August 20, 2011

a walk in downtown San Francisco


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photo by Donald Kinney

Yerba Buena Gardens--with it's modern architecture, fountains, grassy areas, and room for people to hang out--sprang to life about the same time San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art opened it's doors in the 1980's.



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Rather blurred here, but MOMA has a distinctive circular design on it's exterior.



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The usual bit of artful dancing was going on at the cable-car turnaround.



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I'm afraid Merrill's Drug Store on Market Street has gasped it's last breath. I'll have to do a proper survey but it seems like half of the businesses on Market Street have folded and are boarded up now.



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And although San Francisco seems to have fallen on hard times, the promise of the human heart still seems to need a bit of jewelry.



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