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Greetings From San Francisco
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A collection of songs (connected to the great city of San Francisco - in one way or another). One of many "soundtracks" for an upcoming trip.And since no mix submission would be complete without a healthy dose of nonsense, here's some pointless trivia:* San Francisco cable cars are the only moving National Historic Landmark, and 9.7 million people take a nine mile per hour ride on them each year. At the Cable Car Barn Museum, 500-horsepower electric motors turn the endless cable loops.* The country's first Chinese immigrants came to San Francisco in 1848. In an act typical of San Francisco's mixing of cultures, the Japanese Hagiwara family invented "Chinese" fortune cookies at Golden Gate Park's Tea Garden, and at Chinatown's Ross Alley fortune cookie factory, a Rube Goldberg-like contraption turns them out by the dozens.* A city built on 43 hills will surely have steep, curving streets. Vermont Avenue between 22nd and 23rd is "crookedest," and Filbert between Hyde and Leavenworth is steepest at 31.5 degrees, but neither fact discourages tourists from flocking to Lombard Street's seductive curves.* San Francisco outlawed burials in 1901, and the Presidio and Mission have the city's only remaining cemeteries. The dead are in neighboring Colma, making it the world's only incorporated city where the dead outnumber the living. Permanent residents of its 16 cemeteries include Wyatt Earp and Joe DiMaggio.* At Angel Island, the Ellis Island of the West, 175,000 Chinese immigrants and Japanese "picture brides" once waited to enter the country. Poems of hope they carved into the walls are still visible at the Immigration Museum.* Alcatraz means pelican in Spanish. The rocky pelican's island was a military fort before it became a prison. Today's resident deer mice, banana slugs and California slender salamanders aren't nearly as famous as former prisoners Al Capone, George "Machine Gun" Kelly and Robert "Birdman" Stroud. * Union Square is among the top four shopping areas in the nation. Boutiques, spas, galleries and San Francisco's only Frank Lloyd Wright building fill nearby Maiden Lane, but it wasn't always so respectable. Once home to the lowest houses of prostitution, the former Morton Street was so depraved that even policemen hesitated to enter. * In 1850, gold seekers abandoned over 600 vessels in the bay. Some became landfill, now lying beneath the Jackson Square Historic District where the city's few surviving nineteenth century commercial buildings include Ghirardelli's first chocolate factory.* Mission Dolores is the oldest building in San Francisco, built in 1791. Two major earthquakes couldn't topple it, but tiny powderpost beetles almost did in 2000, chewing their way to international fame before they were stopped.* San Francisco's summer fog rushes in on ocean breezes as the city's cool air moves toward warmer places inland. San Franciscans make friends with the fog, and when the Coast Guard removed the bay's last foghorn, cries of protest soon brought it back.Hop A Cable Car:Powell/Hyde LinePowell/Mason Line
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I'm envious. I always like visiting San Francisco. Lots of cool pix for your trip's soundtrack. Excellent use of the Rice-a-roni song, by the way.
Killer mix and tremendous trivia. A gnome-ble effort.
San Frantastic! A San Francisco treat! You should quit the banking biz and set up a roadside stand at the airport and sell it to the tourists. Looking forward to the download. Fine bridge work on the cover too.
I desperately want to hear this, but "yousendit" is giving me some kind of registration bullshit . . . I told them I'm a 13-year-old Albanian consultant working in aerospace for $109 million a year but they STILL won't let me download this, which is tragic 'cause I love songs about San Francisco even more than I love the city itself . . . of course living here I get spoiled & I'm sure there are drawbacks to living in Philadelphia too but talk about a town that's feeding on its own past!
Okay but seriously Mr Gnome I can tell this is a MUST listen & as soon as "yousendit" gets over their latest marketing spasm I will eagerly do so!
Rice-a-Roni, Jack Kerouac, AND Scott McKenzie!!! Nashville, can you top that?
Okay but seriously Mr Gnome I can tell this is a MUST listen & as soon as "yousendit" gets over their latest marketing spasm I will eagerly do so!
Rice-a-Roni, Jack Kerouac, AND Scott McKenzie!!! Nashville, can you top that?
This mix looks amazing... but I am biast seeing as I am a resdient of a near-by suburb.
I love that Cut Chemist made it on to the mix.
GREAT JOB.
I love that Cut Chemist made it on to the mix.
GREAT JOB.
Excellent, I especially like the 15-16.
I'm really enjoying this - thanks for the link Really enjoyed Boenzee Cryque.
Emperor Norton smiles...
Stupendous! A tribute to one of my favourite cities in the whole wide. Great tunes, great place, great heavens man, you've hit the spot. Thank you kindly...
Top Notch Mix (tm) - the music, the cover, the liner notes! An outstanding tribute to my favorite city. Thanks for the links as well - I'm enjoying the great 7-11 stretch right now.
Eeps!!! Sorry to those who are encountering YSI link issues. I have no idea why that is.Additionally, I believe there was a sequencing error on the posting. The track listing, above, is the intended sequence. I will correct later and re-post.
great tribute to the most beautiful city in america. we took the kids this year and had a ball. don't miss amoeba records in the haight and esp village music in mill valley, north of the golden gate and near the must see woods. re mix: there's a whole lalo schifrin goin' on.
Excellent job! And thanks for the links. Can't get enough of Lydia Pense and Cold Blood.
Wow. Intruiged by 22. Looking forward to listening to this. Lovely cover art. By the way I'm STILL digging your Hellbound Train mix from a few weeks back. If this is half as good etc etc
This looks really great, Christopher.
I understand that they built that city on rock and roll.
This is wicked. I love San Francisco (I love my sister for moving to nearby San Jose!) and this is fucking gold.
San Frantastic!
Wonderfully atmospheric. Yup - this is the shiznit. AND packed with facts, too.