quote:Originally posted by Rizla Year Zero:
the next few issues of my comic are set in San Francisco..
..so it's a shame I know next to nothing about it besides Golden Gate Bridge, Haight Ashbury, Alcatraz and trams..
Rizla: if you want background, feel free to email me. I've been going there just about every year for the past five to visit friends before heading out to Burning Man.
Cultural points: Japantown is biggish on the cultural map, it's possible to eat out cheap if you go way ethnic (Indonesian shop-window takeaway, say), and the majesty of the Sutro Baths.
(In their heyday, and now in beautiful ruins. More info here.)
Come to think of it, Plums - there was a multi-issue span of the great comic House of Secrets took place in a kind of Sutro Baths timewarp thing. Main character (punk squatter from Seattle) goes to SF, visits the baths, and suddenly discovers herself a servant girl wrapped up in a plot to kill President McKinley. If you haven't read it already, it's worth a gander.
So are histories of the Great San Francisco Fire.
There are plenty of fun histories on that. If horror is your idea of fun. It was only one of many great fires in the city. (Dig the pictures!) |
