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"Julian Macassey" <jul...@tele.com> wrote

> Normally, when a part of town starts sporting dirty book
> shops, thrift stores, tattoo parlours and pawn shops, the
> property values have dropped and that part of town falls off the
> map.

But this really wasn't the case in Hayward.  The downtown area was called 
"the waterfront" by the cops because it has always had that waterfront kind 
of feel to it.  The pawn shops have been there for 60+ years, the Turf Club 
(gay bar) for at least 50, the porn store for 40-45 years, and as far as 
thrift shopw I don't remember many downtown.  Those shops were mixed in with 
other mom'n'pop businesses which were thriving.

In that neighborhood is Buffalo Bill's, America's first brewpub licensed 
since Prohibition, Rubiolo wedding photography, several upscale restaurants, 
diners, a vacuum cleaner store, etc.  The neighborhood was never rundown in 
any sense of the word.

It's just that the town fathers hated the fact that the main junction in 
town, A and Mission, had "unsavory" businesses.  Now, they actually paid the 
Turf Club to move a couple blocks away, but they put some really odd 
restrictions on them.  For instance, they cannot fly the rainbow flag or a 
rainbow banner anywhere on the property that is visible from the street(!) 
Yes, this is true.  I confirmed it with the bar's owner.  This whole thing 
is fascinating since the Turf Club has the nicest indoor decor and the best 
outdoor patio of any of the downtown businesses.

Hayward is a weird place because it's always been a "waterfront" kind of 
place, but never rundown.  Now, there are tract neighborhoods such as 
Fairway Park, about 5 miles south of downtown, built by legendary builder 
Oliver Rousseau, which is actually quite rundown today.  There is other 
postwar housing that was not very well built.  And the nearby strip malls 
have all suffered as well.  Hayward was poorly planned, not at all like 
nearby San Lorenzo (built by David Bohannon, and the model for Levittown) 
also in the postwar period.  Those homes were very well-built, and thus the 
neighborhoods have remained very nice.  They haven't suffered the strip mall 
blight, either.

But on the other hand, the Hayward hills sport some of the most luxurious 
homes you'd want to see.  And Hayward has always prided itself on incredibly 
nice parks.


> Briefly, they replace the gay bar with a Hooters and the
> diner with an Olive Garden. Not really an improvement.

Few things pleased me more than the SF Hooters going out of business. 
Hopefully the riff-raff they attracted went with it.