121 Amazon Avenue
Excelsior · San Francisco, CA 94112
A small single-storey house on an Excelsior lot, one of the city's ordinary interwar dwellings. A published guide to notable residences records it as Jerry Garcia's first home, until 1947.
An empty permit record
The Department of Building Inspection dataset reaches back to the mid-1970s and returns nothing for this address — no roofs, no alterations, no street-space filings. That is an absence of records, not evidence that nothing was done. With no permits and no historic evaluation, the assessor's roll is the whole of the public record here.
Two Garcia addresses
The guide that records Garcia here until 1947 places the household at 87 Harrington Street for the five years after, with his grandparents. The two claims fit together, but neither has been traced here to a primary record.
Not yet documented: the architect, builder and original permit, and any primary-source confirmation of the Garcia residency or the year it ended. Know any of it? Tell us — just describe it in plain words.