Giant AIDS Ribbon on San Francisco’s Twin Peaks Commemorates the 30th Year of...
TweetIt will be around until June 19th, 2011. Details below. (PRNewsFoto/San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Alex Bernardin) Giant AIDS Ribbon on San Francisco’s Twin Peaks Commemorates the 30th Year of...
View ArticleYour Bike Doesn’t Have a Built-In Phone? Well Get With the Times!
TweetThusly: Click to expand (“Hello, I’m calling from my bike phone…”) Some state Senator or Assembly Member wants to ban phone use on bikes, so enjoy while you can…
View ArticleRed-and-White Monolithic Icon Pop Quiz: Which is Older – Sutro Tower or the...
TweetIt’s a mystery to me. (I could look it up but then it wouldn’t be a mystery any longer.) I’m thinking, wow, the font on that sign looks pretty old, but maybe they replaced the sign in the 1970s...
View ArticleKnow Better Your Marin County: Nuclear-Capable Hill 88 Plus the West, Middle,...
TweetHow many hills do you know of what come with their own Yelp entry? You ought to get on up there sometime to check it out: “Hill 88 is a wild ghost town in the sky, hidden way up high in the Marin...
View ArticleKnow Your Two-Seat, Russian, Yakovlev Yak-52 Acrobatic-Training Aircraft...
TweetRemember that Yak-50 what used to buzz about the bay area? Good times. (See below for some shots taken from the East Peak of Mt. Tam.) Well this is better, this one’s a Yak-52 (Як-52). Hurray! (It...
View ArticlePresenting the Rococo Fuji del Rey Road Bike from 1984 – A Little Rusty But...
TweetCheck out the old-school all-metal emblem – I would have thought something like that would have used in the 1960′s or the 1970′s, but this rig is from 1984. Oak Green and Star Silver: Click to...
View ArticleA 2.5-Minute Exposure –“Waiting for the Sun”– Marin Headlands, Diablo, Yerba...
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View ArticleSutro Tower Fly-By, Above the Clouds
TweetIt’s always sunny up here above San Francisco, you could imagine. Click to expand
View ArticleSutro Tower as You’ve Never Seen It Before –“From Mount Davidson in...
TweetThis treatment of world-famous Sutro Tower makes the 415 look like Mayberry RFD, IMO. Via TrophyGeek: Click to expand
View ArticleBig Lawsuit Against Costco: Explaining to Tiffany and Co. Why It’s OK for...
TweetWhat’s this? Tiffany and Company is suing Costco for selling diamonds using the term “Tiffany setting” or something? “We now know that there are at least hundreds, if not thousands, of Costco...
View ArticleDespicablimp, Sutro Tower
TweetOne has its own Twitter feed, the other doesn’t: Click to expand
View ArticleSan Francisco Cityscape Overshadowed by Mount Tam
TweetMount Tamalpais* (West Peak with former military base, East Peak with former ranger station) Fog over the Golden Gate Cityscape (with the Bank of America Building, One Rincon and the Transamerica...
View ArticleUPDATE: The Quasi-Unconstitutional Prayer Book Cross is STILL on Public Land...
TweetOur four-star Yelp-rated Prayer Book Cross doesn’t really belong on public land. Here’s a repost from 2009. I haven’t kept up on things, but I don’t think much has changed. It’ll take somebody to...
View ArticleMount Suribachi, 94547 – The Marine Corps War Memorial of Contra Costa County...
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View ArticleThe Actual Color of the Sky during Sunset the Other Day – Lilac Over Aqua
TweetLooking to the east, which is not the way you usually look at the sky when the sun sets. I hadn’t noticed these colors before…
View ArticleSpot San Francisco’s (Former) Constitutional Violation, 1031 Feet Above Sea...
TweetThis really stands out to me, perhaps it does to you as well: Of course it’s the giant cross atop Hill Davidson Now I’ll ask you, does crime pay? Or did it pay back in aught-seven, when metal...
View ArticleSan Francisco’s Best (If Scariest) Commute: Riding the Elevator Basket Up...
TweetAs seen a few days back – that square, that’s your elevator car. Haven’t seen it in a while: And here’s the close-up color version, from all the way back in 2004: (I remember thinking how the...
View ArticleHere It Is, San Francisco’s Best Christmas Tree for 2015, in an Unexpected...
TweetJust look at this thing in front of Pier 39 – it’s huge! And it’s 100% real, for better or worse. I heard it’s 55 feet, but officially it’s 60, perhaps due to rounding, IDK: I’m calling this thing...
View ArticleSuffer Our Local Porn Industry, Under the Constant Threat of California...
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