Your place to share stories on and off the bus.
Jeremy (@metsfaninCA) tweeted this the other day with a simple question: “A grown man with a Hannah Montana backpack?”
Yeah, that’s a tricky proposition for any dude without kids in tow (I presume?). Maybe he’s just a really big fan.
What’s on your Muni right now? Tweet those goodies to @munidiaries today.
Photo by Todd Lappin
Reader Toni alerted us on our Facebook page to a great slideshow on Grist.org of restored trams on the F-Market line, including photos of the trams in restoration.
Photo by David Kidd
Meander over to Grist.org for the rest of the slideshow.
Wanna give us more tips? Comment on here or on our Facebook page like Toni did. We’re all ears.
Jesse was recently, well, bemused on Muni. Here’s why.
Crazy guy and I both went to sit in the sideways seats at the front of the bus. I noticed there were two quarters on his seat just as he sat down on them.
I said to him, “Hey man, you just made 50 cents,” as I pointed to the quarters. Without looking at them, he reached back and grabbed them from practically under his ass and held them in his tightly closed fist. He said “Here, I can tell you the dates on them.” Then he seemed to concentrate for a second, and said “1977…1995.” He opened his hand and we looked. He was right on both accounts. “I can always predict dates on coins,” he explained. That was just the beginning.
Other topics of conversation covered:
There’s a little something for everyone in that story, we think. What’s your Muni story?
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 by Kapshure
Look at who coordinated to match in kelly green today.
Got great Muni photos? We’re always hungry for them!
Art by San Francisco-based artist Julian Lozos. Check out his Kickstartr page (goal met!) for more on his calendar project.
Pretty cool. It’s like choosing which of the X-Men you’d want on your side in a fight (JEAN GREY).
I pick #130 for its deadly combo of style and substance. MSR says it was part of a commission to expand service for the Pan-Pacific International Exposition: the event that brought us the Palace of Fine Arts and showed off a rebuilt — on landfill, but still — post-1906-earthquake San Francisco. Plus, it’s done a tour of duty on almost every streetcar line.
My favorite-favorite F coaches, though, have to be the PCC cars. Smoothest, cushiest ride in town if you time it right (PSST not around 9 a.m. or 5 p.m.).
Meander over to Bernalwood to see more local-landmark superheroes.