Flying into Vegas...heading to Laughlin

[StatFreak]

Only out in the avenues, Buzz. The downtown area, the Mission, south of Market, and most of the areas East of Twin Peaks get plenty of sun for a coastal city.

[brichter]

The absolute best view of San Francisco is in your rear view mirror as your leaving !!!!!!!!!!! Alaska has nothing on San Francisco for being cold and WET 

Only out in the avenues, Buzz. The downtown area, the Mission, south of Market, and most of the areas East of Twin Peaks get plenty of sun for a coastal city.

Agreed. Plenty of sunshine where I used to live on Bernal Heights.

The Avenues get the fog off the Pacific, and the opposite side of Bernal Heights got any that was coming in from the bay (I was on the west side of the hill).

[StatFreak]

Agreed. Plenty of sunshine where I used to live on Bernal Heights.

The Avenues get the fog off the Pacific, and the opposite side of Bernal Heights got any that was coming in from the bay (I was on the west side of the hill).

When did you live there?   Were you there in 1984-85? I had several musician friends from Bernal Heights and our band played at the street fair both of those years.

[brichter]

Agreed. Plenty of sunshine where I used to live on Bernal Heights.

The Avenues get the fog off the Pacific, and the opposite side of Bernal Heights got any that was coming in from the bay (I was on the west side of the hill).

When did you live there?  Were you there in 1984-85? I had several musician friends from Bernal Heights and our band played at the street fair both of those years.

The Folsom Street Fair?  


Aw heck no! I lived there in the 60s.  


Kinda explains a lot, doesn't it?     

[StatFreak]

When did you live there?   Were you there in 1984-85? I had several musician friends from Bernal Heights and our band played at the street fair both of those years.

The Folsom Street Fair? 


Aw heck no! I lived there in the 60s. 


Kinda explains a lot, doesn't it?     

... (I was on the west side of the hill).

Pardon me. I forgot that you were over the hill.     



<P.S.> Actually, the bands played on Cortland Ave.

[brichter]

We used to go play in Holly Park sometimes, back when it was safe for kids to walk around...

And the "hippie house" around the corner from our house was where all the neighborhood kids would go tie-dye t shirts, make pottery pieces and Gods Eyes, while the hippies that lived there tripped their balls off on acid and shrooms.

That city sure hasn't changed much.

[StatFreak]

You got me reminiscing and I looked up the Coronet theater on Google maps this evening, only to find out that it closed in 2005 and was demolished for a senior care facility.
 

I saw Star Wars there exactly one week after it opened on Wednesday June 1, 1977 and will never forget the experience.

The theater was huge, right up until it closed in 2005: they never subdivided it. It held somewhere around 1300 people, and we waited in the short line for a couple of hours just to buy the tickets, and then camped out in the LONG line snaking around the gas station and up the block for several more hours waiting to actually get in. Nothing could compare with viewing Star Wars on that giant screen with sound coming from all over the theater, or the experience of hearing over 1000 people booing Darth Vader when he first appeared in the doorway of the rebel ship, or cheering the first time we all saw the hyperspace jump!!

It wasn't until much later that I found out how lucky we were, since it was one of only a small handful of theaters in the country to show the film in 70mm 6-track Dolby surround sound, and one of only seven theaters to do so for the May 25^th opening (four in California, one in New Jersey, and two in New York.)