101 Years Ago Today...

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 12:06 pm

... Earth got scoreboard on San Francisco. Sadly, m2 was not yet born so he could not be killed in the quake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_F ... earthquake

ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 · Wed Apr 18, 2007 12:46 pm

OCmike · Post by **OCmike** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:27 pm

At the time, only 375 deaths were reported; the figure was concocted by government officials who felt that reporting the true death toll would hurt real estate prices and efforts to rebuild the city.

Was Saddam the SF mayor in 1906? That's outstanding!

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:46 pm

ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 wrote:And?

and a buncha bad shit happened. buildings falling down, fires. kinda like when a detroit team wins/loses some sort of sports championship.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:01 pm

It became something of a homo destination when they'd heard there were a lot more open cracks in San Francisco. Imagine the disappointment when they arrived.

Thus the Castro District was born.

Dins told me about it.

OCmike · Post by **OCmike** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:19 pm

One of my favorite parts about SF is that a bunch of the freak joints and gay bars are located in the "Tenderloin District". Don't know who the fuck named that area of town, but they get some serious props.

Oh, and spare me the predictable, "Why do you know where that stuff is" responses. Anyone who has been to SF more than a handful of times knows that Castro and Tenderloin are where all of the freaks and homos are.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:00 pm

The tenderloin is actually right next to the downtown financial district. It's pretty hard to avoid going thru some part of it what with all the one way streets and fucked up traffic in SF. I've never seen a city with so much constant construction going on blocking key streets.

We've done work throughout San Francisco for years. I know the city well, and I freaking hate having to deal with the tenderloin and Market street areas.

People sleeping all over the sidewalks, it smells like piss and shit everywhere, and a bunch of crazy preachers yelling about jesus. Lots of mentally ill folks strolling around there too.

A couple of years ago I was doing a pre EQ retrofit assessment of one of the old hotels in that area. While I was waiting for the contractor to show up, I saw a local drug dealer, standing on the corner selling crack right out in the open. You can see the cop cars from two blocks away in all directions, so he had plenty of time to duck and run, and with all the foot traffic there he had it down to a science. I watched This guy sell about 4 hits of crack in maybe 3 minutes. The addicts walk across the street when the light changes and while they shake hands they switch money for drugs. When the cop car came down the street dude just ambled across the street like any other person, chatted up a couple of winos sitting against the building, then when the car was out of sight he resumed his sales, from the opposite corner.

So much of that going on there, no way the cops could ever keep up.

OCmike · Post by **OCmike** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:07 pm

People sleeping all over the sidewalks, it smells like piss and shit everywhere, and a bunch of crazy preachers yelling about jesus. Lots of mentally ill folks strolling around there too.

Yeah, SF is pretty much homeless mecca.

Smackie Chan · Post by **Smackie Chan** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:39 pm

e wrote:
Mister Bushice wrote:People sleeping all over the sidewalks, it smells like piss and shit everywhere, and a bunch of crazy preachers yelling about jesus. Lots of mentally ill folks strolling around there too.
we're talking about SF, not NOLA

I'll be in NOLA again next week, spreading the word of jeebus.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:43 pm

OCmike wrote:One of my favorite parts about SF is that a bunch of the freak joints and gay bars are located in the "Tenderloin District". Don't know who the fuck named that area of town, but they get some serious props.

Oh, and spare me the predictable, "Why do you know where that stuff is" responses. Anyone who has been to SF more than a handful of times knows that Castro and Tenderloin are where all of the freaks and homos are.

I always thought that Polk Street was supposed to be the main "drag". That name has sort of an appropriate ring to it as well.

OCmike · Post by **OCmike** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:50 pm

There are several areas in SF where freaks congregate...not sure if Polk street is one of them or not. I just know that pretty much the entire district is the Oakland of San Francisco. No where else in "The City" will you find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

Wolfman · Post by **Wolfman** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:10 pm

didn't see too many "homeless folks" in Chinatown
--gee--I wonder how that is ??

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:18 pm

Wolfman wrote:didn't see too many "homeless folks" in Chinatown
--gee--I wonder how that is ??

Parts of them are hanging in the butcher shop windows?

OCmike · Post by **OCmike** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:31 pm

On a completely unrelated note... Still to this day the best sushi I've ever had has been at two restaurants in JapanTown. When my sisters and I were in high school, our "reward" for getting a 3.0 or better was kickass sushi in San Francisco. Ahhh...the good ole days.