Cable Car Clothiers: Trad By The Bay

Cable Car Clothiers: Trad By The Bay

IVY STYLE — CHRISTIAN CHENSVOLD June 21, 2021 I can lay some claim to being a third-generation San Franciscan. My grandparents on both sides settled there, and my parents were raised, met and married there. I grew up an hour north, but that’s close enough for the city...
Bricks-and-Mortar Shops Survive Online Holiday Shopping

Bricks-and-Mortar Shops Survive Online Holiday Shopping

Cable Car Clothiers manager Jonathan LevinSaul Gonzalez, co-host of KQED’s “The California Report”, visited a unique shop in downtown San Francisco to talk about how small independent brick and mortar retailers in California keep up.Saul Gonzales:...
San Francisco’s Preppy Handbook By Christian Chensvold

San Francisco’s Preppy Handbook By Christian Chensvold

In the year 2000, in the torrid throes of San Francisco’s burgeoning tech industry and its ceaseless throng of newcomers in search of digital fortune, I worked for a man who was a throwback to an earlier era. Then in his late 50s, he had the lanky physique of his...