\\\\\\ KOTH's new hood and other SF locales //////

Kingofthehill · #1 Posted: **May 18, 2009, 6:25 AM**

Hayward · #2 Posted: **May 18, 2009, 6:28 AM**

Love this one

wisla_krakow · #3 Posted: **May 18, 2009, 6:38 AM**

hahaha

seems like your neighborhood is in a very prime location.

giallo · #4 Posted: **May 18, 2009, 6:40 AM**

Bandanas and cable cars and wieners, oh my!

A push in every directions. Well played.

I hate Ed Hardy.

Urban Zombie® · #5 Posted: **May 18, 2009, 6:45 AM**

Welcome to San Francisco...

New locale...and you started it with a wang--er--BANG! Can't wait to see what else is in store for us!

Westsidelife · #6 Posted: **May 18, 2009, 6:46 AM**

Wow, it looks like SF has a lot in store for you.

BTinSF · #7 Posted: **May 18, 2009, 7:12 AM**

Does this mean you were here for the weekend? You certainly couldn't have asked for better weather--don't expect it to be like that often.

Even I am impressed with the collection of folks you found to film. Makes me wonder if perhaps at least some of them were in the Bay to Breakers crowd ( http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...MNP017M7P2.DTL ). That's usually a gold mine of oddities.

Kingofthehill · #8 Posted: **May 18, 2009, 7:16 AM**

No...I had to do some errands and was there from 7am-5pm.

Wish I'd stayed, though. No worries..I'll be back in a few weeks, before I actually move in.

BTinSF · #9 Posted: **May 18, 2009, 7:18 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hayward

Love this one

Quote:

Built 1948.
Served Philadelphia 1948-89.
Purchased by Muni 1992.
Exterior paint design: San Francisco (1960s).
San Francisco has run PCC streetcars since 1948. In 1957, Muni acquired 70 second-hand PCC cars from St. Louis to go with the 35 it already had, allowing the retirement of its last traditional streetcars.

The St. Louis cars arrived freshly repainted in Muni’s green & cream ‘Wings’ livery, displayed on car No. 1050. Soon, however, large advertising panels—sought by Muni to hold down fares—covered most of the sides, so starting in 1963, repainted streetcars sported a simpler cream band running along the side panels of the car.

Many of Muni’s PCCs escaped the simpliﬁed scheme, running in their Wings to the end of their original service life in 1982. But 30 PCCs were taken a step further in 1978-79, painted in the new white, orange, and poppy scheme developed by famed designer Walter Landor along with today’s squiggly Muni logo, a.k.a. the ‘Worm’.

In 2008, Streetcar No. 1051 was dedicated to San Francisco District Supervisor Harvey Milk.

Source: http://www.streetcar.org/mim/streetc...051/index.html

ColDayMan · #10 Posted: **May 18, 2009, 3:00 PM**

I dig San Francisco.

stepper77 · #11 Posted: **May 18, 2009, 4:30 PM**

Can't wait to see more of what you show us here! You're ability to capture people is unsurpassed. Thanks!

SLO · #12 Posted: **May 18, 2009, 4:53 PM**

Okay, since nobody has asked, whats the deal with the naked dude??

BTinSF · #13 Posted: **May 18, 2009, 5:04 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by SLO

Okay, since nobody has asked, whats the deal with the naked dude??

There are certain occasions in San Francisco where people--a few people--have simply got in the habit of walking around sans clothing. The Folsom Street Fair (street celebrating gay leather/S&M etc on a street once lined with bars catering to that crowd) is one. But so is the Bay to Breakers footrace which happened to be yesterday and which I mentioned above. It passes through the neighborhood KOTH was photographing. I'm guessing this guy was either participating (only the leaders actually run--crowds of others just having fun walk along behind) or in the crowd watching.

Other "runners":

Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/contri...e-fe118b2401db

There's even an official web site called "Bare to Breakers": http://baretobreakers.com/

Their logo:

On the other hand, another segment of the SF population removes as much clothing as possible in the rare warm weather, which this weekend also was--guys in particular just walk around shirtless all over the city and some go even further in certain areas. I mean it doesn't happen often that the temperature breaks 70 degrees (Saturday and Sunday it broke 90).

Just my guess until we get a definitive answer.

Buckeye Native 001 · #14 Posted: **May 18, 2009, 5:11 PM**

That's one hell of a neighborhood

TXLove · #15 Posted: **May 18, 2009, 5:52 PM**

Great looking new hood!

ShadowMaster · #16 Posted: **May 18, 2009, 6:30 PM**

Just superb! We will start seeing more of Koth in S.F and that's an A+.

cityscapes · #17 Posted: **May 18, 2009, 7:56 PM**

Those old houses are so nice. I can't wait to visit SF.

blade_bltz · #18 Posted: **May 18, 2009, 9:04 PM**

Nice pics - pretty off the wall stuff.

Gah, I'm mad I didn't run Bay to Breakers. Next year may be my last chance!

ChrisLA · #19 Posted: **May 18, 2009, 9:29 PM**

What the hell, all I can say is I've had two surprises in less than 24 hours, and one of them was the earthquake last night.

SLO · #20 Posted: **May 18, 2009, 11:18 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by BTinSF

There are certain occasions in San Francisco where people--a few people--have simply got in the habit of walking around sans clothing. The Folsom Street Fair (street celebrating gay leather/S&M etc on a street once lined with bars catering to that crowd) is one. But so is the Bay to Breakers footrace which happened to be yesterday and which I mentioned above. It passes through the neighborhood KOTH was photographing. I'm guessing this guy was either participating (only the leaders actually run--crowds of others just having fun walk along behind) or in the crowd watching.

On the other hand, another segment of the SF population removes as much clothing as possible in the rare warm weather, which this weekend also was--guys in particular just walk around shirtless all over the city and some go even further in certain areas. I mean it doesn't happen often that the temperature breaks 70 degrees (Saturday and Sunday it broke 90).

Just my guess until we get a definitive answer.

Well, this is San Francisco, I wasnt so sure there would be a logical answer....thanks for playing though!