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MickeyW · Nov 12, 2016

Anti-Trump Protests: 1 Shot After 'Confrontation' in Portland; Marchers Hit NYC, L.A.

Demonstrators with signs reading "Not my president!" clogged streets in New York City on Saturday during a fourth day of anti-Trump protests nationwide, which included violence in Portland, Oregon, where one person was shot.

A gunman was being hunted following the incident on Portland's Morrison Bridge after 1 a.m. PT (4 a.m. ET) Saturday. It was unclear whether the shooting was politically motivated.
Anti-Trump Protests: 1 Shot After '''Confrontation''' in Portland; Marchers Hit NYC, L.A. - NBC News

One of my favorite grunge restaurants is at the foot of Morrison Bridge, it's kind of a seedy area.

Chomsky · Nov 12, 2016

MickeyW said:
Anti-Trump Protests: 1 Shot After 'Confrontation' in Portland; Marchers Hit NYC, L.A.

Demonstrators with signs reading "Not my president!" clogged streets in New York City on Saturday during a fourth day of anti-Trump protests nationwide, which included violence in Portland, Oregon, where one person was shot.

A gunman was being hunted following the incident on Portland's Morrison Bridge after 1 a.m. PT (4 a.m. ET) Saturday. It was unclear whether the shooting was politically motivated.
Anti-Trump Protests: 1 Shot After '''Confrontation''' in Portland; Marchers Hit NYC, L.A. - NBC News

One of my favorite grunge restaurants is at the foot of Morrison Bridge, it's kind of a seedy area.

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What's a grunge restaurant, Mickey?

MickeyW · Nov 12, 2016

Chomsky said:
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What's a grunge restaurant, Mickey?

Giving the appearance of a roadside pub, or grungy atmosphere...wooden or concrete floors, maybe a bit dark inside, lots of banging of pots by staff and viewed by patrons, smoke at times from the cooking.
Of course, they all have to be up to code for the Health Dept., but the appearance is....they aren't.

The one I referred to has alligator creole...yummmmm! Images below.

https://www.google.com/search?q=gru...X&ved=0ahUKEwiAzbDFz6TQAhXLq1QKHeI4A2cQsAQIGQ

Chomsky · Nov 12, 2016

MickeyW said:
Giving the appearance of a roadside pub, or grungy atmosphere...wooden or concrete floors, maybe a bit dark inside, lots of banging of pots by staff and viewed by patrons, smoke at times from the cooking.
Of course, they all have to be up to code for the Health Dept., but the appearance is....they aren't.

The one I referred to has alligator creole...yummmmm! Images below.

https://www.google.com/search?q=gru...X&ved=0ahUKEwiAzbDFz6TQAhXLq1QKHeI4A2cQsAQIGQ

Looks kinda' neo-hippie of sorts, but without the psychedelia!

Thanks!

MickeyW · Nov 12, 2016

Chomsky said:
Looks kinda' neo-hippie of sorts, but without the psychedelia!

Thanks!

Ya....I guess that's a good take on it. I love to cook and eat all kinds of different foods. Growing up in the SF Bay Area, I was exposed to restaurants and cuisine, from around the world.

Chomsky · Nov 12, 2016

MickeyW said:
Ya....I guess that's a good take on it. I love to cook and eat all kinds of different foods. Growing up in the SF Bay Area, I was exposed to restaurants and cuisine, from around the world.

I was in Frisco with my folks as a young teen, and never saw it through the eyes of an adult.

But I'm tellin' ya', eating seafood in Frisco is on my bucket list. Big time!

jet57 · Nov 12, 2016

Chomsky said:
I was in Frisco with my folks as a young teen, and never saw it through the eyes of an adult.

But I'm tellin' ya', eating seafood in Frisco is on my bucket list. Big time!

Uh, that would be - San Francisco...

Chomsky · Nov 12, 2016

jet57 said:
Uh, that would be - San Francisco...

I guess I'm kinda' old school.

I still use "Philly" & "Cincy"!

But more directly - when I was working at a Chicago FM progressive AOR radio station in the '70's, we had a lot of ex-hippies from San Francisco (who were more "hippie" than "ex"), and they always called it "San Fran".

The also really loved KSAN.

MickeyW · Nov 12, 2016

Chomsky said:
I was in Frisco with my folks as a young teen, and never saw it through the eyes of an adult.

But I'm tellin' ya', eating seafood in Frisco is on my bucket list. Big time!

