First, our PacBell Building in SoMA was all like this.
Then is was all like this.
Now it’s all like this, so you can see through entire floors.
Say hello to the higher floors of a totally gutted building:
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If only San Francisco were the Innovation Capital of the World or something, then we wouldn’t have a bunch of empty buildings sitting around for years and decades.
On It Goes…
Abandoned already, this San Francisco Magazine, the latest issue, the one with the long bit about Guy Fieri Lamborghini-stealing Max Wade:
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Wait… we’re at the Pizza Hut (What?)
We’re at the Taco Bell (What?)
We’re at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell
As seen on Market Street, day after day, week after week:
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And soon enough, month after month?
I’m sure there’s a story that explains how the rear wheel on this bike got taco’ed, but no matter, this bike is now useless and abandoned and it’s going to stay exactly where it is forever:
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Apparently…
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Of course, DPT needed to chalk the tires on this Ford, but look how it was done:
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This chalking was done in anger, looks like.
DPT: Tough People, Good Jobs
I don’t know how long this ride has been sitting locked up on Fulton in the NoPA part of the Western Addition but it feels like a period of months now:
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Sometimes it falls down, but then people prop it up again.
The rear wheel has been pretty much taco’ed – see?
I’ll bet there’s a story behind that.
Now you’d think the cop who’s walking a beat in this area (while constantly swinging his billy club) around would notice at some point and have this bike hauled away…
You’d think.
I’ve never abandoned a mattress on the Streets of San Francisco* myself, but you people, you people do that kind of thing all the time, I can see that.
Now, the driver of this rig spotted a box spring in the Western Addition (or the North of Panhandle Area, as it’s called these days by the real estate industry and selected rich white people) and, in about 30 seconds, stopped pick it up, tossed it into the caboose, and crunched it with hydraulics. Then he was gone in a flash. (Not sure if he came just for this box spring if he’s patrolling the hood, picking up stuff he happens to spot.)
See?
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Not saying it’s inexpensive for him to do this, but it’s certainly easy for him. It’s a piece of cake.
Perhaps mattress abandonment isn’t all that much of a crime after all…
*A Quinn/Martin Production
Look at this – it’s evidence of a non-yuppie child living among us:
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How refreshing to see a non-wooden tricycle!
Hello PacBell Building.
You used to be the tallest building in San Francisco but you’ve been empty for a while now, huh?
You have a great location at New Monty and Mission, but nobody loves you, huh?
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Hey, I know – let’s have the Twitter move in!
With enough corporate welfare, there’s no limit to what we can do…
“The building was the tallest in San Francisco until the Russ Building matched its height two years later in 1927.
The building was originally called the “Pacific Telephone Building”. At the time of its construction, the operating telephone company it housed was Pacific Telephone & Telegraph, a member of the Bell System. The building had a bell motif in many places on its façade, most notably surrounding the arch over the main entrance doors on New Montgomery Street. After the breakup of the Bell System (AT&T) and the formation the regional so-called Baby Bell companies, Pacific Telephone changed its name to “Pacific Bell”. The tower has an “L” shaped floor plan and the architecture decoratively incorporates spotlights to light the outside of the building.
In 2007, the PacBell Building was purchased by investor Wilson Meany Sullivan and Stockbridge Capital Partners for US$118 million.[5] Since then, the building has remained vacant, and photographs taken inside have shown water damage to the terracotta work of the 26th story auditorium, though much of the interior appears to be structurally intact. Developers submitted a request for a building permit and public comment in December 2008.“
