Saturday, May 30, 2015

NEIGHBORHOOD CLOSINGS 2015 – H & T NAILS, NOB HILL SMOKE SHOP, COSTUME PARTY (#6 in a series)

1545 Polk Street

1402 California

1058 Hyde Street

Thursday, May 28, 2015

LOCAL COLOR

Sidewalk outside Redding Elementary School

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

CONTEMPORARY SIGNS OF DISCONENT (#16 in a series)

Monday, May 25, 2015

SIDEWALK SAYINGS (#7 in a series)

Lots of people feel this way.

Thursday, May 21, 2015

NOTHING SAYS NEW MONEY LIKE: THE ROCKWELL (#2 in a series)

Yet another blog about the nouveau riche oligeeks* of Pacific Heights (*from a recent Leah Garchik column in the SF Chronicle) pouring into the City. This time the focus is on the Rockwell (where do they get these names?)

Rockwell Sales Office, Polk Street

another $600K plus condo/townhouse development now undergoing construction at the corner of Pine and Franklin.

A woman I know recently called San Francisco ‘Monaco-by-the-Bay’. I could see her point. At the present level of rents ($3,000+), the only current and future residents of the city will be people with incomes of $100,000 a year or more. It’s a place I could never afford to live in if I didn’t already.

The closing poem is by David Nelson Fox and is taken from his blog (click here for the link to which appears after the poem:)

San Francisco, Slightly Used

Settling for things is OK by me.
I don't need to eat out
As often as I used to

Don't need a blow-out night
Of state-of-the-art sushi
Or French, or artful presentation.

It would be nice to afford
A day at the museum
A night of inventive dance

Or mid-run theater by a friend
A film or band, something odd
With a chance of spectacular,

Something I used to do
On a bookstore salary
On a whim. Well, a whim with a budget.

Visiting the city that inspired me,
Where I live, is out of reach.
I rush through the halls

Of the museum of what I used to do,
As the speakers announce it will close soon.

David Nelson Fox
5/6/2015: 8:35 PM, 9:20 PM

http://davidnelsonfox.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

NEIGHBORHOOD OPENINGS 2015 – COOKIE LOVE(#11 in a series)

Cookie Love has opened at 1488 Pine Street just off Polk.

This is the third restaurant/café to open up at this address in the last two years; time will tell if it can make the best of a bad location.

In the meantime, welcome!

Monday, May 18, 2015

NEIGHBORHOOD MURALS – SOUTH WALL, MITCHELL BROS. THEATER (#15 in a series)

A spectacular new mural has appeared on the southern wall of the Mitchell Bros. Theater at O’Farrell & Polk. (This is one of those times I wish I was a much better photographer.)

The photo below shows the firsthalf of the mural

followed by the second half

The mural is the work of John Vochatzner, the night manager of the O'Farrell Theater. He was helped in this endeavor by D Young V, also a street artist.

The next time you're in the area of Geary and Polk, take a quick one-block detour and check out a striking addition to San Francisco murals.

For more information about this work, click here: http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/know-your-street-art/Category?oid=2254072