2017. The Balboa Reservoir. Photo: Amy O'Hair.

The History of the Balboa Reservoir

A series of posts.

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My sincerest thanks to Harry Bernstein for generously sharing his research on the Balboa Reservoir. Without his diligence at unearthing facts and documents, I could not possibly written these articles.

Many thanks to the others who helped me write this series of articles: Greg Gaar; David Gallagher; Andre Guillory of the Office of the Assessor-Recorder; Ken Hollenbeck; Woody LaBounty; Oanh Mai, CCSF Archivist; Natalie Mattei, Albertsons Companies; Andrew Sherman; Jesse David Wall; and other local residents and neighbors who kindly responded to my queries about their unofficial uses of the reservoir space over the decades.