Weekend Photo Diary: Doggie Diner Dog, Meet F
Photo by WHAT IM SEEING dot com from the Muni Photos Flickr group pool.
Have a lovely weekend, outdoors (supposed to be warm, as in 70s) or in.
Jamming on the 31 last night
After yelling about the white man and his separation from the late James Brown, this guy pounded out rhythms, chest-high kicks and grunts from Van Ness to 35th Ave. Awesome…
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Casual Complaint on F Ridership Protocol, If There Is Any
Another installment in the continuing saga of WT(F)
An enormous field trip gets on the F at Market and Main, like they often do.
A kid observes that the driver is annoyed because, “We took up the whole bus.”
Well, sort of. More like the whole bus is annoyed that you all packed on during rush hour.
In my perfect Muniverse, field trips, like bikes on BART, would not be allowed on the buses, especially the tiny little streetcars, during rush hour. I think they can do something awesomely educational while they wait for go time.
Thoughts? I swear its not just the cranky post-vacationer speaking here.
Dad, I Need a Gorilla and a Blackberry Storm
On the 49 yesterday evening I sat next to this cute little boy holding his gigantic stuffed animal and talking excitedly to his dad in Spanish. The only English words I can make out were, “No Dad, Blackberry Storm…iPhone…Pearl, no, Blackberry Pearl…”
Since when did kids get so sophisticated?
Don’t Be “Sorry” On The 47
On my way to SPUR’s Blogging in the City event last night, a cross-dressed man boarded with a bulky roll-on luggage that was topped with yet more black garbage bags filled to the brim. He had crooked teeth and a startled, amused look on his face. As he made his way down the aisle he talked to no one in particular a little too loudly.
Passengers around him looked alarmed and shrugged at one another, trying not to notice.
As the cross dresser got up to leave, a girl accidentally bumped into him and muttered, “Sorry.”
“Don’t be SORRY,” he said sarcastically. “Do you know what ‘sorry’ means in the Merriam Webster dictionary? It means ‘worthless.’ WORTHLESS.”
Under her breath, I think the girl said, “That’s not true.”
“YES it is!,” the cross dresser said, “and I don’t need your negativity!”
Photo by Flickr user Poldavo.
Muni to Spend $1.9 Million on Renovating SF’s First Street Car
What’s the price of preserving history? If you’re Muni, it’s a cool $1.9 million to renovate the city’s first street car, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The San Francisco Street Car #1, the only surviving vehicle of its kind in the city, will undergo renovations in preparation for Muni’s centennial celebration in 2012.
Sure, the streetcar has definite historical significance. According to the Chronicle report:
“Streetcar No. 1 has historical significance,” said Rick Laubscher, president of Market Street Railway, Muni’s nonprofit preservation partner. “This is not only San Francisco’s first publicly owned streetcar, but it’s also America’s first.”
The celebrated double-ended streetcar, built by the W.L. Holman Car Co. of San Francisco, began service on Dec. 28, 1912, running on the now defunct A-Geary line that ran from Geary Boulevard and 39th Avenue in the Richmond District to Kearny and Market streets downtown.
Celebrants showed up to watch the mayor guide the first municipal streetcar down the street – another reminder of San Francisco’s can-do spirit that emerged from the rubble of the devastating earthquake and fire six years earlier.
But seriously, $1.9 million? I thought we had a budget crisis or something.