Northbeach at night

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On Thursday evening, after attending the great talk and show by Eros Hoagland at Exposure Gallery in San Francisco, I thought I would swing by Northbeach and see if I could find anything colorful.

This is the Condor sign, on the corner of Broadway and Columbus.   Most old timers associate the name of Carol Doda with the Condor Club, but it probably was just a fluke of nature that I never got to see her "perform" live.   Reportedly, her artificial boobs were as big as basketballs...   Not exactly my type of lady, but you've got to give her three points for an outside shot...   ((( insert buzzer sound here )))



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This is just the sign but the slices of pizza were looking pretty tasty.



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This fellow spotted me snapping his photo but he didn't seem to mind. I like willing models like that.   A lot of people want to beat the crap out of me, I suppose, when they catch me invading their privacy.



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I'm absolutely sure I've seen the big guy in this photo someplace before but I just can't place him.   This was in front of Cafe Trieste, one of San Francisco's more authentic coffee houses.   I've never been inside.   Maybe I'll give it a try someday.



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Another famous old San Francisco landmark is City Lights Books.   This cool spot was started in 1953 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter Martin.

If you aren't an intellectual when you go in, you will be when you leave. City Lights Books is well known as purveyors of poetry and progressive literature.

For Christmas one year my brother, four years my senior, gave me a copy of Howl by Allen Ginsberg, and when my mother caught wind of what I was reading she nearly had a heart-attack!


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