Posts Tagged ‘garage’
Monday, July 6th, 2009
You would think that a car that could fit into a garage could also pass through the sidewalk cut-out made for said garage. Of course you say, it’s axiomatic ‘n stuff. But some people don’t believe that. These homeowners pester the City for official DPT sidewalk curb red paint to keep encroaching street parkers at bay.
As if that’s not enough, said homeowners then proceed to add in their own menacing, hysterical “TOW” lines in red paint, paint that never quite matches the official colour. Thusly, as seen in Ashbury Heights:
Is the owner of this Toyota RAV4 playing a dangerous game? Click to expand.
Is it true that huge WW II-era battleships had less room to play with, width-wise, going through the Panama Canal than what some complaining San Francisco homeowners demand for their little cars? Yes. For example, the 34,000-tonne U.S.S. North Carolina battleship had just 12 inches clearance on either side, back in the day.
But you give a San Francisco homeowner just a foot on either side and it’s TOW, TOW, TOW.
Driving lessons cheerfully given for free. NB: Try not to steer too much. NNB: Try backing her in when you garage it in the first place.
Here’s an idea. After you actually learn how to drive, then take the sandblaster you’ve got somewhere in your garage (you know, right next to the unexploded ordnance you all seem to store) to eliminate evidence of your unneighborlyness.
Good on you, mate.
Tags: blocked, call, curb, cutout, DPT, drive, garage, homeowners, know, mta, note, overhand, paint, parallel, park, parking, rav4, red, san francisco parking street ashbury heights, sfdpt, SFMTA, sidewalk, star, ticket, tow, towed, towing, toyota, truck, wacky, yellow
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
The Western Addition, contrary to what Wikipedia would have you believe, used to encompass all of San Francisco west of Larkin Street. You’ll find the term “WESTERN ADDITION” in the property records of all sorts of high rent San Francisco real estate. But smaller enclaves have been carved out over the years, most recently with the North of Panhandle Area. This process is now complete, so the shrinking Western A has shrunk again.
And here’s the proof. First note the Underwood typewriter and then take it from there. These hipsters are moving out, but they’ll be replaced.
As seen on the eastern side of Divisidero:
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Hang in there, Western Addition. Those real estate agents will stop subdividing you, eventually.
Tags: 5 five, agents, area, brolers, district, garage, golden gate park, hipster, larkin, neighborhoods, NOPA, north of pandhandle, north of panhandle, pacific heights, panhandle, real estate, sale, San Francisco, typewriter, underwood, western addition
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
This was the scene last night in Chinatown, where people turned out with their candles to mark the 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre.
All photos by Whole Wheat Toast. See more at the Toasted Blog.
Portsmouth Square, San Francisco:
The Goddess of Democracy:
Tags: 20th, 6-4, 8:00 PM, anniversary, avenue, beijing, blog, candlelight, China, chinatown, chinese, clay, consulate, garage, goddess of democracy, Grant, incident, jackson, japantown, june 4, Kearny, massacre, parking, portsmouth, portsmouth square, protests, sacramento, San Francisco, sq., Square, street, Tiananmen, toasted, vigil, Washington, western addition, whole wheat toast, 事件, 二十周年, 六四, 天安門, 天安門六四事件二十周年
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
There doesn’t appear to be a whole lot going on to mark the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre (aka June 4 Incident, aka “6-4“) around San Francisco today so far.
This is the scene at the sometimes-busy Chinese consulate in the Western Addition – barricades are ready to be used if needed.
Appears as if there’ll be a candlelight vigil in Chinatown’s Portsmouth Square at the Goddess of Democracy statue around 7:30 or 8:00 PM tonight.
“Candlelight vigil 4th June at 8p at Portsmouth Sq, Chinatown, San Francisco re: Tiananmen Square”
Here she is, the GoD, being ignored last year by Mayor Gavin Newsom in all the excitement leading up to the international Olympic Torch Relay fiasco of 2008. (Don’t look forward to any more of those international relays – they’re cancelled forever by the International Olympic Committee due to actions from the Sacred Flame Protection Squad, etc.)
June 4th is being remembered in San Francisco, but it doesn’t seem to be that big a deal at this point. Here’s one account from Tiananmen, in the virtual pages of SFGate:
“Our eyes locked. He was attractive in a stern sort of way, with wide-set eyes and a strong, dimpled chin. He was probably four or five years my junior. We looked into one another’s eyes for a few seconds, our limbs locked in this aggressive parody of a dance. I had an absurd memory of senior prom…” On it goes.
