Built in 1906 when “everything else in the vicinity was formed of obsolete and abandoned streetcars, imaginatively and otherwise adapted for use as clubhouses, restaurants and beach cabins,” the Moss Flats Building at 1622-1626 Great Highway is “one of the few remainders from the early development of the ocean frontage as a beach and health resort.”
With its three two-bedroom units currently rented for between $1,447 and $1,920 a month (to “elite members of [the] SF surf scene” according to our tipster), the Moss Flats building has been on the market for about a month and listed for $1,349,000.
∙ Moss Flats Building, 1626 Great Highway [noehill.com]
∙ Listing: 1622-1626 Great Highway – $1,349,000 [greathighwayflats.com]
“everything else in the vicinity was formed of obsolete and abandoned streetcars, imaginatively and otherwise adapted for use as clubhouses, restaurants and beach cabins,”
I’d love to see some photos of that. Searching on that quote above yields exactly two pages: Socketsite and noehill.com.
I did a Google Image search for “historical photos great highway san francisco”, and found some great photos. Lots of streetcars among the sand dunes, very fun to peruse.
Thanks Dan, I tried your search string (without the quotes) and got what I was looking for. Here’s a page from outsidelands.org about Carville: http://www.outsidelands.org/sw18.php
There must be all kinds of stories to tell about the buildings along the Great Highway. Here are a couple more, including one about the red brick building at 2600 Great Highway at Vicente, former home to “The Chickery” chicken restaurant: http://oceanbeachbulletin.com/2010/11/02/before-now-chicken-at-the-sea/
This is a cool old building but make no mistake it needs a very significant amount of ummmm…. restoration. It was owned by an old time SF politico John Reardon who lived there for decades. He wasn’t into keeping it up. Now his kids, who do not live there, have had it for many years since his passing, and the place has been basically maintenance free for many many years. On the beach that is a no-no. Who ever gets this baby better be prepared for that price and half again on restoring it. Also, it has not even a single parking space and no garage, and is divided like a condo and not readily convertable to a family style house.
This is a cool old building but make no mistake it needs a very significant amount of ummmm…. restoration. It was owned by an old time SF politico John Reardon who lived there for decades. He wasn’t into keeping it up. Now his kids, who do not live there, have had it for many years since his passing, and the place has been basically maintenance free for many many years. On the beach that is a no-no. Who ever gets this baby better be prepared for that price and half again on restoring it. Also, it has not even a single parking space and no garage, and is divided like a condo and not readily convertable to a family style house.
This is a cool old building but make no mistake it needs a very significant amount of ummmm…. restoration. It was owned by an old time SF politico John Reardon who lived there for decades. He wasn’t into keeping it up. Now his kids, who do not live there, have had it for many years since his passing, and the place has been basically maintenance free for many many years. On the beach that is a no-no. Who ever gets this baby better be prepared for that price and half again on restoring it. Also, it has not even a single parking space and no garage, and is divided like a condo and not readily convertable to a family style house.
No elite members of the SF surf scene in that building. Just a fat guy on the top floor who longboards occasionally.
^ a java beach cup of joe just squirted out of my nose…
If you don’t know how hard Pete has chrged this beach, then you haven’t been here very long. A post 2000 goober I presume. Go back to your twitter cubicle and tweet nore ignorant garbge.