Posted in Castro Memoires

Looking for Mama: The search for Kathryn Forbes’ childhood home

“For as long as I could remember, the small cottage on Castro Street had been home.” So begins Kathryn Forbes’ 1943 fictionalized memoir Mama’s Bank…

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Posted in Castro Historical Collections

Castro Street, then and now

Roy McKenzie has a fantastic article on Hoodline showing the Castro as it used to look in the early 1900s (back when the neighborhood was still…

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