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Are you still in SF? I would love to meet you in person.
drop me a line spockosemail @ gmail . com
Unfortunately, spocko, that was a flash visit back on May 21st. I just got around to processing and posting the pictures. The city is vast and gorgeous and I have to get out of the habit of visiting it once in a blue moon, so I’ll be sure to look you up when I’m back, hopefully soon!
UGGGGGGH. I wish you had found yourself out in SF while I was still living there. I swoon at the thought of how much fun we would have had!
Okay, okay, but I’m glad you got to go and see the lovely lovely place.
brimful: I wish you lived in SF in the 90s when I was there at least once every year! There was a time when I knew 101 and its outcrops like the back of my hand. This fading memory needs rectifying.
How about that. My daughter was born in SF and her first address was 625 Ashbury, a few doors up from Haight St. Seeing the pic of Haight TShirts was interesting. The guy who owns that shop, started it yrs ago with a couple hundred bucks. He opened a bookstore that also sold tshirts of “vintage” SF rock stars. He moved down the block for a while, but the bookstore grew and the tshirts sales also went up. He wound up making tons of money (his daughter and mine were best friends from about K-4 and apparently are still in touch kinda). It was great to see that he’s still in business and from the look of the place, thriving. Too bad Gus’s Pub is no longer there. Great dive. Looks like dives are no longer allowed on Haight!
Haight has yuppified A LOT since I last got a good look at it back in 1997. Gone are the real hippies walking INTO old, grungy record stores, vegan restaurants or incense shops. They have been replaced by hipsters walking PAST places that look exactly like the overpriced women’s clothing stores on Magazine St. (you know the ones advertised in the weekly Gambit pullout, where you pay $200 for a short dress made from of your mom’s frayed 70s-era curtain). I think the Castro and Mission have, for the most part, retained their character, although my friends tell me that gentrification is everywhere in SF. I saw that in some of the Mission houses missing their bay windows that have been replaced by modern windows with ultra-reflective glass.
Food is the one thing that still hasn’t been messed with (hope those weren’t famous last words) and I thank goodness that reasonably-priced and great-tasting coffee and organic, Chinese, Thai and Japanese food are still to be had in San Francisco. Didn’t go to any pubs this time, imagine that.
I’d say they borrowed those legs from the now-defunct Big Daddy’s, but they look too good…
And, is that the remade DeYoung Museum? Haven’t been there since the day they closed the old, earthquake-damaged structure for three years to make the new one.
Yup, the new DeYoung. It looks weird to me, like it still has the scaffolding on, but I guess that’s the look they were going for.