Bocce ball was first played in ancient Rome. Bocce volo, a variant, uses an overhand delivery and a metal ball. Often brass. They've been...

Seen in the Outer Avenues.

Merrill's Drug Center, 1091 Market Street at 7th. Opened in 1949, closed in 2004. This was the last SF location of the mighty Merrrill's...

Built in the 1920's, and now known as the Galileo Academy of Science & Technology. Which I guess explains the lack of students enjoying...

Wait. How did this still life get in here? Quality Control!

This is the 2nd floor of the SF Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park. The building was designed in the 1930's after a great white ocean liner....

They've begun installing the new suicide barrier/net on the east side of the Golden Gate Bridge. That and other images below from a sunny...

Safety warning sign inside the Federal Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals building at 7th & Mission.

Brace your retina. This is a crazy beautiful building. Where taste, old world craftsmanship, and the federal budget all came together....

(Outer Cabrillo Street in the Richmond District.)

The Pony Express of 1860 delivered a letter from St. Joseph, Missouri to San Francisco, California, at the blistering speed of 1800 miles...

Just sayin'. And askin' -- how much is a can of paint these days? Pier 15-17 is immediately behind the Exploratorium on the Embarcadero. ...

Mid-Sunset playground and baseball fields.

The SF Art Commission's main gallery is in the Herbst theater building on Van Ness. Admission is FREE. (Public restroom too!) Here are...

Free tour! The B.A.P " UNION" was docked at Pier 17 today. BAP stands for Buque Armada Peruana, or Peruvian Navy Ship. It looks like a...

Today, outer Cabrillo. AKA, my neighborhood, SF.

Meet "The Fire Hydrant That Saved The Mission District " -- 3899 20th Street at the southwest corner of Dolores Park. In the days after...

Wednesday in the outer Avenues.

April 23, 1918. In the "Fanciest Court In America," guns blazed as the Fraz Bopp-Wilhelm von Brincken trial was wrapping up in Courtroom...