Anyway, it looks like Chinatown will be the venue for the biggest 6-4 observation in town today.
Tags: 20th, 6-4, 8:00 PM, anniversary, avenue, beijing, candlelight, China, chinatown, chinese, clay, consulate, garage, goddess of democracy, Grant, incident, jackson, japantown, june 4, Kearny, massacre, parking, portsmouth, portsmouth square, protests, sacramento, sq., Square, street, Tiananmen, vigil, Washington, western addition
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Well, here it is. After all kinds of stress and strife, the University of California, Hastings College of the Law parking garage / multi-use building in the Civic Center / Tenderloin area (aka Little Saigon) looks done from the outside.
Soon the legal eaglets at the largest and oldest law school in the West (yes, older than vaunted Boalt Hall across the estuary in Berkeley) will be able to easily descend from their nests at historic 100 McAllister or the “Book Concern Building” to get to their small German cars - without hogging up spaces at the Civic Center Parking Garage (aka Victory Garden Basement).
Note the “sickly green tiling” put in by the Vanishing Construction Workers of San Francisco County.
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It’s up… and it’s good! Three points for UC Hastings.
Tags: $100, Berkeley, book concern building, buildings, civic center, college, concrete, construction, economy, garage, hastings, jobs, law, little saigon, parking, pour, San Francisco, school, tenderloin, tower, UC, university of california, workers
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Now back in the day, it was easy to see construction workers on the job. All you had to do was look up through the I-beams and see them walking around. Those were the days, see?
But these days, due to changing construction techniques using concrete, rebar, and whatnot, you need to get above the workers to see them at labor. These folks are mostly out of view after the first floor gets done. Here, they work on the third floor.
Pretty soon, you wont see the cars of UC Hastings Law School students and staff clogging up the parking spaces of Civic Center and Little Saigon thanks to this new mixed-use building that’s still going up.
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The other problem with seeing these people at work is that these jobs are drying up lately.
Good-bye construction workers of San Francisco. See you again in a year or two?
Tags: buildings, civic center, college, concrete, construction, economy, garage, hastings, jobs, law, little saigon, parking, pour, San Francisco, school, tenderloin, UC, university of california, workers
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Well the concrete slabs are starting to stack up in the Civic Center - it’s a parking garage/retail space project. The 1200 students at vaunted UC Hastings School of Law (the oldest and largest law school west of St. Louis, or something) have enjoyed discounted parking at the Civic Center Garage for years.
Changes are afoot in front of historic McAllister Tower:
It’s nice to see these kids will be pulling their own weight soon. The whole idea is to make the place more “student friendly.”
We’ll see.
Fiat justitia
Tags: california, cars, civic center, fiat justisti, garage, golden gate, hastings, larkin, mcallister, parking, San Francisco, street, tenderloin, UC, university
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
This is where it all began. It’s Packard’s Garage, California Registered Historical Landmark #976:
BIRTHPLACE OF SILICON VALLEY – This garage is the birthplace of the world’s first high-technology region, “Silicon Valley.” The idea for such a region originated with Dr. Frederick Terman, a Stanford University professor who encouraged his students to start up their own electronics companies in the area instead of joining established firms in the East. The first two students to follow his advice were William R. Hewlett and David Packard, who in 1938 began developing their first product, an audio oscillator, in this garage.
This is what things looked like in 2005. Click to expand:
And this is what it looks like now, after rehab.
Nice garage, HP!
Tags: 367, 976, addison, bill dave, California Registered Historical Landmark, garage, hewlett, hp, packard, palo alto, silicon valley, silicone valley
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
You can see the culprit reflected in this car’s windshield – it’s a sap-filled Eucalyptus globulus (aka Tasmanian Blue Gum, Southern Blue Gum or Blue Gum Eucalyptus) just waiting to rain down on your vehicle.
Of course a garage around in the area of Golden Gate Park or it’s Panhandle could run you something like $10 per day. Maybe you’d feel a little gumminess is a small price to pay for free parking?
Your choice.
Tags: ashbury, australia, blue gum, california, car, district, Eucalyptus, garage, golden gate park, haight, park, parking, ricmond, San Francisco, sap, sunset, tree, vehicle
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