San Francisco neighborhoods are diverse and ever-changing—some of our old boroughs have even gone without a trace. Remember Carville-by-the-Sea? Of course you don't.

Once upon a time, in fin de siecle SF, there stood a bohemian community on the edge of town made entirely of abandoned rail cars. In what is present day Ocean Beach/Outer Sunset, Carville gave concrete meaning to the word outlandish, and felt as San Francisco as tiny house or #vanlife moment does today. As home to some of the city's earliest adventurists, artists, anarchists and entrepreneurs, Carville is an old school reminder of why we love this town.

Beachside Getaway

  

via Bancroft Library

If sand in your sheets is not for you, perhaps Carville would not have been ideal, but in comparison to the polluted air and dirty streets of 1910's downtown, the ocean breeze and emptiness was a welcome respite to many.