Posts Tagged ‘street’
Friday, June 14th, 2013
Click here to see how things were in 2010, before the time certain people realized the meaning of “T & A.”
And this is how things are today in 2013:
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You gotta figure the world-famous Market Street Cinema isn’t coming back anytime soon considering its URL has been sold off.
And I worry.
I worry about Mercedes, Porsche, Lexus, and Ferrari, among others.
How will they pay for business school now?
Category: Adult Entertainment [Edit]
1077 Market St
(between Jones St & Golden Gate Ave)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Neighborhood: SoMa
(415) 861-2727
What we found out was, as long as you drop a lot of cash, ANYTHING goes in this place. ANYTHING. Once you’re in the “Members Only Lounge”, it’s a whole new world. Yup, Chris Rock obviously had never been to Market Street Cinema, because…yeah. Even the stripper was real with us, she was like, “You can call this a whorehouse, or a party house, or whatever, but guys come in here and spend thousands of dollars, so, we’re still here.” I doesn’t get more real than that.
Tags: 1077 market, 2013, a market, adult, and mor, atm, bay area, california, Cigarettes, Cinema, closed, club, Entertainment, ferrari, g-stringhorror, http://www.msclive.com, lexus, market street, Mercedes, more, msclive, Owners, phones cards, porsche, reopening, San Francisco, sign, snacks, sodas, street, strip, strippers, twitter, twitterloin, url, yelp
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Thursday, June 13th, 2013
IDK, this one looks evil to me:
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Art student?
I’m thinking art student.
Tags: 2013, art, Art student, axi, bay area, black, california, driver, flat, hybrid, license, lyft t, paint, plate, prius, San Francisco, street, student, toyota
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Thursday, June 13th, 2013
Let’s see here, in one corner we have super nerd and Board President David Chiu, who almost always wears a fucking suit* when he drives his bicycle hither and yon.
He even goes Down Peninsula Way sometimes, to check out the reverse commute some San Franciscans do.
Now, you’d think that’d earn him huzzahs from the monomaniacal “livable streets” StreetsBlog crowd, but you’d be wrong.
You see, he ran afoul of that crew by being on the fence with the recent SFTAMUNIDPTSFBC effort to remove street parking from the bulk of Polk.
For that reason he now gets criticized for riding his bike in the wrong fashion, like how he pedals ‘n stuff.
Isn’t that absurd, to say that about this supernerd?
Yes. He does fine on Market Street, AFAICS.
See?
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OTOH, Strava-obsessed Chris Bucchere, who was involved with death of a pedestrian near an intersection of the very same Market Street, well he, apparently, is/was the victim of a “lynch mob” (look it up, you’ll find it) when he got/gets called an “asshole” (most typically from fellow self-identified cyclists) for his actions before during and after the death of pedestrian Sutchi Hui.
Oh well.
Isn’t there a lesson to be learned form the Chris Bucchere case? Shouldn’t the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition be willing to even mention his name? Yes, I know it doesn’t help fund-raising and membership and whatnot, but wouldn’t it be a good thing to debate?
Because really, what eventually happens with the Chris Bucchere case doesn’t really matter. It’s the future Buccheri we need to worry about, right?
Anyway, David Chiu is a better cyclist than Chris Bucchere.
*Something to do with “respect for the voters,” or something
Tags: 2013, bay area, Better, blog, board of supervisors, california, Chris Bucchere, David Chiu, market, president, San Francisco, sf.StreetsBlog, street, streetsblog, StreetsBlog SF, StreetsBlogSF, Sutchi Hui, website
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2013
Frisco street chess hasn’t been this vibrant in years.
Things hadn’t been so hot since the Great Street Chess War of 2010, when the traditional location at Fifth and Market got eliminated. Get the deets here from Chris Roberts of the SF Weekly.
And even last year, you wouldn’t necessarily see that much activity.
But we’re in a more active era now, with a noticeable increase just the past few months.
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Appears that this out-of-the-way location is hitting critical mass…
Tags: 1000 block, 2012, 2013, asian, bay area, california, chess, chris roberts, foot, former, gavin newsom, Justin Herman Plaza, lady, market, Mayor, mid market, newspaper, perper hour\table\, rent, San Francisco, sf weekly, SFPD, street, street chess, table, tenderloin, twitter, twitterloin, wOMAN
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Tuesday, June 11th, 2013
Golden Gate Park Panhandle, Saturday, June 8th, 2013.
