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All Bark. No Bite.
SF Car of the Day: Vintage Cushman 3-wheeler, with air raid-warning horns. Seen Friday afternoon on Fulton near 27th Avenue.

Mike Doyle
Jun 21, 20191 min read
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Making Good Men Better Men, 1863-1978.
25 Van Ness was originally the post-Earthquake & Fire home of the Masonic Temple of California, erected in 1911. The mission of the...

Mike Doyle
Jun 17, 20191 min read
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They Better Turn The Lights Way Down.
Steve Jobs. The Opera. Coming to the SF Opera House in June 2020.

Mike Doyle
Jun 17, 20191 min read
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This Classic Sticks Out. About 4 feet.
Every so often, when the weather is nice, I see this classic old 1957 Dodge Desoto Fireflite parked in the outer avenues of the Richmond....

Mike Doyle
Jun 11, 20191 min read
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The Irish. Always Punching Above Their Weight.
I'll be reading this book, "When The Irish Invaded Canada."

Mike Doyle
Jun 11, 20191 min read
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Mike Doyle
Jun 8, 20190 min read
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Your Typical Employee Lounge.
This is the Redwood Room in the richly ornate Ninth Circuit Federal Court Of Appeals at 7th Street & Mission, SF.

Mike Doyle
Jun 8, 20191 min read
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Mother Nature Is Biding Her Time.
Outer Anza Street near Sutro Heights Park.

Mike Doyle
Jun 8, 20191 min read
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Life Is So Much SHORTER With Your Eyes Closed.
Market Street intersection.

Mike Doyle
Jun 8, 20191 min read
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Mike Doyle. Pollen Allergy Research Subject.
At the de Young Museum's "Bouquets To Art" exhibit in Golden Gate Park.

Mike Doyle
Jun 7, 20191 min read
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I'm A 3rd-Generation Fan Of Seal Rocks.
Meet the newly married Edward and Beatrice Andre, my maternal grandparents. She was from Ireland, he was from Wisconsin. They would live...

Mike Doyle
Jun 7, 20191 min read
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Mike Doyle
Jun 5, 20190 min read
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Imagination In Full Bloom.
The de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park is hosting over 100 of the Bay Area's best known floral designers, from June 4-9, 2019. Their...

Mike Doyle
Jun 5, 20191 min read
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Ladies, He's A 10!
During the late 1800's in the United States, dollars were in coin form, and a fractional dollar was in paper currency. Like the ten-cent...

Mike Doyle
May 31, 20191 min read
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Recent & Random, SF.
Street pizza. Market Street. Theatrical horse, used in 1985 ACT production. Seen in window of ACT Strand Theater. Osher Theater, home of...

Mike Doyle
May 29, 20191 min read
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SF Car Of The Day.
I don't even mind the driver parking this 1967 Camaro SS on the sidewalk. (An hour earlier, several doors down, a vintage VW Kharmann...

Mike Doyle
May 26, 20191 min read
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Sorry, Marvel. Not Today.
Balboa Movie Theater, 38th Ave & Balboa.

Mike Doyle
May 26, 20191 min read
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This'll Leave You With A Warm Feeling.
This is a steam radiator, within a vintage, ornate brass grille. The two radiators bookending the entrance to the Hobart Building on...

Mike Doyle
May 25, 20191 min read
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Home Of The Rhetorical Question.
Geary Boulevard, near Park Presidio.

Mike Doyle
May 25, 20191 min read
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Recent & Random in SF.
(South wall of the Golden Gate Theater, off Market Street) (Top floor of the NPS building at China Beach, looking toward the Marin...

Mike Doyle
May 23, 20191 min read
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