What is the castro District like?
The Castro District is a lovely, quiet, upper-middle class residential neighborhood, but near-by are a few blocks of really interesting commercial shops, restaurants, etc… Further info and reading on Castro: Extract of an excellent article from SFGate.com:”If only the Mexican land barons and European homesteaders who built the Castro district could see it — and the price of its real estate — today. What was once dairy farms and dirt roads is now one of the city’s most vibrant and cohesive communities, saturated with stylish shops and bars so popular that patrons spill out onto the street. Irish, German, and Scandinavian immigrants came to the outskirts of San Francisco in search of cheap land, which became bona fide suburbs after 1887 when the Market Street Cable Railway linked Eureka Valley, as it was then called, with the rest of the city. Thanks to these homesteaders, who built large, handsome Victorian houses for their large families, today’s residents have someplace to pour th
The Castro District is a lovely, quiet, upper-middle class residential neighborhood, but near-by are a few blocks of really interesting commercial shops, restaurants, etc… Further info and reading on Castro: Extract of an excellent article from SFGate.com:”If only the Mexican land barons and European homesteaders who built the Castro district could see it — and the price of its real estate — today. What was once dairy farms and dirt roads is now one of the city’s most vibrant and cohesive communities, saturated with stylish shops and bars so popular that patrons spill out onto the street. Irish, German, and Scandinavian immigrants came to the outskirts of San Francisco in search of cheap land, which became bona fide suburbs after 1887 when the Market Street Cable Railway linked Eureka Valley, as it was then called, with the rest of the city.
