It's windy over here in SF right now. A few minutes ago I noticed that my neighbor's tall tree broke one of it's branches and fell on my backyard. I'm afraid the top of the tree might break too if the wind keeps up.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : I think when I lived in Mill Valley from the fall of 1969 to early 1970 the Golden Gate Bridge toll may have been only 25 cents! BART was an idea on the design boards. And my new neighbor had wound up shooting scenes to his movie in an under construction bore of the Caldecott tunnel (which only got it's much needed 4th bore a little over a year ago). On 02/06/2015 10:21 AM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: That was a bold way to quit a job. Good for you. Also, Mill Valley is still a nice place to live. However, the housing prices in that town have increased many fold since you left. Tiburon is a nice town too. I like to take friends there a this restaurant where you can dine al fresco in the back overlooking the docks. When I crossed the Golden Gate Bridge about two years ago, I paid $5.00 for the weekend toll. It's probably higher now. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <richard@...> mailto:richard@... wrote : In 1968 we got a job house-sitting in SF on Sacramento St. - two bedroom flat - and the use of a classic Morgan parked in a space next door. We were right around the corner from China Town half way up Nob Hill. Sweet! I used to walk to work at Pacific National Life on California Street where I was a graphic artist. I used to use a AM VariTyper word processor for justified typesetting. Varityper http://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/varityper.html Varityper Varityper The Varityper (also known as the Vari-Typer or VariTyper) was a highly ingenious "word processor" of the pre-digital age. View on site.xavier.edu Preview by Yahoo Later we moved to Mill Valley and I had to take the bus across the Golden Gate Bridge. So, one spring day on a Friday I resolved to quit my job and so on Friday at noon I told my supervisor, the short, fat, bald-headed guy that smoked cigar, that I was going to lunch, and I never went back! LoL! In Marin I worked on the five Marin County Newspapers such as the Mill Valley News and the Tiburon Pelican. We loved living in The City at that time but we were glad to get to the country. One guy I knew lived in San Rafael but worked in Berkely - he had to buy a bus-pass off the top of his paycheck every month just to get to work. He said it sucked. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <jr_esq@...> mailto:jr_esq@... wrote : I try not to cross the Bay Bridge, or any of the bridges or freeways in the SF Bay Area, during the commute hours. We're glad you made it back home in one piece. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> mailto:noozguru@... wrote : I made a little trip today down to Mountain View to a little company whose name starts with G. I don't know whether they will make it or not. Anyway this was kinda last minute and there was fog all the way down 680 until just past Fremont. Such fun. Then I notice they now have tool HOV lanes although with the fog cleared there was not much advantage since it was after rush hour. I would hate to make that commute everyday but people do. On 02/03/2015 12:55 PM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: You were in Seattle when I was there. I used to live in the Magnolia district. When I got to the city, I found an apartment near the top of a hill and the living room window was overlooking the Ballard Bridge. I was paying $600 per month for the place which was a steal compared to the San Francisco rates for the same view. But I soon realized that it was dangerous living on a steep hill during the winter. I found that my car would not stop while going down the hill. Even with the brakes on, the car would slide down the icy road. So, I had to intermittently put the brakes on to safely glide down below. I eventually moved to Federal Way to find an apartment on flatter ground and with good vastu. It was cheaper too than the one in the city. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> mailto:noozguru@... wrote : My first long term time in Seattle was in the summer of 1962 when the World's Fair was on and I had a summer job with my brother. It was really a neat place then and easy to get around on even on a bus. Then 1965 as UW student through 1969. Then I came back again in 1972 and lived there through 1982. Moved to Redmond in 1989 and split for California in 1991. I saw a lot of changes over those times but downtown was still pretty accessible in 1991. It wasn't like SF. In fact I've seen SF change over time and wondered why they didn't go the Portland route. Most of the change I'm talking about would have happened in the 2000s. Downtown is a cluster of very big buildings. Usually when I visited friends during the 00s we never went downtown but in 2007 just after Xmas I had some AMC passes so we went downtown to see a movie. It was a mess! My friends have bought another home on the Oregon coast and are retiring there this summer. On 02/03/2015 10:00 AM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Seattle couldn't have changed that much since I left in 2004. From what I've seen on TV, they still have Pike Place Market. That's a tourist landmark for the city. IMO, they'd leave it the way it is for tourists and the culture there. I used to eat lunch there, at least, once a week. They've gotta have the Pioneer Square, the Downtown Shopping Center, the ferry boats, and the Space Needle. That's Seattle as I remember it. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> mailto:noozguru@... wrote : A lot of Seattlelites have dibelief in the place and are moving out. It isn't the city I knew in the 1970s. My last visit in 2007, the downtown resembled something out of Bladerunner. On 02/02/2015 12:52 PM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: I predicted for a friend in Seattle that the Seahawks would win because the city smokes bhong legally. As such, Shiva would help them win the game. But, as America saw, that was not so. And Richard Sherman was heartbroken. Disbelief at final offensive play call reigned on Seattle sideline
