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Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
You know, after you been bitten hundreds of times by bedbugs, which, you know, are all over the place in San Francisco. Still.
Like at your hotel, dear Visitor.
Like, I don’t know, did the Hotel Whitcomb,change its name owing to some issue with bedbugs?
The old Ramada is now the new Whitcomb. But it’s still the same place:
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Oh, here we go:
“Downtown Bedbug Attack Costs Ramada $71,000“
(I don’t know if I’d call this area “downtown,” but anywho, wow.)
Now, let’s hear from Kris Betz, Hotel Whitcomb Director of Operations, to get a (somewhat) canned response to a relatively recent allegation of infestation:
“19 July 2011
Dear Guest,
We are sorry for any discomfort that you may have experienced and we are very concerned about what happened. We want you to know that it is our highest priority to provide our guests with the cleanest rooms possible. We have a dedicated inspection team of trained staff that inspects all our rooms to ensure that these cases do not arise.
As you mentioned that you did not find any evidence, so it is possible you could have encountered them elsewhere. Please note that this incident has nothing to do with the cleanliness of our rooms. Please rest assured that this is not a reflection of our facilities cleanliness, as we take pride in providing excellent service and the cleanest accommodations, for all our guests.
Please feel free to contact me at your convenience so we may discuss any circumstances which may have occurred and please accept our sincerest apologies.
Kris Betz, Director of Operations”
I don’t know, man, I feel sorry for the Euros what stay at this place. They’re pretty much all gorgeous,* in-shape,* natural blond(e)s,* who just want to have fun in the 415, you know, they just want to pose for photos with big American police cars and fire trucks and stuff like that and what’s so wrong with that?
I feel sorry for them when they get shot and killed on Mason in Union Square or run over and killed by drunk drivers on Masonic or bitten 400 times by bedbugs during one stay.
I kind of feel that we’re letting these people down. I feel we’re shirking our obligations to our tourists.
If I were Director of Operations at Hotel Whitcomb, I would engage in total war with the bedbugs.
And I wouldn’t write “Dear Guest” letters what discuss possibilities and evidence.
Just saying.
*Unlike me.
Tags: 1231 market, 2012, 8th, bay area, bay citizen, bed, bed bugs, bedbugs, bites, bitten, bugs, california, civic center, Dear Guest, Director of Operations, europeans, euros, hotel, hotel whitcomb, hotel whitcombe, Katharine Mieszkowski, Kris Betz, lawsuit, letter, market, mid market, ramada plaza, registry, room, San Francisco, street, twitterloin, visitors, whit.com
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Friday, September 21st, 2012
It looks like this:
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Quite a lot of stuff going on in that shot, huh?
I hadn’t seen the place since it opened up in March 2012.
This is what things look like back then:
The thing about Lucky Strike at 200 King near 4th Street is that’s it’s not like any bowling alley you’ve ever seen. Call it a “gastropub-ish funhouse” or an “upscale bowling lounge” instead.
Get the deets here and now let’s take a look.
Exterior at 200 King:
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L.S. on the left, AT&T Park on the right, kitty-corner:
And the CalTrain station is to the right as you look outward:
Here’s the main bar and restaurant seating area. The idea of the communal tables on the left is to have them at Goldilocks height, not too low and not too high, to allow mixing and conversation betwixt those sitting and those standing.
OMG, this place is bigger than I thought it would be.
Moving on to the Einstein Room, with billiards and other diversions to entertain your brain:
But lets go further in, let’s go bowling:
Shoes shoes shoes!
On the way to the lanes:
I don’t know what this is:
Here we go, here are some of the lanes:
The main bowling area will have art all around, made by innumerable local artists. Here are some Obey Giants from Shepard Fairey, who used to be local.
Moving on past the Lebowski Wall(!) to…
…the Green Room, your own private party space with your own private lanes! OMG.
Can you imagine what kind of large, rich, youthful companies have already made reservations to rent out the Green Room and portions of the main bar area? Oh yes you can, give a guess and you’ll be correct. Anyway, here are the special Green Room lanes, one of which is named in honor of Brian Wilson, a part-owner.
In short, Lucky Strike is going to be awesome.
See you Friday!
Tags: 2012, area, at&t park, athlete, baseball, bay area, birthday, bowl, bowling, california, caltrain, CEO, Dude abides, einstein, fans, founder, giants, Gillian, Gillian foster, green room, lane 38, lanes, lebowski wall, lounges, Lucky Strike, Lucky Strike Entertainment, Lucky Strike San Francisco, Lucky Strikes Lanes, March 9, market, Muni, night, owner, parties, partner, Partner Owner, pitcher, relief, room, San Francisco, soma, south, spring training, Station, Steven Foster, streeetcars, vip
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Monday, August 13th, 2012
Famed restaurateur Gordon Ramsay is moving on from restaurants to hotels starting today – HOTEL HELL debuts tonight on the Fox.
