Posts Tagged ‘empty’
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
CCSF student Gloria Dean has a question for the SFMTAMUNIDPTSFBC:
“I would like to know the reasons why the Muni constantly stops trains on the T-Line at 23rd Street as if the rest of Third Street doesn’t exist.
“To see elderly women, men and children waiting over an hour for a train to get home is some of the worse treatment of citizens I’ve ever seen from a transportation system. I’ve traveled extensively all over the country as well as the world and I’ve only lived in this area for one year. However, this is obviously a classic combination of classism and racism being displayed, and it is truly a SHAME!
“I’ve decided to take my car out of the parking garage and drive. I refuse to be treated as a second class citizen. I deserve more and so do all the residents of Bayview. Last check, San Francisco doesn’t end at 23rd Street.”
Well I know the answer – it has to do with the district election system for the Board of Supervisors, and also the SFMTA’s general incompetence.
Now the Supervisor for our Bayview Hunters Point area asked about this sitch and the answer was that the T-Third zipped along at a speedy 9 MPH or something, so a T-Third Express wasn’t really needed.
Hey, here’s a jobs program. Why not tear out the T-Third and bring back the buses? Just asking. I mean the T-Third takes up a lot of space, right? Why doesn’t MUNI use it more?
Now speaking of the N Judah Express, here it is, in action, or lack thereof:
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Is that four buses sitting around on Sansome Street during rush hour? The drivers are just starting work and it’s time for a 40 minute lunch break? All right.
And here’s another on Bush, just idling away.
Actually, even when the N Judah Express band-aid operation is operational during our rush hours, the buses are totally empty, no passengers, most of the time.
Oh well.
Tags: 15, 15 bus, 2013, African American, bay area, Bayview, board of supervisors, bus, california, carmen chu, ccsf, city college, classism, DPT, east bay, empty, Gloria DEAN, Gloria L. Dean, hunters point, idle, judah, metro, Muni, n, n juhad, newspaper, racism, San Francisco, sansom, service, sfbc, SFMTA, sftmamunidptsfbc, streetcar, student, Supervisor, t third express, the bayview
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Thursday, March 14th, 2013
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…
Tags: 140 new montgomery, 2011, 2013, abandoned, actor, area, atop, bay area, building, california, construction, cranes, directly below the enemy's scrotum, eagles, empty, gutted, john tuturro, liebherr, market, mission, ne montgomery, neo gothic, neogothic, pac bell, pacbell, pacbell building, pacific bell, San Francisco, see-through, skyscraper, soma, souht, statues, Stockbridge Capital Partners, stories, street, Swiss, switzerland, top, transformer, Transformers, transformers ii, when trannies attack, white, Wilson Meany Sullivan, workers, yellow, yelp
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Thursday, January 31st, 2013
I says to myself, I says, “Is that a tiny bottle of Maker’s Mark?”
Then after kicking it over, I see that it is, red wax on top and everything
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Fin.
Tags: 2013, alcohol, bay area, booze, bottle, california, empty, garbage, maker's mark, red, San Francisco, shoe, Smallest, streets, tiny, wax, whiskey, whisky, world
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
This is a regular Sunday morning, but it was quite rainy.
Go up there as the weather’s clearing and you’ll have the place to yourself.
See?
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Usually things are busier, you know, when skies are blue…
Tags: 2011, bay area, california, christmas tree, diablo, empty, mount diablo, Mt., rain, rainy, road, San Francisco, tourists, twin peaks
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
Dirty Harry at 40 continues with the case of the pool atop our Financial District / Chinatown Hilton.
Now check it – everybody’s favorite psycho killer hippie Scorpio somehow got on the roof of famously-sawtoothed* 555 California, you know, in order to start the carnage. See?
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Now wouldn’t it be cool to go swimming up there on a dreaded sunny day?
Well, we’ll never know – here’s how it looks these days:
Empty empty empty.
Oh well…
I’ll get some more screen grabs and make some more posts from this movie later on.
In the meantime, check out all the locations – there are lots and lots:
In San Francisco:
- 555 California Street
- California Hall, 625 Polk Street (until recently, the California Culinary Academy)
- San Francisco City Hall
- Hall of Justice – 850 Bryant Street
- Forest Hill Station
- Hilton San Francisco Financial District, 750 Kearny Street – rooftop swimming pool in opening scenes
- Kezar Stadium – Frederick Street, Golden Gate Park
- Dolores Park, Mission District
- Mount Davidson
- Sts. Peter and Paul Church, Washington Square, 666 Filbert Street
- Washington Square, North Beach
- Big Al’s, 556 Broadway St.
- Roaring 20′s strip club, 552 Broadway
- North Beach, San Francisco
- Other locations
*So every shark laboring at triple-five Cal can have his/her own “corner office,” of sorts, that’s why the BofA Building has that distinctive shape.
