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Presenting Your Stow Lake Boathouse & Cafe “Restoration Time” Menu: $3.25 Hot...
TweetAt long last, it’s here. It’s the interim menu for our Stow Lake Boathouse & Cafe. Is this menu too foo-foo yuppie for you? Is $3.25* too much for a “Let’s Be Frank“ grass-fed beef** hot dog?...
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Stow Lake Boathouse Update: Open for Business – New Paint, Slow Pace, Room...
TweetWell, lots of things are pretty much the same these days at the Stow Lake Boathouse, which was reopened by the new tenant on Wednesday, October 12th, 2011. See? Click to expand Check the new...
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Yelp Fraud: New Stow Lake Boathouse a Huge Success in Golden Gate Park, But...
Tweet[UPDATE: Bagdad by the Bay just looked into things.] Well, everything’s going great at your new and improved yet-pretty-much-the-same-except-for-the-food Stow Lake Boathouse in Golden Gate Park....
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Historic Streetcars of San Francisco, From the #1 to the #1840 – Dig the...
TweetLearn all about San Francisco’s Historic Streetcars at Market Street Railway. Now, you’re a Trainspotter. Click to expand Pick up this poster at the Museum in SoMA not too far from the Ferry...
View ArticleI Don’t Know, Supervisor Scott Wiener’s Plan to Rein-In NIMBYish Historic...
TweetHere’s what showed up in the email, below. Is this like preaching to the converted or something? I mean, why on Earth would we want more historic districts in San Francisco? Aren’t they, and their...
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The Next Big Public Meeting for the Stow Lake Boathouse is on January 26th,...
TweetHere’s the word on the street: “The Recreation and Park Department and Ortega Family Enterprises are hosting a community meeting to discuss the upcoming renovations of the Stow Lake Boathouse. The...
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Public No-Shows Public Meeting Regarding the Future of the Stow Lake...
TweetI don’t know, when you have like just one member of the public show up at a meeting hosted by Rec and Park, would you call that a successful joint? This was the scene for last Thursday night’s big...
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We’re Already Well Into May 2012, So Whatever Happened to that Long-Promised...
TweetI haven’t heard word one about the long-promised lawsuit what was going to overturn SFGov and re-install the old tenant as the operator. “The civil lawsuit begins March 2012 and will expose the...
View ArticleWell Here It Is, Your Moment of Zen: A Nine-Minute Video Called...
TweetOur Presidio Trust just posted a video to the YouTube about the OC being in rehab. You people want history* in the Presidio? Well here, have some, via un film du Melissa Peabody: “No place in the...
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The Saddest MUNI-Related Scene I’ve Seen This Year So Far – Historic F-Market...
TweetHere’s your accident scene* on Market betwixt Battery and Sansome on August 3rd, 2012… Click to expand …and here’s the streetcar driver, sitting inside of his streetcar, old 1811, pondering...
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Craigslist to Sponsor Bay to Breakers 2013 – All the Deets – Conservative...
TweetObservations: 1. Hey, does christian activist Phillip Anschutz still own AEG? I think so. And AEG still owns the Bay to Breakers civic street party and fun run? And Obama donor Craig Newmark /...
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R.I.P. Reggie Pettus, 73 – The Fillmore’s New Chicago Barber Shop Now...
TweetR.I.P. Reggie Pettus Proprietor, New Chicago Barber Shop, 1551 Fillmore The memorial will be on Saturday May 11th from Noon to 6:00 PM at Duggan’s Funeral Home, 3434 17th St. near Valencia in the...
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Historic Photo, 1834: Young Abraham Lincoln Gets Detained by Mounted...
TweetYeah, that’s the ticket. Or maybe this is a youthful activist who can’t admit to himself he just violated a section of the almighty CVC: Click to expand Take your pick. (At least he didn’t endorse...
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Goldsworthy, Spire, Presidio, Timeless
TweetIt‘s still really quite striking, even after all these years… Click to expand
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The Historic Clocks of Van Ness Avenue, Chapter One: As Seen from Olive Alley
TweetOld school! Art Deco! I’ll say this – Auto Row aint what it used to be. This has been The Historic Clocks of Van Ness Avenue, Chapter One: As Seen from Olive Alley.
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Catching Up with the NEW Stow Lake Boat House – Photos – It’s Just the Same,...
TweetWell, I guess the transition to the new vendor at our Stow Lake Boat House in Golden Gate Park is fully complete, not that you could really tell. Four Yelp stars, currently. Things were a little...
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How to Get Free Electricity from SFGov – One Simple Trick – As Seen on Market...
TweetThis scene is about ten yards south of the slot, but I consider it part of The Financial District: Perhaps Dude is from New Yawk. Don’t stop believin’ Hold on to that feelin’ Streetlight people...
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Frisco Traffic: Historic Streetcars, Bike Riders and Unregistered Ferraris
TweetAs seen on Market Street: Properly registering and insuring a pricey weekend car is prohibitively expensive in California, on a per-mile basis, so that’s why so many people don’t do it. You gotta...
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Oh, Streetcar! – Proposed F Market Loop Would Allow Our Historic Streetcars...
TweetPart of the “Better*” Market Street Project? Maybe. This is the first I’ve heard of this: Looks like this might cost a bit o’ money: And who wants to go to the Castro anyway, right? *Not...
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