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San Francisco over Christmas Week
Over Christmas week, I made a trip out to the Bay Area and got to check out a lot of the new developments. We didn't travel south but did manage to hit up a lot of the major locales in the East Bay and wine country, in addition to San Francisco itself. Luckily the weather was reasonably cooperative and I managed to get a few good shots of the City by the Bay.
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Let's get this one out of the way, shall we?
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We got a pretty incredible deal on a hotel in SoMa, which was a very convenient jumping-off point for exploring the rest of the city.
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This was not the hotel we stayed at (unfortunately!)
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Not shown: the huge piles of trash along the curb here.
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More trash... The rest of the Haight seemed very clean (and hyper-gentrified!) but Haight Street itself was still a bastion of filth. This was Christmas Day, so not a whole lot was open.
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I liked Mid-Market/Central Market/Twitterhood, but it's definitely still a bit rough around the edges.
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Thanks [member=7]ColDayMan[/member] and [member=1943]taestell[/member] for pointing this place out!
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This was a true trip highlight for me. It doesn't look like too much from the outside, and I was worried it wouldn't be publicly accessible, but...
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...It's now a (very, very) high-end Italian men's store, and although I can't afford anything, window shopping is free!
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If you haven't figured it out by now, it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and is one of his few remaining commercial buildings.
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Truly a treat to experience in person.
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Now's as good a point as ever to sneak in some skyline shots.
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The weather isn't being bipolar; I've just shuffled some things around.
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The Tenderloin was pretty much what I expected.
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Japantown.
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Some ridiculous Victorians in Pac Heights... those curved windows!
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It seems as though no matter where you're headed, you always end up in Chinatown.
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Even Stevie Wonder commutes via cable car.
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This corner building is great.
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I'd say that's enough for one thread! San Francisco is a bewildering, beautiful, disgusting, energetic, ever-changing unchangeable enigma of a city, that's for sure.
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