Bay Area Icons

I thought that was Ed Barberra (Barbara? Barbar? something like that) of Furniture USA.

How about the infectious jingle, "Pete Ellis Dodge, 10-95 West El Camino Re-al Sunny-vale" or that store whose locations were sung out, "Dublin, Berkeley [something] [something] [something] San Jose"?

 

I've been there, but they wanted something like $7 to go to the top. No thanks, it's not THAT much higher elevated. From the ground below Coit Tower you can still see great views of SF and the bay.


Another icon...the Light Tower at Point Reyes.

 

Yup. That's the guy! From Furniture USA!

 

Doggie diner is my best memory from going to the SF Zoo when I was 5-6 years old...

 

Dublin, Berkeley, San Lorenzo, Cupertino , San Jose

if I recall correctly... and I'm not a bay area guy.

 

roller derby...jerry seltzer's version.every sunday nite.

 

what about skate world(i think thats what it was called) on stevens creek and san tomas behind marlins car wash...across the street from where kiddie world used to be

 

The name sound familiar but it might have been before my time.

Does anyone remember Perry Stone and Trish Bell from KSJO in late 80's. He used to be a "shock jock". Mostly a Howard Stern impersonator. He got kicked off the air for talking about crack while interviewing girl scouts on his show.

 

ok, here is a tourista' video from the 30's

http://www.archive.org/details/SanFranc1932

anyone remember :

- play land of the pacific,
- fleishacher pool
- Windmill at Sunset beach

WHEN : AND I have photos to prove, it: there were like 5 BofA's on Market alone, and everyone wore gloves, hats, and dressed up to "go to the 'city'".
it's SAN FRANCISCO or the CITY not f$(#(#co . if someone says FRIS#(O they aren't from CA.

don't forget all the rock bands that are great here:

GREEN ONION.
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Anybody remember Don Sherwood, the disk jockey?

Art

 

of course. Don Sherwood in the morning. BTW, I hear KYA and KFRC is making a comeback.

 

Don Sherwood. What a total crack up. Seems to me that he had an a.m. show on KSFO. About Frisco. My dad had taken the famly to see Dany Kaye at the Curran Theatre in the early 50's. Front row center seats. Ya know...all dressed up. Suit and tie. Anyway about 1/2 way through the performance Kaye came to center stage and sat down with his legs dangling in the orch pit. The first thing out of his mouth was 'why do San Franciscans not their town to be called Frisco'? Just then an earthquake hit and I rembember standing up and looking up at the swaying celing. My father picked me up and was just about to drop me in the orch pit when the quake stopped. People were screaming and heading to the exits.....some panicked as I recall. Kaye callmed the crowd and vowed to never call San Francisco...that other name again. Sometime 51 or 52. True story.

 

Now that's class!

For me, an SF Icon was UNOs pizza on Lombard st. Many a happy visit with the family driving 45min into the 'city' specifically to eat there. Now it's some east-coast pizza joint, unremarkable.

Also, taking 45min to get into 'the city' while the sun is still up.

 

WOW, no Golden Gate Bridge. I literally cannot imagine life without it.

 

I remember that too ... and for me, Highway 85 South of I-280 always shown on maps as "proposed".

 

Calling freeways by names is soooo SoCal! It took me a while to adjust when I moved down to L.A., and frankly I still don't know all of the names. One habit I've succumbed to is putting a the word "the" before the freeway names.

In the Bay Area, it is common to say "take 101 North to 17 South", where as in SoCal one would say "take the 405 North to the 10 West" or in name-speak, "take the San Diego freeway North to the Santa Monica freeway West".

I remember a Tonight Show skit with Johnnie making a joke about all the different freeways and their names.

The only freeway names in the Bay Area I could remember was the Nimitz (HWY 17 (before it became I-880) North of the 101 to I-80) the Bayshore (101 from SJ to SF). And of course there was the "Blood Alley" names - take your pick ... 17 from SJ to Santa Cruz or the 101 South of San Jose to Morgan Hill ... the Monterey Highway.

 

Can you image the Golden Gate damned up? The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers did! To plan for California's population growth, it was considered to damn the SF Bay at the Golden Gate to capture all of the fresh water from the Delta. Unfortunately, because of the limited depth of the SF Bay, especially in the South Bay, the rate of evaporate would be greater than the inflow of water from the Delta. This study was performed before the bridge was built.

There is a scale model of the Bay Area including portions of the Delta that the Corp used to determine the effects of damning the Golden Gate. It is a great model to see, and it is still used today (for EIR studies).

Here's a link to the Bay Model Visitor Center in Sausalito:

http://www.spn.usace.army.mil/bmvc/

 

Do you all remember Dennis Erectus, the famous DJ on San Jose's finest radio station?
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sorry old school
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I remember the Windmills, (My niece was married at one of them, closest to Fulton St.)
I remember Fleishacker Pool (next to the Zoo); stood on the remaining platform before it was demolished. Looked scary and the wind didn't help any.
I remember Playland. Went there a number of times. Never got the chance to run the go-karts (too young.) You probably know then the fake mountain at the old Sutro Baths area.

Now here's one that just flashed in my memory banks. You crest California Street heading east, past Mark Hopkins and the Fairmont, you head down and do you recall.....


The Playboy Club? Yup. We had one and it's "bunny" was quite prominent (near the Channle 7 logo). Too bad they couldn't keep it.

 

Anybody remember the De Anza College Laser light shows? Pink Floyd....

Looks like you can still see it...

http://www.planetarium.deanza.edu/