Lilibet
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- Upper Arlington, Ohio
I grew up in San Rafael, CA, one of the suburbs just north of San Francisco. The city has a mix of neighborhoods, from the Victorian era up to the typical 1960s developments. (Some of those 1960s houses, build by Joseph Eichler, are highly desirable now but when we were growing up they were considered pretty junky.)
I think the main reason why the area hasn't been completely modernized is because there is a very limited amount of space in which to build, so the options were either to tear down and start over or to keep something in good repair. Certainly a lot of tearing-down went on, but in general the old homes and commercial buildings are still around. A few of the main streets of the little towns around there still have their Art Deco movie theaters, although some were badly damaged in the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 and either were torn down as a result or were repurposed during their repair.
I think the main reason why the area hasn't been completely modernized is because there is a very limited amount of space in which to build, so the options were either to tear down and start over or to keep something in good repair. Certainly a lot of tearing-down went on, but in general the old homes and commercial buildings are still around. A few of the main streets of the little towns around there still have their Art Deco movie theaters, although some were badly damaged in the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 and either were torn down as a result or were repurposed during their repair.