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“Puttin’ on the Ritz.” I love these 1920’s ladies at Fisherman’s Wharf getting all decked out to buy some……… fish!  (Thumbnail image)

Don’t know much about Ye Old Curiosity Shop, but it looks like it might have been a fun place. Although, I might have more fun in what’s there now. That’s the Stockton Tunnel in the background.  (Thumbnail image)

Boy, they had a weird vision of what it was going to be like in the future in the Nineteenth Century. It’s not even like that in Disneyland today! Two of the buildings in the old postcard are still around, including the Chronicle Building at Kearny minus its clock. (Thumbnail image)

“It ain’t over until the Sing Fat lady sings!” (Thumbnail image)

“Long past?” “No, your past.” These are postcards of San Francisco that I bought when I was in high school. If I remember correctly, many of them I bought for a dime at the old Transbay Terminal Building when heading home from a day in SF. Progress has taken its toll on the beauty of … Read more Postcards from the past (Thumbnail images)

As I mentioned in a post early in the spring, the shelter-in-place proclamation that went into effect in the Bay Area on March 17th had turned Market Street into something of an urban nightmare. With workers, shoppers, and visitors gone, a lot of people who have been prowling around Market Street since March 17th are … Read more Reclaiming Market Street

So, where will I go in San Francisco on a warm June afternoon? The Shopping District of San Francisco, which has been practically a ghost town since the shelter-in-place was ordered, has been attacked by vandals recently, as elsewhere, and is not a friendly area right now. These are not protesters, they’re not activists, and … Read more The dunes of June

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)

It’s been damaged by two major earthquakes, eaten by a giant octopus, and, probably, appeared in more motion pictures than any other building in the United States except for the Capitol Building in Washington and the Los Angeles City Hall Building. The Ferry Building is a survivor, and, easily, the “Grande Dame” of San Francisco.  … Read more The Ferry Building