There’s a nice little write-up by Michelle Richmond on SF Gate about the “ticky tacky” Daly City neighborhood of Westlake, which is where I grew up and where Thom and I live now: “Not So Ticky Tacky: Westlake’s Unassuming Architectural Gems.” It also mentions our friend Rob Keil’s excellent book on the subject, Little Boxes: The Architecture of a Classic Midcentury Suburb.
Related: My blog post from May 2006, just before we moved back to my childhood home in Westlake; and a San Francisco Chronicle article from February 2007 in which I talk about moving back.