Potrero Hill Baby Boomers — Molokans
"The Hill" in "The City" held a second annual reunion on Saturday September 29, 2008.About 50 people attended the 2008 Potrero Hill Baby Boomers Reunion, San Francisco, California. 15 in the photo below are of Russian-Molokan descent.
- Lynn Susoeff
- Tom Susoeff
- Priscilla John Benassini (father: John William Popin, Sr.; mother: Nell Dimitri Evanikoff)
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- Bill Alex Goosieff (father: Alexander Alexei Goosieff; mother: Manya Fred Volkoff; brother: #6)
- Peter Alex Goosieff (father: Alexander Alexei Goosieff; mother: Manya Fred Volkoff; brother: #5)
- Linda James Loskutoff-Hjelle (father: Jack James Loskutoff; mother Mary James Popoff; husband: #10)
- Barbara Walter Fetesoff- (father: Walter Wm. Fetesoff; mother: Alice Esi Bogdanov)
- Victor Vas. Granchukoff (wife: Nadia W Loskutoff;
father: Semion Granchukoff; mother: Afanasia Penzur)
- Ken Hjelle (Norwegian descent; wife: # 7)
- Kathy O'Brien (father: Joseph Alyouis O'Brien; mother: Nellie Fred Susoeff; sister: #14)
- John Timofey Razvaliaeff (father: Timofey Andrew Razvaliaeff; mother: Stenya William Ramzoff)
- Zena Peter Browning (father: Peter S. Susoev; mother: Nadia Vasily Baholdin)
- Sarah O'Brien (father: Joseph Alyouis O'Brien; mother was Nellie Fred Susoeff; sister: #11)
- Sharon Watson-Wehrli (father: Watson; mother Gussie Michael Susoeff; grandmother Anna Efim Loskutoff; grandfather Michael James Susoeff)
- Peter John Borodin (father: John Jack Borodin; mother: Jania Pete Petrov)
Souvenir T-shirts have been produced for 2007 and 2008. The first shirt merely stated: "1st Annual Potrero Hill Babyboomers Reunion, September 29, 2007". The next shirt is more elaborate: "On the front they will say 2nd Annual Potrero Hill Babyboomers Reunion, below that we will have our zip code 94107, on the back we will be listings all the schools on the hill and also some hang outs. Guys T-shirts will be dark blue with light blue print. Girls T-shirts will be light blue with dark blue print."
The first reunion ad asks:
"Did you grow-up on
the Hill? Hangout at Jackson
Park, the Mayflower, Goat Hill
Pizza, or
other neighborhood haunts? Come to the first annual Potrero Hill Baby
Boomers Reunion! $10/$20 at door. 3 p.m. to 10 p.m., Mariposa Hunters
Point Yacht Club, 405
Terry A. Francois (formerly: China Basin Street). Information:
673.3578."
The second reunion on Saturday 29, 2008 was at the Jelly's Cafe, Pier 50, 295 Terry Francois Street (formerly: China Basin Street), $15 admission. Guys and gals T-shirts are for sale for $20. The ad is more elaborate:
"We are once again
seeking a special group of people who grew up on the “The Hill” from
the late 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s or currently living there and
frequently visited or “hung out” at the following places, Pennsylvania
Street, Jackson Park, 20th Street, Carolina Stairs, Vermont Park, 18th
Street and when old enough… the Mayflower, Goat Hill Pizza, Blooms
(Used to be Joe’s), Good Life, Mission Rock, Ramp, Dogpatch Bar, Bottom
Of The Hill, Double Play, Hamburger Nancy’s II Pirada, etc."
The
2008 reunion was saddened by the concurrent funeral of Ruby
Hazen, mother of several PHBBs.Two websites about The Hill and PHBB reunions:
- Potrero Hill Reunion.Page.tl.
Main website for Potrero Hiill Baby Boomers reunions.
- MySpace.com / Potrero Hill Baby Boomers. Photo slide shows of the historic neighborhood and reunions
- American Memories website, Library of Congress. 32 psalms recorded and 5 photos taken at the Russian Molokan Church, Potrero Hill, San Francisco on September 14, 1938, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell.
- Russian Molokan Sunday School 1938. 13 of 19 faces identified.
- Congregation
of First Russian Christian Molokan Church, 841 Carolina St., 1976,
courtesy Bob Hayes
- Hilltop Russians in San Francisco: A Record of the Portrero Hill Colony 1941 — 30 color pastel waterpaintings by Pauline Vinson with introduction by William Saroyan
- Potrero Hill Immigrants — The Russian Settlers
- San Francisco Genealogy, Potrero Hill Molokan marriages 1906-1999, by Nancy Poppin-Posey
- San Francisco's
Potrero Hill, by Peter Linenthal and Abigail Johnston —
interview with authors
Book interview Oct 5 in The San Francisco Bay Guardian News — Oct. 19-25, 2005, Vol. 40, No. 03. See Molokans in photos on pages: 54, 55, 56, 57, 73, 74, 75
- Russian Sectarian Cemetery, Colma, San Mateo County, CA Submitted by Nancy Poppin Posey, 30 May 2006
- Russian Sectarian Cemetery (Also known as: Russian Cemetery) 925 graves, photos, map.
- Russian Sectarian Cemetery Tombstone Transcriptions, Hickey and Langford Streets, Colma, California. Transcribed by Nancy Poppin Posey
- Cemetery Records - Russian Sectarian Cemetery, Colma CA. Ancestry.com. Posted by Nancy Poppin Posey, 29 Apr 2006
- Potrero Hill Archives Project on Channel 7 TV, Sept. 2007 (YouTube). Channel 7 salutes the work of the Potrero Hill Archives Project in San Francisco preserving neighborhood history since 1980. Peter Linenthal and Abrigail Johnston interviewed, photos. See more photos on Flickr
- Potrero Boosters Neighborhood Association [Serving Potrero Hill since 1926]
- Potero
Hill Festival, 2006, 2007. Held at the
neighborhood house, across from the Molokan Prayer Home
- Potrero Hill (YouTube) An Afternoon Cruise through Potrero Hill. Driver goes up the hill from SF on Rhode Island, crosses on Division to Carolina Street, and down the Hill past the Molokan Prayer Home to SF.
- Beekeeping on Potrero Hill, at the community garden (You Tube). (1) Hive inspection, (2) Opening a Hive, (3) Opening a second hive (4) Observing a beeline.
- Down Vermont Street - The Crookedest Street In San Francisco (YouTube) The crookedest street in San Francisco is not Lombard Street - most tourists and even most locals think it is but not. It's actually Vermont street in Potrero Hill. Also see a dozen videos of the "Bring Your Own Wheels" race down Vermont Street.
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