San Francisco Lands End (# 0545)

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The parts of San Francisco that have been an integral part of my life. The areas where much of who I am, developed. My first visit to San Francisco was in 1967, when I was in the military. I've been in and out of the city ever since, having lived there from 1983 to 1996 and continuing to have personal and professional contacts there that facilitate regular visits. The city was very important…  (read more)

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San Francisco Lands End (# 0545)

I was very lucky in terms of weather in San Francisco. The week before the skies had been filled with smoke from large fires north of the city (across the Golden Gate in this picture) and the temperatures were unusually warm for October. Though the weather was very pleasant for a tourist, that meant there wasn’t much of the fog that keeps the city green! This is Lands End, a large open space on the northwest edge of San Francisco -- a wonderful place for hiking, though often windy and cold. On the upper right in this picture is a graded flat area that I’ve always assumed was a site for cannons that once defended the entrance to the bay, but I’ve never seen an explanation for the area and unlike other nearby areas there’s no remnants of fortifications, so that might not be reason that area is level. On the left side of the picture is the beach at Lands End which was very popular as a nude beach for many years until the National Park Service took over responsibility for the area.

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San Francisco Lands End / beach mask etiquette… (# 0544)

Families on the beach at Lands End. There’s a reason why the city has the virus under control – people were very conscientious about wearing masks and maintaining social distance. Even though these people were outside in an area with a good breeze, everyone in this picture, including the small children, is wearing a mask (my friend and I had been down there and seen them.)

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San Francisco Lands End / Golden Gate….(# 0545)

One of the trails on the bluff at Lands End, with the Golden Gate bridge in the distance. There’s lots of stairs and elevation change on the trails at Lands End and, even in those sometimes strenuous situations, people were pulling their masks up as soon as they got near other people. Picture locations are only approximate, could be off by as much as a mile.

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15 Oct 2020

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San Francisco Castro / homeless covid (# 0557)

Find a Safer Place to Sleep First time I’d seen this – 3 covid/sleeping signs in front of apartment buildings in the Castro. Why I saw these signs here but not in other places might be because the green-tile faced building here, and the building much further down, all had level enclosed spaces adjacent to the sidewalk which would be easy for sleeping. See the adjacent picture for the text of the signs.

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San Francisco Castro / homeless covid (# 0558)

Find a Safer Place to Sleep The signs, courtesy of the City, have instructions for defining a safer place to put up a tent or sleep on the sidewalk: 3 feet between tents; 6 feet from doorways, transit stops, etc.; 5 feet from fire hydrants; 4 feet from sidewalk paths; clear from driveways and roadways.

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San Francisco Castro dining outside (# 0547)

The basic foundations of Castro culture are all the restaurants, bars, and other shops that provide some opportunity to have a sense of gay community. Given that the Coronavirus health restrictions meant that bars and restaurants had to strongly limit their indoor service, I wondered how the Castro was adapting. Though I was there midweek at lunch time, it looked like they were doing fairly well. The scene here with the long area of enclosed parking spaces as dining area is the same as what is seen in this older picture . From the older picture you can see that there are multiple restaurants in this string of buildings, so I’m curious as to how they worked out having a common sidewalk structure for multiple businesses.

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San Francisco Castro dining (and smartphoning) outside (# 0551)

Another view of the street-side and parking-space dining shown in the first Castro picture (# 0547) – with the prerequisite number of young men checking their smartphones…..

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San Francisco Castro Twin Peaks bar / outside (# 0550)

One of the oldest and most durable gay bars in the Castro, “Twin Peaks”. I think it’s a statewide Coronavirus standard that bars have to limit capacity, that patrons have to sit at tables, and that they must serve food. Here’s Twin Peaks before the Pandemic – they’re at a very busy intersection, so they don’t have a lot of room to expand outside.

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San Francisco Castro dining outside / justice politics (# 0548)

Just a few parking spaces downhill from the adjacent picture, another string of parking-space outdoor eating areas, in front of a modern building with a “Stop Killing Black People” banner.
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