Posts Tagged ‘Hall of Flowers’
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Well this was different. Seems that participants at today’s San Francisco’s Budget Town Hall in Golden Gate Park were invited by postcard to spend a few hours voicing their opinions about the city budget for 2010-2011. See?
And by voicing their opinions, I really mean they were clicking on Reply Mini remote control voting devices as if they were in a focus group.
An invitee. Perhaps the free California Academy of Sciences tickets given out to participants adjusted his attitude:
The mise-en-scene today, complete with City Department heads.
Here’s the spiel from Mayor Gavin Newsom. (Don’t be surprised to see some shots from the photographers today being used in the Lt. Governor’s race down the road.) Anyway, it seems “some” of the “150 people” who “run San Francisco” by speaking out at “every” public meeting are “paid to be there” – that’s the news of the day. And nobody showed up in a chicken suit.
Are today’s participants San Francisco’s version of Nixon’s Great Silent Majority? You Make The Call.
Tags: 2010, 2010-2011, 2011, budget, County Fair Building, deficit, department heads, Focus Group, gavin newsom, golden gate park, Great Silent Majority, Hall of Flowers, inner sunset, Mayor, nixon, nixonian, pretty much sucks, reply mini, richard, San Francisco, San Francisco's, Silent Majority, taxes, town hall
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Via the N Judah Chronicles and the Inner Sunset Neighborhood Group comes news of tonght’s Inner Sunset Town Hall:
“The Inner Sunset will have a Town Hall Meeting with Supervisors Sean Elsbernd and Ross Mirkarimi, and SFPD Chief Gascon at 7pm in the County Fair building in Golden Gate Park, located just past the park entrance at 9th and Lincoln.”
The Inner Sunset District: King of All the Sunsets:
Overcast weather and overhead wires – the Inner Sunset has it all:
See you at the meeting tonight.
Tags: 2010, 28th, 5, 7, building, chief, Chronicles, county, district, gascon, George, George Gascón, golden gate park, Hall of Flowers, inner, january, meeting, n judah, N Judah Chronicles, police, public, ross mirkarimi, San Francisco, Sean Elsbernd, SFPD, sunset, town hall
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
Find out just what an Antique Paper Faire is all about at the Hall of Flowers in GGP tomorrow, if you want.
It’s sort of a part of the first Sunday Streets on the West si-iiiide, aka Ocean Beach.
See you there!
Specialties
The Vintage Paper Fair is a large exhibition and sale that offers an array of antique paper items for collectors of all kinds. Serious collectors come and know exactly what they want, but it is also a welcome environment for first-time collectors to come in and discover the history and art that is found in this hobby.
Among the 50 + vendors there, you will find postcards, trade cards, stereoviews, photography, Victorian-era items, pin-ups, sports memorabilla, labels (beer, fruit crate etc.) brochures, transportation related (vintage cars etc.) and many more types of interesting and beautiful antique paper. Most items for sale date back to the early 20th century, some are more modern, some older. There are boxes of 25 cent postcards as well as rare and expensive museum-quality pieces.
Our location is unique as well, situated in the heart of Golden Gate Park, near the Botanical Gardens, Academy of Sciences, De Young Museum as well many great restaurants.
History
Established in 2006
We are the only antique paper fair in the city of San Francisco, and thought a new show would contribute to the culture and collecting hobby here!
Meet the Business Owner: Hal L.
Hal Lutsky has been in the antique paper business since 1996, and a show promoter since 2001.
Tags: 2009, antique, August 9, ephemera, fair, faire, golden gate park, great highway, hal l., Hal Lutsky, Hall of Flowers, inner, inner sunset, juice, ocean beach, oj, paper, postcards, sale, San Francisco, shoppping, show, simpson, summer, sunday streets, sunset, vintage, Vintage Paper Fair
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
Hal Lutsky’s Vintage Paper Fair (aka Antique Paper Show aka Antique Ephemera Show) is going on this weekend at the Hall of Flowers near the Inner Sunset in Golden Gate Park, right near Strybing Arboretum. Let’s take a look, huh?
Here’s the deal – it’s a bunch of old printed stuff, like gas station maps your ancestors got free in 1946 for $3, and postcards from people you don’t know, 3 for a dollar.
The whole place smells like the basement in my grandmother’s house, not the new one in Agawam, the old one in Springfield on Roosevelt.
And here’s the star of the show – O.J. Simpson, Galileo High School, 1965. See, when OJ wasn’t busy killing his ex-wife and Ron Goldman and who-knows-how-many manatees in Florida over the years, he took the time to honor Hertz rental car licensees. Que bueno. Do you want to buy this?
There’s your antique paper, right there.
Vintage Paper Fair
SAN FRANCISCO
2009
May 23 & 24
August 8 & 9
Tags: 2009, antique, ephemera, golden gate park, Hal Lutsky, Hall of Flowers, inner, inner sunset, juice, oj, paper, sale, San Francisco, shoppping, show, simpson, sunset, Vintage Paper Fair
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
Check out the flowery language used to make the dahlia San Francisco’s official flower:
“The dahlia partakes essentially of the character of our beloved city, in birth, breeding, and habit, for it was originally Mexican, carried thence to Spain, to France and England in turn, being changed in the process from a simple daisylike wild flower to a cosmopolitan beauty.”
Well, O.K. then. Golden Gate Park has tons of dahlia these days – check out the Yelp-approved Dahlia Dell when you have the chance. And also check out the upcoming flower show:
The Dahlia Society of California Flower Show in 2008 will be held at the Hall of Flowers (San Francisco County Fair Building) at 9th Avenue and Lincoln Way in San Francisco. It will be open to the public on Saturday, August 16th at 10:00 a.m. and will remain open until 5:00 p.m. On Sunday, August 17th the show will open at 10:00 a.m. and will close at 4:00 p.m.
A riot of late-summer colour hidden in the park.
Tags: 2008, 9th, avenue, california, County Fair Building, dahlia, dell, flower, golden gate park, Hall of Flowers, lincoln, San Francisco, show, Society
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
The California Department of Food and Agriculture called it quits today on the issue of spraying for the Light Brown Apple Moth. All of a sudden like.
The family that Stops the Spray together, stays together (or something like that).
This should be gratifying to Senator Carole Migden, who thinks, “Bay Area residents ought not to serve as guinea pigs and have their health jeopardized for an ill-conceived program and an unproven approach.”
The same with San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, who says he’s, “glad CDFA appears to have accepted the inevitable.”
So after all these months, that is that.
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
The bandwagon opposing aerial spraying for light brown apple moth eradication is gaining momentum.
Last night, San Francisco Supervisors Carmen Chu, Gerardo Sandoval, and Ross Mirkarimi, along with scientists, physicians and organic farmers, all addressed a standing-room-only crowd of hundreds at the Hall of Flowers in Strybing Arboretum.
Senator Carole Migden praises the efforts of the assembled experts.
In related news, the “twist-tie” approach is under new scrutiny in San Mateo County.
On it goes. Per the Chronicle:
On Saturday, Stop the Spray Marin is holding a march and rally from 9:30 a.m. to noon at the southwest end of the Corte Madera Town Center. More information about the events is at www.sfspraytownhall.org and www.stopthespraymarin.org.
It’s hard to imagine light aircraft buzzing the city with spray canisters firing after seeing all this agitation, but who knows…
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