Posts Tagged ‘280’
Monday, January 23rd, 2012
This is a 1969 (or so) 280S (or thereabouts) with a straight six engine and (possibly) a four-on-the-tree manual transmission:

Click to expand
It pollutes* more than all the other cars you see put together…
No matter, he’s going the distance.
*Leaving the carbon dioxide issue aside.
Tags: 2012, 280, 280s, bay area, benz, cake, california, car, carbon, carbon dioxide, dioxide, duboce, going the distance, Mercedes, mercedes benz, old, San Francisco, staright six
Posted in cars | No Comments »
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
See?
The NoPA part of the Western Addition in late winter:

Click to expand
Tags: 2011, 280, bay area, benz, Benzes, blossoms, california, car, cars, cherry, flowering, Mercedes, Mercedes Benzes, NOPA, plum, San Francisco, western addition
Posted in cars, flora | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
This is what you can see right before the Monterey exit of southbound 280 - a memorial for Luis Solari, who was shot to death while driving his two kids on a San Francisco freeway:

Look for it the next time you pass the second Alemany.
They’re calling it a cold case now, but the reward is still out there.
Tags: 000, 2008, 280, 50, crime, exit, freeway, Honda, kids, Luis Solari, memorial, murder, police, reward, road rage, San Francisco, SFPD, shrine
Posted in crime | 1 Comment »
Sunday, March 29th, 2009
Here’s a sneak peak of what you’ll soon be able to see over at WhatImSeeing.com - it’s a tanker truck explosion for the taping of the possible NBC series “Trauma.”
What a great photo! Click to expand:

from Plug1
Here’s another view and here’s the reverse angle from ExxonValdez.
And with all the choppers flying around above hospital curve, you think, wouldn’t it be nice to have two or three real medical chopper flights a day coming into and out of our Level One Trauma Center at San Francisco General Hospital? Yes, yes it would.

via ToastyKen
Tags: 2009, 280, chopper, drama, er, explosion, filming, fire, fireball, flim, gas, gasoline, helcopter, helipad, i., i280, interstate, kaboom, king, lazgrove, life flight, march, medical, nbc, nimby, off-ramp, offramp, oil, pilot, San Francisco, sfgh, soma, tanker, taping, television, trauma, truck, TV
Posted in TV | 2 Comments »