Stow Lake = Darling!!!

When I was a kid, I lived in the Duboce Triangle and the Richmond, so I spent a lot of time in Golden Gate Park- which truly has everything. And one of my fondest memories is going to the picturesque Stow Lake with my parents, eating a bar of pink popcorn and/or It's It, drinking an Icee (blue or red flavor!), and renting a boat, which I thought was like totally a real adventure on the High Seas.

Recently, I returned to Stow Lake to rent a row boat on one of the few warm days we have, and my god it was charming! So 1950's and cute! Anyway, it was one of those old-fashioned, leisurely type of Day-In-The-Park activities I feel human beings could use more of. Like I should have been wearing a boater hat and reading Wind In the Willows alo. You know, something queer like that. Anyway, Simone, if you are reading this: we should totally do a photo shoot here!

Mary's Musings: Incomplete SF Edition

Since I never post for real, I hope it's okay I do a rambling post about....the New Musuem of Natural Sciences!

This musuem was the BEST kid's/science museum ever. It had halls filled with 1950s style taxidermied scenes of African animals (who can forget the dik-dik? I cannot), an earthquake simulator that you could stand on and get knocked off of that was meant to show us how the 1906 quake felt, an alligator pit, and a Damian Hirst-like entire Great White Shark encased in ice. Seriously! That was crazy! It always smelled like fish around the shark.

Anyway, they have revamped this museum and made it "green" with a $25 admission fee and whatnot so I hope they didn't RUIN it.
Here are some upcoming posts we want to do but are too lazy:

-Local TV personalities such as the ever-classy Dennis Richmond, Terilyn Joe of the large hair and mercurial personality, and, you know, Elaine Corral or something.

-The amazing rooftop Christmas carnival that used to be held on top of the Emporium department store when we were kids.

-SF landmarks like Tonga Room, Starlight Room, and House of Prime Rib

-Hey, whatever happened to those twins?

-Playland at the Beach, the Sutro Baths, and the old Musee Mechanique

-Fairyland and the early 90's-era Great America


-A San Francisco World's Fair post in which I share some of my personal memorabilia