The Tenderloin: A People’s History of SF’s Most Notorious Neighborhood

“Any city that doesn’t have a Tenderloin isn’t a city at all” – Herb Caen, longtime San Francisco Chronicle columnist. Few San Francisco neighborhoods have had more ups and downs than the 33-block area still called “The Tenderloin”—a name which derives from the late 19th century police practice of shaking down local restaurants and butcher [...]