“If you can be happy on the 38 it’s love”
Melissa’s text with a friend involved witnessing a modern-day miracle. The reaction pretty much sums it all up: “LOL at the 38. If you can be happy on the 38 it’s love.”
Right on, bus-ridin’ lovebirds!
256 Ways to Look at the Transamerica Building
Photo by Jeremy Brooks
How many times a day do you walk past a San Francisco landmark without giving it another glance? Long-time Muni Diaries photo contributor Jeremy Brooks decided that to train his camera lens on the Transamerica Building for a year and captured some amazing shots in his Transamerica View project, which has 256 photos of the landmark building taken in a year. You’ve seen his great photos on the site in lots of posts including the Shoes on Muni series.
From Jeremy:
The Transamerica Pyramid is one of my favorite buildings in San Francisco. I work in a building with a great view of the Pyramid, and have been photographing it for several years. In 2012, I decided to start a project to document an entire year of my view of this building. I took a photo of the Pyramid every day when I got into the office using my iPhone and the Hipstamatic application.
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Transit News: BART, BART, and more BART
Photo by Raymond Yee
- BART may soon ditch bike ban (SF Examiner)
- BART balances budget, but challenges remain (SF Examiner)
- BART launches labor-news website (BART.gov)
- BART working to protect Transbay Tube from elements, ships (SF Examiner)
- Richmond officials adamant any BART extension must come through downtown station (Contra Costa County Times)
Muni Fast Passes up $2 in July
Who knew about this before this week? I didn’t. And judging by the lack of Fast Pass-related vitriol in our Twitter feed, it sounds like a lot of people didn’t get the memo. Read more
Take THAT, Muni phone thief!
Photo by Jeremy Brooks
MissionMission’s Helen Tseng wrote about her scary experience getting mugged on Muni. She ran after the suspect to get her phone back, in what followed to be an even more frightening experience. From Helen’s blog:
I was on my way to the Needles & Pens anniversary show, and BART was delayed due to that naked guy fiasco, so I hopped on a 14 and took my phone out of my pocket to let a friend know that I would be late. Then, as the bus pulled over to the 23rd and Mission stop, a scary man ripped my phone out of my hands and ran off the bus with it.
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Maya Angelou drove a San Francisco streetcar, y’all!
Not only that: She claims she was the first black streetcar conductor in the city. And we have every reason to believe her.
Via SF Appeal:
“In an interview with Oprah, Angelou was just 16 years old and still in high school when she decided to pursue the position. The uniforms caught her eye and she soon went to apply for a job.
Though many women worked as streetcar conductors, at the time none of them were women of color. Angelou was denied an application, but that didn’t stop her from soldiering on. With her mother Vivian Baxter’s encouragement and suggestion, Angelou says she sat in SF’s transit office every day for two weeks. She would arrive earlier than the secretaries and wouldn’t leave until after they had gone for the day.”
Here’s the interview, in which the word “pizzazz” is spoken more than once:
RADNESS!