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"I am OMI" - Places

However great the cultural, racial, generational, educational or socioeconomic divides between people in the OMI, there will always be the shared heritage of the land.

There are places in the OMI's living memory---the El Rey Theater, the "Red Roof", and Homewood Terrace---and those that photographs and old articles carry to the present. Here we will bring the tales of racetracks and dogtracks, of "Lakeview" and the Brooks home, of the old firehouse and the Broad Street barbers.

Tell us your memories of the businesses, churches, schools and streets of the OMI on our message board.

Image: 1911 map of the Ingleside (then called Lakeview). Courtesy of Greg Gaar.

Contribute your own stories about the OMI!

This project is made possible by a grant from the CALIFORNIA COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES with generous support from the San Francisco Foundation, as part of the Council's statewide California Stories Initiative. The COUNCIL is an independent non-profit organization and a state affiliate of the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES. For more information on the Council and the California Stories Initiative, visit www.californiastories.org.

Page launched 4 July 2003; Updated 10 March 2004.

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  Farms, Fire and Forest

  Sutro's ownership of the old Rancho San Miguel ( Jan 1, 2005)
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  Streetwise: Urbano's Racetrack

  Urbano Drive is an oval laid exactly along the lines of the old Ingleside Racetrack, the last venue for horse racing in San Francisco. ( Jan 1, 2005)
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  The Talking Cat of the Ingleside District

  There was also some appeal in whatever mischief one could get into while most adults were still sleeping soundly. ( Jan 1, 2006)
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  Streetwise: A Boxer's Death

  Alex Gdovin died from a punch to the chest that stopped his heart in a boxing match. ( Jan 1, 2006)
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  Jockey House: 280 Byxbee Avenue

  The Last Remnant of The Ingleside Racetrack? ( Jan 1, 2006)
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  Ingleside Terraces Sundial

  The story of this mysterious monolith ( Jan 1, 2006)
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  Streetwise: The Burned Cross

  Patti Poole was six years old at the time, and stayed home from school while her parents talked to reporters and defended the people of Ingleside Terraces. ( Jan 1, 2006)
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  Streetwise: Guns and Golf

  The 1859 duel between Broderick and Terry at Lake Merced. ( Jan 1, 2006)
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  Niantic Street Shacks

  Niantic Street is a tiny dead-end road trapped between Alemany Boulevard and the 280 freeway. ( Jan 1, 2006)
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  History of Ocean View

  Ocean View was a fine station and a community quickly built up around what is now the intersection of Alemany, Sagamore, Plymouth and Sickles. ( Jan 1, 2006)

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