Posts Tagged ‘San Francisco Botanical Garden’
Monday, April 8th, 2013
I’ll tell you, I haven’t toured Strybing Arboretum since they threw up the paywall a few years back, kind of a boycott thing.
But I remember the bicycle parking area right out front of the Main Entrance near 9th and Lincoln, you know, right where it belonged.
Well, things are changing.
In another “improvement” from the RPD, the bike parking area is a moving all the way over, as seen in the top right of this image:
Here you go, a big-ass pdf:
12 10-04_DD package Gateway Improvements
On It Goes…
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
This is from before the time they put up the tollbooths. (I’ve stopped going there myself, a kind of boycott, I suppose.)
These days the place is a ghost town and all the docents are upset about the big change.
Oh well.
Attendance is “less than anticipated” but the people who did the anticipating knew they were lying so I don’t know how you score that one.
Oh well.
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Saturday, October 1st, 2011
See?
The (formerly) Great Lawn aka Main Entrance Lawn or Main Lawn, formerly the home of lazy sunbathers:
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Oh well.
Is it too soon to say that the charging-for-admissions policy is a big flop?
Just asking.
Bro.
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
This is what you can see inside Strybing Arboretum this time of year:
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And outside, what you’ll see are a bunch of tourists debating the merits of paying $28 or whatever to enter the gates. Usually, they walk off dejectedly.
Oh well.
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Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Why does our Strybing Arboretum (aka San Francisco Botanical Garden) need to become “world-class?”
Nobody’s ever explained that one to me. But that’s the rationale for charging admission these days (after six decades of free admission.)
Now, why isn’t our Strybing Arboretum called Strybing Arboretum anymore?
So it can become “world-class.” (Apparently, naming an arboretum after the woman who gave the money to start things up is considered provincial Back East. Plus Founder Helene Strybing made the mistake of becoming old and dying so nobody gives a ROMEO ALPHA about her anymore.)
Anyway, they started charging admission so the place turned into a ghost town, a “museum of plants and trees.”
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Oh well.
They said if things didn’t work out, they’d stop charging admission.
They said.
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Friday, June 10th, 2011
Here are your deets for the new ticket booths at the San Francisco Botanical Garden :
59K for kiosks
And here’s your bill:
And here’s what they look like. Yes, there’s a bathroom in there:
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Myself, I haven’t been back into Strybing (except to poke my head in to see how few people are there) since they started charging admission.
Maybe I’ll visit again when they stop charging…
But these booths need hawkers, you know, just like the strip clubs in North Beach. Why don’t you sign up?
You’ll need sales skills of course. Check out the job posting below.
BTW, your pay as a “Garden Ambassador”
“Description
Greet visitors at the North Gate of the Botanical Garden and encourage them to visit this outstanding garden. Many visitors approach the admissions kiosk and don’t know about the amazing garden that lies just beyond the gates.
Skills Requirements Willingness to approach the public. Ability to communicate effectively and persuasively. Sincere desire to share basic knowledge about the Garden. Genuine love and appreciation for the SF Botanical Garden.”
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Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
Blue bamboo (Himalayan Blue Bamboo, Himalayacalamus hookerianus ) is totally blue, who knew?
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Maybe it will still be there when the paywall comes down in a couple years at the now-emptied Strybing .
I’m going back someday Come what may To blue bamboo
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
Doesn’t San Francisco already pay seven figures a year to run the San Francisco Botanical Garden ? So why should people have to pay to get into the thing? Oh, it costs money to run, a whole lot? Well, then why don’t we just shut it down?
One might wonder.
Jim Lazarus, past president of the Recreation and Park Commission, gets it wrong here:
“Some members of the Board of Supervisors want the department to repeal a $7 fee for nonresidents to visit the Botanical Garden…”
Well actually, Jimbo, why not let’s do nothing and then the fee would go away by itself, right? No repeal is necessary, actually, as you already know, huh Jimbo?
Now here comes simple-minded Randy Shaw of Beyond Chron, who doesn’t seem to understand that the purported quarter-million a year that’s “expected” (by whom, some wildly optimistic person, obviously) to be generated by the fee will for pay three “extra” unionized gardeners at the Arboretum. There’s no way on Gaia’s Green Earth that the fee at Strybing will pay for social services.
And here’s the Chronicle, what can look past the almost-certain permanent imposition of fees at Strybing and see that residents will soon be charged admission as well. That”s something that simple-minded Randy Shaw can’t seem to understand. Oh well.
So the temporary boycott of San Francisco Botanical Garden will soon become permanent. O.K. fine.
Good-bye, animals of Strybing Arboreum:
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
SF Crime Examiner Thomas Pendergrast has pretty much all you need to know about the plan to make permanent the access fees at the San Francisco Botanical Garden.
And looky here, here’s a pdf from Budget and Legislative Analyst Harvey M. Rose, CPA:
Rose-Avalos-Lee_Arboretum_Fees_Ordinance
Ouch, that’s got to hurt.
When an accountant calls your forecasts “highly optimistic,” what’s he really saying?
Oh well.
I guess the BOS will soon vote to make the temporary boycott of the San Francisco Botanical Garden a permanent boycott.
Oh well.
As seen last Saturday:
Oh, and look what else is coming up:
“Thursday, April 7, 2011 2:00 p.m. City Hall, Room 416 11a. GOLDEN GATE PARK ACCESS PASS Discussion and possible action to recommend that the Board of Supervisors approve an ordinance amending Park Code Article 12 authorizing the Commission to discount admission fees for the Conservatory of Flowers, Japanese Tea Garden and the San Francisco Botanical Garden as part of a Golden Gate Park Access Pass. (ACTION ITEM) Staff: Brent Dennis.
Hey. what’s a GOLDEN GATE PARK ACCESS PASS? We’ll find out soon enough…
Oh well….
Arboretum Fees Don’t Even Pay the Bills
Keep the Arboretum Free
Keep the Strybing Arboretum (Botanical Gardens in Golden Gate Park) Free!
Debate Over the Garden Fee
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
Let’s call it a crowd of 150 today that gathered at the Main Gate of Strybing Arboretum to protest the permanent imposition of admission fees.
See it for yourself – you can catch Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi offering his thoughts:
Quintin Mecke was on hand representing Assemblymember Tom Ammiano’s office and somebody else spoke for Supervisor John Avalos. Noticed Aaron Peskin in the audience as well.
All the while, there was absolutely nobody on or near the Main Lawn just inside the admission gate. Presenting your empty Strybing Arboretum:
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But that’s the way the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society likes it.
You see, they love plants but they hate people .
Oh well.
Arboretum Fees Don’t Even Pay the Bills
Keep the Arboretum Free
Keep the Strybing Arboretum (Botanical Gardens in Golden Gate Park) Free!
Debate Over the Garden Fee
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