Wax on, wax off, or something, just off of the One, just south of Stinson Beach, Marin County – dude held this pose for a while:
Relive the 80’s here.
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Daniel-San, 94970 – A Karate Kid Exactly 400 Miles up the Pacific Coast Highway from Leo Carrillo State Park
Monday, September 19th, 2016Some Dude’s Front Porch Planted in Golden Gate Park – You Can’t Take It With You
Thursday, September 8th, 2016Huh:
All the deets:
This thing looks like a maintenance nightmare, which might have been the point in the first place, like having footmen at the Downton Abbey.
These days, we just put gold iWatches on the dog. But back then, this is what we did…
Prices are UP at the Stow Lake Boat House – Also, Sales Tax is Charged? – Anyway, $40-Something/Hour for a Family Boat
Thursday, September 8th, 2016Here are your new prices:
And what’s the deal – they didn’t pay taxes on the fleet of boats, so the people who rent the boats pay sales tax to make up for that, bit by bit, over the decades? OK fine. Can’t say that I understand this.
“V-O-Cal?” – RPD Chain Gang, Twin Peaks – “You can make friends and earn community service hours!”
Monday, August 22nd, 2016Here’s the scene, located hundreds and hundreds of feet above us Frisco Flatlanders:
And here’s the pitch, from the RPD, and from V-O-Cal (Volunteer for Outdoor California).
IDK, man, I think they’re pushing this outdoor metaphor a bit far, you know, for an urban area:
Friday
5pm – Registration and camping opens
Saturday
7:30am – Registration, light breakfast, and lunch prep begin.
8am – Morning greeting, announcements, stretching and safety talk. Project begins.
12:30pm – Break for lunch on trail.
3:30pm – Head back to camp.
4pm – Drinks, appetizers and socializing. Showers available.
6:15pm – Dinner and entertainment.
Sunday
8am – Registration, hot breakfast, and lunch prep.
8:30am – Morning greeting, announcements, stretching and safety talk. Project begins.
11:30am – Break for lunch on trail.
1:30pm – Head back to camp to pack gear and truck.
2pm – Celebrate the work and say goodbyes
(It’d be like “camping” at Piers 30-32 and then “hiking” to Pier 39 to do some yard work, IMO.)
Anyway, thanks for your work, V-O-Cal volunteers.
And I’ll tell you, TP is a “smaller” place now – it seemed to be at capacity and yet there wasn’t a whole big crowd of people there the way we had, on dreaded sunny days, back before RPD and the SFMTA took away all those parking spaces…
I Finally Made It In To BOHEMIAN GROVE – Plus, a Big “Muir Woods Sustainable Access Project” Meeting Tonight in Mill Valley
Monday, June 27th, 2016Which came first – this Bohemian Grove or this one in Muir Woods?
IDK.
Hey, our NPS is having a meeting, about parking, or shuttle buses ‘n stuff like that:
“Public Meeting – Muir Woods Sustainable Access Project
Date & Time 06/27/2016 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Please join us for a public meeting later this month to update you on the Muir Woods Sustainable Access Project (formerly Muir Woods Site Improvements). This project would preserve resources by improving parking, transit, and pedestrian access at Muir Woods.
Meeting Details:
DATE: Monday, June 27
TIME: 6-8 pm
LOCATION: Tamalpais High School, Student Center
700 Miller Ave
Mill Valley CA 94941 **Parking on Almonte Ave.**
Key Project Elements: The project scope has been modified in response to further analysis and public input. Key elements include:
Redesign/reorganization of parking (not to exceed the 232 existing personal vehicle spaces)
Improvements to pedestrian trails and walkways connecting parking to monument entrance
Protection of resources by better managing stormwater runoff from parking areas
Completion of plaza improvements begun in 2010
Muir Woods Pedestrian Bridge Replacements
Future Dipsea Trail Bridge
Salmon in Redwood Creek
Marin Transit
Public scoping & comment for the Muir Woods Sustainable Access Project was completed in the fall of 2013. An environmental assessment will be released for public review and comment in the fall of 2016 in compliance with the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA).Comments received on cultural resource issues will also be taken into account while coordinating compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act.
Location: Tamalpais High School, Student Center, 700 Miller Ave, Mill Valley, CA, 94941
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Contact Name: Mia Monroe
Contact Phone Number: 415-561-4964″
But if you’re one of those weaving spiders, you’re better off staying home…
Rec and Park Advertises Itself With Too Many Banners – So Prevailing Winds Blew Its Fence Over at Alamo Square
Thursday, June 16th, 2016Here’s the news from yesterday, from Hoodline.
And here’s how things looked a couple days back. Notice all those banners?
Anyway, that’s old news. The new news is that the fence has been righted and all those many many banners have been removed, ’cause, as I’ve already said, our RPD is tremendously focused upon telling us how great it is.
What are we, North Korea?
