First, our PacBell Building in SoMA was all like this.
Then is was all like this.
Now it’s all like this, so you can see through entire floors.
Say hello to the higher floors of a totally gutted building:
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If only San Francisco were the Innovation Capital of the World or something, then we wouldn’t have a bunch of empty buildings sitting around for years and decades.
On It Goes…
Look at this monster perched high atop 140 New Montgomery Street, up there with all those Neo-Gothic eagle statues.
Reminds of when Devastator climbed up one of those pyramids in that Transformers II movie…
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Anyway, the abandoned Pac Bell building no longer looks like it belongs in Detroit, so that’s good.
Look for Yelp to move in this year, directly under the enemy’s scrotum.
“The PacBell Building or 140 New Montgomery Street in San Francisco’s South of Market district is a Neo-Gothic, 132.6 m (435 ft) office tower located close to the St. Regis Museum Tower and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[1] The 26-floorbuilding was completed in 1925 and was San Francisco’s first significant skyscraper development when construction began in 1924.[1] The building was the tallest in San Francisco until the Russ Building matched its height two years later in 1927″
Let’s meet the paramilitary wing of San Francisco’s Office of Civic Engagement & Immigrant Affairs (and Stencil Voting) standing on Market Street near Fifth.
They call their black caps pukao:
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Here are the functions of the OCEIA ”Community Ambassadors”
“Ensuring safe passage to public transportation for residents, visitors, travelers and workers.
Providing directions and general assistance as needed.
Reporting criminal or disruptive behavior to the SFPD and MTA
Alerting 311 and city departments of safety hazards or street cleanliness/maintenance issues that affect public safety or health.
Providing information and referrals on existing city programs and services as needed.”
Well, as long as they don’t snitch…
Anyway, this is Your Money at work, sort of.
Here’s what you can seen across the street from the former Bank of America World Headquarters at 555 California betwixt Kearny and Montgomery in the Financh.
OMG, On My Guard:
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That’s right, it’s the art at the top of 580 California:
The postmodern, 107 m (351 ft), 23 story tower is … is topped with twelve statues described as “The Corporate Goddesses” by Muriel Castanis on the twenty-third floor.”
The LA Times calls these twelve statures “faceless rooftop wraiths.”
Yep.
Avert your gaze.
But these workers inside 580 have no choice:
Pray for them.
From this angle, anyway.
Do you think the son could have been named Bruno?
He looks like a Bruno.
There’s no right answer, of course.
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Keep looking.
Oh, there’s another one!
Check it out – a busload of touristas passing through the newly installed “gate” of Little Saigon on Larkin Street. Almost like Chinatown, huh?
Thus spaketh San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly:
“These pillars will attract some attention and foot traffic to Little Saigon”
Looks like that’s all working out, and without the rancor that they’re having down in San Jose.
Excelsior!
