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EVERY KEEPER, EVERY BLOCK · UPDATED EVERY SATURDAY

63 KEEPERS,
ONE CITY.

Every saturday letter pinned to a place. Numbered in the order they were published. Click any pin to read the story. The map is a working archive of the city, neighborhood by neighborhood.

SAN FRANCISCO EAST BAY PENINSULA BAY OCEAN 1 №1 · The Ocean Beach lifeguard who has pulled 41 people out of the rip current and lost two · Outer Sunset 2 №2 · The SFFD mechanic who has kept Engine 3 running since 1989 and slept in the bay twice · Tenderloin 3 №3 · The Mission pipe organ tuner who climbs inside a 1924 organ once a year, and is the only person who will · Mission 4 №4 · The Hayes Valley violin teacher whose student of 23 years still comes weekly · Hayes Valley 5 №5 · The 67-year-old man who has stood at the SF General intersection in a yellow vest for 11 years · Mission 6 №6 · The Tenderloin night dog rescuer, 412 dogs rehomed in 9 years · Tenderloin 7 №7 · The retired meteorologist who blogs the fog every morning · Twin Peaks 8 №8 · The Sunset boba shop owner who teaches free ESL on Sundays · Sunset 9 №9 · The North Beach jazz pianist who has played the same Tuesday night for 41 years · North Beach 10 №10 · The Mission donut shop the same Greek family has run for four generations · Mission 11 №11 · The Excelsior seamstress who sews every barong tagalog in the Filipino community · Excelsior 12 №12 · The Castro drag mother who has raised 40+ daughters since 1989 · Castro 13 №13 · The Marina rope splicer who has 8 fingers and 41 years of work on the Wharf · Marina 14 №14 · The Bayview boxing coach who runs a free Saturday gym, 22 years, three pros · Bayview 15 №15 · The last Russian banya in San Francisco, 81-year-old keeper, still open six nights a week · Richmond 16 №16 · The Berkeley bookstore clerk who knows where every used book is by memory · Berkeley 17 №17 · The Mission mariachi trumpet player on Friday nights, three venues, since 1988 · Mission 18 №18 · The Visitacion Valley mechanic who fixes congregants' cars in the church parking lot, for free · Visitacion Valley 19 №19 · The Castro AIDS memorial garden keeper, 28 years alone · Castro 20 №20 · The Pacifica board shaper with an 18-month waitlist · Pacifica 21 №21 · The Oakland Chinatown lion dance teacher whose students' grandparents he taught · Oakland 22 №22 · The Glen Park pizza dough mixer who has used the same recipe since 1971 · Glen Park 23 №23 · The 49-Van Ness rider who leaves a typed haiku on the driver's seat · Citywide 24 №24 · The Mission piñata maker, 78 years old, who has made one for every birthday on his block since 1979 · Mission 25 №25 · The Outer Sunset bookstore that opens at midnight · Sunset 26 №26 · The Coit Tower elevator operator who knows every tourist by accent · Telegraph Hill 27 №27 · The 16th & Mission BART cellist, blind, 31 years · Mission 28 №28 · The Excelsior tamale woman who feeds the school cafeteria staff · Excelsior 29 №29 · The Marina dog walker who can tell when each dog is sick before the owner can · Marina 30 №30 · The North Beach widow who feeds every cat on Greenwich Street · North Beach 31 №31 · The Sunnyside man who has lined the bocce court at 6 a.m. for 27 years · Sunnyside 32 №32 · The Hunters Point welder, third generation, who keeps her grandfather's torch · Hunters Point 33 №33 · The Outer Richmond memorial card printer almost every Chinese funeral goes through · Richmond 34 №34 · The Tenderloin dentist who works Wednesday nights for free · Tenderloin 35 №35 · The Chinatown grandmother who has been at every San Francisco protest since 1973 · Chinatown 36 №36 · The MUNI driver who knows her regulars by their breathing · Citywide 37 №37 · The Bernal Heights piano teacher whose first students now bring their own kids · Bernal Heights 38 №38 · The Excelsior woman who writes letters for the elderly who can't write English · Excelsior 39 №39 · The Geary fishmonger who has cleaned 1.4 million fish · Inner Richmond 40 №40 · The Chinatown locksmith who keeps a key for every grandmother on his block · Chinatown 41 №41 · The Bayview seed library where every seed is free · Bayview 42 №42 · The Castro record shop that hosts a 30-year poker game on Friday nights · Castro 43 №43 · What happens to your trash after you bin it · Sunset 44 №44 · The Pacific Heights block where every house has a piano · Pacific Heights 45 №45 · The BART conductor who has seen the same passenger every weekday for nine years · Citywide 46 №46 · The Mission community kitchen where everyone eats Wednesday at 3 p.m. · Mission 47 №47 · The Outer Sunset photographer who documented every shop owner since 2012 · Sunset 48 №48 · The Daly City pho shop run by a 19-year-old after her father died · Daly City 49 №49 · The Tenderloin barbershop that became a youth program · Tenderloin 50 №50 · The Outer Richmond Russian bakery passing the recipe to its third owner · Richmond 51 №51 · The Sunset surf school for kids who can't swim · Sunset 52 №52 · The Hayward Driveway Skate Park · Hayward 53 №53 · The 96-Year-Old Skateboarder of Pacifica · Pacifica 54 №54 · The Oakland Roller-Skating Pastor · Oakland 55 №55 · The 6 a.m. tai chi circle by Lake Merritt · Oakland 56 №56 · The Mission's Last Mariachi Tailor · Mission 57 №57 · The last Korean tofu house on Geary Street · San Francisco 58 №58 · Rose Akiyama Throws Forty Bowls a Week. She Will Not Throw Forty-One. · Dogpatch 59 №59 · Marcus the Locksmith Who Will Not Open Your Apartment Without ID · Inner Richmond 60 №60 · The Tutor Room at 826 Valencia That Has Been Open Since 2002 · Mission 61 №61 · Hand & Foot Tailoring and the Cantonese Hem Rule · Outer Sunset 62 №62 · Olive Branch Roasters and the Two-Lot Theory of Coffee · Bernal Heights 63 №63 · Zareen's Opens a Fourth Kitchen · Sunnyvale

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