You don’t see this too often:
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All the deets on the 39th Annual.
As it looked yesterday on Post Street:
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Webster Street Stage:
| Sunday, August 5 | |
| 11am | Cherng Loon Lion Dance Yet Another Hero |
| Noon | The Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble |
| 1:00 pm | “Fun & Furry Pooch Doggy Contest” |
| 2:00 pm | SOL |
| 2:45 pm | GroovMekanex / Lil G and Morimoto |
| 3:45 pm | Tracy Cruz |
| 5:00 pm | Rendezvous |
Ho`olaule`a Stage:
| 11am | Mishibana-kai San Francisco & Miwa-kai San Mateo (Japanese |
| Noon | Karikatan Dance Company (Filipino Stick Dancing) |
| 1:00 pm | Mele Ohana (Ukulele) |
| 2:00 pm | Ke ‘Olu Makani `O Mauna Loa (Hula) |
| 3:00 pm | Mango Kingz (Island Reggae) |
| 4:00 pm | Island Touch Band (Hawaiian Contemporary) |
| 5:00 pm | Moana (Hawaiian) |
See you there!
This is one of the stops on the #5 Fulton where riders get passed by with regularity:
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The solution is to be patient or to walk to Van Ness and McAllister, where many passengers get off.
Oh well.
Oh, in reality, the Central Subway hole in the ground will actually suck money away from the #5 Fulton.
So let’s alter that headline to “The Central Subway is Coming in Ten Years and It Will Make Things Worse.”
D’Accord? D’Accord.
Oh well.
Cause somebody will pull out a gun and steal it from you.
Let’s check the story from Ann Mannix, SFPD Captain of Northern Station:
“Yesterday a guy was waiting for the bus at Haight and Webster (4:15 PM) looking at his phone not paying attention to his surroundings when someone walked right up on him, pointed a gun and stole his iPhone 4.
I bet if he was aware of his surroundings the criminal wouldn’t have targeted him.
Conceal your valuables and be aware of your surroundings, always!”
Apparently, this isn’t a good place to try to hold onto your cellie.
Oh well.
Lower Haight is For Lovers…
…and armed cell phone thieves.
Enjoy!
[This is a post within a post within a post, Inception-style - you'll be able to follow along, I'm sure. And since we're talking about the aughts, leave us remember nobody ever had 5500 signatures opposing the Starbucks proposal back around 2004-2005. I guess it's always O.K. to lie if you know you're on the correct side of an argument, or something.]
The rising tide that is the Starbucks Effect, that would have lifted all boats in Japantown, didn’t roll in a half-decade back, so this large space at Post and Webster has been unused since then.
Oh well.
Deets below.
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Here’s how things looked five months ago:
Well, new evidence closes the books on this one – the former Japantown Bowl location will soon host a dental office on its first floor.
So, the somnolent Land of Wind and Ghosts that is San Francisco Japantown will remain the somnolent Land of Wind and Ghosts at least for a little while longer. [Cue tumbleweeds.] Maybe things will change in J-Town when potential condo buyers get in the mood to spend $100,000 extra on neighborhood impact fees the way they were before the real estate crash.
And then we’ll be able to afford to undue the mistakes of Redevelopment. Maybe in a year or two or five or ten…
Oh well:
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All the deets:
Now I’ll tell you, Japantown would have been better off over the years if the Japantown Bowl had stayed the Japantown Bowl. (‘Cause bowling’s back, baby! Or something.) Anyway, what we got instead at 1600 Webster at Post was a bunch of condos up top with shuttered retail space below.
Back about six years ago, Starbucks was willing to come in and boy, man, that would have been great for Japantown. But the preservationists weren’t having it, oh no. Not at all. So what we got was about a decade of zero (0) tenants at the ground level on the northeast corner of Post and Webster. Oh well.
(I don’t drink the Starbucks myself, but S’Bucks isn’t about coffee, so the location of nearby cafes hidden up in the malls (concrete and clay and general decay and oh yes, not earthquake safe) don’t matter. You missed the point, people. It’s not Starbucks, it’s the Starbucks Effect – that’s what you needed and it’s what you still need.)
But now, the times they are a changing. Take a peek at the construction going on now and you’ll say, “Gee, it looks like it’s going to be a dentist office.”
Check it:
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Well guess what. It very well could be a dental office. This is from a couple years back but it’s the best I can do:
“22-Dec Tenant improvements for New Dental San Francisco 1600 Webster Street #C 916-772-4192 Dr. Nataly Viderman, DDS 0685-055 San Francisco 1600 Webster Street #C Office…$240,000″
No matter, whatever goes in isn’t going to make J-Town look less like a ghost town on those cold, windblown Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday nights.
How to make a Concrete Ghost Town: Redevelopment + Mindless, Doctrinaire Preservationism.
(And the funny thing is that Japanese people looooooove Starbucks – they just can’t get enough)
Is that what you want, a dentist’s office? O.K. fine.
Remember that jackass mayor we had not too long ago? Remember all his unkept promises, like Citywide Wi-Fi for San Francisco?
I do. Bad times. I think it was 2005.
Anyway, these days the few areas around town you where you can rely on free govt. Wi-Fi are around federal housing projects. (One time my Samsung could see the Valencia Gardens WiFi all the way from Civic Center. Good times.)
Anyway, I guess “jtown connected” is the Wi-Fi you can get on Post in the Western Addition.
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Hurray!
The 38th Annual Nihonmachi Street Fair will be just like last year’s except with better weather, it looks like.
See you there!
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And don’t forget about the Food Fest! The sponsors this year:
Asian American Recovery Services (AARS)
Adam’s Grub Truck
API Legal Outreach
Bimi Foods
Bombzie’s BBQ
Community Youth Center SF (CYC)
Ear Good Corn Roast
Got Plate Lunch
Jane’s Fresh Icy Boba
Kimochi, Inc.
Mayor’s Youth Employment and Education Program (MYEEP)
Nakayoshi Young Professionals
Nihonmachi Street Fair
Peter’s Kettle Corn
Saigon BBQ
San Francisco Associates
And here’s your sched:
Webster Street Stage
The Nihonmachi Street Fair’s entertinment has been a platform for veteran as well as up and coming musical performers. From jazz to hip hop, reggae to rock catch one of the best FREE shows in town for the summer.
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Ho`olaule`a Stage
Upper Post Street will welcome the island spirit through music and dance on the Ho`olaule`a Stage. Performers from the Bay Area, Southern California and as far as Hawaii will grace the stage. This year the Ho`olaule`a Stage is dedicated to the memory of our very own Hsing Tzu Yukiko Leahine Wu Dang – “Amah” to all of us in Jtown.
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| 11:00 am | Mele Ohana Ukulele Group | |
| 12:00 pm | Na Leo Pumehana (Bruddah Derrick) | |
| 1:00 pm | Halau Kaliko Pua O Kalaniakea | |
| 2:00 pm | Manuia Polynesian Revue | |
| 3:00 pm | Patrick Landeza | |
| 4:00 pm | Ke ‘Olu Makani ‘O Mauna Loa | |
| 5:00 pm | Moana | |
| Sunday, August 14 | |||
| 11:00 am | Ka ‘Ala Carmack | ||
| 12:00 pm | Faith Ako | ||
| 1:00 pm | Evan Tom Band | ||
| 2:00 pm | Steven Espaniola | ||
| 3:00 pm | Ke ‘Olu Makani ‘O Mauna Loa | ||
| 4:00 pm | Tamali’ I Polynesian | ||
| 5:00 pm | My Peoples | ||
| Schedule subject to change. Last updated 8/4/11 | |||