Posts Tagged ‘stripes’
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
This was the scene down on MACALLISTER Street in the Western Addition PJs last year, on govmint land of course.
…and here’s the same scene these days:
Let’s see here:
“When flags of states, cities, or localities, or pennants of societies are flown on the same halyard with the US flag, the US flag should always be at the peak.”
NOPE! Believe it or not, that rat tail you can see at bottom is our Stars and Stripes. Above it is the flag of the State of California. (You can still see the bear a little bit.)
“The flag may be displayed twenty-four hours a day if properly illuminated during the hours of darkness.”
NOPE!
“The flag should never be fastened, displayed, used, or stored in such a manner as to permit it to be easily torn, soiled, or damaged in any way.“
NOPE!
I could go on…
There’s a little black spot on the sun today
It’s the same old thing as yesterday
There’s a black hat caught in a high tree top
There’s a flag pole rag and the wind won’t stop
Tags: 2012, 2013, America, bay area, bear, Blue, california, central subway, code, drug free, drug free zone, flag, Housing Authority, mcallister, old glory, patriots, red, San Francisco, San Francisco Housing Authority, SFHA, stars, street, stripes, tattered, The Fillmore, torn, United States, western addition, white, zone
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Well here’s the statement:
“The San Francisco Housing Authority does not transfer any family to any particular apartment, community, neighborhood or development because of race, color, sex, religion (creed), disability, familial status, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, source of income, or age.”
Of course it’s not true, but that’s the statement.
The point of it is to discourage transfer requests, that’s true.
But they could have phrased it differently, that’s all.
Alemany (938 Ellsworth Street)
Alice Griffith (207 Cameron Way)
Bernal Dwellings (313 Kamille Street) (HOPE VI)
Great Highway
Hayes Valley (401 Rose Street) (HOPE VI)
Holly Courts (100 Appleton)
Hunter’s Point (90 Kiska Road)
Hunter’s View (112 Middle Point Road)
North Beach (455 Bay Street) (HOPE VI)
Ping Yuen North (838 Pacific Avenue)
Ping Yuen (795 Pacific Avenue)
Plaza East (642 Linden) (HOPE VI)
Potrero Terrace & Annex (1095 Connecticut Street)
Randolph & Head (200 Randolph/409 Head)
Robert B. Pitts (1150 Scott Street)
Sunnydale (1654 Sunnydale Avenue)
Valencia Gardens (390 Valencia) (HOPE VI)
Westbrook (90 Kiska Road)
Westside Courts (2501 Sutter Street)
Public Housing Project, McAllister Street, Western Addition (aka The Fillmore), San Francisco, 2012:
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Tags: 2012, 2013, America, American, asian, bay area, bear, Blue, california, central subway, chinese, drug free, drug free zone, Family, flag, Housing Authority, mcallister, old glory, patriots, race, red, San Francisco, San Francisco Housing Authority, SFHA, stars, street, stripes, tattered, The Fillmore, torn, transfer, United States, western addition, white, zone
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Friday, August 24th, 2012
Kenneth Cole’s dream motorcycle as seen on Bush:
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(And here’s the nightmare.)
All right, keep on keeping on, TIGRE 99!
Tags: 2012, bay area, bike, brand, bush, california, clothing, district, erect, financial, Kenneth Cole', lacoste, le tigre, leathers, license plate, motocycle, orange, polo, polo shirts, San Francisco, shirt, shoes, stiped, street, stripes, tail, tigre 99
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2012
Like this:
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But there are no complaints, unlike the recent situation in Virginia at the Fed Bank there.
Tags: 2012, American, bank, bankers, banksters, bay area, buildings, california, flag, Gay, GLBT, glbtq, june, Lesbian, LGBT, market, month, parade, pole, pride, pride week, queer, questioning, rainbow, San Francisco, soma, south, stars, street, stripes, United States, virginia, week, weekend
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Friday, June 15th, 2012
Public Housing Project, McAllister Street, Western Addition (aka The Fillmore), San Francisco, 2012:
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This area is about six blocks from San Francisco City Hall.
Here’s the exact same pair of flags from three years ago, would you agree?
