Don't Play Coit

Coit Tower, made possible by a generous donation from the late Lillie Hitchcock Coit. The SF Rec + Park website describes Lillie as a "wealthy eccentric" and all of the other brief things I've read about her suggest a wild and fascinating existence. I'll have to look for a good book on her. Anyway, there's quite a view from Telegraph Hill, as you can see from below, and I hope you enjoy the photos.

The Mighty MoMA

Here are some shots from a recent trip to the SF MoMA. There are lots more, but I'll upload the rest later.




Here are a few pics of some of the cool...objets d'art, if you will haha!s The last one is kind of a favorite.

"Angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night"

I've been thinking about following this beatnik tour of North Beach that I read about a few days ago, and I'm not just saying that because I'm wearing my Buddy Holly glasses today. Check out all of the cool spots Mike Marino recommends in A Beatnik tour through the North Beach of San Francisco, California! Even though several of the spots are closed down now or are home to different venues, I still think it would be a really cool self-guided tour.

• Lombard Street
• Coit Tower
• The Dharma Bums Tour
• Jack Kerouac's House
• 1010 Montgomery Street - where Allenn Ginsberg wrote Howl
• The Six Gallery - where Ginsberg first read Howl
• City Lights Bookstore
• Vesuvio's Bar (Marino recommends the Jack Kerouac: rum, tequila, orange / cranberry juice and lime in a bucket glass. Sounds dangerous!)
• The Purple Onion and The Hungry i
• The Condor Club and Carol Doda
• Finnochio's Club
• Beach Blanket Babylon
• The Church of Dirty Harry

Tour-ist

Last weekend, I went on a little GoCar tour of San Francisco and it was SO MUCH fun! I cannot recommend it enough. There are several different tour routes you can follow. We chose the route that followed the coast and spent about two and a half hours cruising around. I didn't wear the warmest shoes and I got pretty chilly after awhile (the weather had been so nice earlier in the day!), so we didn't follow the entire route. But the little car has a built-in GPS that tells you where to go and gives you facts about the different sites you're visiting along the way! It was very fun. Here are a few of my favorite shots from the day. I was seriously so excited about living here after the tour. I mean, I was already excited but that just made me that much happier about it. I only wish it had been a little bit sunnier so the pictures had turned out a little better.