October 14, 2005
49 square miles surrounded by reality
Modern Military Ruins of San Francisco. Scenes from the Bay Area's abandoned military bases: Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard (San Francisco), Treasure Island Naval Station (San Francisco), Alameda Naval Air Station (Alameda), and Mare Island Naval Shipyard (Vallejo). Also, by Todd Lappin, Low-Altitude San Francisco. Photos taken from small planes flying not very high over San Francisco and the Bay Area
Halloween on Castro Street. Also, It's a warm sunny afternoon in San Francisco in the mid-1970's. You're at 18th & Castro Streets surrounded by handsome friendly men. Welcome to Uncle Donald’s Castro Street
Affordable housing project, the 8th + howard apartments. (From “Socket Site”)
Braiiins – A self perpetuating Zombie Mob downtown San Francisco in search of brains, Saturday July 30th
Icer Air Ski Jumping, September 5, including 12 tons of snow, Olympic gold medalist Jonny Moseley, world-class freestyle skiiers Simon Dumont and TJ Schiller, big crowds, and big air
San Francisco Historical Creek Map. Topographic map from the 1890s with modern land fill in pink. (From ”Sparkletack”)
A movement to rename the Bay Bridge The Emperor Norton Bridge
A neighborhood blog for Potrero Hill
Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Agency
I haven’t booked my hotel yet or even started planning the upcoming trip to San Francisco at the end of this month, but I am going to travel up north on the 28th. If you’d like get together during this weekend, email me to schedule a meet-up. Many More Unusual Links About San Francisco and About Los Angeles Here
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June 28, 2005
Goodbye San Francisco
Dear 'Frisco,
It's taken me a good year and a half to get the courage to write this letter to you. We've been together for so long and experienced so much since I came here to you from wherever the hell I came from before.
I was so young and naive and you opened your arms to me. How I adored you the moment our eyes met. You were so hip, so cool, so exciting! Everything I wanted to be but was not...
Also, You Know You're From San Francisco When...
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David Best Hayes Green Temple, in the spirit of the Temples they have constructed at Burning Man. Project Sketch and Site Plan
Another building of a temple
Burrito Eeater. It was inevitable. Some nutcase would eventually create a comprehensive online directory of San Francisco taquerias
Comparing Baghdad by the Bay to Baghdad
Five annoyed San Franciscans you’ll meet in heaven. No 2: Bald, fifty-something massage therapist on recumbent bike
280 – Northbound. This is my commute home. It usually takes me 30-40 minutes to get home. It is very pretty for a freeway. (From “The Brady Bunch in the land of the clones”)
Crown Guides: Unique Places in San Francisco
Maps, we got maps: San Francisco Transit Map, San Francisco Bike map, SF Districts and Neighborhoods Map
San Francisco Bay Region 3D Image Tours
Companies headquartered in San Francisco
Many More Unusual Links About San Francisco and About Los Angeles Here
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April 09, 2005
South of Market
Gold Chains performs “I come from San Francisco”. (From ”Screenhead”)
Planet SOMA, the parts that most tourists seldom see
Shame of the city - St. Boniface, a sanctuary for homeless people. (From ”Information Junk”)
The Cliff House Project: Timeline, tour, Stereoviews, detractors
Combining Craig’s List & Google Map: Homes for sale in San Francisco
Illustrator Ferris Plock
The Boom Boom Room, 16001 Fillmore at Geary, 94115
Travel by Segway with The San Francisco Electric Tour Company
Many More Unusual Links About San Francisco and About Los Angeles Here
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February 13, 2005
San Francisco Dogs
A kid named Bliss:
Walking downtown today with Heather. Suddenly there's this kid on my left.
"Hey, you like music?"
Great. Another sidewalk scam. I bet no one ever says no, I think.
"No."
"Oh, c'mon," says the kid. "What kinda music do you like?"...
Dogblog! As I walk around San Francisco, I encounter dogs tied to things, take their pictures, and offer them up to the world with whatever commentary springs to mind
Coffee in the Park, by Marc Horowitz, (The same guy who did the Dinner with Marc Art-Dating project)
San Francisco is the central character in Paul Madonna’s contemplative new comic All Over Coffee. (Thank you, Joe)
Origins of the names of San Francisco neighborhoods and streets
Permanent Guests at the Fairmont Hotel, 1924. (From San Francisco Genealogy)
The Oakland Oaks Photo Album
By the way, I’ve posted before about the flocks of escaped parrots of Telegraph Hill (and in Santa Ana). Now there is a movie about them
Many More Unusual Links About San Francisco and About Los Angeles Here
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January 17, 2005
Yo, Pedestrian
“Yo, Pedestrian!”, Brandon Dickerson's "Low rider" commercial for the San Francisco Jazz Festival. (From “A Welsh View”)
The San Francisco Baking Institute
These are the people in my neighborhood of Nob Hill
San Francisco in Ruins: The 1906 Aerial Photographs of George R. Lawrence
On this website, you will meet a unique community of individuals who love to skip! Yes, skip, as in leaping happily down the street...