And the DRUG FREE ZONE warning sign is still there as well. (But, of course, this isn’t actually a drug-free zone. Not in the least.)
Oh well.
So, why do we even have flagpoles then?
Perhaps putting them in was a bad idea? Perhaps it’s easier to put in a flagpole than to take care of a flagpole over its lifetime? Perhaps we should take these flagpoles down if this how City, County, State and/or Federal officials are handling things?
Perhaps Redevelopment of the Fillmore was a bad idea?
Perhaps other federally-funded projects, such as the useless Central Subway, are bad ideas as well?
Mmmmm.
Tags: 2012, America, bay area, bear, Blue, california, central subway, drug free, drug free zone, flag, Housing Authority, mcallister, old glory, patriots, red, San Francisco, San Francisco Housing Authority, SFHA, stars, street, stripes, tattered, The Fillmore, torn, United States, western addition, white, zone
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Please point me to something else in the world what looks like this, on JFK westbound in front of the Conservatory of Flowers.
Here’s what you do, you get a car and then drive west from Stanyan.* And then you think, “Why is my body closer to the left side of the road than the right?”
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Simply, this is a mess.
Could maybe a traffic engineer take a look at this design? You know, at some point?
Note the absence of a stop line for bikes next to the stop sign. I think that’s on purpose…
Oh well.
*Speaking of Stanyan and JFK Drive, there needs to be a traffic signal at the east end of JFK where it intersects with Kezar Drive. Maybe someday…
Tags: 2012, bay area, bike, california, cars, cut through, drive, golden gate park, jfk, Jr, kezar, lanes, mta, paths, Restriped, San Francisco, separated, SFMTA, signal, striped, stripes, traffic, white
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Monday, August 22nd, 2011
Click on over to the Market Street Railway Blog to see what’s up with our shiniest Presidents’ Conference Committee streetcar
Check it:
“F-line PCC streetcar No. 1057, painted in tribute to Cincinnati, is known to many of its fans as “The Bumblebee” because of its eye-popping yellow paint and stripes (admittedly dark green instead of a bee’s black). Well, now it’s even more eye-popping following a renovation by Muni’s maintenance team, including an entirely new roof, body repairs, and a complete repainting.”
Fresh paint:
The Muni maintenance team who restored and repainted Cincinnati PCC No. 1057. Top row (L-R): Steve Chu, Carole Gilbert, Arthur Leary, Willie Alexander, Khalil Ali, Leon Bernal, Ontoniel Granados, Patrick Louie, Jose Granados, Alfredo Solis, Raul Alvarez, George Bernal, Peter Kuang, Dick Wie Shi Lui, Priscilla Steuban. Bottom row (L-R): Karl Johnson, Joselito Viernes, Arvin Camposagrado, Carlos Montez, Robert Donahue, Gino Ganoza.
Look for its icon soon here, on the live map.
Hurray!
Tags: 1057, 2011, bay area, building, Bumblebee, calbe, california, car, castro, cinicinnati, Embarcadero, F, ferry, fishermans wharf, green, maintenance, market, mission, Muni, occ, Ohio, painted, painting, pcc, piant, Presidents' Conference Committee, roof, San Francisco, SFMTA, street, streetcar, stripes, The Bumblebee, tribute, trolley, white, yellow
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Thursday, May 26th, 2011
Arresting:
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Tags: 2011, animal, bay area, california, heels, High, market, prints, San Francisco, shoes, shoes shoes shoes!, sixth, street, stripes, zebra
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Friday, April 29th, 2011
It is what it is, and that’s refreshing:
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And look at all those CDs. Hurray!
Tags: 2011, batteries, battery, bay area, bev, california, car, electric, ev, green, plug-in, San Francisco, striped, stripes, three wheeler, western addition, zap car, zapcar, zebra
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Thursday, December 30th, 2010
Here’s the scene in Civic Center Plaza these days, with the easternmost flag having trouble recently. (There’s a flagpole rag and the wind won’t stop.)
Not sure what’s going on, maybe something wore out or maybe somebody’s making a statement:
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Tags: 2010, bay area, california, City Hall, civic center, flag, flagpole, flags, Line, old glory, rope, San Francisco, stars, stripes, u. s., United States
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