All these decades later, Ben Wong’s mouth still creeps into a smile as he tells the story about Willie Mays moving into his Presidio Heights neighborhood, and how he ditched school to ring the star ballplayer’s doorbell in search of an autograph.
A lot has changed around the neighborhood since then, but Wong and his wife Cathi have been fixtures. They’ve lived in the same apartment for the past forty years, their two kids now grown and out of the house. The building sits right next door to the home Ben and his family moved into back in 1960.
“We love the neighborhood, we love the people,” said Cathi