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...fare is just 75 cents, but the ride could be worth your life. The public- transit buses that wind through southeast San Francisco have come to be known as the "Savage Lines." In the tough, low-income areas of Bayview/ Hunters Point, Visitacion Valley and Potrero Hill, coaches have been battered with rocks, bottles, lead pipes and gunfire. Passengers and drivers have been beaten and robbed by gangs of teenagers. Since December more than 70 bus attacks have been reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Savage Ride: Buses in a crack zone | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...original name was the Livestock Pavilion of the No. 1-A District Agricultural Association. But a Depression-days newsman wrote bitterly: "While people are being evicted from their homes and are walking the streets, a palace for cows is being built in Visitacion Valley." Cow Palace it has been, ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: On to the Cow Palace | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

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