Posts Tagged ‘closed’
Friday, January 29th, 2010
Sleepy Fulton Street betwixt Masonic and Central has been looking like something like State College, PA, where college kids from the country’s number one party school hang out ’til all hours. It all has to do with the final days of the Poleng Lounge (located in the place that used to house Storyville).
Last night almost looked like SoMA:
Last night’s shindig:
“Let’s get together to celebrate the death and destruction of the things that we love, and cope in the best way possible: By getting trashed and making terrible life choices… like dancing topless, and sleeping with 18-year-old filipino chicks from Daly City.
There will be $5 Jungle Juice that is like 3 drinks shrunk down to one drink that tastes like skittles. There will be $3 drafts. There will be lots and lots of whiskey.
THIS EVENT IS 18+!!! Bring your little sister, that hair-scene kid you made out with once at Blow Up, the skater kids you see at Delirium and house parties, and ONLY at Delirium and house parties”
Party on, Poleng Lounge.
Tags: central, closed, closing, dj, fulton, kids, lounge, masonic, NOPA, pa, party, partying, poleng, Poleng Lounge, state college, storyville, western addition
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Of course we hates the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero, we hates it forever, ’cause of the forever nonrevolving restaurant they have up on the roof, oh, how it mocks us, but leaving that aside, isn’t it funny how it lacks a 13th Floor…
… but the name of the bar in the lobby is/was called 13 Views?
So, when you want to be safe at night, well, 13 is just too much bad juju for us to deal with, but when we tire of safeness, when we want to cut loose, put on our pretty shoes, and meet an exciting, dangerous stranger at a hotel bar, well, 13, that sounds… intriguing.
That’s the way it used to be, anyway, before the lobby bar closed down. Oh well.
Triskaidekaphobia – Catch It!
Tags: 13, 13 views, 13th, bar, closed, danger, Embarcadero, floor, friggatriskaidekaphobia, hyatt, hyatt regency, paraskevidekatriaphobia, regency, San Francisco, Triskaidekaphobia, unlucky
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Well it was quite a mystery last week when, via Eater SF’s The Shutter, we all learned that the Chevy’s Fresh Mex at 2 Embarcadero Center in the Financh would close down forever as of last Friday. Per ABC KGO TV Channel 7, the employees were bummed because they only got three days’ notice of the closure - and as for any severance benefits, well that’s a big fat nada.
Why did this eatery close down without warning? Well, the manager (and management in general) didn’t want to say. But now, we have a statement from Chevy’s. See?
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Their “lease expired.” Simple, right?
But that seems a little funny. (Of course, I’m not in the restaurant biz so I don’t know.) You’d think they’d have been able to give the workers more notice if this was just a matter of losing a lease.
(And you know, actually, I’d imagine that Boston Properties (or whomever you talk to when you want to strike a bargain on cheaper rent at Embarcadero Center) would be looking to make a sweet deal, based upon the low level of occupancy they have these days…)
Maybe Chevys’ management figured they’d be closing this store a month or two ago, but they kept this info a secret from the workers?
(When Warren Simmons, Sr. and his son Warren “Scooter” Simmons, Jr. started up the first Chevys (no apostrophe, please) in Alameda back in 1987, did they think that this was they way it was going to be? Oh well.)
Mmmmm……
Tags: 2, 3rd, 7, Alameda, battery, boston, boston properies, california, center, chain, chevys, closed, closing, ctr, district, eater sf, Embacadero, Embacadero ctr, Embacadero center, expired, financh, financial, fresh mex, front, howard, jr. sr. scooter, kgo, lease, management, properties, recession, restaurant, sacramento, shutter, sign, stonestown, street, two, van ness, Warren Simmons, Window
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
What’s up with the former Equinox Restaurant way up high down at the foot of Market Street? It don’t revolve no mo. What’s the deal? Does it need a new motor? Cause my stepbrother is parting out a Subaru - he has a flat four boxer with a recent rebuild that could totally be used to spin that place like a record, baby.
I believe that this City should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a diner on the revolving restaurant known as Equinox, spinning him as he dines, and returning him safely to the Earth.
Now don’t talk to me about how it’s never gonna revolve ’cause the Hyatt Regency people are dead-set on continuing with their “sorry hemispheres” concept. What do the rich people do up there anyway in the Regency Club Lounge? They sure as heck don’t revolve – seems a waste, doesn’t it? What the richers do up there is watch cable TV without being disturbed by the hoi polloi, such as yourself.
See the idiot box flickering away up in there? That’s what they’re doing with the Big E these days:
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This boxy turntable was perched atop Embarcadero Five for one reason, and only one reason: to separate tourists from their money by serving them bad food with a nice view. And it was available to all comers - as long as you had $30 for rubbery chicken, you were welcome to take a ride.
Those were the days.
We should fix up the motor, lube the spindle, and get her turning again - we could re-open the Equinox in time for NewYear’s Eve, December 31st, 2009.
Then we’d party like it’s 1999. (Will Smith rapped a Rock the Casbah cover? Wow.)
“We choose to go to the Equinox. We choose to go to the Equinox in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”
Evict the Richers, Free the ‘Nox!
Tags: 1979, 5, architecture, brutal, closed, davis, Embarcadero, equinox, film, financial district, hyatt, jfk, Jr, market, moon, movie, regency, restaurant, revolving, San Francisco, speech, street, time, time after time, travel, waterfront
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Here’s Colma (nee Lawndale until 1941), CA, the West’s #1 necropolis. Why does it have its own BART station and musical? No one knows.
