The New Fillmore - Latest Comments

Re: Leon: king of barbecue

Pfabres — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:00:01 -0000

Did you have a Mazda rx7?

Re: Still modern after all these years

m2 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:31:03 -0000

I love the Gummy Bear light! Might come back and buy another, it's great!! Terrific Style

Re: From Fillmore to Harvard

Joan O'Connor — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:00:41 -0000

Loved, loved, LOVED the piece about the women who moved back east. So funny, of course, as it could be the reverse of my story after all these years.
What struck me as funny is the reference to lobster rolls and how they'd miss them if and when they leave Boston. Yet they talk about missing Woodhouse Fish Co. on Fillmore. I find Woodhouse's lobster rolls to be as good as or better than any I've had on the New England coast!

Re: From Fillmore to Punta del Este

Daniel Max — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:35:44 -0000

What a delight to read about Uruguay, a country I've visited twice in recent years and consider to be a well-kept secret since many people have only a vague sense of it and often confuse it with Paraguay.

Compared to the high drama of its neighbor, Argentina, Uruguay is a relaxed casual nation though both countries share a similar culture. A three-hour ferry from Buenos Aires takes one to Montevideo, a city of great charm and exceptional food. I love it.

Re: From Yoshi’s to Lincoln Center

Haejin007 — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:02:55 -0000

I'm happy that you are still working with JAZZ and hope that it will not fully die in the Fillmore even if the clubs there like Rasselas & Sheba Lounge book low quality jazz because the pay is so terrible. I still believe that QUALITY music will bring the people in.The cycle of treating & paying musicians crap will only get the worst jazz musicians which will then develop a mediocre reputation that will never lead to success. There are vast amounts of really amazing musicians here in the Bay Area and very few of them play in the Fillmore district on any regular basis. The people booking the Fillmore venues are not in touch with the amazing local jazz scene and the enormous talents that exists here. I wish you the best at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Atleast you WILL get to work with quality music there!

Re: Fillmore: forever new

Richard Spritzer — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:42:09 -0000

I enjoyed “Forever New,” Robert F. Oaks’ article on the front page of your November 2011 issue, recounting the many times the Fillmore has reinvented itself.

But what I really loved were the historic photographs — especially the one showing the metal arches over the intersections of Fillmore Street.

Bring them back! In keeping with the Fillmore’s penchant for reinventing itself, why couldn’t we come up with a modern interpretation — out of titanium, maybe, or some other lightweight material — and erect it over the Geary bridge, or maybe the Fillmore-California intersection?

It would be fabulous — and quite an homage to our history.

Re: Helping with an uphill battle

Takuji Kasamatsu — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:35:14 -0000

I happened to belatedly pick up the August issue of the New Fillmore, in which — in addition to many good articles, including a walking guide in Pacific Heights — I found an especially interesting article by Carol McLaughlin.

It must have been one of my lucky days. I noted the name of Dr. Henry Safrit, who had put his great original idea [of helping deserving B+ students attend college] into good practice.

Dr. Safrit was my doctor for a long time before he retired from his private practice. We saw each other only once every year, since I was basically healthy in the usual sense of the word, though I had had a history of a sort of heart attack in my youth.

Please tell Dr. Safrit that one of his previous patients is very happy to see his good work recognized by the local community. A seed he placed and nurtured has grown into trees that bear a lot of beautiful fruits indeed.

Thank you, Dr. Henry Safrit.

Re: Dining alone among friends

Saleelasue — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:17:57 -0000

Beautifully done, couldn't have said it better.

Re: Dining alone among friends

Canoli27 — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:54:20 -0000

Love it!

Re: Dismissed Convent School educator sues

TruthTeller — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:09:49 -0000

Every coin - and every story - has two sides.

Re: A modern planting gives way to tradition

Kate — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:55:36 -0000

While new ideas are great and you can certainly see plenty of examples of new and old design ideas working well together, it seems the designer missed the point of creating something that worked in that location, ie providing plants not targeted by thieves and using materials--gravel that did not appeal to dogs on their way to the dog-friendly park. I don't see a whole lot of "politics" in the decision of residents to revert to what worked before, just practicality.

