A recurring series in which we take a look back at the city’s most familiar advertising icons. The jaunty figure of the Richmond Spectacles Rich Man still steps lively over Pearl Street, striding across the rooftops of the Deputy Tyrone…
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“What Your City is Doing for Climate Change”
This week, Mayors from 30 cities around the world are meeting in New York to discuss their role in helping to curb climate change. Not wanting to be left out of things, Mayor Wilders’ office has sent out a press…
Links of Interest – May 11
:: Propaganda posters from the Great War of the Californias. [MentalFloss] The Great War of the Californias was virtually forgotten only months, actually only days, after it had ended, whenever that was. Its dates are uncertain, lost in a haze…
Friday Facts: Adult Periodicals, Biscuits
:: The city’s fourth largest selection of pornographic magazines for sale can be found at the newsstand on the 200 block of West Elm, across the street from Old City Hall. :: Engineers attempted to use the old steel bridge…
Sutter’s Hill/House/Café
With the official arrival of May Day, the crossroads of Spring and Summer, locals flock out to enjoy Sutter’s Hill. Located between two abandoned railway lines—reminders of the city’s competing railroad companies consolidated out of existence long ago—Sutter’s Hill is…
Links of Interest – May 8
:: What’s Next for US Cities [andrewblum.net] Is [a move toward “walkable urbanity”] a backlash to suburbanization? [Christopher Leinberger:] Since high density was the only option for cities for millennia, I view it as the pendulum swinging back. Demographics are…
The Shrouded City
Television dramatist Stirling Silliphant famously wrote that “there are eight million stories in the naked city.†Local author Burton Becker is out to prove that our city has a few million stories of its own, even if they are a…
Friday Facts: Taupe, Bertram Cates, Waspgrass
:: As temperatures start to warm up, we would like to offer a reminder that a city ordinance passed last year makes public male toplessness illegal in the area bordered by 4th St, Gordon Ave, 57th St, and Burton Blvd.…
City loses hummus title
Ferran Habash may be out of the record books for now, but he’s confident he’ll be back. Habash is the owner of Ferran’s Middle Eastern Restaurant (429 Kerchavel), until recently the world-record holder for World’s Largest Vat of Hummus. In…
IndustriaLand
At the corner of Sparks Street and South Waycross Avenue stands a colossal building – a monument to an era that most people in the city would like to forget. Upon entering the sliding glass entry doors and passing into…