Uploads from SergeK , tagged sf, with geodata

San Francisco's Painted Ladies [Photoshop fun]

nobody@flickr.com (SergeK ) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:14:17 -0800

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[ EXPLORE Feb 23~ #131]

One of the best-known groups of "Painted Ladies" is the row of Victorian houses at 710–720 Steiner Street, across from Alamo Square park, in San Francisco. It is sometimes known as "Postcard Row." The houses were built between 1892 and 1896

San Francisco

nobody@flickr.com (SergeK ) — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:40:01 -0800

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[ EXPLORE Feb 19~ #19]

San Francisco is a city with the assets of a metropolis without the disadvantages of size and industry. [Jack Kenny]

Inside ALCATRAZ : D BLock

nobody@flickr.com (SergeK ) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:39:06 -0800

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D Block was the Treatment Unit for disciplinary cases. Alcatraz was a place for the country's worst inmates, and D Block was where they kept the worst of the worst. Prisoners there were locked in their cells for 24 hours a day.

There are three tiers to D Block. The bottom tier had cells with no furniture, nothing. Sometimes the men were kept in total darkness. Men could go mad. The prisoners in the upper two tiers had beds and toilets. D Block is on the west side of the island and the cells are lit up by the setting sun. At night, looking out through the dingy windows you can see the lights of the city, appearing and disappearing in the fog, like an illusion. Some say there are ghosts on Alcatraz - of prisoners, of old soldiers who served when it was a fort, of Indians.
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MUNI 2 [San Francisco Municipal Railway]

nobody@flickr.com (SergeK ) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:36:15 -0800

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The San Francisco Municipal Railway (SF Muni or Muni) is the public transit system for the city and county of San Francisco, California. Muni is short for the "Municipal"

Le San Francisco Municipal Railway (SF Muni ou Muni) est le système de transport en commun pour la ville et le comté de San Francisco, en Californie. Muni est le diminutif de Municipal.

Battery Spencer BC Station (x2)

nobody@flickr.com (SergeK ) — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:48:38 -0800

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"For half a century, Battery Spencer was one of the strategically important sites guarding the Golden Gate. Construction started in 1893. It was completed in 1897. Under the provisions of War Department General Order 16 (14 February 1902) it was named for Maj. General Joseph Spencer, a hero of the Revolutionary War (died 1789.) ."

Degustation

nobody@flickr.com (SergeK ) — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:36:53 -0700

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[EXPLORE 2011.10.08]

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