Posts Tagged ‘Hilton’
Friday, September 14th, 2012
(You know, praying that that percentage doesn’t drop too much further.)
Well, read the news and turn the pages. Here’s an recent ouchy from the HuffPo’s Aaron Sankin:
“Ed Lee Approval Rating Drops: San Francisco Mayor’s Popularity Dips Below 50 Percent.“
Whoops, how could that be?
Now let’s hear from Ron Russell of the Bay Area Observer. Just yesterday he pointed us to a couple things:
1. “Visa moving headquarters from San Francisco to Foster City“
“…marks the departure of one of the best-known companies, with a global brand, from the city where it was born…”
2. “Gap moving workers to Pleasanton“
“Social media companies and other tech companies are competing for space in San Francisco,” said Edward Del Beccaro, managing director with Transwestern Real Estate. “So other companies have to consider whether to renew their leases in San Francisco or look for other locations.”
Oh, and look at who else is leaving town. That’s right it’s the San Francisco 49ers:
Justin Herman Plaza, September 12th, 2012 - enjoy your weekend and then check out Homecoming 2012 this Sunday at 5:20 PM - this is a game you won’t want to miss – Detroit Lions. (I think I prefer the older uniforms, actually. Moving on…)
So, I’m struggling to understand how the City Family’s all-knowing, all-seeing Dear Leader Ed Lee, whose primary qualification for getting appointed appears to have been pleasing Willie Brown whether Willie Brown was doing something good or Willie Brown was doing something bad, is so obviously steering us in the right direction.
Will Twitter (the so-called “Mid-Market phenomenon”) ever employ 6000 souls in San Francisco? Hells no. So why do we base our planning around that prediction?
That’s the kind of thing I think about these days.
All right, enjoy your brekky at the Hilton, everybody, while I wonder who writes stuff like this:
“Cranes are in the air, office and residential towers are rising and San Francisco’s real estate market is red hot!”
“Join us for your tour of San Francisco’s future!”
Ooh, I have one too. It goes like:
“Let’s take the Golden State Warriors away from pathetic Oakland – It’s like stealing candy from a baby!”
Oh, and this:
“Let’s not talk about the failed America’s Cup anymore! At least not today.”
All right, back to “reality.” Here’s the invite. Enjoy:
“San Francisco Structures
This event is sold out.
Building San Francisco: Pipeline to the Future
Cranes are in the air, office and residential towers are rising and San Francisco’s real estate market is red hot!
This annual event takes a sweeping look at developments transforming San Francisco’s landscape, and the vision for the future. Our all-star lineup of real estate and community leaders will share inside information on the pipeline of projects: the Mid-Market phenomenon; sports team-led developments; Moscone Center expansion; key waterfront developments; what’s ahead for Mission Bay, and San Francisco is rapidly becoming the innovation capital of the world. Join us for your tour of San Francisco’s future!
Speakers:
*Mayor Ed Lee, City of San Francisco
*Rick Welts, President & COO, Golden State Warriors
*Carl Shannon, Managing Director, Regional Director – Northern California, Tishman Speyer
*Joe D’Alessandro, President & CEO, San Francisco Travel
Partnering Associations: BOMA San Francisco; SPUR; ULI San Francisco
- When:
- Friday, September 14, 2012, 7:30am-10:00am
- Where:
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Grand Ballroom B
333 O’Farrell Street
San Francisco, CA 94102″
[UPDATE: Oblvious, as expected. Who's the cheerleader now?
Tags: 2012, 333 O'Farrell, 49ers, Aaron Sankin, basketball, bay area, BOMA, breakfast, building, Building San Francisco, california, Carl Shannon, CEO, coo, economy, ed lee, Edward Del Beccaro, football, Future, Golden State Warriors, Hilton, huffpo, Joe D'Alessandro, Managing Director, Mayor, mid market, Northern California, Pipeline, prayer, president, Regional Director, Rick Welts, San Francisco, San Francisco Structures, San Francisco Travel, spur, Tishman Speyer, Transwestern Real Estate, travel, twitter, ULI, ULI San Francisco, union square, Warriors, willie brown
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
Those are the more interesting buildings I recognize.
Anyway, it’s your Corona Heights Park, so enjoy – get up there like these two and just take in the Financh as if it were the biggest HDTV in the world:
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Tags: $100, 2011, 345 california, bay area, buildings, california, college, corona heights, corona heights park, hastings, Hilton, law, mcallister, mcallister tower, San Francisco, school, twin peaks, UC, uc hastings, union square, view
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
Joshua Clements is all over this sitch down in Union Square:
“Homeland Security, A-Team van, SWAT team, mobile command post, Army Hummer, SFPD Bomb Squad, all in front of the Hilton.”
