Personally he was well liked by all who knew him, and noted for his dapper apparel and fastidious grooming. He loved excursions, parades, and outings. He was active in many areas of San Francisco society, especially the theater, such helping to arrange the 300th birthday celebration for Shakespeare the same year the Tiffany-Dean Tract was registered. Robert Joyce Tiffany (1820-1886) was remembered as the “Pioneer Hatter.” He came from New York in 1849 and did a bit of mining, but made his wealth selling fancy hats at his famous Eagle Hat Store, and then dealing in real estate. So who was Tiffany? Robert Joyce Tiffany, Hatter, San Francisco, Portrait collection, California Historical Society. And the junction with Valencia is the site of the City’s various new experiments in street/pedestrian infrastructure. A palate-cleanser between two car-busy streets. But most recently it has become a bikeway-the segue between San Jose Ave through the Bernal Cut and Valencia Street, for cyclists from points south like Sunnyside. The street might have remained obscure and unnoticed to me, aside from its tidy houses and their larger-than-usual street gardens.

It was part of the Precita Valley Homestead (now Bernal Heights).

Green line marks Bernal reservation with adobe house. Mapmaker seems to have been confused about placement of Old San Jose Road. Same 1864 homestead map, altered to show where later streets would go or be renamed. Valencia Street not yet cut through to Mission.

Sandwiched between the first El Camino Real-the old San Jose Road-and its latter-day replacement, Mission Street, Tiffany Avenue is a short street that cuts down the middle of a vanity homestead laid out in 1864, the Tiffany-Dean Tract.

Mad for chicken fire sunnyside