San Francisco’s Four Seasons Hotel is located on Market Street, close to Union Square so it’s easy for you to go shopping.
But the Four Seasons Wash N’ Dry is all the way out in the Richmond District halfway to the Pacific Ocean - thats’ not convenient at all.
Oh well.
Sort of. Maybe people got their Bastille on over the weekend, instead of last night.
Down on Claude Lane in Union Square, instead of le jazz hot revelers got AC/DC’s Back in Black for at least part of the time anyway.
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This what Belden Lane, home of Plouf, Cafe Bastille, B-44, and le Best-O-Burger, looked like later in the evening. Most people were just sitting around noshing.
See you next year?
This was the scene down at the Goethe-Institut on 520 Bush in San Francisco’s Union Square shortly after Spain beat Germany in the 2008 World Cup by the exciting score of 1-0. This was the overflow room with the 13″ TV, as the larger room with the big screen filled up with spectators quickly.
Apple retail stores are offering four free workshops that are recommended for kids ages 8 to 12 this summer. Sign them up today! But hurry, as spaces are filling up right now.
Is this how they will greet your tweens when they arrive at the three-hour workshops in July? We can only hope.
Talk with your young ‘uns and pick two of the following:
Apple is the new Borg - the sooner your kids realize that, the better. Give in.
See you there!
San Francisco’s historic Cable Car bell ringing contest delighted hundreds in Union Square yesterday. It looked like this and this.
Mayor Gavin Newsom and MTA Director Nat Ford enjoy KBLX radio’s stirring interpretation of LL Cool Jay’s Rock the Bells. (Sadly, credit for the song was given to Run DMC.)
KGO-TV personality Janelle Wang’s hair momentarily defied gravity as she did the robot on her way to the bell:
Grand Champion Carl Payne gave in to pleas from the crowd wanting to get a closer look at his humoungous bell ringing ring:
Carl Payne’s cable car ring. You can see the words “Champion Bell Ringer” and also the years of his victories on this Super Bowl-style finger bling:
Yesterday was all about the bell, steampunkish in its own way:
See you next year!
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Some people think purchasing an iPod out of a vending machine “could probably be categorized as an impulse buy.”
Well that’s certainly true in San Francisco’s Union Square, which has a Zoom Systems iPod vending machine inside the “women’s Macy’s” but also a full-fledged Apple Store a scant 299 feet away.
You’re probably better off suppressing your impulses for the two minutes it takes to walk a block (downhill, bonus!) on Stockton.
Just saying.
Head on down to “The Cellar” or the basement or whatever they call the bottom floor of San Francisco’s flagship Macy’s and check out this “Museo del Jamón” display.
A porcine horror show to get you in the shopping mood:
What would PETA have to say about this ghastly windowbox? And how about truculent troubadour Morrissey?
Its not natural, normal or kind
The flesh you so fancifully fry
The meat in your mouth
As you savour the flavour
Of murder
It’s a sign of the times…
Another arresting image from cactusthesaint, via Flickr
