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Brooke tweeted this goodie to @munidiaries and BART Diaries dude Ed:
Dressed 2 impress for my first Muni ride EVER!
Congratulations on popping your Muni cherry, Brooke. Impressive, indeed.
Get all snazzed up like Brooke tonight, and tweet us your Friday night debauchery from the bus.
Rider Anthony sent us this picture of ol’ yellow on a “very crowded 38L.” When you’re ass-to-crotch with strangers during commute hour, it’s the little things that count.
Balloon animals on Muni is my favorite meme, short of actual pets on the bus. (And the even rarer meme of the bus arriving just when I needed it.) I spotted my first balloon animal on a snoozing Muni in October, after which rider Kristin sent us a pic of its twin (or perhaps the same one?) on a 16X. Rider Heather sent us a blue balloon dog from 2010, and, stretching even further back, we’ve got this orange one on the 5-Fulton, via telluomo on Flickr:
Photo: Sarah Dawson Photography
Pictured below are Katie and Shadi, and Bryan and Michelle, respectively.
We curse it to hell during commute hours, but any San Francisco photo shoot just isn’t complete without it. In 2009, Jeff and I couldn’t resist, either. We met in San Francisco and get all marshmallowy over neat stuff on public transit, so there you go.
Photo: Right Angle Images
Photo: Right Angle Images
Snuggle up on Muni (with permission from your snugglee, that is), and send us your photos and stories today. Why’s Muni your backdrop for more than getting to and fro?
Photo: Courtesy Richard Brandi, Bernal Cut Southbound 1907. S-P Trainline, official publication of the Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society, Winter 2005. No. 82
This feels like some far-off land to me, but it’s San Francisco circa 1907.
At a recent Glen Park Neighborhood Association meeting, architectural historian and native San Franciscan Richard Brandi enlightened the group about this old train route on the south side of town. This Southern Pacific Railroad line connected San Francisco and San Jose. Part of the route went through Glen Park and the Mission District around Dolores and 28th. In the photo, this very prototypical train is zipping through the Bernal Cut: today’s San Jose Avenue.
From the neighborhood association write-up:
Brandi traced a fascinating journey along the old route, finding remnants and reminders of the tracks, with houses and other structures placed strategically and sometimes awkwardly to make way for the trains to pass.
With the rise of the auto and truck and the decline of the train, there were large lots of land vacated by the train car barns. This is where many of our present-day supermarkets are located, such as the Safeway on Mission near 30th Street.
Thanks, Beth, for sending this nifty glimpse of transit in the southeast parts of town.
Dhyana posted this celebration of coconuty chocolate on the Muni Diaries Facebook Page, noting this:
Maybe this is part of his oeuvre, a la Felix Gonzalez-Torres. It is so contemporary.
Either that or coconut macaroons are next. But really, though, what does this “sometimes” look like when it’s cupcakes, instead?
Image: Lost in the 415
Back in December, we posted what was obviously the hottest item on your holiday wish list: folding paper Muni buses. Think paper dolls, but for your favorite Muni line. An easy, fun idea from Paper Buses via Uptown Almanac.
Print yours out today — there are a few other lines available on Paper Buses — and send us your photos and stories. Why’d you pick the line that you did?
We’re still waiting on that inaccurate paper NextBus tracker to go with it.