Water Department Cover
The Google Bus Stop. At the place where Google kids hop on the bus, someone painted this into the concrete. It says "Trendy Google Professionals Help Raise Housing Costs".
Obamaism
Vegans for McCain
Stop the War, March 19th
Mr. Seahorse Knows That No One Is Illegal
There were also some interesting signs and murals:
Good Fricken Chicken
Emmy's Spaghetti Shack. Get the Spaghetti and Meatballs...mmm
Dewar's Ad
I'll post more interesting things I found later, but I thought the signs and stencils were funny.
8 comments:
I found this very interesting, I have never seen anything like what is painted on the sidewalk.
Nice pix of the neighborhood! Viva La Lengua Libre! I love that Dewars ad.
Don't forget the street name typos!
Now for a transit related question -- why isn't there an express bus from Noe/Mission down Cesar Chavez to the 22nd St Caltrain station? Imagine if we had something timed to the Baby Bullet schedule?
Not sure burrito, but it sounds like a good idea to feed the line.
Was just at GFC on Saturday night. First time - kids loved it. Me too!
Ah, yes, the "rich people raise housing cost canard." I'd be a lot more sympathetic to the people raising the argument if fewer of them seemed to relish ghettos.
If you're up for Chinese, not Chicken, this might be the place:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rllayman/508815556/
2. Re the housing comment. You need people with money in order to revitalize economies. I wouldn't say that people upset about change, what they call gentrification, relish ghettoes.
They don't understand the need for income for investment, and they are upset about the reality that we haven't figured out (portfolio investment in housing, changing property taxation systems, etc.) how to maintain income variability within neighborhoods in the face of high demand for housing.
Some of them do. Many of the neighborhood people I met on the Straphangers' Campaign forums romanticize 1970s' New York. Others don't, but still don't like the values of newcomers. Many anti-gentrification activists attack developers and urban renewal boosters who violate tenants' rights and destroy buildings, but many others ignore the developers and instead bash people who go to Starbucks and Pinkberry and listen to alternative music.
A couple of interesting storefronts (no pix, and I'm in Southern Calif.) that I've seen when visting SF: "Eezy Freezy Market" on West Portal (left side when heading outbound on K or M). "Furlough's Tonsorial Parlor" on the M, (where the track used to end in the PCC days, south side of the street).
One of my favorite "street icons" is the Golden Fire Hydrant at 20th & Church.
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