Haight St
The conference over it was time to get back to some serious sight seeing. The only problem being rain so I decreed it Museum day and headed for the Asian Art Museum. Considered to be one of the largest museums in the western world dedicated to Asian art it was equally fascinating from the point of view of the treasures it holds as for the architecture of their container.
Outside the museum I saw something that I think sums up the sate of the US’s social welfare situation. In front of the city hall a vagrant negro woman was sat on a steam vent in the street trying to keep warm. Shortly after I spotted her a panda car came and moved her along.
The weather cleared after lunch so I headed for the Haight Ashbury district famed for being the centre of the hippy culture and the acid wave of the 60′s, the area still hangs onto that past but the shops are now more kitsch and trendy.
Having walked up and down the Haight St shops I continued on to check out Buena Vista Park. If it wasn’t masochistic enough to build a town where most of the streets are on a 45 degree angle some bastard then decided to build a civic park that goes virtually straight up. The climb up Buena Vista Park was worth it though as the views from the top of San Francisco were just magnificent.
On my way back from Buena Vista Park on the number 71 bus I jumped off in Market St somewhere near Golden Gate Ave and checked out one or two of the Tenderloin book stores like e.g. Arcade Adult Superstore, 1036 Market St. Snapped a shot of a great sign outside the Art Theatre in Taylor St.