At this same location, RPD thought it was a good idea to advertise the NFL with a tacky statue, such a good idea that RPD waived any and all of the fees it loves to charge everybody else. RPD didn’t understand how locals would react. It had to be taken away before the Big Game due to repeated attacks from locals.
And of course, this is also where RPD banned our poor tourists from gazing upon the Painted Ladies. Oh, until they carved out a section of Alamo Square like they should have done in the first place.
And oh, all the streetlights in shut-down Alamo Square are still burning 24-7-365 because electricity is free? IDK what they’re thinking over there.
That’s your clumsy RPD Alamo Square update for 2016.
So far…
Why Doesn’t Frisco’s Deadly Ocean Beach have Lifeguard Towers? – IDK – Here’s the Substitute, the BEACH PATROL
Wednesday, June 15th, 2016Well I guess the basic answer is that having SoCal-style, LIFEGUARD ON DUTY structures in Frisco is that it would cost a lot of money.
So there’s that. And I’ve also heard that having lifeguard towers around would send a message that OB is a safe place to swim. (And certainly it’s not. It’s not even a safe place to wade in.)
Anyway, here’s one of the trucks they send out when people go missing:
Innovation Capital Of The World is what some call us. Or rather it’s what some, effectively, pay the Mayor to call us. Is a pickup truck with a surfboard “innovative?” IDTS.
Anyway, here’s a newsflash about America’s Most Dangerous Beach from 18 years ago. Not much has changed since then. We have a few more signs now, but otherwise…
Unloved Marissa Mayer Signage has “Taken a Beating” in Golden Gate Park – And Now Area Yahoo Uses Buffalo Paddock Sign as a Bottle Opener
Wednesday, June 15th, 2016Get up to speed here, from a couple years ago.
I still don’t know what people are doing to this sign in the Buffalo Paddock* in Golden Gate Park. I don’t think the vandals mind her donating money – what, like $50,000? But I think they don’t like the idea of the thank you sign being planted here. Just a WAG.
Anyway, here it is, taking another beating, this time to pop the top off of a beer bottle, or three:
Maybe Rec and Park should melt down this rusty sign for reuse and then somehow thank Marissa Mayer and Zachary Bogue some other way?
*Or is it Bison Paddock? I can’t keep up.
Clumsy Rec and Park (RPD) Relents, Opens “Painted Ladies Viewing Area” at Alamo Square – Tourists Rejoice
Monday, June 13th, 2016First it was all like this. All four square blocks of the Square were fenced off to one and all. Sad!
But now, it’s all like this, as of Friday afternoon, so now you can follow our visitors in to gaze upon the (sort of) Full House houses:
Expensive temporary signage to promote … our clumsy RPD:
Here’s the view from Hayes:
Is this the same RPD what carelessly rented out this very same part of Alamo Square to the NFL earlier this year?
Yep!
Alamo Square Update: Rec and Park Finally Manages to Coral Our Tourists – Sure, Fence Hole Fixed, But…
Thursday, May 26th, 2016IDK man, the accounting cost for RPD to shut down the entire four square block Alamo Square for a year or so is negligible, so that’s what they just done, oh well.
Here’s what you do – you imagine a billionaire from Mars is willing to pay for whatever expensive project that our SFGov workers can dream up AND you imagine that all the work required can be done in just one day. Then you ask yourself, would you want to do this project.
And the answer here is yes, it’d be nice to maintain the irrigation and fix up the old old bathroom and resod and do whatever else they’re doing. But is is worth shutting down the entire park for a year and spending all this precious taxpayer money? That’s the question.
In any event, the local millionaire homeowners (who don’t like tourists anyway) want this and RPD loves hiring people and spending money, so this is what we get.
On patrol to make sure nobody enters:
Sad tourists observing the Painted Ladies through a cyclone fence:
The now-famous fence hole, snipped by a local, used by tourists:
But look, plastic twisty ties have made the hole smaller – see?
Now here’s some homeowner-oriented signage from the RPD. (Note that the makr girl in the RPD banner would get a ticket from a Ranger if she actually affixed ropes to a tree and swung from it – isn’t it ironic. Dont’cha think? So why is this your logo, RPD? Whoopsie!)
Disappointed tourists on Steiner. Note the lack of cars parked here. I’ve never seen this sitch outside of street sweeping times.
Of course all the street lamps in shut down Alamo Square are now blazing away in the daytime, for some reason because, because RPD don’t care? Yep, because RPD don’t care.
Actually, RPD views us as deadbeats who cause RPD a bunch of problems. They think we’re undertaxed, so they’re constantly on the lookout to make moar money money money. Oh well.
Hey look, a rare Ranger patrol in the 94117, the better to keep the tourists out after being embarrassed on the TV and the Internet:
Oh, and here’s the more permanent fix for the now-famous hole, completed yesterday – double fencing:
That’ll do. Prolly…