Check it:
“If [hotels] suggest they will upgrade you to the honeymoon suite, don’t take it. I’m trying to be serious because it is somewhat shocking. I just didn’t think it could shoot that far. I’m talking about if you shake a can of Coke and open it.”
OK fine.
Actually, GR, I was thinking that bed bugs might belong at the top of the list.
Market Street, USA:
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But, hey Gordo, are you going to come to the 415? We need you here.
Speaking of Market Street and bed bugs, here’s what the Hotel Whitcomb (renamed from Ramada Plaza not too long ago because of a massive lawsuit involving bed bugs and ballyhoo) will send out to you if you report dozens of bites on your porcelain skin:
“19 July 2011
Dear Guest,
We are sorry for any discomfort that you may have experienced and we are very concerned about what happened. We want you to know that it is our highest priority to provide our guests with the cleanest rooms possible. We have a dedicated inspection team of trained staff that inspects all our rooms to ensure that these cases do not arise.
As you mentioned that you did not find any evidence, so it is possible you could have encountered them elsewhere. Please note that this incident has nothing to do with the cleanliness of our rooms. Please rest assured that this is not a reflection of our facilities cleanliness, as we take pride in providing excellent service and the cleanest accommodations, for all our guests.
Please feel free to contact me at your convenience so we may discuss any circumstances which may have occurred and please accept our sincerest apologies.
Kris Betz, Director of Operations”
That’s how we roll in San Francisco’s corrupt Mid Market Twitterloin.
So sure, you’re covered in bites, but:
1. You probably got bitten somewhere else, not at Hotel Whitcomb!
2. Or maybe you’re just making things up, maybe you’re insane!
3. Or maybe you’re not insane but you’re a criminal who wants to shake us down for, I don’t know, another big fat $71,000 judgment / settlement!
4. Or maybe you did encounter bed bugs in one of our rooms, but probably you didn’t experience any discomfort, right? Kind of a no harm no foul kind of thing!
5. And, in any event, our rooms are clean. Did I mention that before? Our rooms are clean. Can I mention this fact four times in five sentences? YES I CAN!
Save us, Gordon Ramsay.
Tags: 1231 market, 2, 2012, 8th, bay area, bed, bed bugs, bedbugs, bites, bitten, bugs, california, channel, civic center, Dear Guest, Director of Operations, europeans, euros, fox, Gordon Ramsay, honeymoon, hotel, HOTEL HELL, hotel whitcomb, hotel whitcombe, Kris Betz, lawsuit, letter, market, market street, mid market, network, ramada plaza, registry, room, San Francisco, sperm, street, suite, twitterloin, visitors, whit.com
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Monday, August 13th, 2012
From the mind of your Supervisor Eric Mar comes a proposal to have a 5 Fulton Limited during the morning and evenings drives Monday through Friday, plus a 5 Fulton short line from 6th Avenue to the Financh.
Like if the N Judah can get an N Judah Express, why can’t the #5 Fulton get a #5 Fulton Limited, am I right, gf?
So, if this sound good to you, as well it might, be sure to attend the big meeting on August 21, 2012 at 5:30 PM, 461 6th Avenue betwixt Anza and Geary:
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Hurray!
Tags: #5 Fulton Limited, #5 muni, 2012, 21, 5 five, 5 fulton, 6th, auguts, ave, avenue, bay area, board, bus, california, community, diesel, DPT, election, electric, eric mar, express, fulton, Fulton Limited, limited, Line, mar, mcallister, meeting, middle, outer, police, proposal, richmond, room, San Francisco, SFMTA, SFPD, shirt, slow, speed, Station, Supervisor, supervisors, transit
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
Look closer, you’ll see it.
You think it’s just a coincidence that the old 420 rolls through the Upper Haight?
I don’t.*
We’re on our way to The Vapor Room!**
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And hey, speaking of bud and Giants baseball, back in the 1990′s, people, just regular people, not just baseball players, would hang out in the crib of star pitcher William Joseph Van Landingham and smoke weed all day. So much so that other Giants called him Van Bongingham. I’m srsly.
All right, GO GIANTS!
*Check out what’s on the side of area fire trucks, for example.
