Cole Valley is a small neighborhood in San Francisco. Its boundaries are usually considered to be Stanyan Street and the Sutro Forest to the west, Tank Hill to the south, Clayton Street to the east, and Waller Street to the north. The downtown San Francisco skyline, looking east from the central part of the city. ...
It is very close to Haight-Ashbury, and is sometimes considered a sub-area of that district. Categories: US geography stubs | San Francisco neighborhoods ...
Cole Valley grew up around the streetcar stop at the entrance to the Sunset Tunnel at the intersection of Carl and Cole Streets. That intersection is still the center of the neighborhood's small business district, and the N Judah light rail line still stops there. The Sunset Tunnel is a tunnel in San Francisco, California, USA that is used by the N Judah Muni Metro line. ... The N Judah is a Muni Metro line in San Francisco, California operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway. ...
ColeValley recently had its first annual "Drinking Progressive." An Evite was sent out to a few hundred of the neighborhood's younger/hipper residents, and the idea is that we all spend an hour or so at a house in the neighborhood drinking its "theme drink" before moving on to the next house together.
I looked down the street at the shoppers in front of Cole Hardware and the wine place, wondering what their impression was of this now-horde of 100 or so people in their 20's, stumbling down the street in a drunken moving party.
ColeValley is not about some snob's fantasy of what an evening could be, it's about the people who work everyday to make it a healthy, viable community.