The food is great. When I was a teen, I use to dine on Fisherman's Wharf and get super food for a good price. Clement St. was another great area, I'm not sure how it is today. Tommy's Joynt on Geary, use to feature a large buffalo menu, I don't know about that now either.
And the locals are touchy about the name. "San Francisco" as noted below. Living a few miles south, we all just refereed to it as...The City.
The topless joints on Broadway were a lot of fun. I met Carol Doda once. Good food in the Italian section around Columbus and in Chinatown too.
I hung out a lot in the Haight-Ashbury, with the "flower children" in the mid to late 60s. But that was a different kind of dining.

The nectar was sweet and the night would go on forever.
It use to be a great city. Not so much now, with the political climate and PC crap.

jet57 said:
Uh, that would be - San Francisco...

Correct.

jet57 · Nov 12, 2016

Chomsky said:
I guess I'm kinda' old school.

I still use "Philly" & "Cincy"

But more directly - when I was working at a Chicago FM progressive AOR radio station in the '70's, we had a lot of ex-hippies from San Francisco (who were more "hippie" than "ex"), and they always called it "San Fran".

The also really loved KSAN.

Philly and Cinci are find. Old school though is - San Francisco. San Fran is okay, but natives are highly offended at "Frisco". I was at a Buddy Rich show in '77 at the Great American Music Hall on O'farrell St, and after his two tune intro, he said, "Hello ladies and gentlemen, it's nice to be back in Frisco". Some lady yelled from the back of the room: Saaan Fraaanciscooohhh!!" You could have heard a pin drop.

He played three sets that night.

MickeyW · Nov 12, 2016

Chomsky said:
I guess I'm kinda' old school.

I still use "Philly" & "Cincy"!

But more directly - when I was working at a Chicago FM progressive AOR radio station in the '70's, we had a lot of ex-hippies from San Francisco (who were more "hippie" than "ex"), and they always called it "San Fran".

The also really loved KSAN.

I listened to KSFO for the Giants games and KNBR for what was really happening. K101 was teh first FM I think and stereo broadcating. A feature was the instrument called the Moog Synthesizer. Went to a lot of parties and wet T Shirt contests in the 70s. The saying use to be, that "SF was the jewel in the heart of the navel, of the greater Bay Area. :lol:

I still miss it and it's about an 8 hour drive if I want to visit. How in the hell did you get me this far off topic! :doh

MickeyW · Nov 12, 2016

jet57 said:
Philly and Cinci are find. Old school though is - San Francisco. San Fran is okay, but natives are highly offended at "Frisco". I was at a Buddy Rich show in '77 at the Great American Music Hall on O'farrell St, and after his two tune intro, he said, "Hello ladies and gentlemen, it's nice to be back in Frisco". Some lady yelled from the back of the room: Saaan Fraaanciscooohhh!!" You could have heard a pin drop.

He played three sets that night.

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! And that's the way it is, in the town by the Bay.

I use to go and watch them film The Streets of San Francisco with Karl Malden and Michael Douglas. Chatted with both of them once.

Use to go and watch Robin Williams..... live...before he was a big name. I was a fan from then, until he died.

Chomsky · Nov 12, 2016

MickeyW said:
The food is great. When I was a teen, I use to dine on Fisherman's Wharf and get super food for a good price. Clement St. was another great area, I'm not sure how it is today. Tommy's Joynt on Geary, use to feature a large buffalo menu, I don't know about that now either.
And the locals are touchy about the name. "San Francisco" as noted below. Living a few miles south, we all just refereed to it as...The City.
The topless joints on Broadway were a lot of fun. I met Carol Doda once. Good food in the Italian section around Columbus and in Chinatown too.
I hung out a lot in the Haight-Ashbury, with the "flower children" in the mid to late 60s. But that was a different kind of dining. The nectar was sweet and the night would go on forever.
It use to be a great city. Not so much now, with the political climate and PC crap.

Correct.

Yep. I knew some girls that went there just after the summer of love. One became a stripper, the other became a drug addict! But they made it back a few years later more-or-less in one piece - kinda'. All kinds of kids were dropping out of school and heading there from the cities back east, then.

But Cioppino from one of the joints in the Italian section is going to be my first stop, and the biggest reason I'm going. None of the major Little Italys are much of anything anymore. The one on the south end Manhattan is more Chinatown than Italian, and Taylor Street in Chicago has been gobbled up by the University of Illinois and over-run by suburban undergrads! My Dad had Italian friends in Boston's North End, visited often, and claimed the Italian food he had there was great - but that was over 20 years ago.

The times, they are a changing.

jet57 · Nov 12, 2016

MickeyW said:
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! And that's the way it is, in the town by the Bay.

I use to go and watch them film The Streets of San Francisco with Karl Malden and Michael Douglas. Chatted with both of them once.