But what it does have includes car dealerships (both kinds – the dead and the living dead), fog, and, of course, cemeteries. Truly, it is the Land of Wind and Ghosts.
A look down Serramonte Boulevard.
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Not too long ago, Tom Hanks got his giant black Lexus from a dealership on this street, but all the Lexuseses are gone now. Will they return? No one knows.
See you there, on the next dreaded sunny day.
Tags: auto, bankrupt, car, cemetery, chrysler, City, closed, colma, county, dealerships, fog, ghosts, Mayor, mr sparkle, musical, nissan, San Mateo, serramonte, tom hanks, wind
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
The Pedestrianist today reminds us all that the temporary closure of 184 feet of Mason Street begins tomorrow, August 1, 2009. (And, as ususal, The Streetsblog can always get you up to speed on streets issues right quick.)
Check it. Can you see that tiny stretch of Mason between Lombard and Columbus? Imagine people lounging about (in the middle of the damn street!) for the next eight weeks or so.
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Here’s the mise-en-scene:
See the upper left corner? That little triangle is your possible future library location, pending NIMBY approval:
So if you ever experience congestion in North Beach or Chinatown or Fisherman’s Wharf, be sure to blame it on this tiny temporary plaza.
Will it be a “traffic nightmare“? The people at Save Mason Street think so.
Brace yourselves…
Tags: 1, 1st, 2009, 2010, august, bikes, closed, closure, Columbus, county, curbed, department, dept., Dimaggio, dpw, fishermans, fishermans wharf, iscott, Joe, Joe Dimaggio, library, mason, mason street, months, nimby, nimbys, north beach, pedestrian, pedestrianist, Planning, plaza, public, San Francisco, save, save mason street, SF, sfist, street, streetsblog, temporary, trial
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
Cause it’s been done already.
Click to expand to see these shutdown stores, these brokedown palaces of obsolete technology. Your days are over, analog cameras and TVs. Try not to leech too many chemicals into Mother Earth when you get to the landfill.
As seen on otherwise somewhat-bustling Irving Street in the touchy, prideful Inner Sunset District. (Take the tour this Saturday!)
Cue tumbleweeds…
He picks up scraps of information
He’s adept at adaptation
Because for strangers and arrangers
Constant change is here to stay
He’s got a force field and a flexible plan
He’s got a date with fate in a black sedan
He plays fast forward for as long as he can
But he won’t need a camera or TV repair store
He’s a digital man
Tags: (415), 664-5678, analog, camera, closed, digital, district, inner sunset, irving, man, passport, photo, Photograph, photos, rush, sales, service, shut down, star, street, television, TV
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Saturday, March 28th, 2009
San Francisco’s HELLENIC CULTURAL PARADE must rank as our smallest annual march down Market Street, but today’s effort had spirited participants and lovely weather. Let’s take a look, shall we?
Vanguard of the Greek Cultural Parade. Click to expand:
This junior cowboy (κάουμποϋ) was quite handy with his lasso:
An entirely different junior cowboy:
JROTC haters would have had a lot to hate today what with the many schools represented. (Lowell High appeared to be the most serious.)
“Macedonia is Greece.” O.K., thanks for that tidbit. I think I know what the meaning of this statement is - seems to be a contentious issue:
Anywho, happy 178th Greek Independence Day!
Tags: $25, $28, 187th, 2009, 25th, 28th, 99 Grove, Civic Auditorium, civic center, closed, closure, CULTURAL, greece, greek, HELLENIC, High, independence, Independence Day, JROTC, lincoln, lowell, macedonia, march, market, parade, reception, reserve officer training corps, rotc, San Francisco, school, st., street, traffic
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
The Hibernia Bank Building (San Francisco Landmark #130) at One Jones Street and McAllister recently got a powerwash scrubbing - it seems this green and white elephant is beginning to wake up.
Back in the 1990s this was the place for students at nearby UC Hastings College of Law to buy their Mary Jane. Then the SFPD’s Tenderloin Task Force (TTF) moved in, then Eddie Murphy filmed Metro (1997) , then the TTF moved out, then nothing.
Here lie the Sons of Ireland, the turning world has sung their souls to sleep:
Let’s hope everything looks spiffy when the 158th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade blows by this Saturday, March 14, 2009.
Wake up hibernus Hibernia, wake up. Spring is coming.
Tags: 1, 130, bank, building, closed, Hibernia, jones, landmark, mcallister, one, police department, San Francisco, SFPD, street, tenderloin task force, ttf
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Well here it is, atop the “brutal“ concrete Hyatt Regency San Francisco hotel at 5 Embarcadero - the former Equinox revolving restaurant. But it closed down a few years back, never to revolve again. Oh well.
Back in the day, it was the thang. Check out a major Warner release from 1979 on the YouTube: Time After Time. It’s a time travel epic involving a hungry (try not to yell out “check please!” at 3:45) Mary Steenburgen and saucy Jack the Ripper. See how the place rotated?
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These days, this rooftop locale has become the non revolving Regency Club Lounge or Regency Club, or Regency Club Floor and Lounge, something like that. The whole shebang is divided into four hemispheres, so now there are areas dedicated to “dining, business, entertainment and relaxation.”
But this “hotel within a hotel” is reserved only for the upper crust of hotel guests.
Check it out, if you can.
Tags: 1979, 5, architecture, brutal, closed, Embarcadero, equinox, film, financial district, hyatt, movie, regency, restaurant, revolving, San Francisco, time, time after time, travel, waterfront
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