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Published : 1 year, 5 months ago (Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:00:30 PDT)
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Let's see, here's my list from yesterday:
Target: Check
Safeway: Got food and Target, so No Check
North Beach Street Fair: Check
 All in all, not a bad day. Meg and I met up with a friend, Emmett, on our way to North Beach for the Street Fair. It was fun. It's a lot like the Uptown Art Fair in Minneapolis, only not as much of a pain. In Minneapolis, pretty much all of Uptown is shutdown or at a standstill for the fair. Traffic was moving pretty well around North Beach today. There were a lot of vendors selling art and a few from organizations in the city. I think it's more fun to just walk around and look at the pretties and peoplewatch. There was some awesome sidewalk art going on when we first arrived. There was also a guitar duo playing traditional Italian canzoni (or songs). Although I did hear them play Besame Mucho, which is a Spanish ditty. We then walked back to the subway station and rode home. All in all, close to 3 miles of walking today. We saw Union Square, which is a nice plaza-type area.
More pictures of the sidewalk art!!
Excerpts taken from, yet again, Wikipedia.org North Beach is a San Francisco, California neighborhood bounded by the former Barbary Coast, now Jackson Square, and the Financial District south of Broadway (except North Beach institutions extend down Columbus to Washington and Montgomery where the Black Cat originally was), Chinatown to the southwest of Columbus below Green, and then Russian Hill to the west, Telegraph Hill to the east and Fisherman's Wharf at Bay Street to the north. North Beach, historically an Italian neighborhood, is still perceived by many as such even if its Italian population has decreased. In fact, the area has always attracted diverse peoples including 1950s Beats and Chinese. An alleyway off of Columbus between Kearny and Broadway is named for Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac, who once lived there and frequented the famous City Lights Bookstore on the corner of Columbus and Broadway as well as the numerous nearby coffee shops. Baseball legend Joe Dimaggio grew up in the neighborhood and briefly returned to live there with his wife Marilyn Monroe. Prominent trial attorney Tony Serra has his office near the corner of Columbus and Broadway.  |