Note the wireless headphones:
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You know, like this from last year.
Tags: 2012, 2013, ashbury, bandshell, bay area, california, dj, djs, fell, frisco, gif, golden gate park, Golden Gate Park Panhandle, haight, headphones, imated, masonic, nimby, nimbys, oak, panhandle, panhandle bandshell, San Francisco, silent, Silent Disco, Silent Frisco, street, upper, Upper Haight
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Monday, June 10th, 2013
I’ve never seen this:
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Tags: 2013, bay area, begging, busking, california, children, college, holding, kids, main, market, money, plea, PLEASE HELP ME KEEP MY KIDS IN COLLEGE, San Francisco, sign, soma, south, street, tuition, Tuition Mom, university, wOMAN
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Sunday, June 9th, 2013
He told me he’s hoping for a big turnout this year at the 2013 Haight Ashbury Street Fair.
Srsly.
And if that’s not enough of an invite for you, then consider this, from Amy Stephenson of uppercasing, the UPPER HAIGHT BLOG:
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And here’s Frank on Haight Street IRL, sort of:
In context:
And close up:
And, in closing, here’s what Frank had to say back in the day:
ALMA
12 GALAXIES
TRIGOGONIC SCANDAL
PBS NEWS HOUR: BILLIONAIRE
DECTROGONIC
SKEPTICAL
PREEMPTIVE MISCREANTS
NICKERSON
12 GALAXIES
QUADROGONIC HIBERNATION[S]
ECONOMIST
TECHNIGONIC
EXACERBATED CHARISMATIC
ABERRATIONS
CRONKITE
12 GALAXIES
VIXTREXONICUL STEROIDS
PBS: YASKRERUNITOL COVERAGE
PSYCHROZENIKUL
DILIGENT TRIVIALIZING
OPTHAMOLOGISTS
WHOOLEY
12 GALAXIES
PSYCHROZENICAL DISSENSIONS
ABC: ILTROKETCAL COVERAGE
STALTZORXUNIKEL
PREINCARNATE AGNOSTICISM
GNOSTICISM
HEISLEY
12 GALAXIES
AGOZANICAL EXORCISTS
NBC: ILTRUXONIKEL COVERAGE
COXGARONICIL
EVOCATIVE PALATIMILL
MESOTHELIOMA
BRIDGEPOINTE
12 GALAXIES
MUROTUNIXEL REPERCUSSIONS (sic)
KBHK: XASKUTANEKOL
PSOKITENUCOL
COMMEMORATIVE CONTENTIOUS
EXHORTATIONS
TROSKY
12 GALAXIES
ALPHOGONIC POLICE BRUTALITY
ABC NEWS: UP FRONT
ZENOGONIC
BOISTEROUS INSINUATED
ATTRITIONS
CLEMENS
12 GALAXIES
XASKOZETICUL DIPLOMACY
PBS: YUXTROTONIKEL COVERAGE
WEXKORHYTORIC
EXTEMPORANEOUS IMPUGNING
CARNIVORES
SHEFFIELD
12 GALAXIES
QUINTRONIC GENOCIDES
CNN HEADLINE NEWS
SEXOTRONIC
METICULOUS
INCINERATED APPROPRIATIONS
BRIDGEPOINTE
12 GALAXIES
MUROTUNIKEL REPERCUSSIONS
KBHK: XASKUTANEKOL
PSOKITENUCOL
CUMBERSOME CONTENTIOUS EMULATIONS
IMPEACH FAIRMOUNT
12 Galaxies
Guiltied
WITH QUADROLOGICAL
Rocket STATIONS
MASSACHUSETTS
12 GALAXIES
QUINTRONIC CRIMINALS
TIME MAGAZINE: STAR,
HEXTROTRONIC
OSCILLATING
EBULLIENT INOCULATIONS
CARLSTADT
12 GALAXIES
BOTRUKONITEL RACISM
KDTV: FEXTROTANIKUL COVERAGE
GAMMATUNOKEL
EXTRATERRESTRIAL
PETAFIABLE ABDICATIONS
GEPHARDT
12 GALAXIES
QUOKLOCHITICIL DETRIMENTATIONS
KICU: DICHUKITECHAL COVERAGE
ULKUKATICHOL
ESCHATOLOGICAL
CONTEMPLATED AGNOSTICS
MEDTOX
12 GALAXIES
BETATRONIC CONSTANTANEOUSED
GRAND THEFT
AGAINST THE UNIVERSE
ZEGNATRONIC
HYDROGEN COUNTER PARTS
NORDEN
12 GALAXIES
JOXKRORADICUL EPIPHANY
NBC: GAXKROZETICAL COVERAGE
KEXTROCRETICAL
SANCTITY PROSPERITY
DILIGENCE
SCHKADE
12 GALAXIES
BEXCROLETIKUL UNJUSTICES
BBC: KOTROPREDICAMENTED COVERAGE
ZEKGROPENTIAL
ERUPTED DASTARDLY
ELATIONS
HENDRICKSON
12 GALAXIES
KYDROMENICOL IMMINENCE
ABC:WETROMETICULUS COVERAGE
NUKROHENICAL
EGOTISTICAL ATTONEMENTS
ETERNITY
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Friday, June 7th, 2013
Lots of activity these days down at 7th and Market.
