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Angry, Angry Walrus and the Noose S/He’s Going to Use to Hang You – Alaska...
TweetWalruses, walruses everywhere down in the 94104. It’s payback time:
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Cranelandia – How Much Money Does SF Mayor Wilie Brown Make Off Of Each One?...
TweetStart counting: La mise en scene from Mission looking south: Cranes = money, for certain people, right?
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Design Study: Solid Rock Missionary Baptist Church, 2000 Golden Gate – Solid,...
TweetOr as a solid as a rocklike appliqué can be, you know, hanging off the side of a Victorian house. Note – GOD IS REAL
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Concrete and Clay and General Decay: Maintaining a Tall Christian Cross High...
TweetAs seen in the Western Addition: Note internal cross-bracing…
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A Hobbit Jail Under the Stairs Near Post Street – Not a Good Place To Be When...
TweetRedeveloping the Fillmore was a horrible horrible idea is what I think when I see all the concrete and clay and general decay around Post and Buchanan. Oh look, a big parking garage – this is the...
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Suffer Our Local Porn Industry, Under the Constant Threat of California...
TweetWhat’s next for this rather large building?
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IF YOU CAN READ THIS, YOU’RE TOO CLOSE: An Interesting Rooftop Installation...
TweetWhat’s going on up here? Also, could this room fit a full-sized mattress? What’s the rent? PK VU, PNTHS, PULMN KI? PERFCT!
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Ex-Lucky Penny Diner Now an Idled Graffiti Magnet – See What’s Become of It
TweetYou’ve seen how it looks post-clean up. Now here’s how it looks on any given day, pre-clean up. Take a close look – perhaps your crew is represented here: (Note that nobody tried to save this...
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Irish Flags Fail to Drum Up Interest in the Twitterloin’s Hibernia Bank:...
TweetAll the deets from Peter Lawrence Kane But at least this building isn’t falling apart on the sidewalk anymore. Leave us travel all the way back to aught-nine: See where some bricks used to be,...
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50 vs. ONE – Or, 1 vs. FIFTY – The Anonymous Buildings of the First Block of...
TweetHere’s John King’s take on the new sculpture / logo at 1 California. You can see it on the right here. But what else can you see – a tacked-on “50” hanging from 50 California: Practically, these...
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Eilifint Bhan: Famous HIBERNIA BANK White Elephant Still Milky, Elephantine...
TweetIDK, man. I’m not the designated cheerleader for the Twitterloin, so I’ll not be waving my pom-poms yet for this latest sign of the long-promised “rebirth” of the Tenderloin. Anyway, it sat empty...
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It’s Now Safer to Raise and Lower Flags on Top of City Hall – I Guess – Just...
TweetFirst, things were all like this atop City Hall, the highest* classical dome** in the Western*** Hemisphere. But now they’re like this, with a more prominent walkway up there: Safety First, I...
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White Elephant! Get Your White Elephants! For Sale, Now In the Twitterloin –...
TweetOh no no no no no! This thing has been on the market for a while now. So you can’t just say “COMING SOON.” It’s a nice place to visit, perhaps, inside, but you wouldn’t want to live there, is what...
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The “Faceless Rooftop Wraiths” of 580 California
TweetIt’s 580 California in front of the BofA Building:
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Frisco’s Millennium Tower Exceeds Its Limits – Srsly – And Here’s the...
TweetUh oh: And, speaking of exceeding limits, here’s the cracked sidewalk out front: (Level 42 is called Level 43 – why is that? And Level 44 is called Level 46 – again, why is that?) Ah, memories:...
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Pumpkin House, Western Addition, Where Halloween is Every Day
TweetBoy, we sure were fancy a century ago, back when labor was cheap and “prevailing wages” didn’t exist:
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Living on the Precipice in Frisco High Atop Telegraph Hill – Life on Green...
TweetAs seen from Sansome: Looks scary
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Oh, Hello SalesForce Tower – Gee, You’re Kind of Blue
TweetTemporarily, I s’pose. Still, it’s quite striking if you’re not yet used to seeing this building. Hey, Salesforce Tower – do you, you know, considering the landfill issue, go all the way down to...
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The Onions are Done – Giant Golden Domes of Geary are Fortified to Face the...
TweetHoly Virgin Cathedral, 6210 Geary, Before: Before: And After, same as it ever was: Same as it ever was…
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