The Blue House: Inside Our Second Banana Republic

Blue house at 98 Cragmont, near the corner of Quintara, San Francisco, October 9, 2026. Photo by author.

Am I the only one who wondered, what is going on inside the blue house? I was only out taking a early morning walk in the neighborhood.

Could it be the second coming of the Banana Republic, the street corner where the original Banana Republic was peeled down unmercifully in order replace the original?

Yes and no, I reasoned: it’s early bite noir here in the Inner Sunset where the whole banana has been reduced to the banana peel left somewhere on the back porch of the federal government…

Government no longer overreaches; instead, government underachieves and leaves a big mess of unpaid bills behind.

I like the blue house, I could live in it, knowing it has panoramic views of the city.