In San Juan Bautista we visited the Plaza Hotel, a venerable hotel from the mid-1800s that has been part of the state park system since the 1930s and has been preserved and lovingly restored to its 1860s glory days. Several rooms in the hotel are open for visitors and it was actually very nice to [...]
Here’s a (to me) new blog about the Bay Area: Frisco Vista It is a project by Thomas Christensen who is the director of publications at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. The blog is part of a larger site with the same name that from the looks of it will provide a much [...]
A few weeks ago we went on a day trip down to San Juan Bautista. It’s a cute little town with a gorgeous plaza with historical buildings on three sides and a view of open fields in a valley to the east. The mission building is large and still speaks of the importance of this [...]
Another night shot from the Maritime Museum at San Francisco’s Aquatic Park. The museum is situated along the old Hyde Street Pier, where in the old days car ferries docked and which in fact was the San Francisco-side end of Highway 101 in the days before the Golden Gate Bridge. Shot taken with Canon S2IS. [...]
The Maritime Historical Park sometimes offers tours of their ships at night for school groups and as I took this photo, shouts could be heard across the water and one of the sails of the Balclutha was raised by the students.
I’ve decided to resurrect a feature of this blog, but with a twist. A few years ago I wrote quite a number of “Street Copy” posts, where all of the photos were taken with my trusty old Palm Zire 71. The Zire fell in disuse over the last year or so, and Street Copy posts [...]
Seen on Howard Street where a 1920s ad has surfaced at a construction site.