Mike Doyle
Your Tax Dollars At Work.
San Francisco has more than 220 public parks and places, including 3,400 acres of open space. And this spring, they're looking...
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Mike Doyle
Mar 30, 20191 min read
Fish-On-A-Stick
Imaginative sculptures outside the Ortega Street public library, 39th Avenue & Ortega.
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Mike Doyle
Mar 29, 20191 min read
Its Last Request, Was To Be Buried In San Francisco.
An icon from the 1960's counterculture: A vintage Volkswagen microbus. Music to fashion, much of that counterculture sprang from San...
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Mike Doyle
Mar 28, 20191 min read
Opening Day.
Spring has sprung at the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. Meanwhile, Game 1 of the 2019 Season, Giants vs Padres @ San Diego,...
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Mike Doyle
Mar 27, 20191 min read
SF "Car Of The Day" - Tourist Category
A three-wheeled electric "Tuk Tuk" vehicle. Around the 1980's the pulled rickshaw evolved into a motorized vehicle. They became popular...
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Mike Doyle
Mar 26, 20191 min read
4-Star Theater In A 5-Star World.
It's not your classic movie palace, but it is a unicorn: A small independent movie theater in San Francisco. This is the 4Star on 23rd...
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Mike Doyle
Mar 24, 20191 min read
When The Lights Went Out In San Francisco, For Years.
WWII in San Francisco. Blackouts, air raid warnings ending in a death, scrap metal drives, ration stamps -- and warning shots fired over...
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Mike Doyle
Mar 23, 20191 min read
Opening Scene Of Mike Doyle/Stephen King Movie.
EXT: Deep in Golden Gate Park, late afternoon Fade up on lush green foliage, a badly weathered iron pipe protrudes. Camera slowly pulls...
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Mike Doyle
Mar 22, 20191 min read
Nice To See The Rare Newsrack Land On Its Feet.
Window display of new neighborhood store specializing in quirky SF-centric clothing. I believe I recognize the gold jacket as 49ers gear,...
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Mike Doyle
Mar 22, 20191 min read
This Gives Me Hope.
These are the reservation pick-up shelves of the small SF Public Library two blocks from my apartment. Look at all those neighborhood...
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Mike Doyle
Mar 21, 20191 min read
Photographic Proof SF Is Kid Friendly.
The first photo shows Larsen Park on 19th Avenue in the mid-1970's. The children's playground featured a decommissioned navy fighter for...
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Mike Doyle
Mar 21, 20191 min read
San Francisco Has Everything But Room.
The exclusive Sea-Cliff neighborhood offers drop-dead views of the entrance to SF Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge. And based on the...
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Mike Doyle
Mar 21, 20191 min read
Too Much Negative Space.
For decades, this was the Aaron Brothers frame shop on 20th Avenue & Geary. I bought countless ready-made frames here (including their...
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Mike Doyle
Mar 21, 20191 min read
Undercover Parking Enforcement?
Any longtime San Franciscan can spot the profile of a DPT GO-4 Interceptor a block away. Even under a canvas tarp. On 21st Avenue in the...
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Mike Doyle
Mar 21, 20191 min read
People Are Leaving More Than Their Hearts In San Francisco.
A new report says more than 400 homeless people have died on the streets of SF since 2016. Most of them never saw the inside of a...
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Mike Doyle
Mar 20, 20191 min read
Start Drinking. Learn Math.
Flanagan's Pub, extreme outer Sunset District.
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Mike Doyle
Mar 20, 20191 min read
Apparently The Government Isn't Faceless.
Outer Ortega Street in the Sunset District, SF.
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Mike Doyle
Mar 19, 20191 min read
"Your Complimentary Wakeup Call Is At Oh-Dark-Thirty!"
This is the enlisted men's quarters in the Civil War-era Fort Point, at the south anchorage of the Golden Gate Bridge. Some great period...
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Mike Doyle
Mar 19, 20191 min read
The No-Tech GPS.
We'll call this a pedestrian compass. It's embedded in the walkway of the lookout vista at Lands End. Most people never see it, because...
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Mike Doyle
Mar 19, 20191 min read
Now For Something Completely Different... Treasure Island, 1939.
Treasure Island, named after Robert Louis Stevenson's novel of the same title, sprang full-blown from the Bay, completely manmade. AKA,...
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