Tag Archives: San Francisco

MM 3-50 Take Me Out to the Ballgame

Posted on April 4, 2017 by

Our Irish cousins visited us in the Spring of 2008 and they asked us if they could experience a bit of our American Culture by attending a major league baseball game. So we rode on BART from Castro Valley to … Continue reading →

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A Walk in San Francisco’s Presidio

Posted on April 6, 2016 by

A few days after our return home from Barcelona last Fall I drove across the Bay Bridge to have lunch with my siblings and a cousin and their respective spouses at the Presidio Café in the clubhouse of the Presidio … Continue reading →

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Missions in Monochrome: San Francisco’s Mission Dolores

Posted on August 11, 2015 by

A Spanish soldier named Jose Joaquin Moraga and a Spanish priest named Francisco Palou founded Mission San Francisco de Asis on June 29, 1776, a week before John Hancock and others signed the Declaration of Independence three thousand miles away. … Continue reading →

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San Francisco’s St. Mary’s Cathedral

Posted on August 8, 2015 by

The Cathedral of St Mary of the Assumption sits atop a hill on the corner of Geary Blvd and Gough St now called Cathedral Hill. It is the city’s third Catholic cathedral. The first, now called Old St Mary’s, was … Continue reading →

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San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts

Posted on August 5, 2015 by

The Palace of Fine Arts was built in 1915 for San Francisco’s world’s fair, officially called the Panama Pacific International Exposition in honor of the opening of the Panama Canal in August 1914. All of the buildings of the fair … Continue reading →

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The Palace and the Bridge

Posted on December 10, 2014 by

The California Palace of the Legion of Honor is a replica of the Palais de la Légion d’Honneur in Paris and was completed on Armistice Day, 1924. It stands in the middle of a golf course on San Francisco’s Lands … Continue reading →

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Visiting High School Classmates in Belgium

Posted on June 2, 2013 by

It was my first day in my Sophomore year in high school and we were being seated alphabetically (more or less) and I found myself sitting behind a slender blonde kid named George DeCat. I got to see the back … Continue reading →

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