Comments on: USS SF-Muni http://www.missionmission.org/2009/07/27/uss-sf-muni/ Saluting San Francisco's Mission District Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:23:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: mark http://www.missionmission.org/2009/07/27/uss-sf-muni/#comment-9051 mark Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:22:28 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=5728#comment-9051 i should specify i do not enjoy going on segway tours; rather, i enjoy gawking at people on segway tours, especially when they are wearing safety vests.

]]> By: mark http://www.missionmission.org/2009/07/27/uss-sf-muni/#comment-9050 mark Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:17:09 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=5728#comment-9050 i love going to fisherman’s wharf. i certainly couldn’t handle it everyday, but it’s fun hearing tourists spout misinformation about the city and its history with authority and gravitas. also segway tours. when i was fairly new to the city the tourists drove me crazy but i’ve learned to love them.

also i think the musee mecanique is one of the best things in san francisco.

]]> By: fsharp http://www.missionmission.org/2009/07/27/uss-sf-muni/#comment-9049 fsharp Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:13:01 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=5728#comment-9049 I’m glad that there are haters to keep all the other misanthropes huddled away in the Mission.
It’s cool to see people from all over the world with their matching outfits enjoying the views and spilling their ice cream. I like to see real working fishing boats and all the steamy crab pots. It’s fun to ride the old streetcars and check out the crazy shit in the shops. I like taking the ferry across the bay. I like the Buena Vista. Tourist hate is so fucking 1990. In and Out and Fishermen’s Ward sucks BTW.

]]> By: one http://www.missionmission.org/2009/07/27/uss-sf-muni/#comment-9048 one Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:11:27 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=5728#comment-9048 we wouldn’t have such groovy shit without tourists – however high you turn your nose up at Fisherman’s Wharf – so be nice!

]]> By: one http://www.missionmission.org/2009/07/27/uss-sf-muni/#comment-9047 one Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:09:08 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=5728#comment-9047 gansta? what a tool.

]]> By: David Mudkips http://www.missionmission.org/2009/07/27/uss-sf-muni/#comment-9046 David Mudkips Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:21:22 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=5728#comment-9046 Wow. Anti-tourist rant much?

I grew up in Florida and spent pretty much every weekend on one of the most heavily touristed beaches on Earth. We didn’t mind the tourists… hell, they were paying for damn near everything we got to enjoy year ’round. there was an occasional “snowbird” joke, but that’s about it.

Rather than bitch about tourists and “touristy” areas — here’s an idea: adopt one. Try something crazy like http://www.couchsurfing.org/ and make new friends.

I *love* sharing my city with newbies. I help them do all the tourist stuff they think they have to (Fisherman’s Wharf, Alcatraz, yadda yadda yadda)… and after that’s done with I take them around the REAL San Francisco: sunny day picnic in Delores Park… a great burger at Zuni… dirt cheap Vietnamese eats at Tu Lan… a bonfire on the beach.

]]> By: Lapidgeon http://www.missionmission.org/2009/07/27/uss-sf-muni/#comment-9045 Lapidgeon Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:23:32 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=5728#comment-9045 I still do not understand why they had to put those things in real life.

]]> By: johnny0 http://www.missionmission.org/2009/07/27/uss-sf-muni/#comment-9044 johnny0 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:45:50 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=5728#comment-9044 Oh, the Google Maps Featured Favorite Places will take care of that. I suggest we move the Concrete Fish Icons in front of crappy restaurants to confuse tourists brave enough to venture south of the Mission-Dixon line.

]]> By: smallerdemon http://www.missionmission.org/2009/07/27/uss-sf-muni/#comment-9043 smallerdemon Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:42:48 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=5728#comment-9043 I have ridden on the boat, and it is great fun. I was a long time reader of one of the F Line’s drivers’ blog and he talked at great length about piloting the boat street car. It’s a great deal of fun to ride on a warm day.

]]> By: Lapidgeon http://www.missionmission.org/2009/07/27/uss-sf-muni/#comment-9042 Lapidgeon Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:09:10 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=5728#comment-9042 Fisherman’s Wharf is not ironic, it’s lame. Tourist hate aside (I’m an original DC (District of Columbia, the REAL DC) resident and as such hatred of tourists is something of a pastime) there is just nothing there worth going to check out. The only thing worth going for is In n Out and I’d almost rather hitch a ride/BART to the one in Daly City.

Sorry for the negativity, I was just close to there this weekend and it reconfirmed my distaste for it.

In the end I think we should all thank the powers that be that those tourist maps so ubquitous in this city neglect to mention anything south of 11th street or so. If they don’t know were here, they can’t clog up our sidewalks or ask us dumb questions like “where’s tartine?” when they are standing in front of it.

end rant

]]> By: olu http://www.missionmission.org/2009/07/27/uss-sf-muni/#comment-9041 olu Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:52:40 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=5728#comment-9041 I’ve seen it the last few “summers” and I appreciate that it looks gangsta.

chopped, dropped and screwed…

]]> By: newshound http://www.missionmission.org/2009/07/27/uss-sf-muni/#comment-9040 newshound Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:49:56 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=5728#comment-9040 It gives a very nautical whistle as it pulls out of Dolores Park and back up the hill and home to the yard.

]]> By: LibertyHiller http://www.missionmission.org/2009/07/27/uss-sf-muni/#comment-9039 LibertyHiller Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:14:05 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=5728#comment-9039 Since when is it surprising to see a historic streetcar along Church? That’s the route they take to get from the F-line to the Geneva yard.

]]> By: fsharp http://www.missionmission.org/2009/07/27/uss-sf-muni/#comment-9038 fsharp Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:29:09 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=5728#comment-9038 Good grief how long have you lived in SF?
This awesome streetcar has been around for more than a decade. There’s more to the city than Dolores Park kids. Hop on your fixies and check out the Embarcadero and Fishermen’s Warf. There’s all kinds of ironic fun to be had. http://twitpic.com/aty5u

]]> By: subby http://www.missionmission.org/2009/07/27/uss-sf-muni/#comment-9037 subby Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:40:21 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=5728#comment-9037 I’ve seen this before, in tourist land doing touristy things with out-of-town visitors, aka tourists. Of course, as soon as I saw this, I started pointing and gawking, jaw hanging open, thus making myself indistinguishable from an actual tourist, and fulfilling the prophecy that only tourists get to see this thing.

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