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Muni Video: 1980 Rollsign

August 17, 2009 jeff 3 comments

Octoferret‘s is my favorite Flickr account lately. His photoset of outdated and inaccurate Muni signage was featured here on Muni Diaries last week. And last weekend, while searching Flickr for a photo to embed with another post, I stumbled across the video above. The best part — Octoferret claims to own these Muni relics. Talk about Geek Envy!

I might be a bigger Muni buff than the average Muni Diaries reader. But perhaps you, too, can find a nostalgic, quiet beauty in the video. Either way, enjoy. Parts 2 and 3 are after the jump.

Category: diaries, reflection Tags: video

Weekend Photo Diary: There Goes One Last Empty Culture Bus

August 14, 2009 jeff Leave a comment

Photo by Troy Holden

What a week it’s been! Foremost on just about everyone’s mind, we’re sure (though try to forget it over the weekend), is the imminent BART strike, set for Monday. This week, the Muni Mind Reader spilled forth the inner-machinations of what’s in store when BART commuters hop over to Muni.

Category: diaries, Photos

Billie Jean, not my lover either

August 14, 2009 jeff 3 comments

A mild flurry of tweets came across the wire yesterday from @anthologie detailing a seemingly spontaneous dance-a-thon at the 24th St. BART station. Here’s a recap of the action:

approx. 3 p.m. 2 men dancing to Around The World on the platform at 24th. Man playing violin concertos upstairs.

approx. 4 p.m. 24th st guys still here. Now dancing to PYT.

approx 4:15 p.m. Billie Jean (@ 24th St)

Awesome. What else can we say, really? The only way this would’ve been better is if the tiles on the platform had lit up.

Category: BART, diaries, Photos Tags: 24th St. Station

74X-Culture Bus Funeral March This Saturday

August 13, 2009 eugenia Leave a comment

Photo by Steve Rhodes

Eve and Matt over at SF Appeal reminded us of this Saturday’s somber-yet-timely death of the 74X-Culture Bus. So SF Appeal is proposing a ride on the Culture Bus on its last day of service to our fair tourists. Go show this waste of a Muni route your love, and show the world that San Francisco still has a lot of culture, just no need for an overpriced, redundant bus route with no riders.

Category: Aww: Cute on Muni, diaries, News Tags: 74X-Culture Bus, obituary

Photo Gallery: Inaccurate or Outdated Muni Signage

August 13, 2009 jeff Leave a comment

Found this amazingly neato photo set on Flickr the other day. It was shot and assembled by Octoferret, to whom we owe a humble thank you. In light of upcoming Muni lines slated for extinction, we feel this is a moving tribute to the routes that time has forgotten.

Category: diaries, Photos Tags: 14-Mission, 15-Third, 19-Polk, 29-Sunset, 31-Balboa, 33-Ashbury, 49-Van Ness, 5-Fulton, 6-Parnassus, 67-Bernal Heights, 7-Haight, 74X-Culture Bus, J-Church, T-Third