San Raincisco - Cold brings some wet - Day 2 (100+)

[Coldrsx]

Day began wet and Chinese. A short walk to Meizhonggou for some dim sum to fuel up for a short walk to the Golden Gate Bridge.

love deco










ni hao meizhonggou. Ni you pijiu ma?


Riiiiiicola


sideway verticalness


anyone got a long board?
















peekaboo








now where did they say that opium den was?


honey, how are your quads?


me rikey


my honey bunny snuggletons




oh so that means steep?


i likey this house


i see you mr.easier than walking up this FCUKING HILL


LOVE THIS TOWER


hey Capone, i sees you


I wore red just for you, well and the mao people






density


seriously capone, put something good on the stove


you mean to tell me i walked up and down and back up all of those hills when you go right along this way?








Do you intersect with Jekyll


view tower, i want you


vista


first view of that short walk destination


please serve beer, please


just bring me the dim sum






this, this i want


no, not today


dr. evil layer?




















hard to explain but so awesome





i want his house on marine






strong trees


no beer but well deserved water break at cafe












i wanted to explore but my addidas mean too much to me














thank you all and the many others for this bridge




FCUK that is far




ahoy


i wanted to go in there but i forgot my cannon and i was not going in there without my cannon






We got stranded on the north side of the bridge, thought there would be buses and taxis. We asked nicely and shared a cab tour with a fine gentleman from the cheese state and went on a little side tour.










blurry is the new black mofos so shut it










at the above building we had a fine meal, a few vinos, on a patio






love it


playing wine induced chicken




west georgia in van?


lighty uppy


batman?


is that me or the camera?








why hello kind sir


more urban art










Finally back at the hotel...sore feet and a gf who deserves a foot massage.

[BTinSF]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

love deco

But it didn't start out deco.

First there was this:



Then this:



And renovated/restored as this:


Images from http://www.inetours.com/Pages/SFNbrh...arthquake.html

While I too like deco, I wish this one was as it began.

[BTinSF]

PS: The Palace Hotel had a similar but more drastic experience:

Original version (1889):

Source: http://www.sfhistoryencyclopedia.com...laceHotel.html

After a problem in 1906 ("the Palace Hotel had an elaborate and state-of-the-art defense against earthquakes and fire, including a cistern and four artisan wells in the sub-basement, a 630,000 gallon reservoir under the Grand Court, and seven roof tanks holding 130,000 gallons of water. None of this was enough to save the hotel in 1906, when the earthquake of April 18 and the subsequent three days of fire destroyed a substantial part of San Francisco. The fire was kept at bay by hotel employees, but when the water ran out, the fire began its destruction."):


Images and quote: http://www.sfhistoryencyclopedia.com...laceHotel.html

[peanut gallery]

Wow! These are some really excellent shots. I'm glad you stumbled into Fort Mason. It's an interesting little corner of the city that I bet most tourists never see.

[TonyAnderson]

You are truly a great photographer...and quite funny

[Coldrsx]

^not to mention good looking.

thanks!

[WEMO]

Great pics.....

[ltsmotorsport]

That takes some serious motivation to walk across the city.

[Coldrsx]

Originally Posted by ltsmotorsport

That takes some serious motivation to walk across the city.

what's the point in visiting if you miss the 'real' city by cabbing or busing it?

[sf_eddo]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

Love this one! That pointy skinny tower thing behind Alcatraz - that's the UC Berkeley campus! It's probably about 20 miles away from where you were standing.

[Coldrsx]

^thanks for clarifying for when I zoomed and caught that in the distance I wondered if it was a church or landmark.

cheers

[BTinSF]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

I wondered if it was a church or landmark.

It's a campanile: http://www.berkeleyheritage.com/berk...campanile.html -->

Completed in 1914, the Campanile is the symbol of the campus. It also houses a carillon of 61 bells on which music is played every day at noon.

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

what's the point in visiting if you miss the 'real' city by cabbing or busing it?

I've always suggested to people I know who were visiting SF that certain bus lines are an intense orientation to "the real city" and its sociology. I particularly recommend the 22 Fillmore line for that experience: http://www.sfmta.com/cms/mmaps/documents/22-layer.pdf

The line begins on the edge of Mission Bay at the base of middle class Potrero Hill, crosses through the Hispanic Mission District to the area where the Mission becomes the gay Castro where it turns north onto Church St and traverses part of the gay Upper Market heartland (past the cruisiest of all Safeways). It then jogs onto Fillmore St for a long run through the "Lower Haight" and then what was once "the Harlem of the West" and remains one of San Francisco's only 2 African-American neighborhoods of any size ("the Fillmore District" aka the Western Addition). But almost suddenly, after crossing Geary Blvd and passing Nihonmachi (pseudo-Japanese mall) in the heart of the pre-war Japantown (most residents were interned during the war, some came back), it begins to climb the slope of Pacific Heights along what's probably San Francisco's toniest neighborhood shopping street. It crests the Heights at Broadway ("Billionaire's Row"--home to the Gettys, novelist Danielle Steele et. al), jogs over to a less cliff-like Steiner for a block and then plunges through "Cow Hollow" into the Marina and yuppieville.

Through the route, the various residents of the diverse neighborhoods, a real SF cross-section, get on and off (except maybe the billionaires): middle class whites and some UC students-->Latinos-->gays-->slackers-->African-Americans-->Japanese-Americans-->yuppies.

[mSeattle]

Super scenic even in winter.

[Gladys8it42]

Wow, pretty impressive images!!!

I love my city.