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  • Image of Bayview \ Hunters Point
  • Image of Bayview \ Hunters Point

When San Francisco was the Wild West, slaughterhouses, meat packers, tanneries and saddle shops dominated the southeastern sector, all the way up to Townsend Street, eventually concentrating around Third and Evans in the Bay View Hunters Point District of San Francisco. This whole area was known as Butchertown.