Posts Tagged ‘ashbury’
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
These days, you can’t just sit back and let the cops to all the work protecting your bidness from the criminal element. So why not spend a day installing cheap cameras all over the place so you can record 16 video streams 24-7? You’ll be the Hero of Haight Street, or wherever, and then you can start making your own videos about “The Gauntlet” or whatever.
Wide angle, telephoto, infrared LED lighting, hook it up to the Internet for free, watch it live from you smart phone, hook up more hard drives for extra storage – this thing has it all.
Or maybe, you could point some of your extra cams at a nearby intersection, such as problematic Fell crossing Masonic or horrible Octavia Boulevard crossing everything – Market, Haight, Page, Oak, Fell, the works. You’d be the hero of the hood by being able to demonstrate just how somebody got injured.
Or just do it to impress your neighbors in the Richmond or Sunset districts. You wouldn’t even need to hook up the cams - just mount them all over the place and then everybody will go, “Oh, that must be the new brothel and/or growhouse in the neighborhood.” Don’t think they’ll mess with you after that. Respect!
Get cracking.
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
Check out this SFPD prowler parked in the Funset District – groove on that funky, aerodynamic light bar on top.
Almost thought it was a fake from the filming of NBC’s horrible Trauma action/dramedy at first, but no, if you count the points on the big blue door star it comes up seven (and not eight) every time.
Fake Michael Schumacher will have even less of a chance of evading Park Station the next time he drives his Ferrari F355 Spyder to Haight Ashbury for a pint or five.
Maybe our City is just trying out something new…
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Our recent rains have turned the middle of the Golden Gate Park Panhandle betwixt Oak and Fell into a Great Muddy Bog.
So when you’re prowling about looking for criminales in your nose-heavy, rear-wheel-drive Crown Victoria it’s easy to get stuck in the mud, as the operators of Radio Car 075 discovered last night.
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A quick tug from a friendly tow truck driver and you’re back on the pedestrian path where you belong(?).
It would be nice to have more drainage here and maybe also it’d be nice to bring back the Panhandle Bandshell.
Maybe someday.
Tags: 2010, ashbury, car, crown victoria, fell, golden gate park, haight, mud, oak, panhandle, panhandle golden gate park, police, rain, rec and park, recreation and park, SFPD, street, stuck, town, truck, wet
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
Didn’t make it to the entire meeting of the Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council yesterday but everything seemed pretty copacetic from what I could see. A representative from Whole Foods made a presentation about their proposed store at 690 Stanyan. Then came the Q and A:
Will they have organic food? Yes. Will they have stuff on sale sometimes? Yes. That’s how it went.
Attention developers – this is the kind of get-together you need to hold before you can begin developing in San Francisco. Paying thousands of dollars a year to nearby community groups, as Sutro Tower, Inc. does, might also help but outreach meetings like these are mandatory. Just saying.
The next stop is a rubber stamp from the Planning Commission on January 28th. Then you can look forward to having a place to shop for Thanksgiving in Autumn.
Hooray!
Tags: $28, 1833 page, 2010, 690, 94117, ashbury, branch, cala, calvin welch, clayton, cole, commission, council, district 5, food, grocery, haight, haihgt, hanc, january, library, market, meeting, neighborhood, nimby, nimbys, page, park, Planning, San Francisco, spate, stanyan, store, street, upper, whole foods
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
It’s all going down this Thursday, January 14th, 2010, at the Park Branch Library on Page Street in the Upper Haight – representatives from Whole Foods will be on hand to discuss their proposed new store at Stanyan and Haight.
Get some history on this projecto here, courtesy of Curbed SF. And read “the whole story” from purported “fossil”Calvin Welch right here.
The proposed residences upstairs are no longer in the works but there’s still lots to argue about. Grab your pink popcorn and show up at the library at 7:00 PM for the next Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council Community Meeting:
See you there!*
*At the meeting, not at Whole Foods, which is too rich for my blood.
Tags: $28, 1833 page, 2010, 690, 94117, ashbury, branch, cala, calvin welch, clayton, cole, commission, council, district 5, food, grocery, haight, haihgt, hanc, january, library, market, meeting, neighborhood, nimby, nimbys, page, park, Planning, San Francisco, spate, stanyan, store, street, upper, whole foods
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
I’ll tell you, the reason why the home county of the exchange student who was recently sexually asaulted in San Franciscois resting easy these days is that the media of said home country isn’t aware of the attack. And why’s that? Apparently, it’s the policy of San Francisco to not give out that kind of information. Per the SF Appeal:
“Police are not releasing information about the country the alleged victim is from in order to protect her identity, Tomioka said.”
I’m wondering how small a country has to be such that saying its name discloses the identity of any particular tourist in San Francisco.
