Our neighbors in the Great Sand Waste* of the Outside Lands are having a little trouble with the partial collapse of the Great Highway near Sloat, so there’ll be a meeting tonight at 7:00 PM:
“A community meeting is being held on Monday, January 25th at 7:00 PM at the Park Chalet(located behind the Beach Chalet at 1000 Great Highway just south of Fulton in San Francisco) to discuss the proposed actions at Sloat Boulevard. The DPW Project Manager, Frank Filice will be there to discuss the emergency declaration, the short-term strategy, and a process for a long-term solution. Everyone who has an interest in the preservation and the future of Ocean Beach is encouraged to attend. The emergency declaration will go before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for ratification the following day, Tuesday, January 26th.”
“San Francisco – this is a derivative word from sand and Francisco. In the early settlement of this country it was the custom of an old monk of the interior, by the name of Jeremiah Francisco, to perform a pilgrimage to this place every month, to visit the tomb of a brother of the order whose remains he had here interred. The wind “blew like mad” here, and upon his return he was usually so covered with the dust and sand, that his neighbors were unable to recognize him; hence they soon began to call him sand Francisco.
On one of his pilgrimages he happened, by mistake, to die here, and the place ever after was called by his name. From the difficulty of enunciating the d, it was usually called SAN FRANCISCO, and has so continued to this day. The present popular notion that the place was named after the St. Francis Hotel is an error!
Well, round about a half-decade ago, a deal got inked that would have a couple giant pandas reside in the East Bay as guests of the Oakland Zoo. What’s the hold up? Air conditioned rocks? Permits? Something like that.
When we do get our bears, their romance will draw hundreds of thousands of visitors. And then when we get bored with that after a couple of years the bears will produce a cub, which will renew interest. They got this all planned out, just as the producers of the Friends TV show did. We should calll these pandas “Rachael and Ross.”
An evil stuffed animal lies in wait – this is all the panda we’ve got these days. Click to expand:
Everybody knows about the bison of Golden Gate Park, but history of the Bear Pit, which used to be near the Childrens Playground(?), is not as well-known. Big Grizzlies (like Monarch Bear, the “biggest in captivity“) and Black Bears were kept in what looks to be a very small area.
But you make the call – check out the Hearst Grizzly Gulch at the 80 year old San Francisco Zoo when you can. Watch the orphan sister bears from Montana and see how much they frolic.
In actuality, the brothers might have done something to provoke the tiger. How’s this for a statement? Perhaps I’ll be the next to get sued.
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The whole idea of trying to get jurors from San Mateo and Marin to decide just how horrible the Dhaliwals are doesn’t appear to be a winning strategy, but who knows.
NB: A 24-year-old is not a “kid” regardless of any strategy to call him that. A “boys will be boys” approach has a similar problem.
Dennis Herrera is a crackerjack attorney, so he and his team aren’t going to make things easy for those trying to make money off of this tragedy. It’s not like San Francisco has a lot of extra sourdough to send down to the counties of Santa Clara and Los Angeles.
Let’s all hope that the new and improved big cat grottos will be less vulnerable to any kind of harassment, even the “boys will be boys” fatal type of harassment.
