1553 Fulton St was built during the "Western Addition" expansion, when San Francisco started building into the sand dunes that were found West of Divisadero Street / Van Ness Ave, an area known in the 1800s as the "Great Sand Bank". Evidently the house was built before 1906, because it has a brick foundation, a practice that stopped after the big earthquake in 1906.

Previously the Malcolm X Unity House and Patrice Lumumba Publishers, for a while it was a halfway house and then for many years was somewhat abandoned (although may have been a drug house of some sorts?).

The city forced the owner to fix the house up, and he decided to start renting it out - that's when I moved in in 2000. During that time it becamse home to LindyBooty, which was not only the largest house party of the contemporary partnered Blues Dancing scene, but also considered to be part of the beginnings of this scene.

It also became the SF Lindy Hotel, a new "halfway house" of sorts for Lindy Hoppers and Blues dancers visiting or moving to San Francisco, and hosted more of these dancers than any other place in the world:

• Number of "guest-stays": approximately 500+
• Number of "guest-nights": approximately 2000+
• Most guests for one event: 35 @ Blues Rising 2007, 34 @ SFLX'08

(The last record is unconfirmed, let me know if anyone has hosted more people for one event - at one point the record was held by Warehouse Dan in Sacramento and FireMark in San Diego, props to them both!)