Like if there’s a famous exchange program in Monaco (population 30k) and they send ten students a year to the States? That would seem to fit the bill, fair enough.
But what if the exchange student is from one of the following Big Ten tourist-producing countries (countries avec concomitant robust, aggresive media, of course)?
Germany
United Kingdom
France
China
Italy
Japan
Canada
Russia
South Korea
Mexico
If the student is from one of these countries, I’d be hard-pressed to see how saying the name of the country would identify any particular person from that country. Maybe there’s a written policy, or maybe there’s an unwritten rule, the way the MSM won’t report routine cases of Golden Gate Bridge jumpings?
That is all.
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
This is what the the Green Corn Moon looked like* from Golden Gate Park Tuesday evening – can you see 650-652 Stanyan building in the foreground? Sure you can.
What’s that? You always thought it was called the Blue Corn Moon, like the song from Disney’s Pocahontas that has Vanessa Williams schooling Whitey? Well, not really, see below.
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Let’s Ask Yahoo about it:
“Dear Mr. Sparks: Thanks for your interest. I feel somewhat guilty to have to tell you that the phrase “blue corn moon” has no actual meaning in Indian lore. I made it up because I liked the sound of it.
Its basis is this: In preparation for doing the lyrics to POCAHONTAS, I read a lot of Native American poetry. One of the phrases I came across, in a love poem, was : “I will come to you in the moon of green corn.” (The Native Americans called their months “moons” and named them according to something that happened seasonally, such as the arrival of green corn.)
The phrase stuck in my head, but I didn’t think the lyric : “Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the green corn moon” really worked, because of the association of the moon and green cheese, plus the “ee” sound in it, etc. So I changed it to blue corn moon, which I thought had a nice resonance to it because of the phrase “blue moon” and the fact that there are things like blue corn tortillas, etc.
Even though it’s not authentic, and actually implies Southwestern tribes rather than the Northeastern Algonkians of Pocahontas, I used it in the lyric and it obviously served me very well. This is probably far more than you wanted to know, but that’s the derivation of the phrase, for whatever it’s worth to you. Sincerely, Stephen Schwartz“
So There You Have It.
* Après un petit Magasin de Photo
Tags: 2009, 650, 652, adobe, ashbury, august, blue corn moon, building, colors of the wind, Corn Moon, Disney, Fruit Moon, full, golden gate park, Grain Moon, Green Corn Moon, haight, Magasin de Photo, moon, photoshop, plastic wrap, Pocahontas, stanyan, Stephen Schwartz, street, Sturgeon Moon, Vanessa Williams
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Saturday, July 25th, 2009
The Yelp-rated Panhandle Basketball Courts in fox-laden Golden Gate Park are a buzz of activity what with the Uletix Three on Three Basketball Tournament going on right now, today, Saturday, July 25, 2009.
Yes, something’s always going on in San Francisco’s action-packed Panhandle.
There’s a blue Honda Civic in the paint - they were still getting set up at this time:
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Here are the deets for Hoops n Dreams.
It’s probably too late for you to enter, but you can always drop by to check out the action.
See you there!
When: Saturday, July 25th, 10:00am – 3:00pm
Where: Between Oak and Fell Streets at Ashbury; Panhandle Park, San Francisco
Purpose of the event: To help raise money for a non-profit charity that we feel is aligned with the spirit of our company, “Team Up For Youth”.
CASH!: There will be up to $1000 in cash prizes and additional prizes for some lucky spectators.
Cost: $120 per team of 3-6 players. You can enter online by going to www.uletix.com (here), you may also enter by downloading and printing the application form provided, send your completed application form to [Attn: Jamil Vaughn Tournament Coordinator @ Utility Athletics, PO BOX 341, San Francisco, CA. 94104-0341]. Once payments are processed you will be added to the roster. For questions: Contact Jamil Vaughn, Jason Mills, or Dan Taylor @ Uletix
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
This is not how you want to find your ride (a Subaru Forester believe it or not - chop chop! That’s what foresters do, right, chop down trees?) after you park right next to a giant aging Blue Gum Eucalyptus tree in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle.
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Ben Davis-wearing members of Laborer’s local 261 + giant Swedish buzz saws = problem quickly solved.
Excepting for Caroline’s Subie, that is.
The City crew failed to leave a note, but I think the driver will figure things out for herself after seeing the flat tires and all the sawdust.
Just another foggy day in Paradise…
Tags: 2009, 22, 5 north, aging, ashbury, branch, chipper, crash, dept., district, dpw, Eucalyptus, fell, forester, gaia, goldn gate park, haight, insurance, july, limb, NOPA, old, panhandle, police, police department, San Francisco, SFPD, street, subaru, traffic, tree
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