Borden Dairy

Unfinished History

Milk boys in a bas relief sculpture on the Borden Dairy building on Potrero Avenue, 1973.

Photo: Max Kirkeberg Collection, diva.sfsu.edu

December 1955, dairy at right where La Raza Park is now.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp32.2352

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map 1950, showing the site of the Borden Dairy on Potrero Avenue near (then-)Army Street.

Map: historicalinfo.com via San Francisco Public Library

Demolition of Borden Dairy buildings along Potrero Avenue, 1973.

Photo: Max Kirkeberg Collection, diva.sfsu.edu

Original door at Borden Dairy.

Photo: Max Kirkeberg Collection, diva.sfsu.edu

Northerly view from Peralta and Holladay on Bernal Heights, demolition of Borden Dairy underway, 1973, future site of The Farm.

Photo: Max Kirkeberg Collection, diva.sfsu.edu