The Marina Shows It Cares About Haiti
Way to sympathize, guys!
It is recommended that people donate money, not stuff. The above pic is perhaps the best possible demonstration of why.
Aside from all that, though: ew.
(Spotted @)
Today’s ‘06 Lesson: Mission Dolores
Something about the empty space in front of San Francisco's oldest building, pictured above in 1881 according to the caption on Flickr, draws me in. It was made of adobe. The brick-construction Gothic Revival replacement next to it crumbled in the '06 quake:
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-06
- new Lost Landscapes of San Francisco footage is now online. http://bit.ly/9VJ6pN #footage #sanfrancisco #
- [pic] extreme Mariposa Street. http://bit.ly/b0IQL7 #sanfrancisco #
- [old photo] San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge pretty in pink. http://bit.ly/cpaWmO #
- [sad old photo] business is all about timing. http://bit.ly/9mMG8w #
- order your Super Bowl Gumbo now! http://bit.ly/8XlIJM #
Most Unfortunate Business Timing Ever?
These fine fellows look like they're feeling on top of the world in their well-stocked glass shop at 18 Sutter Street, San Francisco. The year? You guessed it: 1905.
As the story goes, the business didn't survive the quake of '06 and the family relocated to Los Angeles. Ironically, I'm sure there was a tremendous demand for their product as the rebuilding commenced.
(Spotted @ the Flickr stream of bcgreeneiv)
Bay Bridge Pretty in Pink
A scanning project to capture 100 years worth of family photography includes some shots of San Francisco in the '50s and '60s, taken by the scanner's grandmother. I love that she kept the pink hue on several of them, which I assume is from improper film development. (It would have been too easy to grayscale them in Photoshop.)
(Spotted @ the SU Flickr pool.)
Mariposaaah!!!
The artist Wayne Thiebaud is known for his paintings of "cakes, pastries...and toilets," but this 1977 interpretation of a mythical intersection at 24th Street and Mariposa, submitted by friend o' the blog Jacki, is our favorite - for obvious reasons.
Thiebaud once said:
"I was playing around with the abstract notions of edge - I was fascinated, living in San Francisco, by the way different streets just came in and then just vanished. So I sat out on a street corner and began to paint them." It was the "sense of edges appearing, things swooping around their own edges that I loved," he recounted (Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective, exh. cat., Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2000, p. 58).
(via Goldenfiddlr)
Now Online: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 4
In case you missed Rick Prelinger's excellent screening of mostly amateur-shot archival footage back in December, Fora.tv has put it online in its entirety. Watch it:
To navigate a list of chapters, go to the Fora.tv site.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-30
- photo: is it BBQ weather yet? http://bit.ly/5905Lx #
- i can totally be less competitive than you. #
- photos: San Francisco hotel #1 on 2010's Dirtiest Hotels list, guest posts images of bedbug bites (and bedbugs). http://bit.ly/4Dcr9C #
- [video] parkour in George Christopher Playground, San Francisco. http://bit.ly/dnuzkC #
- guide dogs in San Francisco. http://bit.ly/9rkU5I #
- Da Pimp is rolling into San Francisco? http://bit.ly/98lLj6 #
James “Da Pimp” O’Keefe Coming to San Francisco?
Everyone knows White Pimp is the new Black, and it's ALL GOOD, y'all. Word up.
But seriously, this jive turkey is scheduled to speak at the Commonwealth Club and teach badass mofo media poseurs how to stick it to the man.
However. Since the brotha's out on bail and might be, shall we say, indisposed at the time of the talk, there might be someone else speaking that night.
Downtown Guide Dog
I was walking along Mission Street in the Financial District to get coffee this morning and was struck by how efficiently a big lab was in guiding a blind person through a crowded, chaotic crosswalk. The pair navigated multiple near-collisions plus the curb at the end. It was impressive. More after the jump...
Parkour in the Park
YouTube parkour practitioner, NoSolePK, runs, leaps and spins Hobbit-style through George Christopher Playground in Diamond Heights.
Also, SF Parkour seems to be training a scary army of monkey/human hybrids:
Keep in mind, videos like the ones above are carefully edited to look awesome. For a little balance, see this. (But be warned: it's rough viewing.)
Bikes Ahead
City workers spray a bicycle-related glyph onto the street near Clay and Sansome. I'm not sure what exactly it's supposed to be saying. Anyone?
We’re #1! – Nastiest Hotel in the World
We finally made it to the top of one of those year-end lists, y'all!
It's Trip Advisor's 2010 Dirtiest Hotels list, and our very own Heritage Marina kicked serious ass to get to #1. (I know it's a U.S. list, but everyone knows we're the only country that counts, so by the transitive property of, like, math, I'm declaring it the #1 spot on the planet.)
Images of filth and glory after the jump...
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-23
- photo: ideal BART passenger. http://bit.ly/5apyz3 #
- photo: Name That Spot. http://bit.ly/7lJcqI #
- Alcatraz: fighting the wind to change the flag (video). http://bit.ly/6BLipp #
- video: crazy surfing footage from today's storm. http://bit.ly/6PC79z #
- memo to my favorite falafel spot: eat at the taqueria next door now and then to learn how to wrap a sandwich in foil reliably! #
- awesome: guy in wheelchair clinging to the back of a streetcar. http://bit.ly/75Rkyc #
- filthiest spot in San Francisco? http://bit.ly/5D4zWt via @calibersf @troy #
- freakin' amazing long-lost images of Pearl Harbor attack taken by a sailor. http://bit.ly/6UZKzx via @calibersf #pearlharbor #
- wow. those "69-yr-old Pearl Harbor pics" that were "just discovered"? serious HOAX from 2006! http://bit.ly/8uYL2o #
Joey’s
Nothing gives me a hankering for ice cream espresso sausage like doing the laundry!
(Submitted by S. Scott Ethersmith)
Filthiest Spot in San Francisco?
So thinks the photographer, Troy Holden.
From the Flickr set:
After years of deterioration and absence of modern operational systems, the [Fleishacker] pool did not meet health and safety standards and closed in 1971. Consideration was given to refurbishing and reopening the historic landmark, but usage studies showed low interest, and the high annual operating costs could not be offset with the expected revenue. In 1999, the San Francisco Zoological Society was granted ownership of the pool house, and it is not known what might become of it. The swimming pool itself was filled with rocks and gravel, with the space now serving as a parking lot for the zoo.
Police Scanner: Car-to-Foot Chase
The TV show Cops is great and all, but there is a special excitement to hearing and imagining the action as it's communicated between officers and the dispatcher.
This chase, which happened yesterday, goes through the Upper Haight as the perp blows a tire, then proceeds on foot through Golden Gate Park, and is finally tackled and apprehended.
Free Ride!
Wow, I guess this really happened. Gotta say, I've never seen this particular breed of Awesome in the 14 years I've lived here. (From the Flickr stream of Jeremy Brooks.)
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