**Indeed. 607A Haight is about ten blocks down the road, in the Lower Haight.
Tags: 5448, 607, 607a, ashbury, baseball, blog, Bongingham, Bud, bus, district, electric, GO GIANTS!, haight, haight Ashbury, haighteration, joseph, lower, lower haight, marijuana, mlb, mta, Official 420 Bus, pitcher, player, players, room, SFMTA, sign, signs, smoke, street, upper, upper casing, Upper Haight, uppercasing, van, Van Bongingham, Van Landingham, vapor, William, William Joseph Van Landingham
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
The thing about Lucky Strike at 200 King near 4th Street is that’s it’s not like any bowling alley you’ve ever seen. Call it a “gastropub-ish funhouse” or an “upscale bowling lounge” instead.
Get the deets here and now let’s take a look.
Exterior at 200 King:
Click to expand
L.S. on the left, AT&T Park on the right, kitty-corner:
And the CalTrain station is to the right as you look outward:
Here’s the main bar and restaurant seating area. The idea of the communal tables on the left is to have them at Goldilocks height, not too low and not too high, to allow mixing and conversation betwixt those sitting and those standing.
OMG, this place is bigger than I thought it would be.
Moving on to the Einstein Room, with billiards and other diversions to entertain your brain:
But lets go further in, let’s go bowling:
Shoes shoes shoes!
On the way to the lanes:
I don’t know what this is:
Here we go, here are some of the lanes:
The main bowling area will have art all around, made by innumerable local artists. Here are some Obey Giants from Shepard Fairey, who used to be local.
Moving on past the Lebowski Wall(!) to…
…the Green Room, your own private party space with your own private lanes! OMG.
Can you imagine what kind of large, rich, youthful companies have already made reservations to rent out the Green Room and portions of the main bar area? Oh yes you can, give a guess and you’ll be correct. Anyway, here are the special Green Room lanes, one of which is named in honor of Brian Wilson, a part-owner.
In short, Lucky Strike is going to be awesome.
See you Friday!
Tags: 2012, area, at&t park, athlete, baseball, bay area, birthday, bowl, bowling, california, caltrain, CEO, Dude abides, einstein, fans, founder, giants, Gillian, Gillian foster, green room, lane 38, lanes, lebowski wall, lounges, Lucky Strike, Lucky Strike Entertainment, Lucky Strike San Francisco, Lucky Strikes Lanes, March 9, market, Muni, owner, parties, partner, Partner Owner, pitcher, relief, room, San Francisco, soma, south, spring training, Station, Steven Foster, streeetcars, vip
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
If you want some deets on our recent election, you just might find them right here.
Yesterday’s PowerPoint presentation at USF, featuring Alex Clemens on RCV (and RCV on Alex Clemens):
Get all the deets here and here.
And AC is not done yet. From the City Democratic Club:
“Friends:
The election results are in! Are you not quite sure what happened? Plain confused? Or just can’t get enough? Join the City Democratic Club tomorrow, November 17 @ 6pm for our November meeting, where we will get an election recap and analysis from political veteran and founder of SF Usual Suspects Alex Clemens.
What: City Democratic Club November Meeting and Election Recap w/Alex Clemens
When: Thursday, November 17 @ 6:00pm
Where: Marines’ Memorial Club, Regimental Room, 10th Floor (609 Sutter Street @ Mason Street). Please join us for cocktails before and after the meeting at the Flying Leatherneck Lounge, located on the 12th floor. Join us for some great food and drinks with spectacular views of the City!
The Marines’ Memorial Club is served by the 2 Clement, 3 Jackson, 30-Stockton, 38 Geary, and 45 Union-Stockton. Discount parking ($5/hour with validation) is also available at the Olympic Club (665 Sutter Street).
We look forward to seeing you next week! If you have any questions, please contactcitydemclub@aol.com.
Regards,
City Democratic Club
About Alex Clemens
Alex Clemens is a well-seasoned communications advisor, political operative, and advocate. He has served five tours of duty working for politicians in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., worked as a community organizer in San Francisco’s SOMA district, developed philanthropic plans for an innovative high-tech company, taught pre-kindergarten in a San Francisco public school, and been licensed as a private investigator in the state of California. He has experience working in private industry, government service, the non-profit sector, political campaigns, and as a communications and strategy consultant.
Alex founded Barbary Coast Consulting in 2003, and has spent a great deal of his time since then attempting to recruit smarter, harder-working and more creative colleagues to Barbary Coast. In addition to his work at Barbary Coast, he serves as an adjunct professor at the Leo McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good at the University of San Francisco, instructing students in the Master in Public Affairs program – and he serves as a board member at the Coro Center for Civic Leadership.
