Cesar Chavez Park A man-made park, I fear, and a totally different perspective as on my usual walk. I spied across the bay trying to figure out where my neighborhood was. I realized just how tiny Telegraph Hill is. There’s a hazy fog bank between Telegraph Hill and Russian Hill, and that’s the only way [...]
Aquatic Park Revisited I walk by this building every day: Finally I wanted to know what some of the odd structures are, beyond what I could make up in my head. So I’m reading the web site, and it’s pretty much in line with what I thought: a WPA project. A submerged bathhouse built to [...]
Funny how the places you go constantly you never think about as “visiting,” like TJ’s. Trader Joe’s My weekly haunt. I feel like this is my Trader Joe’s, and everyone else shopping there should just get the hell out. I manifest this by walking with my plastic basket to the side, taking up the entire [...]
I fear once in a while that my local color blog is just intensely boring. I admit it, it is. It’s mostly to capture insights about local stuff. Fior D’Italia It’s Hotel San Remo, not the other name I put in the other blog entry. They’re weatherproofing and painting. I think that’s pretty smart. The [...]
Elizabeth Hikock, via Boing Boing That Loop Radio is 106.9 and had some new stuff on it today that I found really, really funny. The mystery is that something is going on… Free FM OK not so mysterious, but a kind of great stunt, and I’ve enjoyed the content, despite it being a big bohemoth [...]
Peets on Beach The testing of all the bakery items will now commence: – cinnamon roll. Good, not too sweet. Similar to what my Mom makes, which is quite good. Almost too large. – chocolate scone. Nice! I love these. The salty scone taste and the chocolate are great together. The walk to Peets on [...]
Not many great things make me sound like a snively 13 year old again except for… I found a Peets 3 blocks from my house!!! I was out walking along my favorite route so far, down columbus (too noisy!!!) to Hyde St. cable car turnaround, down along Aquatic Park. Then out along the pier turn [...]
Pips on Washington Square I’m quickly becoming a regular at this print shop. It’s got an amazing view of Columbus and Filbert, next to St. Peter and Paul church. For some reason I’m always at the print shop right before the post office closes, and the crossing guard is on full duty. That is a [...]
Back to the earlier point of this blog, writing about walks. Now, this may be intensely boring. Walked up the Columbus Ave. strip yesterday at the after hour lunch period. It was one of those early autumn/late summer days. All of the tourists were at outside tables. Every table was packed. Walked by St. Peter [...]
Tunnels Everyone writes about the hills of San Francisco, sure, but what about those tunnels? I’ve realized the magic of a few of them: Broadway Tunnel A great way of getting from Polk/Van Ness to Chinatown/North Beach. It runs directly under Russian Hill, well, in between the little trough between Russian Hill and Nob Hill. [...]
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