My beloved 1969 Berkeley High Freshman yearbook, purchased at Alemany Flea Market.
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Some Pretty Pictures
Apparently we are the worst at updating this blog. It would probably be easier if either of us actually LIVED in SF right now, but oh well. Here be some lovely photos of random stuff in San Francisco to enjoy:
The Dance Party Laundromat on the corner of Mission and Ocean. (Not really a dance party).
Ye Olde California Savings Bank sign on Mission & 16th.
Cute Art Deco Building somewhere downtown - Sutter Street maybe?
Postwar stucco houses on the North Side of Bernal Hill.
View of the Backs of some houses from a pedestrian overpass near the Glen Park Bart Station.
Twin Peaks & Sutro Tower from... Noe Valley, I think.
The Strand, and old theater on Market Street that has been empty forever.
Old Tile Storefronts on Market Street.
A really cute building and storefront in Chinatown.
More to come, I swear. Like, actual entries that I sorta did research on and stuff. For serious!
The Dance Party Laundromat on the corner of Mission and Ocean. (Not really a dance party).
Ye Olde California Savings Bank sign on Mission & 16th.
Cute Art Deco Building somewhere downtown - Sutter Street maybe?
Postwar stucco houses on the North Side of Bernal Hill.
View of the Backs of some houses from a pedestrian overpass near the Glen Park Bart Station.
Twin Peaks & Sutro Tower from... Noe Valley, I think.
The Strand, and old theater on Market Street that has been empty forever.
Old Tile Storefronts on Market Street.
A really cute building and storefront in Chinatown.
More to come, I swear. Like, actual entries that I sorta did research on and stuff. For serious!
Friday, July 27, 2007
Even Boring Stuff at Least Used to Look Cute
Back in ye olden days, even boring stuff like the sign for a parking garage had some style. Like this one, located on the San Francisco Marketplace building, which is on Market and, uh, 9th or something:
Anyway, the point is, it seems like everything that is built nowadays, especially buildings/structures which serve a semi-utilitarian purpose (government buildings, hospitals, parking garages, etc.) are made as boring and ugly as humanly possible. It's like, Slab Of Concrete, Slab of Concrete, window, repeat, ad nauseum. You know? I mean, a parking structure is not an interesting place to be. But do they really need to be so aggressively ugly?
Anyway, the point is, it seems like everything that is built nowadays, especially buildings/structures which serve a semi-utilitarian purpose (government buildings, hospitals, parking garages, etc.) are made as boring and ugly as humanly possible. It's like, Slab Of Concrete, Slab of Concrete, window, repeat, ad nauseum. You know? I mean, a parking structure is not an interesting place to be. But do they really need to be so aggressively ugly?
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