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Sunday Streets in The Mission. San Francisco. July 11, 2010. FREE.
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Taraval Street Fair vs. The Last Sunday Streets in The Outer Sunset vs. Doin’ it in The Park. San Francisco. 2009. FREE
9 09 2009Taraval has a street fair?
I heard about this offhand and apparently some of the Mermen played surf rock at this street festival last year in a sideband.
Fuck.
I would have loved to hear those guys play surf rock at my beach for free. I live for stuff like this.
So when I heard (offhand) that there was going to be a Taraval Street Fair the same day as the last Sunday Streets I knew I had to check it out.
I’m not entirely convinced that the Taraval Street Fair just wants to be left alone.
It’s the dark, edgy, loner of the San Francisco Street Festival circuit.
It’s the Luke Perry of the show.
Anywhoo, I volunteered to be a crossing guard for Sunday Streets. There’s a strong desire there to extend the hours, but the explanation given to me was that they are only able to run this campaign for $25,000 – $30,000 per event and 100-200 volunteers till the 2PM shift. Hopefully, as it gains steam, if more people volunteer (C’mon it’s not like most of us have jobs or anything anymore) we can extend those hours.
So because I was more preoccupied with making sure agro drivers didn’t run over any pedestrians or bicyclists, I don’t have that many pictures from this Sunday Streets, but I did find a youtube that summed up my feelings towards that day perfectly.
And there was a Free Doin’ it in the Park at the 25th Ave part of Golden Gate Park.
Check out how all that morning fog burns off and by 4PM it’s like San Diego out there in The Sunset.
Simply Awesome.
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Sunday Streets in The Outer Sunset. August 9th, 2009. FREE.
10 08 2009
What’s funny is that the sun woke me up this morning and that 31st Ave was still sunny and clear when I left for the day. But just a few blocks down the street and you could see that there was a pocket of fog just sitting down there by the beach. Just like the Twilight Zone. It’s like it’s own completely different ecosystem down there. You can go from San Diego to Bermuda Triangle tropical rainforest conditions in just a few blocks.
And then it all burned off 20 minutes before the block party was over. Yo! Sunday Streets. Can we change our hours from the 10AM – 2PM shift to…let’s say noon – sunset? Can we make that happen? Because, seriously. Most of this town can’t even get out of the house before 4PM. Trust me on this one.
Who’s a good dog!
Who’s a good dog with the most bad-ass tricked out bike!
That’s right, you are!
Good dog! You’re a good dog!
You were always on my mind.
You were always on my mind.
I saw this set up a few months ago at that free bike party in Golden Gate Park that I never got around to writing about. They tried to go renegade that day but had to retreat back into the neighboring Burning Man Golden Gate Park parties jurisdiction to avoid prosecution. That was an interesting day.
All the electricity for this party isn’t provided by a generator. It comes from all the people peddling on those bikes. Really ingenious idea.
And this is what a human bike-powered renegade party on Ocean Beach looks like.
The next Sunday Streets will be back in The Outer Sunset the day after The Man burns.
Seriously? Who scheduled that?
Are the promoters for the Outside Lands Festival on your board of directors?
Seriously. We need to talk people.
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Sunday Streets in the Mission. FREE.
21 07 2009
Sunday was one of those classic sunny San Francisco summer days where there were a dozen different things going on. Some 25,000 people were in the AIDS walk in Golden Gate Park, the San Francisco Symphony was doing a free show in Dolores Park, and the Sunday Streets project shut down a few block in the Mission for an early block party.
This guy was playing guitar from his room but it was that hand made drawing that caught my eye and was probably the most random sight of the day.
It’s former KTVU reporter Dennis Richmond!
People were yelling his name as they walked by like it was Metallica.
I just wrote about this guy the other day and how everyone from the 25 year old Harvey Milk documentary are still ubiquitous today.
How random is that…
Valencia Cyclery had a free renegade style barbeque once the Sunday Streets officially ended at 2PM. Deep and the Trikeasaurus provided the beets and people were playing frisbee in the streets. It was like a Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff song.
And the next two Sunday Streets are going to be in The Outer Sunset. It’s amazing what different worlds they are. You can get a tan in the Mission, ride the bike back to the Outer Sunset and catch a cold. It’ll be interesting to see if as many of the locals come out when we take over The Great Highway for a few hours.
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The Outer Sunset 