Use to go and watch Robin Williams..... live...before he was a big name. I was a fan from then, until he died.

Yeah, he used to hang at the Holy City Zoo out on Clement St. I saw him there too, but not on the stage: I had no idea who he was. I ran into him in 2003 at his kid's school in Pacific Heights; had wife number two with him. We chatted the old days.

Chomsky · Nov 12, 2016

jet57 said:
Philly and Cinci are find. Old school though is - San Francisco. San Fran is okay, but natives are highly offended at "Frisco". I was at a Buddy Rich show in '77 at the Great American Music Hall on O'farrell St, and after his two tune intro, he said, "Hello ladies and gentlemen, it's nice to be back in Frisco". Some lady yelled from the back of the room: Saaan Fraaanciscooohhh!!" You could have heard a pin drop.

He played three sets that night.

Thank you.

I've actually been called out on this several times on the net here, and elsewhere. San Franciscans do seem to take this pretty seriously!

BTW - I'll see your Buddy Rich, and raise you a Gene Krupa!

jet57 · Nov 12, 2016

Chomsky said:
Thank you.

I've actually been called out on this several times on the net here, and elsewhere. San Franciscans do seem to take this pretty seriously!

BTW - I'll see your Buddy Rich, and raise you a Gene Krupa!

Krupa was a great drummer. The father of the gal that I was dating at the time used play guitar with Rich in the late 50s and early 60s in Oakland, so we hadda see him.

SF is a small town and has a lotta class. I remember well in the early 60s when we got dressed up to go to dinner in town during the hey day of Tony Bennett. The City was great in those days.

Chomsky · Nov 12, 2016

jet57 said:
Krupa was a great drummer. The father of the gal that I was dating at the time used play guitar with Rich in the late 50s and early 60s in Oakland, so we hadda see him.

SF is a small town and has a lotta class. I remember well in the early 60s when we got dressed up to go to dinner in town during the hey day of Tony Bennett. The City was great in those days.

I haven't ever met anyone that didn't like SF. No one. (well, except for the price of housing).

The only other city I hear that about is Barcelona. Everybody I meet that's been there, seems to love Barcelona.

MickeyW · Nov 13, 2016

Chomsky said:
Thank you.

I've actually been called out on this several times on the net here, and elsewhere. San Franciscans do seem to take this pretty seriously!

BTW - I'll see your Buddy Rich, and raise you a Gene Krupa!

Krupa was the man!

jet57 said:
Krupa was a great drummer. The father of the gal that I was dating at the time used play guitar with Rich in the late 50s and early 60s in Oakland, so we hadda see him.

SF is a small town and has a lotta class. I remember well in the early 60s when we got dressed up to go to dinner in town during the hey day of Tony Bennett. The City was great in those days.

It is a small town, with a lot of history and charm. It was great. I use to go to the Top of the Mark and just take it all in!
I always keep a bike at my son's house, so when I go to visit, I can tour the coast or SF or Santa Cruz. The last time I was in SF, I toured it on my motorcycle. Hadn't done that in 35 years, it was a real kick.

Chomsky said:
I haven't ever met anyone that didn't like SF. No one. (well, except for the price of housing).

The only other city I hear that about is Barcelona. Everybody I meet that's been there, seems to love Barcelona.

Barcelona is on my bucket list. I've been all over Italy and most of Austria, parts of Germany and Switzerland, but not yet to Spain.

MickeyW · Nov 13, 2016

Behind Candlestick....date is incorrect on photos

Across from Ghiradelli

MickeyW · Nov 13, 2016

Chomsky said:
Yep. I knew some girls that went there just after the summer of love. One became a stripper, the other became a drug addict! But they made it back a few years later more-or-less in one piece - kinda'. All kinds of kids were dropping out of school and heading there from the cities back east, then.

But Cioppino from one of the joints in the Italian section is going to be my first stop, and the biggest reason I'm going. None of the major Little Italys are much of anything anymore. The one on the south end Manhattan is more Chinatown than Italian, and Taylor Street in Chicago has been gobbled up by the University of Illinois and over-run by suburban undergrads! My Dad had Italian friends in Boston's North End, visited often, and claimed the Italian food he had there was great - but that was over 20 years ago.

The times, they are a changing.

One of my favorite restaurants in SF was Sil Oliva's Exposition #1.......I had the best Cioppino there in Nov. 1969. It was a very special occasion, that's why I remember the date so well. I use to eat there often. Sadly, it is no more. The Carnation Milk Company took it over for several years and then went under. I think it's a parking lot now.

CA California San Francisco Sil Olivas Exposition #1 Restaurant Chrome Postcard | eBay

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