“Still here” is an art/science team investigating the physical and ecological transformation of the San Francisco Bay Area
Many More Unusual Links About San Francisco and About Los Angeles Here
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November 25, 2004
261 Columbus Ave.
Farewell, favorites places. From the wonderful site of Hank Donat, Mister SF
Over 200 Trees of San Francisco listed
Taxi dancers (“Dime-a-dance girls”), and “In the footsteps of Sam Spade”. (Both from “Snarkout”)
Photos taken at the "How Berkeley Can You Be?" parade on Sunday, September 19, 2004. (Warning: Photos of some old people walking naked in the street).
San Francisco Transit: BART, MUNI, cable cars, more. Joe Thompson’s extensive site of Cable Car Lines in San Francisco
Musée Mécanique, next to the Cliff House on Ocean Beach
Some connections between The Bohemian Grove and The Nuclear Weapons Industry
Index to the History of San Francisco. (From “MonkeyFilter”)
“Dot Dot Dot”, Vintage Herb Caen’s columns
Stencils from San Francisco's Mission Dist. Over 2,669 other Stencil Flicks From Around the World at the Stencil Archive
San Francisco Art Gallery Openings
Many More Unusual Links About San Francisco and About Los Angeles Here
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September 22, 2004
The Sisters of San Francisco
Vintage San Francisco Postcards, from America as it was. Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to journey across the United States in 1910, traveling through countryside and small towns, craning your neck to look up at the skyscrapers of the cities, stopping to see the current events and sites of this glorious country's history?
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. is a 21st Century Order of queer nuns. Since their first appearance in San Francisco on Easter weekend, 1979, the Sisters have been accused of "Ruining it for Everyone" with their habitual injection of gaiety into serious affairs including human rights, political activism and religious intolerance. The Sisters consider it their mission to "ruin" all detrimental conditions including complacency, guilt, and the inability to laugh at one's self
The Painted Ground of San Jose Avenue - sidewalk graffitists that work in and around the Mission at the base of Noe Valley
Photograph of 16th and Valencia street above from the 40’s. Many Digitized Images from the San Francisco Public Library
I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Many More Unusual Links About San Francisco and About Los Angeles Here
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May 02, 2004
Old world charm in San Francisco
The Shut Up Little Man recordings feature the belligerent rants, hateful harangues, drunken soliloquies, and audible fistfights of Raymond and Peter - two booze-swilling homicidal roommates in a low-rent area of San Francisco
Pier 70 - Historic Shipyard at Potrero Point
Panorama of the Seven Hills 2004 Vernal Equinox 360
Injust Spring’s photo trip to San Francisco
Many More Unusual Links About San Francisco and About Los Angeles Here
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April 03, 2004
Left my Heart There
Secret Photos from The Bohemian Grove, one of the most exclusive men’s club in the country
The San Francisco Hat Company (From “Sachs Report”)
The Hairless Men's Club, a Herb Caen column. Herb Caen was a San Francisco tradition known as the Three-Dot Scrounge
San Francisco Symphony for kids
Many More Unusual Links About San Francisco and About Los Angeles Here
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January 31, 2004
Here are the 2003 “Grow-a-Brain” San Francisco Links.
1906 earthquake related pictures
950 mystery, detective, and crime fiction titles set up in the Bay area
A day in the life of the Tenderloin
A flag On Castro St. (From "Zenzero")
Artistic Homes ca. 1888 - 1007 Gough Street , From the SF Public Library - 12/4/03
Carpool Cheats in Silicon Valley: Don't cut into the Diamond Lane in front of the guys with the camera, or you'll end up on the internet - 1/13/04
Copper Moon (From "Plep" )
De Young Museum - 12/20/03
Dolores Park was a Cemetery - 12/20/03
Ed Stephan's map of Haight-Ashbury and The Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics
Eighth annual "How Berkeley Can You Be? Festival" , like the Do Dah Parade in Pasadena, only more irreverent - 12/2/03
Film Locations in Northern California
Inside Bohemian Grove , America's most exclusive private men's club
Johnna Arnold's Golden Gate Bridge Photos
"Jumpers" , New Yorker's article: The fatal grandeur of the Golden Gate Bridge
Model of San Francisco, ca. 1920s , given as a gift to president Herbert Hoover
Modern Architecture in San Francisco - 12/20/03
"Painted Ladies" are the famous Victorian homes of San Francisco. When I lived there, I used to be a house painter and I painted quite a few of them. Here is a resource for a all things Victorian.
Panoramic Photographs of San Francisco 1851-1915
Tour of the Stanford University Campus. (Part of " Tonie's Tour de Silicon Valley") - 12/20/03
Travel with Don Herron , the guide for famous Dashiell Hammett Tour in San Francisco. Since 1977 - 12/15/03
Urban Golf Association's Charles Bukowski North Beach Invitational (From "Jazz Cafe")
Many More Unusual Links About San Francisco and About Los Angeles Here
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