Beyond the Fog: San Francisco’s Clement Street

San Francisco is a preservation-minded city, but not all parts of the city are getting the same amount of preservation love. Alum Andrea Dumovich Heywood talks with us about her research into Clement Street, a diverse neighborhood in the city’s Inner Richmond area, that is considered the city’s second Chinatown. You’ll hear about what makes this neighborhood vibrant, the few places that have been landmarked, and the case for designating some of the area’s intangible heritage.

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Inner and Outer Richmond District Boundaries. Source: “Neighborhood Groups Map,” City and County of San Francisco Planning Department.
Clement Street Looking East from 9th Avenue, 1927. Source: San Francisco History Center, SFPL.
Clement Street Between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, 1992. Source: San Francisco History Center, SFPL.
1960 Chinese Population in San Francisco. The left grey area is the Inner Richmond and Clement Street. The right area is Chinatown. Source: Paul Ong, Chahandara Pech and Alycia Cheng, “Ethnic/Racial Populations,” UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge.
Clement Street Parade, 1953. Cub Scout Pack 58, Drum and Bugle Corps. Source: San Francisco History Center, SFPL.
The Plough and the Stars. Photo by A. Heywood.
Green Apple Books. Photo by A. Heywood.

Andrea Dumovich Heywood	Andrea Dumovich Heywood received her Bachelor’s in English Literature and Sustainable Design at UC Berkeley in 2011, and her Master’s in Heritage Conservation at USC in 2018. She currently works as Associate Planner for the City of Claremont.
Willa Seidenberg	Our producer Willa Seidenberg recently interviewed Andrea. Not only is she a long-time professor of radio journalism for the USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, but she is also earning her Master’s degree in Heritage Conservation.