Grab Bag #020

The latest ruminations and admiration sent from a fogged-in outpost of San Francisco.

Grab Bag #020
The latest ruminations and admiration sent from a fogged-in outpost of San Francisco.

The above image was one in a huge collection of color slides left on a street corner. I don’t know what that crossing guard on the far right did, but he’s obviously the guilty one in this line-up.

slide case
Case of 35mm slides found on a street.

My old friend David Gallagher has been scanning these found 1960s shots of BART construction, fire department drills, and almost 1,000 other images which mostly suggest that the photographer was a city employee of some kind.

Fire fighting
A fire department drill (we hope) at San Francisco-Oakland airport in the 1960s.
people with maps
I assume these are city planners looking for a way to stuff more parking spaces on West Portal Avenue.