Counting Down 100 Days, 100 Muni Stories

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Muni turns 100 this year, and we want to celebrate it with your Muni stories in our “100 Days, 100 Muni Stories” project! You might remember the cool prize for this story drive: Submit a Muni story in the next 100 days and a portion of your story can end up on a bus ad.

For 100 days this summer, you can go our 100 Muni Stories page to see new stories in the running for getting their own advertisement inside the bus. We’ve combed through your submissions and tweets, plus some that we think deserve some props. At the end of the 100 days, we’ll be choosing quotes from the best of the best to appear on ads inside all Muni buses.

Today’s “100 Muni Stories” submission comes from David Gray, who remembers the 55-Sacramento and how its passengers had to help the bus get up steep San Francisco hills.

We’re still taking submissions for the centennial birthday celebration, so send your stories our way and remember to tag it #100MuniStories.

Muni Diaries “100 Days, 100 Muni Stories” graphic design is by Lisa Wong Jackson. Check her out at Good on Paper.

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Bay to Breakers Best Transit Costume

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Photo by Octoferret

Not that we’re biased or anything, but this Bay to Breakers costume is kind of awesome. Photographer Octoferret dropped this gem in our Flickr pool. If you were at our birthday party, you know that we have a Clipper card costume in the Muni Diaries closet.

Here is a gallery of our awesome party goers doing their best poses — wearing the Clipper Card and Fast Pass costumes, natch — in the Orange Photography photobooth.

Next year’s Bay to Breakers: let’s be costume twins?

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Newest Muni Ad Spoof: Men’s Whorehouse

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We’ve just received a photo of the latest Muni spoof ad spree from reader “Black Elvis.” He found it Friday on the 49 around 3 p.m. The ad reads: Men’s Whorehouse “You’re gonna like the whore you bang, we guarantee it.”

Ouch.

Earlier, a MissionMission contributor said he saw two guys putting up these ads on the 49 (“one of them had a pretty sweet mustache”).

So far in the series of Muni adbusters, we’ve got a special variety Tums, the other name for Tartine, and a dig on Du Beers.

I can’t quite tell why Men’s Warehouse was picked as a target for the spoof. Personally I think this spoof of a men’s fragrance is pretty on point.

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Witness: I Saw The Muni Adbusters

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Photo from @dougrobbin

Ever since we found the “Cum Tum” ad on Muni and the spoof ad spree that ensued, we’ve been wondering who’s behind this hilarious turn of events. Last night a MissionMission contributor said he saw two guys putting up these ads on the 49.

From MissionMission:

I had the pleasure of watching one of the new fake bus ads go up today. I was on the 49 when two young males boarded. One mentioned concernedly to the other that there was no one driving the bus. I informed them that the driver was behind the bus fixing the wires, which had fallen off the lines as the bus turned off 16th onto Mission.

But alas, no photos of the two guys. Just as well, because that would be like finding out that Santa Claus isn’t real, right? You can read the rest of his account on MissionMission, including a description of the guys.

For review, we have a special variety Tums, the unfortunate nickname for Tartine, and an inexplicable spoof of Du Beers. The dig on Marines is also clever but perhaps not from the same culprit?

What’s next?

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Your Weekend Muni Transit Advisory

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This weekend’s traffic advisory from the SFMTA.

The 7th annual Uncorked! SF Wine Festival will be held on Saturday at and around Ghirardelli Square between 1 and 6 p.m. The following street closures will be required all day Saturday, 12 a.m. to midnight:

  • Beach Street between Larkin and Polk Streets

The 19 Polk Muni route will be affected.

On Saturday the Asian Heritage Street Festival will be held in front of the Asian Art Museum from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.  For more details, please visit 8th Asian Heritage Street Celebration website. The following street closures will be required from 3 a.m. to 9 p.m.:

  • Larkin Street between Hayes and Ellis streets
  • McAllister Street between Hyde and Polk streets
  • Fulton Street between Larkin and Hyde streets
  • Eddy Street between Polk and Hyde streets
  • Turk Street between Polk and Hyde streets
  • Golden Gate Avenue between Polk and Hyde streets
  • Intersections at Larkin Street: Fulton Street, McAllister Street, Golden Gate Avenue, Turk Street, Eddy Street and Willow Street

The following Muni routes may be affected:

  • 5 Fulton
  • 19 Polk
  • 31 Balboa

Bay to Breakers begins at 7 a.m. on Sunday. Please see SFMTA’s website for express service and fare information. Go here for Muni service interruptions during B2B.

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