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January 08, 2009
Today is a day of discovery, as another friend has offered to lead us around some of the San Francisco neighborhoods that get short shrift.
We begin with the China Basin/Mission Creek area just south of downtown. This once gritty waterfront is being modernized to a fare-thee-well with striking modern architecture and sometimes noteworthy attempts at public sculpture.
There are also the stubborn remnants of the city's only houseboat community, a charming little anachronism a few blocks from the baseball stadium and cause for me to briefly rethink my retirement plans.
Next we're taken to Glen Park, a swell little village-within-the-city whose main attraction is Glen Canyon, the biggest area of more-or-less intact ecosystem in the city.
A creekside stroll leaves us plenty hungry to sample a sturdy example of the curious culinary art of the California burrito. The normally sensible Calvin Trillin has rhapsodized about the things, but I tend to side with LA Weekly food critic Jonathan Gold: "It's basically the No. 2 plate at a Mexican restaurant rolled into a flour tortilla."
The afternoon allows time for browsing the curious little stores around Japantown, including one with a terrific collection of high-end writing instruments and other office supplies.
And right next door is our final destination for the day, the Fillmore. Once know as the Harlem of the West, the predominantly African-American area is back on the map with a series of high-profile redevelopment projects.
We dine on nouvelle soul food at 1330 Fillmore (if your mother's fried chicken was like theirs, you never would have left home). Then we head next door to hear a great local jazz combo at the new Yoshi's, which I'm ready to declare one of the country's great jazz clubs.
Makes me wonder what under-recognized neighborhoods have I missed in other cities?
still thinking about today...
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It's great when you find that neighborhood that speaks to you. I had one when I lived in Seattle. I lived up on "Pill Hill" (Capitol Hill but this was where all the hospitals were)
Just a couple of blocks up from my apt. was Broadway and I loved walking through all the little galleries and shops. In the late 70s a resturant called "Boondocks, Sundeckers and Greenthumbs" opened. It had a 42 page menu and the best spinach salad EVER. There was also the Broadway Cafe a funky place for good music and food.
I had a lot of really wonderful times living in that neighborhood. I don't go back there anymore when I go to Seattle. I know it has changed and I prefer to remember it in it's quiet, unassuming glory.
The only neighborhood I ever really lived in was in the small town of Kirrberg Germany. I loved it! Walking down to the corner in the mornings to pick up everything needed to make breakfast, meeting and greeting all the neighbors, talking about dogs, gardens, anything and everything. Good memories! Loved the bakery and everything in it! Christmas in the neighborhood was awesome! I was the only American living there, most everyone from the neighborhood came over and decorated my Christmas tree my fist year there to make sure it was done right! LOL! When they finished they all stood around it and sandg O' Tannenbaum.
In Wisconsin we have a major vacation area called Door County. It's the little Penisula part of WI that juts out into Lake Michigan. It's a fun area & one of my best friends grew up there & has recently moved form green Bay back to a tiny town there called Fish Creek. It's the area where once you pass out of the tourist areas the tresures that are to be found are amazing.
I Love going to her place they have wild turkeys & deer walking through the backyard, yet in the summer she is like only 2 miles from the outdoor movie theater ($6.50 for 2 newly released films). And the places to eat, WOW ~ There's never enough time to get everything tried in one summer visit. I still need to try the Gelito that is served at the pizzeria next to her father's mini golf course. And of course jsut a few towns over there's were the World famous Santa's Artist Pipka has her studio & musuem. It seems most communties have great hidden gems you just have to know how look for them or to notice when you have found one.
One of my favorite areas of San Francisco is 'Richmond', famous for its incredible collection of ethnic restaurants! My first and so far only one of two experiences of Burmese food was in the Richmond neighborhood!
I am so thankful for the neat neighborhood that I am part of...beautiful trees surrounding us, great hills for walking, a creek that runs through the middle. But even more important than the great scenery would be the lovely people who live there...the security guard who barbeques every weekend, the couple who walk their sweet dogs everyday, the older gentleman who warms up his wife's car for her every morning, the lady who trains for marathons. Over the last 5 years I have walked my neighborhood on a daily basis and have come to cherish the privilege of living there.
I love my every vicarious moment of Mr. P's journal entries; travel essays; anywhere he wills, for I've travelled far less than I'd've wished. Carry on, JP.