Tags: 1971, 2011, 40th, 555 california, 555 California Street, 625 Polk, 750 Kearny, 850 bryant, bank, bank of america, bay area, Big Al's, building, cafe, california, California Hall, callahan, clint eastwood, cop, cross, detective, dirty harry, Dirty Harry at 40, dolores park, emptied, empty, film, financial district, Forest Hill Station, Greenbrae, Hall of Justice, harry, Hilton, hot dog, inspector callahan, Kezar Stadium - Frederick, Larkspur Landing, Mill Valley, mission district, mount davidson, movie, north beach, paddock, park general, Peter and Paul Church, pool, Roaring 20's, robbery, roof, San Francisco, Scorpio, SFPD, street, Sts., swimming, Universal Studios Hollywood, washington square
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
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.“
Tags: 2011, abandoned, bay area, building, california, empty, mission, ne montgomery, pacbell, pacific bell, San Francisco, skyscraper, soma, Stockbridge Capital Partners, stories, street, Wilson Meany Sullivan
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Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
CBS or ClearChannel or somebody has had a billboard here on Ashbury for the longest time, but now the whole thing is gone tout de suite.
That could be due to regulations, a permit hassle, our Great Recession or whatnot, but the fact that it was a prime target for taggers probably played the biggest role.
Oh well. Maybe this window will be back in operation with a quickness.
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Maybe.
Tags: advertising, ashbury, billboard, cbs, clearchannel, empty, graffiti, hayes, outdoor, panhandle, permit, recession, San Francisco, street, tag, taggers, tagging, vandalism
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Oh, Union Street, will you ever win? You’re chock-a-block full of meddlesome NIMBYs, hard-partying post-collegiates and empty storefronts. Oh well.
But there’s hope for the commercial landlords - it’s called the pop up shop. Why not allow a tenant to open up for a month or two for a few bucks? That’s better than the no bucks you’ve been making recently during the Great Recession. It’s POP UP RETAIL, BABY!
So, from this, right next to the Crepes a Go Go…
to this:
OMG, it’s the Sikara & Co. Jewelry Pop-Up Store! It just opened, but don’t fall in love with it – it’s closing next month.
(And for you non pop-up retailers, it’s super easy to renegotiate your rent these days. Those landlords are taking any offer, any offer at all.)
Anyway, here are the deets:
Sikara & Co. Jewelry Pop-Up Store Opens on Union Street
Sikara & Co., an internationally inspired modern fusion jewelry company makes Union Street in San Francisco its new home as a “pop-up” shop.
The pop-up style store front is one of the newest trends to emerge in retail. “This style of store front allows us to open a temporary store in San Francisco and market test our collections as we roll them out nationally; we are very excited to be one of the first pop-up stores in the city,” said Mousumi Shaw, Founder and Creative Director.
They go on and on - see you after the jump!
(more…)
Tags: 2167, christmas, empty, holidays, jewelry, landlords, MASSCLUSIVITY, PLANNED SPONTANEITY., pop up, rent, retrail, San Francisco, sikara, storefronts, street, union, union street
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009
This former Blockbuster Video store (remember those, kids?) at 2400 Irving near 25th in the Middle Sunset District has been sitting empty for a while. All the more reason to use graffiti to help get the place re-rented.
The rent is only $3 per square foot*, but remember, it’s ON IRVING DURING A RECESSION!
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If Video Killed the Radio Star, then NetFlix Killed the Video Store.
But oh noes! La Ciudad no tiene gusto de la pintada:
Or maybe especially erudite taggers who know all about commercial real estate are out there in the Middle Fog Belt and they aren’t afraid to show it?
You’re going to love, love, love this place!
*$300? $3.00? Per Month? Per Year? Purchase? Lease? They never make it explicit. Oh well.
Tags: (415), +3, 2400, 25th, 391-9888, ave, avenue, Blockbuster, bloomquist, bmcsf.com, brick, City, commerical, DURING A RECESSION, empty, graffiti, mortar, ON IRVING, ON IRVING DURING A RECESSION, only, rent, sale, shaun, square foot, store, street, Video
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
This was the scene last night at the Atlantic Richfield on Fell and Divisadero last night. “No Gas.” Why’s that? Who knows. Maybe it’s a temporary shutdown at this particular station for an innocuous reason. Maybe.
Or, maybe it’s a signal to go out and buy all that you can lay your hands on. That was such a good strategy a few months back when we had that “rice shortage“. Wasn’t it?
These days, it’s not just Peak Oil or Peak Rice, it’s Peak Everything. Oh noes! Panic, panic panic!
Oh well. The upside to all this is that the Fell Street bike lane, formerly crowded with cars sitting in line for ARCO gas (check the photo from MapJack at “1160 Fell St, San Francisco, CA 94117“), is now free for bikes to use 24/7. So the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition can count another victory. Plus the owner of the Spirit station across the street must be happy.
Hurray!
The Ice Age is coming, the sun zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
Engines stop running, but I have no fear…
Tags: arco, california, divisadero, empty, fell, gas, gasoline, no gas, oil, out of gas, peak, prices, rice, San Francisco, sfbc, shortage, spirit, Station
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