A Day in San Francisco

San Francisco, CA, September 30. 2009: Bill had a long list of places to see and we did them all!

The Palace of Fine Arts was constructed for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 which signaled the city's recovery from the 1906 earthquake.













Lombard Street:

We drove to the top of Telegraph Hill but pruners occupied all the parking so Bill went up Coit Tower and David went to park, finding lots of space at the foot of the Filbert Steps. David walked up the Filbert Steps and Bill and he both walked down!












View of the Bay Bridge and the Embarcadero from atop Coit Tower:
We saw some of the parrots of Telegraph Hill:
View of Coit Tower from the Filbert Steps:









City Lights:









The entrance to Jack Kerouac Alley:












The last of the Barbary Coast saloons:









Tales of the City steps and the site where Bridget O'Shaughnessy killed Miles Archer:












Chinatown gate at Grant Avenue:



























Homeless with cats:

We passed Grace Cathedral on our way to find The Fillmore; we found no trace of the Fillmore West.












Haight-Ashbury:









The home of The Grateful Dead, 710 Ashbury; and the home of The Jefferson Airplane, 2400 Fulton:












We didn't wear flowers in our hair, but we did tour the Conservatory of Flowers (1878), the oldest municipal wooden conservatory in the United States.
The philodendron (l) is over 100 years old:





































Outside, there were dahlias:



















Before heading to the airport, we drove to the top of Twin Peaks: