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This September will be the 140th birthday of Lotta’s Fountain at the intersections of Kearny. Geary, and Market, dedicated September 9th 1875. Nobody pays much attention to this ugly and neglected fountain, but like the Golden Gate Bridge or the Ferry Building, San Francisco will never get rid of it. For over one hundred years … Read more Cops

Although, for about the third year in a row the Internal Revenue Service has found a way to postpone the second part of that famous axiom, temporarily. The latest update is that the IRS will not process any tax returns until January 29th 2018. That gives me a little time to catch up on my … Read more ‘Death and Taxes’

‘The Crowded City’; that sounds like the title of a film noir movie, huh? “As night falls, on the crowded city, the dames, the drifters, the dopers, and the deadbeats shuffle off, each to their destinations. In his dimly lit office away from the crowd, a weary tax consultant takes another shot from the whisky … Read more ‘The Crowded City’ (For Alison)

I got a chance to check out the second day of the Muni Heritage Weekend Festival today. Muni and the Market Street Railway brought out all of the old stuff to ride on, some of them for free. $2.75 was all it cost for unlimited riding on most of them with a transfer as they … Read more Muni Heritage Weekend Festival

When we last stepped into the WABAC Machine with Mr. Peabody and Sherman we traveled back to the 1980’s. That doesn’t seem that far back to me, I think I’m still wearing some of the clothes I bought back then. Today we’ll take one step farther back to the 1970’s. Long queues for the Powell … Read more Segue to the 1970’s

   In 1922 Buster Keaton filmed what was probably the first chase scene to use San Francisco locations, if you don’t count Charlie Chaplin’s drive along the Great Highway in his 1915 short film ‘Jitney Elopement’. Chase scenes would later be a highlight in many movies set in San Francisco such as ‘Impact’ from 1949, … Read more The chase scene from ‘Daydreams’

A journey from 1906 through the 1980’s to some of the San Francisco film locations that I’ve covered on my blog.   1906 – ‘A Trip Down Market Street’: The start of the historic film of a cable car ride down Market Street. The Flood Building can be seen on the left in both images … Read more San Francisco movie locations through the decades

A Pyramid scheme; The Transamerica Pyramid on the way up in 1971: (SF Images) A poet on Telegraph Hill; Allen Ginsberg’s partner, Peter Orlovsky on Vallejo Street: (Howard Greenberg Gallery) Apartment hunting on Russian Hill in the 1950’s: “Is this place for rent?” “It is, fifty dollars a month.” “Why, that’s ridiculous!” “Take it or … Read more A Cloudy summer day in San Francisco

  “Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, you guys are passing by my favorite watering hole in the City, Vesuvio’s. Are you going in?” “You bet your sweet bippy!” “Oh, Goldie, you stopped saying that when Laugh-In went off the air!” (Butterflies Are Free – 1972) “Tyne Daly, Clint Eastwood! What are you guys doing up on … Read more More talking to the Stars around San Francisco

The following collections are of more San Francisco crime images both real and from the movies. This remarkable 1927 shot was taken during an actual bank robbery in progress at the French American Bank on Hayes at Octavia. Hey, bad guys, your cover is blown! In February of 1974 when Patty Hearst was kidnapped by … Read more More San Francisco Crime