Recent & Random. Ghost Town Edition.

In my neighborhood, on the extreme northwest edge of town, activity is muted. But it's not nonexistent. Downtown, in Union Square, SOMA, the waterfront, the Financial District... it's eerily quiet. Here's hoping we've started to turn the corner courtesy of the vaccines.

The cable car has become what we most feared: a display piece. There should a line of them here at the Powell Street turnaround. They'll eventually return, but there seems to be no hurry.

The end of the (California) line. The cable cars are on hiatus, and the silence is deafening.

It's a sad day when the liveliest thing in Justin Herman Plaza is the Vaillancourt Fountain.

One Market Street.

The Equinox restaurant (top center) would revolve 360-degrees in endless slow-motion pirouettes -- everybody got a view! It ground to a halt years ago.

Concerts and movies look to be among the last activities that will recover from COVID-19.

Wells Fargo committed a series of consumer abuses. It then introduced a new brand campaign with the theme: "Established 1852. Re-established 2018." You break a campaign like that, you have to keep the signage up. On Market Street.

This is the entrance to the de Young office building on Market Street. A fairly prestigious address. But apparently one looking for a new tenant.

In better times, the Ferry Building was ground zero for culinary delights. And there was always a bumping-shoulders level of foot traffic -- either as a straight-up foodie destination, or on the way to catch your commuter ferry. This enormous empty Ferry Building space is shocking to see.