Volume XL, No. 5 June 2016 Our 40th Year THE NOE VALLEY VOICE First Woman in The Editor’s Seat Trailblazer at the SF Chronicle By Matthew S. Bajko t one point in time, Audrey Cooper Awanted to be named a U.S. Supreme Court justice. It was largely due to her idolizing the court's first female justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, the only woman she knew of who held a position of power. Then the realization she would first need to graduate from law school set in, and Cooper turned her career aspirations toward journalism. In 1999 she graduated magna cum laude from Boston Univer- CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 It Bobbles the Mind. Noe Valley resident Audrey Cooper has a fondness for San Francisco Giants bobbleheads as well as a penchant for investigative journalism. Photo by Beverly Tharp The State of the Economy for Noe Retail New Stops. Muni mapped a more efficient High Rents and Online Shopping The woman returned to the 24th Street pathway for the 35-Eureka bus. It now goes Put the Squeeze on Local Merchants shop in Noe Valley and asked Caner if she Photo by Pamela Gerard could match the price of an identical dress to Glen Park BART. By Tim Simmers online. hen store manager Inci Caner no- “It’s very frustrating,” sighed Caner, The Wheels on Wticed a woman photographing a who’s up against a cultural change she dress in her Rabat clothing boutique re- The Bus Arrive cently, she sensed what was next. CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 More Often 35-Eureka Route Changes By Olivia Starr n April 23 of this year, the 35- O Eureka—a community bus line neg- lected for decades and once threatened al- together—finally got some traction. The Time Passages. This hallway in Hank San Francisco Municipal Transportation Dunlop’s 23rd Street Victorian exudes a Agency made two major service im- warm and inviting richness. provements on the line, which runs north- Photo by Najib Joe Hakim south on Eureka and Diamond streets through Noe Valley. The first was to ex- CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 Surrounded by History Local Mom Lives What It’s Like to Live in a For LEGOs Noe Valley Victorian Bricks 4 Kidz Franchise a Hit By Richard May With Schools an Francisco is famous for its Victo- By Heather World Srian architecture, and Noe Valley is well-known as one of its Victorian neigh- hree years ago, around the time her borhoods. There are bus tours and walk- Ttoddler started playing with LEGOs, ing tours galore of our neighborhood and Upper Noe resident Kim Nguyen-Ehren- others throughout the city, especially reich had an epiphany: maybe the popu- Alamo Square with its “Painted Ladies.” lar toy could lay the foundation for her But Victorian buildings—built during own future. and after the reign of Queen Victoria, A scientist at a medical device firm for from 1837 to 1901—are disappearing, nine years, Nguyen-Ehrenreich had long and have been since they stopped making dreamed of teaching science to children, them. especially to disadvantaged youth. The Great Fire of 1906—after the “That’s my passion—to provide these Great Earthquake of the same year—was kids with the different opportunities that the first great destroyer. The next great Working More for Less. Dona Taylor of When Modern Was looks relaxed in this photo CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 but confesses to a nervousness about the future for Noe Valley retail. 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