Fourth Barber Reunion -- Part 1

We held our 4^th Barber Family Reunion in San Francisco.  Three families traveled there from Tennessee (one of them driving there), two families traveled from Utah, and Troy and Dan live in San Francisco.  They played host and helped all of us to not get lost, find the best places to eat, etc. and they helped us make the very most of this reunion.  Thank you Troy and Dan. 

For me, the very houses that we stayed in were what made this reunion fun and unique. We actually rented three houses, but two were originally one house. The houses were located on Broderick Street, about five blocks from Golden Gate Park and were built in the late 1800’s.  They were FANTASTIC!!!  So Part I of the reunion report will be dedicated to the houses we stayed in and the street we lived on for our five day reunion.  Each unit had a full modern kitchen, living room, dining room, at least four bedrooms that would sleep 10 and three bathrooms.  Each unit also had several big screen TVs and its own laundry room.

The two combined houses had four levels with side by side entry doors.  The lower two floors were called the Broderick Royale and the upper two floors were called the Broderick Victorian.   The Broderick Royale was the main gathering place where we met each night for games and visiting.  Sharlene and Russ stayed in the bedroom on the main floor of the Broderick Royal, with Allie in a separate alcove sleeping couch and Joel and Jenica and six boys on the lower floor.  Brad and Susan and their boys and Lori and Scott slept on the main level of the Broderick Victorian, with all the girls (except Allie) sleeping in the two bedrooms on the upper level.  This was a very unique level that included a turret room off one of the bedrooms that had a great view of the city.

The third house was about three blocks down Broderick and was called the Nopa Place.  Lisa and David and Julie and Allen slept in the two bedrooms on its main level and five boys stayed in the two bedrooms downstairs.  It was the more modern of the three houses.  We loved the location and the kids found plenty to do inside the homes. Many nooks and crannies to explore.

Our Broderick Victorian House built in 1885

Brad, Susan, Andrew, Sam

Joel, Russ, and Sharlene
By the front doors to Broderick

                                                                                       

                                                             Claire at the end of hall

Sydney and Emma in the turret room

Dining Room

Living Room

Other half of Living Room

Other end of the hall looking towards front door

Our Kitchen

  Some of our bedrooms

 

 On the street where we lived.................

       

            This home was just down the street, where some stayed

Nopa House - Beige home in the center

Nopa Place Living Room

One of the bedrooms

The boys' suite

Kitchen in Nopa House

Broderick House Patio Garden- View from 3rd Floor

Troy and Dan designed our Reunion T-shirts

It's a caricature of all 33 of us in front of the

Painted Ladies at Alamo Square -- remember the TV

Show "Full House"