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photo by Janna
While diving in our Flickr pool, I came across this photo that look extremely familiar. Isn’t this the Muni Diaries baby onesie being sold at Secession Art and Design? That’s one hip baby!
If you’re looking for transit goodies in a real, brick and mortar store, don’t forget to check out our wares at Secession, 3361 Mission and 30th. Our Fast Pass Clipper Card holders are also available at Bay Crossings in the Ferry Building.
Photo by Jen
A couple of fun things to do this weekend and early next week:
Enjoy these photos and your weekend!
Photo by Franciscophile
Photo by Benjamin Soto
Photo by moppet65535
Photo by Joshua Gatts
Head over to Muni Time Capsule to learn about the site that will steal the rest of your afternoon, Old SF.
Burrito Justice turned BART upside down and inside out in a photo series he calls KaleidoBART. I’ve been tilting my head trying to figure out where the pieces all came from. See his BART kaleidoscope for youself.
Got cool Muni/BART/Caltrain photos for us? Our Muni Flickr photo pool is waiting for you! And if you like our photo pool, don’t forget to vote for us in the SF Weekly Web Awards.
Image by Flickr user muilak
Rachael posted an interesting question on the Muni Diaries Facebook Page yesterday:
Maybe I’m weird about germs but to me walking around barefoot is no more/less gross than touching everything on the bus then sitting down to eat a sandwich. Why do people eat on Muni?
Which led me to wonder which was actually grosser. I haven’t decided yet, but I’ve probably spent too much time thinking about it already.
The floor is just plain grody. I’ve let bare legs and bare hands touch seats and rails before even thinking about putting a bag on the floor. I think we can agree that the chicken and formaldehyde combo platter is an appetite-killer for all involved. But Muni riders snack on food that isn’t stuck to the window all the time, and it doesn’t always bother me. That said, we use our bare hands to eat, sometimes before washing our hands when we’re late to dinner and about to eat a limb for sustenance. OK, maybe by we, I mean me.
But, which is worse? Barefoot riding or eating while riding?
Photo by Heather Champ
Four cool public transit books:
Sarah B. from The Richmond Blog sent us a tip about a new book coming out about Muni. From the blog, Inside the Outside Lands:
Transit historian Grant Ute has coauthored with Walter Vielbaum, Robert Townley, and the late Philip Hoffman and Cameron Beach (the transit guys are very collaborative) to produce San Francisco’s Municipal Railway: Muni. A large-format 144-page book from Arcadia Publishing, this photo-history comes out in time for Muni’s 2012 Centennial and covers the railway’s development to date. If you can, I recommend you buy it at the one of my favorite places, the Market Street Railway Museum at 77 Steuart Street near the Ferry Building.
Click over to Inside the Outside Lands to read more about the other historical books fresh off of the presses.
Oh, and if you want more ideas about what to read on the bus, the awesome blog Between the Lines is documenting books spotted on Muni.
Got other good Muni reads? We wanna know.