Posts Tagged ‘clayton’
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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Sunday, June 14th, 2009
Not sure what the Yelpers have a problem with, but the Haight Ashbury Street Fair went off today without a hitch, just like last year.
Look at the swirling mass of humanity on just one block of Haight Street:
Can you see the superfluity of nuns in white approaching the Fair? Also note the F430 Ferrari supercar (sans license plates), one of many exoticars that made the journey to the Upper Haight today. Also note the sign: “No Open Containers of Alcohol.” Too bad.
Of course, all you need to get around the alcohol ban is a gallon jug of overproofed white rum and a giveaway “water” bottle. As seen on Ashbury.
District Five Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi was on the scene, gathering names for his newsletter distribution list.
Poorbot was looking for handouts:
“SHOW US YOUR BOOBS… please.” “FABULOUS PRIZES.” “DON’T WORRY (WE’RE GAY)” These inebriates residing above the Ben & Jerry’s at the corner of Ashbury were true to their word, tossing down trinkets to all flashers male and female.
You kmow why this San Francisco Native baby is better than you? Cause he had the foresight to be born in San Francisco, that’s why. He won the lottery/ when he was born.
Bong Hits 4 Jesus
And There Your Have It.
Tags: 2009, 32nd, 420, 430, agents, annual, ashbury, baby, bong, boobs, Bud, california, clayton, cole, dancing, department, dept., election, f430, fair, faire, ferrari, Festival, flickr, gathering, grass, haight, haight Ashbury, haight ashbury street fair, haight ashbury street festival, haight street, haight street fair, haight street festival, hippy, hookah, june 8, marijuana, masonic, Mirkarimi, native, pelosi, photographs, photos, pics, police, poorbot, pot, ross, rum, san francsico, SFPD, shrader, signature, signatures, smoke, smoking, stanyan, state, tie dye, upper
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
The pain of increased postal rates starting May 11, 2009 will be eased somewhat with news of the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee’s decision to allow the troubled United States Postal Service to use characters from The Simpsons cartoon show. So you should beat a path to your local P.O. and pick some up.
Stampspotters are getting excited about this – they’re planning on mailing out letters today from certain areas in order to get a souvenir cancellation printed. How about Simsponsville, South Carolina? Or better yet, Springfield, WI (Which Springfield though? The Badger State has like five(!) towns of Springfield.)
Here’s what’s going on in Springfield, Virginia (I was afraid to play the video, but it looks intriguing) and here’s a promotion from the 94117, Haight-Ashbury, California. Click to expand:
And here’s what your cancellation will look like from the 05156 in Vermont today:
Woo hoo!
So many Springfields, so little time:
Springfield, California
Springfield, Colorado
Springfield, Florida
Springfield, Jacksonville, Florida, a neighborhood of Jacksonville
Springfield, Georgia
Springfield, Illinois, the state capital of Illinois
Springfield, Indiana, an unincorporated place
Springfield, Kentucky
Springfield, Louisiana
Springfield, Maine
Springfield, Massachusetts, the first Springfield in the United States, established 1636
Springfield, Michigan, a city in Calhoun County
Springfield, Minnesota, in Brown County
Springfield, Missouri, as of 2007, the largest city in the United States named Springfield
Springfield, Nebraska
Springfield, New Hampshire
Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey, site of the Battle of Springfield (1780)
Springfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey
Springfield/Belmont neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey
Springfield, New York
Springfield, Ohio
Springfield, Oregon
Springfield, Pennsylvania
Springfield, South Carolina
Springfield, South Dakota
Springfield, Tennessee
Springfield, Texas
Springfield, Vermont
Springfield, Virginia
Springfield, West Virginia
Springfield, Dane County, Wisconsin
Springfield, Jackson County, Wisconsin
Springfield, Marquette County, Wisconsin
Springfield, St. Croix County, Wisconsin
Springfield, Walworth County, Wisconsin
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
The three youths here sleeping through mid-morning rain in the Upper Haight area typify some of the homeless of San Francisco. These Alexander Supertramps carry backpacks and sleeping bags, just like campers at a national park.
Three teens at Clayton and Page, just two blocks away from the landmark Ben and Jerry’s: Click to expand:
And here’s the remnants of a campground kitchen in the nearby Golden Gate Park Panhandle:
And here are your facilities (trucked in all the way from Kentucky) – it’s the Panhandle bathroom near Ashbury Street. It looks just like what some Yosemite Park campers get.
So that’s Urban Camping as practiced by the youths of Hashbury.
Tags: alexander, ashbury, backpack, bag, camper, camping, clayton, cooking, fell, gas, golden gate park, haight, happy, hashbury, kids, oak, panhandle, propane, runaway, San Francisco, sleeping, stove, street, supertramp, urban
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
This example of raw sewage on Clayton Street in the Upper Haight (right in front of the busy 94117 Post Office, actually) has been sitting around for about 48 hours or so.
Somebody put up an orange cone, so that’s a sure sign that some progress is being made.
Yes, that’s what you think it is. That other stuff? Again, it’s also what you think it is. Click to expand:
[UPDATE: 24 hours later, all better. Merci boocooh!]
Tags: 94117, ashbury, clayton, haight, hazmat, raw, San Francisco, sewage, sewer, sidewalk, street, toilet paper, upper
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Yesterday’s Haight Ashbury Street Fair in San Francisco came with sunny skies and lots of attendees.
The alcohol ban of recent years has changed the character of this event somewhat. These days, the boozy Union Street Festival might have an edge in the number of inebriated. No matter, a good time was had by all in the Haight.
So, dig the colors of David Yu and look at a bunch of photos from SFWeekly.
A mass of humanity:
Could this man with marijuana garland be famous artist Harry Shearer trying out a new character?
Hookahs! Get your hookahs! Hookahs.com was in the house:
A dancing baby grooving on Haight Street:
Cindy Sheehan had more than a few acolytes gathering signatures for Cindy’s windmill-tilting House campaign against Nancy Pelosi:
See you next year!
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Sunday, June 8th, 2008
Be careful when attending the alcohol-free (really?) Haight Ashbury Street Fair today, as parole agents are on the scene. That’s not too crunchy.
Cheese it, the cops!
Tags: agents, ashbury, california, clayton, cole, faire, Festival, haight, haight street, haight street fair, masonic, parole parolee, police, prole, san francsico, SFPD, shrader, stanyan, state, tie dye, upper
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