This urban assault vehicle used to be a GMC, or a Chevy or a Ford or a Hummer a Jeep or maybe a Dodge – I’ve narrowed it down that far:
An excellent shot from The Tender, Your Daily Cut of the Loin
Get more shots of this paramilitary fooferall at The Tens.
Tags: 2011, A-Team, A-Team van, army, Army Hummer, bay area, bomb, california, chevy, command post, convention, dept., dodge, ellis, federal, ford, geary, gm, gmc, Hilton, homeland security, hotel, hummer, jeep, mobile, mobile command post, o'farrell, police, San Francisco, SFPD, SFPD Bomb Squad, squad, street, suc, swat, SWAT team, taylor, team, tenderloin, van
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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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Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
Say what you will about that highly-rated Dirty Harry film, it ably shows you what the 415 looked like back in 1971, back before it became too expensive for Hollywood to do business in San Francisco. This movie is all 100% genuine on-location San Francisco Bay Area (with the exception of the early bank heist shots).
Now these days, the Golden Gate Park’s Buffalo Paddock doesn’t have more than a half-dozen critters. There’s just a handful left, all female (the Golden Girls let’s call them), so unless Ted Turner comes through with his offer of free bison from one of his ranches in Montana or someplace, we’re going to run out of bison.
But check out how things were back in the day. They were all over. See?
You can barely make out the school bus that psychotic hippie Scorpio just hijacked:
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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
Tags: 1971, 2011, 40th, 555 california, 555 California Street, 625 Polk, 750 Kearny, 850 bryant, bank, bay area, Big Al's, bison, buffalo, cafe, california, California Hall, callahan, clint eastwood, cop, cross, detective, dirty harry, Dirty Harry at 40, dolores park, film, financial district, Forest Hill Station, golden gate park, 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, Roaring 20's, robbery, San Francisco, Scorpio, SFPD, street, Sts., Universal Studios Hollywood, washington square
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Monday, January 3rd, 2011
Here’s the latest from our Uptown Tenderloin:
“Gunfire erupted at about 3:20 PM on the sidewalk of the 100 block of Turk Street near Taylor Street. The victim was shot multiple times at close range with a semi-automatic handgun…”
Hey, didn’t that used to be Adam’s Block? Yes it did.
Hey, wouldn’t it be helpful to have a little HD of the events leading up to the shooting? Yes it would.
But the bullying NIMBYs of the Tenderloin saw fit to shut AdamsBlock down.
Oh well.
Tags: $100, 2011, Adam, adam jackson, adam's block, adamsblock, bay area, block, california, camera, crime, ellis, glide memorial, Hilton, homicide, intersection, jackson, murder, prophet, San Francisco, shooting, street, taylor, tenderloin, turk, uptown, uptown tenderloin, Video
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Magazines suck these days, right kids? Oh, wait a sec, maybe not. That’s the message coming out of the ”4A’s [AAAA, the American Association of Advertising Agencies] Leadership / Media Conference“ that kicked off yesterday at the San Francisco Hilton Union Square. Check it:
“The leaders of five major magazine companies—Charles H. Townsend, Condé Nast; Cathie Black, Hearst Magazines; Jack Griffin, Meredith Corporation; Ann Moore, Time Inc.; and Jann Wenner, Wenner Media—today jointly announced the launch of one of the largest print advertising campaigns ever created to promote the vitality of magazines as a medium.”
O.K. then. Here’s the campaign logo – how many fonts from different mags do you recognize? Hint: “Es” is from Esquire (but even I knew that. I got the “M” and the “g” right as well, but everything else…)
Y&R NY made a clever graphic, I’ll give you that. But whenever you hear a Betty harshing on a Veronica, you start to think that the Betty is playing a losing game. For example, how bon are these mots?
“We Surf the Internet. We Swim in Magazines.”
“Will the Internet Kill Magazines? Did Instant Coffee Kill Coffee?”
Oh well. Look forward to seeing this ad in a few months:
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In short, magazines, magazines, magazines!
In short, Magazine Fever – Catch It.
In short, Grawwwwwwwk!!!!! goes the dinosaur.
All the deets, after the jump.
