The streets of San Francisco
Posted on 23 November 2006
San Francisco is rightly famous for it’s hills and steep slopes. The city streets go up and down and, and no matter what the gradient, cars will always be parked at the side of the street. Local bylaws state that a parked car on a slope must have the front wheels pointed towards the sidewalk so the car won’t roll if the handbrake fails. As you can see, not everyone obeys that particular piece of legislation!
I can’t remember what building this was, but I was struck by the sheer lines of it, and the grey gloomy and despondent colour. There are no entrances visible and the building seems to grow out of the hillside as if mocking the gradient of the land by standing tall and straight.
PS. Happy Thanksgiving! It’s a normal working day around the rest of the world but the Internet is much quieter now that US visitors are off work, relaxing and enjoying the day!
2 responses to The streets of San Francisco
The wheels were one of the first things I looked at in this pic having spent a summer driving around San Fran. Great city, just wish I had a digital camera back then! I like the scale of the building when compared with the size of the cars.
i think this is the pac bell office/equipment building on pine street between kearny and stockton.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hl=en&q=10+market+st,+san+francisco&f=q&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=23.875,57.630033&ll=37.791617,-122.404937&spn=0.000907,0.002682&z=19&layer=c&cbll=37.791586,-122.405068