RON HENGGELER |
August 6, 2010
Photos from Friday
"San Francisco is the genius of American cities. It is the wild-eyed, all-fired, hard-boiled, tender-hearted, white-haired boy of the American family of cities. It is the prodigal son. The city which does everything and is always forgiven, because of its great heart, its gentle smile, its roaring laughter, its mysterious and magnificent personality. There are no end of ways of enduring time in San Francisco, pleasantly, beautifully, and with the romance of living in everything. Eat any kind of dish the races of the world know how to prepare. Drink any kind of wine you like. Go to the opera. The symphony or a stage play. Loaf around in the high-toned bars, or in the honky-tonks. Sail the bay. If you are alive you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life. San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure. It is a city in which the spirit can know refreshment every day. “ (circa 1891)
Mural at Fulton near Webster in the Western Addition |
Inside the 1905 Murphy Windmill in Golden Gate Park |
A rear view mirror shot of the Bay Bridge |
Rincon Hill in San Francisco |
Roadside fruit stand on the way to Muir woods and Mt Tamalpais |
Workmen standing on the copper-sheeted cap of the 1905 Murphy Windmill in Golden Gate Park |
The Sidney B. Cushing Amphitheater on Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California. The stone amphitheater, named for the owner of the railroad company which constructed the Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway, is at an elevation of 2,000 feet and has 4,000 seats. The organization was founded in 1913, and is a member of Theatre Bay Area and the North Bay Theatre Group. |
The Sidney B. Cushing Amphitheater on Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California. |
Golden Gate Park |
In 1916, Kent deeded the theater to the MPA. Twenty years later, MPA turned the theater over to the state park, which then surrounded it, and over the next ten years the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) worked to install the massive serpentine stones that now form the 4000-seat Sidney B. Cushing Memorial Amphitheater. The theater was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. |
Summit of Mt Tamalpais |
West Ridgecrest Road on Mt Tamalpais |
The sunset, Bolinas, and the fog shrouded Pacific as seen from the West Ridgecrest Road |
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