bridget and Patrick O’Donoghue. [Update 2020: The building sold to a new owner and is being used as a private residence.]

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2018. 716 Monterey Blvd. Built in 1938. Photo: Amy O’Hair

The bar was featured in the San Francisco Examiner the week after it opened. Continue reading “1980s: O’Donoghue’s, an Irish pub on Monterey Boulevard” →

Sunnyside’s First Restaurant

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Photo: Greg Gaar OpenSFHistory.org

One of our oldest shop-fronts recently went on sale [2015], which seemed a good occasion to look into its history. It seems to have been the first proper restaurant in the neighborhood. John Kaiser, a German immigrant, had it built in 1892, making it one of the earliest buildings on the block. After a life working on the cable cars on Nob Hill, he came to Sunnyside with his wife and grown kids at the age of sixty, to run his own restaurant.

211 Sunnyside Avenue (now 219 Monterey Blvd). Photo: Amy O'Hair
2015. 211 Sunnyside Avenue (now 219 Monterey Blvd). Photo: Amy O’Hair.

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