What image do you imagine when I say: San Francisco?
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SF’s pride and joy. The city is decked in orange and black all over the streets in discriminately: European children, the hairy homeless, the little old Asian lady pulling her roller of plastic bags, the group of young business folk dressed in heels and ties. All of them migrate towards the baseball stadium to watch these daily games. Crazy! Baseball happens just about every day! And they sell tickets!
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Special fans will leave their head in a squash for their team. SF is full of these special people.
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Makes sense since they are doing very well this season. The 27 year old Matt Cain, pitched a perfect game. Also, until last night, they had 4 perfect games in a row! (meaning that the other team scored 0 points). They also recently beat their rival: The Dodgers. The biggest deal: they won the World Series last year.
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These mystical creatures come out in force one weekend a year. I was lead to believe they would be out-and-about on Sunday for the parade, but the commuters unfortunately had to sit through traffic FOR-EVER Friday night because there was a pre-parade practice. Practice, PRACtice, PRACTICE is what my ballet teacher always told us.
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That’s refer to the Gay Pride parade of course. There are very liberal pictures of the event! I found the most blog appropriate ones to display. Surprises: How many people wore only underware, men dressed like women at a significantly higher ratio than women dressed like “men,” and there was an abundance of motorcycles and pets!
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SF is also home to many bridges. EVERYONE knows about the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s pretty, but how about the Bay Bridge? This impressive bridge penetrates Treasure Island (man-made military base, now turned to low-income housing, which is sinking due to sea level rise and bad foundation, but offers a spectacular view), and connects SF with the East Bay: Berkeley, Oakland, Fremont, etc… This is the view from our office =)
An interesting place to say the least. Found in 1776 by the Spanish, catalyzed mass immigration spurred by the Gold Rush. Now, San Fran is the “city” where everyone in the surrounding sub-urban flocks to for amazing foods, and cultural stimulation.
That’s SF! Just the tiniest tip of the fingernail in terms of describing it, but if you’re curious, come by and see for yourself!
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Cynthia Yeh on June 30th, 2012 at 6:19 pm |
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