Transit riders of all sorts from around the world, including those on San Francisco’s BART and Muni, took part in a “no pants subway ride” Sunday. The event first began in New York in 2002 and has now spread to 44 transit systems in 16 countries. For Sunday afternoon entertainment i hustled around the Muni and BART taking pics of scantily clad urbanites. Check out the pics below
The annual SF Bike Expo took place this week at San Francisco’s Cow Palace. A day of cyclo-cross racing, mountain bike dirt jump competition, bike fashion show and many vendors selling their wares made for quite the cycling enthusiast event.
The cyclo-cross course wound around the massive Cow Palace property, up and down hills, through mazes or dirt and even through one of the buildings to give the riders the ultimate variety of terrains. The mountain bike dirt jump competition, featuring a variety of pro’s, took off from the side of a good sized hill and continued through 3 massive jumps to provide an awesome aerial spectacle. Check out the pics below.
Shot for SF Weekly
The Car Was Their Art Show shot for East Bay Express
2009 SF Cannabis Cup Photos Taken for SF Weekly
Golden Gate Sunset from the Berkeley Hills
Once the largest pool in the world, SF’s Fleishhacker Pool held 6 million gallons of water and at capacity could accommodate 10,000 swimmers and the life guards needed row boats to patrol the vast area. The pool, was fed by salt water from the ocean, had huge gaudy diving towers, swings and diving boards and in it’s heyday was the place to be.
Fleishhacker Pool pool, 1925 Courtesy of a private collectorNote the Pool House in the background left.
Built in 1925, the pool was the vision of philanthropist banker Herbert Fleishhacker. After several decades of high times, the pool succumbed to outflow drains problems after a storm and never really recovered from the repairs. Falling into disrepair, low attendance and rumors of water borne illness the pool vanished form the public’s eye.
The only remnants of the facility is the pool house (seen in the background of the photo above) that now sits facing a nicely paved SF Zoo parking lot where the pool use to be.
One afternoon in the early fall of 2009 i jumped the fence and explored the property. As you’ll see from the photos the pool house was filthy with the signs of human inhabitants (feces, bedding, garbage, makeshift housing), marred with graffiti and full of just about everything you could think of.
Enjoy the photos.
Just off of 3rd St. on the Southern San Francisco waterfront sits several grain towers aging in the forgiving Bay Area weather. Surrounded by fences topped in ornate rolls of razor wire, the building is a landmark of the waterfront and a beacon to those seeking out sites for Urban Exploration.
After a bit of time figuring out where to best enter, we scaled the fence and got to the exploring. But not before I caught the inside of my leg on the razor wire and came down to the ground with a hole in my shorts and a good scratch. After a dead end attempt down a flooded safety tunnel below the silos, we found the carefully hidden entrance. The pics below chronicle our adventure through the building as the afternoon turned and the sun set in the crisp November evening.
The Annual Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration took place last night in San Francisco’s Mission District. Starting at 7pm the procession wound around from 24th and Bryant to 25th up to Mission and back down 24th.
The annual event offers an opportunity for the diverse communities of SF to blend together in the sharing of this wonderfully rich tradition. Ending in Garfield amongst a variety of shrines, the festivities were a spectacular array of costumes, elaborate face paint and a celebration and remembrance of those who have passed.
Here are a couple photos
