Frisco Vista

This week we’ve seen images of Market Street, Gough Street, Lombard Street, and Fell Street, all located in the same U.S. city. Which city? The answer is revealed after the jump

Okay, over the past few posts we’ve seen Market Street, Lombard Street, Gough Street, and now Fell Street. What’s this city?
Here’s a bonus clue: The city we’ve been looking at features a Holocaust Memorial, located across from the U.S. Custom House on Gay Street.

Answer in next post.
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We’ve seen Market Street, Gough Street, and now Lombard Street. Where are we?
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Continuing the series started with the previous post. Where do we find this Gough Street?
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Okay, a lot of cities have Market Streets. Stay tuned for a better clue . . .
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This photo of a guard tower on Alcatraz comes from vgm8383’s photostream.
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While we’re checking out the SF skyline, here’s a closer view, from Port View Park in Oakland.
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This exquisite image taken near Point Reyes comes from Miwok.’s photostream.
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Travels in virtual NoCal

Asia blooms at Quarryhill Botanical Garden
An Alcatraz hotel?
All-Bay Team selected
San Francisco solar map
Dennis Richmond signs off
Photo Tour of a San Francisco Tugboat

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I was siderailed by a medical issue, but now I’m back and blogging.
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FriscoVista is on medical leave and will be back soon.

Yep, that’s what it is. Some guy was widening his driveway. I’m using the dirt to fill in my swimming pool, which will now be a garden. It will require about ten piles like this one.

map by Chronicle Graphics
I missed this article when it appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle back in December. It presents several of the city’s neighborhoods from the perspective of the homeless.
I work in neighborhood no. 2, the “service/crack sector.” Chronicle staff writer Kevin Fagan describes it pretty accurately:
During the day, soup kitchens such as St. [...]

A week of travel in virtual NoCal

Golden State rush
SF Noir 2008
Aerial photography in 1906 San Francisco
Pillow fight in San Franicsco on Valentine’s Day

Link love
Who’s been linking in

Eye on blogs: not about the election
Post-election drinkage

SF Gate provides this cheery map, on which each pin represents a homicide. What a lot of them!

Could violent criminals be going into upscale neighborhoods and mowing down the ruling class? Let’s compare that map to this one, which I posted last week, showing San Francisco housing prices. Hmmm.

This blog was hacked into, briefly, yesterday morning; little harm was done.
It’s important to plug vulnerabilities, which can exist in themes or plugins, older versions of Wordpress, or improper configurations. My mistake may have been in being careless about updating my application and plugins.
Another possible vulnerability was the Democracy plugin. It enables you to host [...]

Notes from a week of travel in virtual NoCal.

Emeryville mayor, leaving meeting about pedestrian bridge, runs over and kills a pedestrian
Warriors: crazy, beautiful, dangerous
J-Pop store to open in Japantown
Dining with mom
Andy Ross resigns from Cody’s Bookstore
Exploring the ghost ship SS Independence (*don’t miss)

It’s a pity — at least from the standpoint of spectacle — that the Sutro Baths, a large swimming pool complex built in the nineteenth century, proved impossible to maintain. The baths were destroyed in 1966, when they burnt to the ground. The Cliff House project has a page with many historic photos [...]

Dateline Oakland
Murder Suspect Identified through Gang’s MySpace Page
(Is there any need to read the story?)

I had a chance to eat at Tamarindo Antojeria the other day. It’s located 468 8th Street in downtown Oakland. (The nicely restored brick-walled restaurant is in the city’s Old Town district.) Their website is www.tamarindoantojeria.com, and the phone is 510.444.1944.

Although it was a Wednesday the restaurant was very crowded. We arrived early because we [...]

At the home page, www.friscovista.com, I’ve posted a new site intro.
Also I’m trying using a linkroll as a navigation element (on that same page). We’ll see how it works.