This bus stop on the south side of Market typically plays host to 15 people just hanging out.
Anyway, this is just part of the action from yesterday
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Tags: 2013, 7th, arrest, bay area, bus stop, california, cops, mid market, Muni, police, repaving, San Francisco, SFPD, street, twitterloin
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Friday, June 7th, 2013
Here’s the quote, from the 1960′s:
“Up at Fulton and Scott is a great shambling old Gothic house, a freaking decayed giant, known as The Russian Embassy”
And here she is now, getting one shade of muddy green replaced with another:
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It would take me all summer to paint this monster…
UPDATE: Apparently, someone spray painted “NO PERMIT PARKING IN ALAMO SQUARE” on the side of this hulk last month. As opposed to just hanging a sign? Would a frustrated, car-owning Alamo Square NIMBY do that to a house as an ironic punishment or did the owners themselves do it? It’s a mystery. Haighteration, the Lower Haight Blog, has the latest on the issue of the SFMTA’s horrible horrible permit parking scheme.*
*I’m eligible to pay MUNI $104 per year for a permit but I don’t believe in the system so I don’t buy the permit. I’m sure the SFMTA would love to jack up the cost to like $1000 but they can only charge a “fee” based on expenses. I believe that the “expenses” included the pay, benefits and retirement of 15 Parking Control Officers / meter maids but I don’t know that for sure. Quite sneaky to do that, SFMTA.
Tags: 1198 fulton, 198 fulton, 2012, 2013, alamo sqare, alamo square, Author, bay area, book, california, DPT, electric kool-aid acid test, film, fulton, Great Shambling Old Gothic House, green, hippies, house, Jim Siegel, movies, not to permit parking, Owners, paint, painting brown, park, parking, Paul Rose, permit, rent, room, rpp, Russian Embassy, San Francisco, scott, SFMTA, sheet, sidewalk, sign, street, tom wolfe, westerfeld, Westerfeld House, western addition, WILLIAM WESTERFELD, wOMAN
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Thursday, June 6th, 2013
Let’s take a look up Bush Street from Sansome to see what it’s like during the evening drive.
It can start pretty early – look at the shadows:
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It’s not gridlock, but it’s very slow. Drivers make it one or two car lengths per light cycle.
Starting on Bush to get to 1st Street to get to the coveted Bay Bridge on-ramp can take more than a half-hour.
Now what some people in this situation do is say this is ridiculous and then find another way to the bridge. They substitute
Others just stew in their rides – some of these people enjoy honking, you know, as an outlet.
And there’s yet another option.
You can just use the little-used left turn lane after Montgomery and then, and this is key, go straight through the intersection at Sansome to use the BUS TAXI ONLY lane to pass all those su
Thusly:
Now it seems that drivers would get ticketed for this maneuver, but I’ve never seen it happen.
(Cops hate traffic more than you do, so they never hang out here. Come to think of it, I don’t see too many buses or taxis using this special lane either. And I don’t think any forward-facing cameras on any SFMTA vehicle can get you neither)
Of course, then you gotta make it another four arduous blocks to the bridge, oh well.
But otherwise, this is the perfect crime.
Shhhhhh…
Tags: 2013, bay area, bay bridge, bus, bush, california, cameras, cars, chp, citation, cops, dmv, High Reward, lane, Low Risk, Mercedes, Montgomery, officer, only, points, route, San Francisco, SFPD, stoppewd, street, taxi, ticket, transit
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