Photos of 2009 Fourth of July Fireworks in San Francisco – Legal and Illegal
TweetTonight’s Fourth of July fireworks show had a fairly high fog ceiling, so it would have to rate as better than average. Better than last year anyway, but not as good as 2007. Here’s an excellent...
View Article70 Years After the Pageant of the Pacific, Treasure Island Parties Like It’s...
TweetIt’s hard to tell why this Ferris wheel was on Treasure Island recently – it was either for the Treasure Island Music Festival or Oracle OpenWorld 2009. Or maybe it was for both. T.I. in the...
View ArticleSan Francisco-Themed Painted-Tiles Ensure We’ll All Continue to Love Trader...
TweetBoy, somebody spent some time making sure that the painted tiles on the side of our Masonic Trader Joe’s got done right – there are a lot of details to notice while you’re idling in line on the...
View ArticleThe Towers of San Francisco: Raygun Gothic Rocketship, Ferry Building, and...
TweetFirst up is the Ferry Building Tower from 1898. It’s a straight-up, four-faced clock tower, the likes of which they’ve been building in Europe for 700 years. Next up is Coit Tower from 1933. It’s...
View ArticleNils, Gunther, and Babette: Sullen Euros Encounter Unbearable Ennui High Atop...
TweetFinally got SFCitizenShip One flying again after that whole thing with the F.A.A. and after replacing those troublesome port and starboard oblique overlockers, so check out these Euros who paid...
View ArticleThe Sister Villages of Sausalito and San Francisco: A View That Hasn’t...
TweetThis atypical view of San Francisico with Sausalito in the background makes the 415 look a little like a village – evidence of Manhattanization is all to the left, so all you see is basically the...
View ArticleCoit Tower Goes Red, White, and Blue for the 10th Anniversary of 9/11: Looks...
TweetAnother Great Capture from Whole Wheat Toast. It goes cherry, white lemon, blue raspberry: Via Whole Wheat Toast - click to expand Just like a Popsicle Firecracker, non? Did you know that the...
View ArticleWhat Will Become of Julius’ Castle Restaurant Up on Telegraph Hill? Now It’s...
TweetSince 1922: Click to expand What’s next for the old JC? It’s not much of a castle any more:
View ArticleUSF is Wrong, There IS a Moral Compass App – It’s This: Vote the Opposite of...
TweetYou see, my new moral compass app will crawl through the website of SPUR (San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association) to find out its election endorsements. Then it will advise you to...
View ArticleOrange Coit Tower, by Famous Photographer David Yu – Giants Fever 2012 –...
TweetVia David Yu: The colors of the Orange and Black are, officially, in PANTONE-speak: PANTONE 19-1102 TCX – “Licorice” [Black] PANTONE 17-1462 TCX – “Flame” [Orange] PANTONE 11-0601 TCX – “Bright...
View ArticleLiving Up In The Clouds: Your View of Sutro Tower from a Higher Than Average...
TweetThis thing isn’t so tall after all: Click to expand
View ArticleOh, Rec and Park Raises Prices 14% at Japanese Tea Garden, Coit Tower,...
TweetPrice for admission at all these places was $7 in 2014, but now in 2015 it’s $8? News to me. I suppose Rec & Park doesn’t make a big deal about raising prices, or maybe they did and I just...
View ArticleLiving on the Precipice in Frisco High Atop Telegraph Hill – Life on Green...
TweetAs seen from Sansome: Looks scary
View ArticleIt’s 2018, So Why Doesn’t YOUR Residence have Its Own HashTag? – Presenting...
Tweet1835 Grant: Hashtag: And here’s the result. Or part of it anyway. Google it yourself: #SFYellowDoor
View ArticleThe Locus of Illegal Parking in San Francisco is Telegraph Hill – It Didn’t...
TweetThese shots are from a weekend day, therefore you need a residential sticker to park at Coit Tower for free. But almost all of the rides up here lacked a sticker, as they are tourists and of...
View ArticleWho Works to Operate COIT TOWER? – Possibly You, in This Full Employment...
TweetBut, you know, just saying: Could be the right gig for the right person… (Look at those ppl up there – they look just like ants.)
View ArticleReaction Shot: Died-in-the-Wool MSM-Type Hears About Craigslist for the First...
Or it’s part of a mural at Coit Tower, your choice…
View ArticleCoit Tower Triptych, Pre-Coronavirus – Not a Drone Shot, BTW
‘Cause drones in urban areas is dangerous, right?
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