(more…)
Tags: 2010, 4a's, aaaa, Advance Publications, Amanda Cortese, American Association of Advertising Agencies, American Baby, Ann Moore, Better Homes and Gardens, cable, campaign, Cathie Black, Charles H. Townsend, Charles Townsend, Condé Nast, Corporation, Dawn Bridges, Debra Shriver, Did Instant Coffee Kill Coffee?, facebook, Family Circle, fitness, google, hearst, Hearst Corporation, Hilton, Howard Polskin, inc, internet, Jack Griffin, Jane Lehman, Jann Wenner, Ladies' Home Journal, LLC, Magazine Publishers of America, magazines, Mark Neschis, Maurie Perl, Men's Journal, Meredith, Meredith Corporation, online, parents, Patrick Taylor, Paul Luthringer, power of print, radio, readers, Rolling Stone, rubican, San Francisco, satellite, Susan Portnoy, television, time, transformation, union square, Us Weekly, We Surf the Internet, We Surf the Internet. We Swim in Magazines, We Swim in Magazines., Wenner Media, Will the Internet Kill Magazines?, Will the Internet Kill Magazines? Did Instant Coffee Kill Coffee?, yahoo, young
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
You know the JetBlue and the Virgin America, right? Let’s review:
“JetBlue Airways is an American low-cost airline…”
“Virgin America, Inc. is a United States-based low-cost airline…”
Well, check out what the suits attending the American Association of Advertising Agencies’ Transformation 2010 convention at the Hilton San Francisco Union Sqaure are paying to fly in from and back to the Big Apple, assuming they’re stuck in the coach section during this Great Recession:
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See that? United, Delta, American and Continental all were quoting airfares less than $300, and the ”low-cost airlines” were the most expensive.
Perhaps sexy new Virgin America and JetBlue should be called premium airlines these days?
Just asking…
Tags: 2010, 333, advertising, agencies, air, airfare, airlines, airport, American, association, City, continental, convention, delta, Hilton, jet blue, jfk, low cost, new york, o'farrell, San Francisco, SFO, street, traditional, transformation, transformation 2010, union square, united, virgin, virgin america
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
This was the scene last night at the Palace of Fine Arts, where Stanfurd freshman and bay area local Crystal Lee was crowned Miss Chinatown USA 2010. It’s international news.
All the pageantry was caught by David Yu of davidyuweb. He always has great photos of whatever’s going on the bay area.
The crowning the School of the Arts alum:
Here are all the contestants: Christine Lim 李汶娸, Kristina Owyoung 歐陽坤怡, Samantha Chin 陳冠曄, Leilani Soon 孫愛蘭, Anna Chiem 詹佩盈, Christina Zhang 張子倩, Crystal Lee 李萬晴, Gloria Mui 梅主恩, Angela Wang 王兆蓬, Chang Liu 劉暢, Li Li 李欣燃, and Tong Qiao 喬彤:
How many peacocks had to die for this outfit? None, I s’pose:
Congratulations:
Crystal Lee
San Francisco, CA
Miss Chinatown U.S.A.
Kristina Owyoung
Lafayette, CA
Miss Chinese Chamber of Commerce/First Princess
Christina Zhang
Pleasanton, CA
Miss San Francisco Chinatown
Li Li
Flushing, NY
2nd Princess
Anna Chiem
Chicago, IL
3rd Princess
Angela Wang
Sugar Land, TX
4th Princess
Anna Chiem
Chicago, IL
Miss TVB Choice Award
And of course our Chinese New Year’s Parade is coming up (rain expected – it’s free to watch of course, or you can pay $30 for reserved seating) on Saturday, February 27th, 2010, right after the Coronation Ball:
Miss Chinatown U.S.A. Coronation Ball
Friday, February 26, 2010
San Francisco Hilton & Towers
333 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco
(415) 982-3000
6:00 pm No Host Cocktails
7:00 pm Dinner and Dancing until midnight
Tickets: $120
The newly selected Miss Chinatown USA and her court will be crowned at the annual Harrah’s Coronation Ball. The black tie dinner/dance, attended by many community leaders, promises to be a highlight of the Lunar New Year festivities.
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Boy oh boy, when you hire PR flack Sam Singer to represent you, as many others have done, he won’t just hide in some office, oh no. What he’ll do is go out in the field and meet your nemesis head on. As here, during yesterday’s big labor rally / march / sit-in in and around Union Square.
With hundreds of unionists assembling behind him on Market Street, Sam sang to the media, complete with Frank Chu watching on.
Sam Singer complaining to KTVU 2 about how Local 2′s Mike Casey left the negotiating table:
AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka on the right, with local labor leaders addressing a huge crowd at 750 Market:
Fire fighters union president John Hanley:
Handshakes are out, terrorist fist jabs are in:
About 800 marched (or 1400+ or 1500 if you’re a partisan with rose-colored glasses) up to the nearby Hilton Hotel, where 100+ got arrested.
On It Goes…
UPDATE: Dan Nguyen-Tan has video of the march right here.
Tags: 2010, afl-cio, associates, boycott, flack, hanley, Hilton, hotel, John, l trumka, Local 2, march, market, Mike Casey, parade, pr, public relations, richard, richard trumka, sam siner, sam singer, San Francisco, singer, street, strike, union, workers
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