Posted on 08/13/2012 4:17:58 AM PDT by Dusty Road
I'm attending an AASHTO meeting and it's a 4 day deal. On the drive in I saw several people laying on the side walks and many more just sitting with their bags or baskets. Before the driver could get the vehicle ubloaded I aready had two people come up and beg for money. While eating lunch over the square watch a young man go head first into a trash can and pull out a leftover drink and a container of half eaten food, which he started eating with his fingers then just threw it on the ground. Lunch for 4 at the Windam ran 130 bucks, a Crown and water is 12 bucks and the bottle of water in the room is 4.50. The Wifi runs me 14.95 a day and it's slower than Jim's snail. I don't speak until Tuesday if I dont go broke first, their sucking money out of me faster than Vegas does. I now suspect most of the homeless here were once customers of the Windam and just couldn't afford to leave. I do not like San Francisco!
To hell with that place.
Me too, portcall24, San Francisco in the 1940’2 1950’s. City of Paris (department store) with beautiful 5 story tall Christmas tree with basement like a Parisian street. Edy’s Ice Cream parlor nest to Macy’s and all the flower shops and flower stalls. Sutro Baths, on the beach with salt water swimming pools at various temperatures, hot, medium, cold. Cliff House restaurant overlooking the surf near there. Of course, no one swims at the beach, ugly sand and rough surf. You even saw a few straddlers in wet suits then. And a wonderful fish house restaurant downtown with the prow of a beautiful clipper ship as the entrance. We came over on beautiful trains from Oakland(eventually sold to Argentina) across the bay bridge and then took street cars and sometimes cable cars to get around downtown.
Such a wonderful city then. And we called it “The City” and you never wore white shoes in the summer, only tourists did, since it was always cold and foggy except for a few hours in the afternoon during the summer.
Stay out of those hotel eateries!
=Wyndham
The illiterate blog.
I can assure you had it been my choice we would have had this meeting in Texas.
Take a cab to Taiwan Restaurant, 445 Clement St. Great food, cheap prices (try the steamed dumplings and the Spicy Prawns - yum).
When you’re done, there’s a number of bars right there for drinks, or you could just cross the street and go to Green Apple Books, and lose yourself for a few hours in a truly great bookstore.
Thanks for the update on “progress.”
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