Maps of San Francisco

San Francisco Butchery

Here’s a little historical background for last week’s meat map, via the Spatial History Project at Stanford University.

The researchers map the addresses of all the San Francisco butchers in the city’s early days, and find that as the city expands, the density of where people get their meat diminishes.

Looks like they had an abundance of real butchers back in the day. What happened between then and now to change things? Supermarkets? Bring back the neighborhood butcher shop!