What part of San fran , Tommy! I was raised in Cow Hollow at 1900 Filbert Street - the once low income area between the Marina and Pacific Heights.
Joe Demaggio was a distant neighbor until Marylyn moved in and they moved closer to the Marina .
My street (Filbert) was the block where all the murders took place and in one particular case the old lady next door used to open her front door every evening and spend the next ten minutes yelling for "YOLLIE' so that the whole neighborhood could hear.
About ten months later someone recognized a real bad odor coming from the rear end of Yollie's car and the cops were called to investigate.
ANd sure enough there was Yollie very decomposed and smelling pretty damn bad, dead as a doornail in the trunk of this 1939 ford right in front of his front door, but Mrs Yollie kept on yelling, "Yollie" for many years thereafter.
That was the kind of place Cow Hollow was back then,but most San Franciscans today have no idea what's up when someone says "Cow Hollow'. An all of today's Demaggio boys have long forgotten where their heritage all began.
Later on when all the neighborhood kids grew up, most became gangsters and night-club owners in and around the Barbury Coast area which ain't no more the way it used to be.
San Francisco, a great city today, but way much greater way back then.
If we had'n't moved to the Sunset DIstrict when new homes built by Dolger were $12,000 - $16,000 I most likely wouuld have been on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.'ve been told that
I've been told that those $16,000 homes are now selling for $700,000 and way way up.