Re: Local bourbon from the Gold Rush revived

Mildred Mullins — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:43:42 -0000

You really dug out a number of my memories. I remember having the same experience.

Re: Before Alice met Gertrude, she lived nearby

Dianne Montague — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:48:26 -0000

It was very informative. I've been reading your blog a lot in the last couple of days. It earned a place in my bookmarks.

Re: Minnie’s Can-Do Club

Liza — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:38:00 -0000

Dear Nicola,
My boyfriend and I lived with you and several other people in San Fransico when you were painting Minnie's portrait. You read the Hobbit to me. I'll never forget you.
Liza

Re: Minnie’s Can-Do Club

Beer Pong Table Dimensions — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 08:48:38 -0000

Minnie opened the club in 1969, and soon a group began to coalesce
around her. Someone suggested music, so they got a piano. Someone else
suggested poetry readings, and Tuesday became poetry night. They put a
ping pong table in the back and had tournaments.

Re: Video

hill dweller — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:31:06 -0000

I greatly enjoyed the "Paint-out In the Park" sequence. What a great tradition for our Pac Heights Community.

Re: From Jimbo’s to Yoshi’s

Allen Houser — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:11:12 -0000

Litttle Milton wrote GRITS AIN"T GROCERIES.

Allen Houser

Re: From Jimbo’s to Yoshi’s

Allen Houser — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:59:49 -0000

I lived in the Bay Area from 1962-1966. I used to sit in at JACK'S with everybody else -- the one time I played with Philly Joe Jones. I'd go to the 6:00 A.M. jam and also the evening sets...I subsequently wrote a tune for Groove Holmes and JACK'S OF SUTTER STREET on my cd KARENJI:

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ahous...

I also played at JIMBO's BOP City with Federico Cervantes (a blind piano & trumpet player). We played from 3:00 A.M. to 6:00 A.M. -- the gig paid $3.00.
Also played with Little Willie John (of "FEVER" fame befoe Peggy Lee) He didn't write "Grits ain't Groceries."

The tail end of swinging music in the black community.

Best wishes,

Allenl Houser
ahouser@rcn.com

@r4c

Re: Vivande’s discovery

Lorraine Walker — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:41:08 -0000

This is my first time I have visited your site. I found a lot of interesting stuff in your blog.

Re: Growing up along Fillmore

Charlie Greene (III) — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:21:51 -0000

It only drove us crazy as kids! Now we really appreciate(d) it.

Re: Growing up along Fillmore

Frank (Perry) Frazier — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:41:36 -0000

this article brought back a flood of memories,,thank you for this trip,,,I can see all those places and faces!!

Re: Minnie’s Can-Do Club

editors — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:07:38 -0000

Fillmore Street was a wild smorgasbord in the early 70s. By day, the rich ladies from Pacific Heights were dropped off from their Mercedes Benz cars to shop in the antique shops. By day, Fillmore Street was Lower Pacific Heights. By night, however, it was "Upper Fillmore"; the black Cadillacs with their white side-wall tires cruised around Minnie's Can-Do. As a nerdy white guy commuting to Berkeley to get a master's degree in engineering, I never ventured in. Too bad.

Re: Facebook revolt at Sacred Heart

guest — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:34:45 -0000

"At the same time that young people are using social media to instigate social movements in the Middle East, young people at 2222 Broadway (and beyond) are using social media to instigate a social movement at home."

Right; because an administrative crisis at a tiny private school is certainly proportional to the violence and oppression suffered by millions of people living under tyrants and despots in the Middle East. It sounds like this is a tough situation for the community, but the author's breathless, hyperbolic language makes the whole thing sound like a bunch of rich kids whining.

Re: Leon: king of barbecue

Cgreene — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:09:22 -0000

I'll never forget Leon's sampler plate where the sauce was the boss! The sauce sold in the store ain't the same. Still good though.

Re: Cable car to Pacific Hts

Cgreene — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:01:10 -0000

Growing up on Jackson/Steiner, I remember the cable cars going by my house! Pretty cool! Then it was the 80 Leavenworth. And, I was just there yesterday and the # 10 Townsend drove by.