This Week in Noe Valley: New Happy Hour, New Mural and New Revelations

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• A local resident has started an on-demand box recycling service for just $10 to help us deal with the detritus of our collective Amazon addiction [Beyond Box]
• A new neighborhood oyster and burger Happy Hour? [chezmariussfca]
• New mural and Instagram opp outside Novy [luckeysf and instaelviss]
• Oped: Maybe someone needs to tell the SFPD to treat the Tenderloin like it’s Noe Valley [BeyondChron]
• One of the priests accused of sexually abusing children worked at St. Paul Catholic Parish and School in Noe Valley from 2006 – 2011 [ABC7]
• Rapture on Church St. [eyeofted]
• New scooter arrivals [@billgodwin]

[Photo: Halloween building via reneeak] 

This Week in Noe Valley: Dolores Park Is a Mess, Eviction at Old Fattoush Space and Other Midsummer News

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Eviction notice on the old Fattoush space [@ingerhogstrom]
• Triple shooting in broad daylight at Dolores Park [NBC]
• Neighbors worry that Dolores Park is now just cesspool of drugs and violence [SFGate]
• Noe Valley’s newest Wishing Tree at 24th and Fair Oaks [Hoodline]
• St. Paul’s dates back to the 1800s [National Catholic Register]
• Lots of Noe Valley rental buildings still aren’t seismic [SFist]
• Sheehy is in the lead for District 8 supes race fundraising [SF Chronicle]
• Or maybe Mandelman is? [48Hills]
• Cliché Noe gift shop adds a Made in SF corner [Hoodline]
• Noe Valley Wine Walk Returns August 17 [Eventbrite]
• Noe Valley has one of the best burritos and one of the best sushi spots in SF [SFist]
• The Town Square sauna pop-up returns [leftcoastsauna]

[Photo: Summer in the Town Square via Frankedsonsf]

This Week In Noe Valley: Easter To-Dos, Old Noe Valley, And Modern Sushi

News from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Here's an alternative for those missing the cancelled Noe Valley Easter Egg Hunt [SF RecPark; related: NVMPA]
• Even better - help the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence clean up Dolores Park [The Snitch]
• A 1906 view of Noe Valley (note the elevated railway in front of St Paul's) [@SF_Historian; more: BurritoJustice]
• Russian Roulette at Tataki South [Refinery29]
• And Saru Sushi in pretty photos [EatsPorkJew]

[Photo: knucklesamwick]

This Week In Noe Valley: Phone Grabbing, Foodie Events, And Scott Wiener Is Winning

News from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• J-Church phone grab. Again. No seriously - AGAIN. Put your phone away. [Mission Local]
• Bingo Night at St Paul's [SFGate]
• How to find adventure in San Francisco: "Throw a little glitter on it, Honey!" [DesignStudio]
• More on how Caskhouse ended up in Noe Valley [Gorilla Analytics]
• Scott Wiener makes the far left mad. Whatever. [7x7]
• Noe Valley Bakery makes a mean birthday cake [Red Tricycle]
• Omnivore Book's March foodie events [Omnivore Books]
• Omnivore's Celia Sack also knows a thing or two (or three) about crab [Edible SF]
• Average January single family home sold for nearly $2M [Downing & Co]
• And yet...words fail. Probably "good bones," but the last three photos... [James Maxwell via Pac Union]

[Photo: Tamar Hurwitz]

Photos: St. Paul's Scaffolding

Shannon sent the above picture with this comment: My 6-year-old son and I watched the HUGE crane adding the last bits of scaffolding to St. Paul's Church this morning. We both agreed that there is no way we would ever go up there with those workers!

That much scaffolding takes a while to set up - we took this photo August 16th:


FYI: They're repairing the steeples. If you'd like to contribute there is a benefit dinner/auction on November 14th.

Photos: St. Paul's Church

The oldest (and largest) church in Noe Valley is St Paul Church at 29th and Church Streets. Commissioned in 1876, construction on the Gothic stone structure began in 1897 and was dedicated in 1911. Construction was aided by parishioners:

Father Michael D. Connolly, then pastor, is said to have had every able person in the parish, including himself, at work on the project. Reports say many were called and chosen, including Saturday morning religious education students who, according to the parish centennial history, "tended to end up at the Thirtieth and Castro Streets quarry hauling rocks down to the church."

After the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, the San Francisco archdiocese deemed the building too costly to upgrade and decided to sell the property. Once again, parishioners got the job done - they raised the money themselves. St. Paul's Church closed for seismic retrofitting for much of 2000, but managed to reopen in time for Christmas Eve Mass.

St. Paul's Church was also the set for 1992's Sister Act with Whoopi Goldberg.

Thanks, once again, to bats1234 for the great photo (and inspiration for the brief history).

[Flikr: bats1234]
[Source: St. Paul's Church]
[Source: Bill Yenne: San Francisco's Noe Valley]