Detailed Valencia Report:
So, Perkins and I hit Valencia yesterday on a scouting-out mission, and we noted the following:
- The blocks are very, very long, and the Mission is comparatively hot and sunny. Comfy shoes and rest stops at local bars and coffeehouses and Bombay Creamery will be a must.
- Valencia is a crazy jumble of funky offbeat local-artist retail, oddball large-item thrift stores (like the one that used to have a 5-foot-high model of the human heart in its window and now has a giant glitzy glam Hollywood mirrored vanity table, and whose basement is full of stainless-steel laboratory furniture and wacky wink-wink-nudge-nudge posters that will be familiar to anyone who had weekend visits with their divorced dad in the '70's), many many bookstores, and a miscellany of everything else you can think of.
- But not so much vintage clothing. There's definitely some, but it runs more toward '60's-'70's vintage, with some excellent Mod dresses and a smattering of earlier stuff, but pretty much no earlier than the mid '50's. And most of the older vintage looked small. If your primary thrifting goal is finding that perfect New Look dress with a skirt big enough to hold eleventy-million crinolines, you will be disappointed (unless Jilli's thrift-fu is truly transcendent and possibly interdimensional).
- But still, tons and tons of cool stuff. As per example, Paxton Gate now has a "Know Your Mammalian Penis Bones" poster for only $8.50! And we all need to have our cameras ready when we hit the hat store, just to capture Fay's spectacular swoon of delight.
- If anyone is in dire need of older-vintage-clothing-only thrifting, I'm taking Friday off from work and could do a quick raid on the four or five top locations in the Haight.
F2F 4: Pete is Adorable.
We can drive him nuts with that for a year and a half.
F2F 4: The Whiteboard is your Friend
I like.
This thread lasted a year and a half. Any SF reference would be hopelessly outdated by then, so I'd suggest avoiding.
This thread lasted a year and a half. Any SF reference would be hopelessly outdated by then, so I'd suggest avoiding.
Yes, but we'll all have lots of fond memories of SF. 18 months from now we'd be reading the thread title and thinking, "Ah, San Francisco." Unless the F2F turns into a complete disaster....
Also, did you know that you can reserve your own private rail car? It attaches to Amtrak and Canadian trains, but you can set your own itinerary. [link]
F2F 2007 - Buffistatrain!
F2F 4: Scandalizing bartenders since 2002....
Yes, but we'll all have lots of fond memories of SF. 18 months from now we'd be reading the thread title and thinking, "Ah, San Francisco."
I agree, which is why "I left my tiara in San Francisco" makes me happiest of the choices.
Must admit, though, I also love:
F2F 4: Too Much Candy, Never Enough Mojitos
Well, I'm at the good news/bad news stage.
Good news: I got a little bonus so I'll have some extra cash for SF.
Bad news: I have a sinus infection.
Good news: I can still go to SF.
Bad news: I can't drink.
(waits for rash of "all your booze belong to us" posts)
Oh dear Toddson, quick recovery ~ma.
I like many many of the thread suggestions. Can't pick.
F2F: Clovis Says He Wants the Point-Person Gig
(I know, I know...)
Question: it only just occurs to me that when Consuela says "vidding", does that mean I need to find a VCR? I've got a DCD player we're hooking up, but I'm hoping one of the vid people can bring their own in.
If not, please to let me know soonest. We're down to the wire and I've got precisely one day to prep for last-minute stuff, and that's Tuesday.
