Some writers of Wikipedia’s free on line encyclopedia have a great scense of reality. Who know’s how long this will stay up so I linked the site of the Marina District details and the posted the original intro:
~~~~ Marina District ~~~~
The Marina District is an affluent, picturesque neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The area is bounded to the east by Van Ness Ave, on the west by Lyon Street and the Presidio, on the south by Filbert St. The neighborhood sits on the site of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, staged after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to celebrate the reemergence of the world class city. The grounds for this world’s fair were created from a former lagoon on landfill. Aside from the Palace of Fine Arts (“POFA”), all other buildings were demolished to make an upscale residential neighborhood.
Today the neighborhood remains as popular as ever with the post-college crowd and young east coast professionals. The neighborhood even has its own breed of female, the Marina Girl, as satirized in the Cameron Diaz film The Sweetest Thing. The stereotypical Marina Girl parties hard, often rocks casual yet high end fashions including Juicy Coutoure, Seven Jeans, and Ugg boots, while never being employed in any tangible profession. The marina girl maintains her high quality of life through a series of arrangements with older gentlemen in neighboring Pacific Heights. In recent years on weekends, they tend to gravitate around the area dubbed by Herb Caen as the “Bermuda Triangle”: a collection of bars and restaurants on the corner of on the corner of Fillmore and Greenwich streets. In recent time’s this area has become known as Gavin Newsom square with a collection of Gavin Newsom-owned businesses dominating the triangle. Mayor Newsom’s Matrix-Fillmore, Plumpjack wines, Balboa Cafe, and Plumpjack Cafe are all marina staples that dominate the landscape.
During the week, the Marina Girl can be found looking for companionship at the popular Marina Safeway. When a Marina Girl turns 30, she is no longer known as a Marina Girl, but as a “Cougar”. A few places in the Marina with a high saturation of Cougars are Balboa Cafe, Cozmo’s, the California Wine Merchant, and the Marina Safeway.
Cow Hollow, Russian Hill, Pacific Heights, and the Presido bound the Marina District to the north, south, east and west. ZIP Code: 94123 Population (2000): 22,903 Housing units: 14,851 Land area: 1.0 mile (2.6 km) Water area: zero
White population: 19814 Black population: 117 American Indian population: 34 Asian population: 2189 Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander population: 21 Some other race population: 240 Two or more races population: 488
Urban population: 22903 Rural population: 0
Median age: 35.3 Average household size: 1.61 Median household income (1999): $84710