Archive for September 2008
San Francisco Restaurants
There are so many places in San Francisco to eat. Every kind of taste or ethic food is available at a wide range of afford. I was totally caught up in the signage. I loved the streets and signs (some pretty old, so you know they’ve been in business for a long time). Some were new, or funky, or cute, or reminiscent of Bogart. All great places. I wish I could have tried them all. One thing for sure – there’s no excuse for not eating and walking in San Francisco!
Alcatraz Pizza
Bechelli's Restaurant
Blue Mermaid
Lefty O'Douls Daily Grill
Pompei's Grotto
The Cannery
Tarantino's
A Rolls by any other name —
would have MY name on the title!!!
I found this nifty Rolls Royce in a dealership in San Francisco. One couple that was looking at it said it was going in the mid $40Ks and thought he could find the same a bit less in New York. Then again, you have to travel around and spend a few dinero to go to NY and get the car (which actually could be driven through salt). So I say – hey, buy this one.
San Francisco is a great city. I love it.
Nice RR
The Blues
Ford fin
1959 Ford Galaxie Convertible
1948 Plymouth
1957 Ford Fairlane Convertible
1956? Ford Thunderbird
1960 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 Convertible
1955 Mercury Convertible
1957 Cadillac and 1958 TV Commercial
Just some fun with these photos and the old TV commercials.
1957 Cadillac - The Villages, FL
The Palace of Fine Arts – San Francisco
Ladies Weeping - Palace of Fine Arts
The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco was constructed as a temporary attraction in playing host to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, The Fair, which opened on February 20, 1915, San Francisco was honoring the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the completion of the Panama Canal; it was also celebrating its own resurrection after the shattering earthquake and fire of 1906.
Those column-top statues of sorrowing (weeping) maidens turned away from prying eyes are using their tears to water the long-gone oaks that originally stood in the planters that they surround. One story I heard was that the tears were for the dead soldiers (lost love?) of the Panama Canal Zone war.
I like the romantic aspects of this.
The Alhambra
San Francisco is filled with history and gems like this marquis from the Alhambra theater.
The Alhambra
Metro Theatre
I really liked this very retro theatre marquis in San Francisco. Lately I’ve had an eye for older things – their present beauty from a time past.
The Metro
Austin Healey
Came across this nice Austin Healey at a Europen import dealer in San Francisco.
Austin Healey
Austin Healey - read/side
Sorrentolens 