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Where Failure Is Always An Option.
America loves winning -- and completely ignores failing. That's why it took a Swedish psychologist, Doctor Samuel West, to come up with...

Mike Doyle
May 28, 20252 min read
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Recent & Random
17th hole at Lincoln Park golf course, it surrounds the Legion of Honor fine arts museum. Powell Street cable car turnaround. Car #24, go...

Mike Doyle
May 26, 20251 min read
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Art Comes From Art.
I wasn't familiar with Wayne Thiebaud. But I found his philosophy interesting. If I understood correctly, it wasn't enough for him to...

Mike Doyle
May 25, 20252 min read
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Recent & Random.
This lonely relic from the past, a landline payphone, was seen in the Powell Street Station. Not bad for being completely man-made. In...

Mike Doyle
May 19, 20251 min read
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Recent & Random.
The future meets the past, at the monthly Ocean Beach meeting of car nation. Spring has sprung at Stow Lake/Blue Heron Lake in Golden...

Mike Doyle
May 4, 20251 min read
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Field Trip to the USS Hornet!
The USS Hornet (CV-12), a WWII-era Essex-class aircraft carrier, is a floating museum docked in Alameda. It's only a 20-minute boat ride...

Mike Doyle
May 4, 20251 min read
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Would you climb 13 flights to enjoy the view from Coit Tower?
San Francisco's iconic Coit Tower was built in 1933, and so was its rickety elevator. It's been broken for over a year, because they...

Mike Doyle
Apr 29, 20251 min read
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Paul McCartney Looks Back.
The new Paul McCartney exhibit at the de Young. An inside look at the birth of Beatlemania. Very inside. Paul McCartney recently...

Mike Doyle
Mar 23, 20251 min read
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Recent & Random.
I haven't had much time and energy recently for photo editing and posting. So relatively Recent & Random. Medieval prison cell? No,...

Mike Doyle
Feb 27, 20251 min read
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Recent & Random.
As the title suggests, random images captured around SF lately. The casting pools in Golden Gate Park around Thanksgiving. Daring to be...

Mike Doyle
Jan 1, 20251 min read
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Mary Cassatt. Women & Children First.
"Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) was the most celebrated woman artist of her time." When just being a woman artist was a celebrated...

Mike Doyle
Nov 28, 20241 min read
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Old Cars. New Memories.
Welcome to the Old Car Picnic in Speedway Meadow of Golden Gate Park . Hundreds of vintage cars. Foreign and domestic, in every color,...

Mike Doyle
Oct 20, 20242 min read
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The Queen of Art Deco.
Tamara de Lempicka, AKA "The Queen of Art Deco." A bold, unique style well suited to her times. It seems to find the visual sweet spot...

Mike Doyle
Oct 18, 20241 min read
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K-Pop At The Asian Art Museum.
The latest featured exhibit at the Asian Art Museum focuses on the ongoing waves of cultural influence washing over the world from South...

Mike Doyle
Oct 13, 20241 min read
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Highly Personal Transportation.
The monthly car gatherings continue at Ocean Beach. But I was also able to catch the end of the Lincoln High School 8th Annual Car Show...

Mike Doyle
Oct 1, 20241 min read
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Moving Memories At Ocean Beach.
The third Sunday of every month, the San Francisco Ocean Beach car club meets from 7-11 am. August 18th marked the 4th Anniversary of...

Mike Doyle
Sep 1, 20241 min read
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Recent & Random.
Fulton near 30th Avenue. Employee's hard(boiled) hat from 1930's construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. Roebling's provided the cable....

Mike Doyle
Aug 11, 20241 min read
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The Western Edge Of Car Culture.
Every month San Francisco Ocean Beach (SFOB) holds a gathering of the car enthusiast tribe. People who see their automobiles as far more...

Mike Doyle
Jul 28, 20241 min read
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Horse-Drawn Streetcars Stop @ 24th & Clement.
Today I walked down to the 4Star Theater to catch an SF History lecture. Its subject was the 250 surplus horse-drawn streetcars in the...

Mike Doyle
Jun 23, 20241 min read
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"Tell Him Goodbye!"
San Francisco Giants legend Willie Mays died Tuesday, June 18th, at 93-years-old. I stopped by the ballpark two days later to witness the...

Mike Doyle
Jun 22, 20241 min read
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