Alex is regularly quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and local television stations on matters regarding San Francisco politics. In 1995, he created the Usual Suspects website, a daily roundup of San Francisco political news. He is a regular speaker on politics and current events at SPUR, Leadership San Francisco, the Chamber of Commerce, Coro, the USF lunch series, and other local civic and political organizations.
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Plus $60 per night in hotel tax – don’t forget about that.
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Tags: 2011, bay area, body, dead, hotel, room, San Francisco, Surprise, tax, up, waking
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
So there I was out getting exercise by getting those Billy Elliot rush tickets at the Orpheum Theatre* and I noticed the new name for this old hotel.
See? I totally read that as Hotel Whit.Com, ’cause, you know, I’m not hooked up right:
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But then I thought, oh, the Hotel Whitcomb, is that the place where they might have changed the name owing to some issue with bedbugs?
Oh, here we go:
“Downtown Bedbug Attack Costs Ramada $71,000“
(I don’t know if I’d call this area “downtown,” but anywho, wow.)
Now, let’s hear from Kris Betz, Hotel Whitcomb Director of Operations, to get a (somewhat) canned response to quite recent allegations of infestation:
“19 July 2011
Dear Guest,
We are sorry for any discomfort that you may have experienced and we are very concerned about what happened. We want you to know that it is our highest priority to provide our guests with the cleanest rooms possible. We have a dedicated inspection team of trained staff that inspects all our rooms to ensure that these cases do not arise.
As you mentioned that you did not find any evidence, so it is possible you could have encountered them elsewhere. Please note that this incident has nothing to do with the cleanliness of our rooms. Please rest assured that this is not a reflection of our facilities cleanliness, as we take pride in providing excellent service and the cleanest accommodations, for all our guests.
Please feel free to contact me at your convenience so we may discuss any circumstances which may have occurred and please accept our sincerest apologies.
Kris Betz, Director of Operations”
I don’t know, man, I feel sorry for the Euros what stay at this place. They’re pretty much all gorgeous,** in-shape,** natural blonds,** who just want to have fun in the 415, you know, they just want to pose for photos with big American police cars and fire trucks and what’s so wrong with that? I feel sorry for them when they get shot and killed on Mason in Union Square or run over and killed by drunk drivers on Masonic or bitten 400 times by bedbugs during one stay. I kind of feel that we’re letting these people down. I feel we’re shirking our obligations to our tourists.
If I were Director of Operations at Hotel Whitcomb, I would engage in total war with the bedbugs. And I wouldn’t write “Dear Guest” letters what discuss possibilities and evidence.
Just saying.
*Man, for $40 a pop, that’s the best live entertainment value in town, although I think it’s kind of random how good the rush ticket seats are – down in the Orchestra, up in the Mez, who knows. Now,you gotta show up two hours before the performance (at least two hours, and still there’s no guarantee that they won’t be sold out) so that’s your classical price discrimination in operation right there. Anyway, the fun ends August 21, 2011!
BILLY ELLIOT RUSH SEATS NOW AVAILABLE
30 tickets per performance will be offered at $40 per ticket.
- Available 2 hours prior to curtain
- CASH only
- Orpheum Theatre Box Office ONLY
- First come, First served
- 2 per person
**Unlike me.
Tags: 1231 market, 8th, bed, bed bugs, bedbugs, bites, bitten, bugs, civic center, Dear Guest, Director of Operations, europeans, euros, hotel, hotel whitcomb, hotel whitcombe, Kris Betz, lawsuit, letter, market, mid market, ramada plaza, registry, room, street, twitterloin, visitors, whit.com
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Friday, May 6th, 2011
The San Francisco Chronicle’s Henry K. Lee has the early details and Terry McSweeny of KGO-TV has a video report.
This is the lane that goes through St. Mary’s between Stanyan and Shrader:
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The owner of the white Hyundai (CA 6HOT660) resides in the Chinatown / Nob Hill area, one might assume.
And here’s one of the cars that driver Jose Jimenez hit on Clayton near Fell Street when he was traveling from the hit and run scene to St. Mary’s. This two-ton minivan was pushed a foot or two so the impact speed must have been fairly high:
Tags: 2009, 2011, 23, 55, 6 hot 660, 6hot660, accident, African American, alleged, arrested, avenue, bay area, black, california, cars, center, chrages, clayton, collision, District Attorney, driving, drunk, dui, dwi, Elantra, emegency, gascon manslaughter, golden gate street, hit, hospital, Jose Jimenez, latinos, license plate, masonic, medical center, NOPA, old, pedestrain, planters, police, room, run, San Francisco, SFPD, st. mary's, suspect, turk, vehicular, western addition, year, year's
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