The fog-swept corners of the outer avenues may not seem beholden to the passage of time. Owe it to the grey sheet overhead, or the mist in the air, or the Pacific Ocean crouched behind the dunes. At times our neighborhoods can feel timeless, like nothing has changed or will for a while.
But history happens, too, in the Outer Sunset. Storefronts come and go, buildings change hands, whole communities slowly give way to new ones. At Taraval Street and 46th Avenue, traces of history remain, almost 50 years later.
“Nathan Green, 67, retired, the owner of a small shop and residential building in the Outer Sunset District near the ocean, recently discovered that his new downstairs tenant is a local branch of the American Nazi party,” reported the San Francisco Chronicle on April 1, 1977…