Musings on Art Deco and Modernism in the San Francisco Bay Area
Rain has finally descended upon a parched San Francisco, casting a perfect gloomy backdrop just in time for this year's Noir City Film Festival. Aficionados of the dark film genre are looking forward to this year's program, where San Francisco plays a role in some of the films, starting tonight at the Castro Theatre. Both familiar and long-gone buildings and… Continue reading Streamline Moderne gem a quiet star in “Dark Passage” at Noir City Film Festival
With the looming demolition of the Transbay Terminal approaching next month, one might expect to see the inevitable stories about the building's better days in the local press. Sadly, the Sunday piece by Carl Nolte in the San Francisco Chronicle does not do the building justice. Too many have judged the 1939 building's architectural merits by… Continue reading The Transbay Terminal Will be Missed
Every time I walk past the dirty, exhaust-fume smudged Tranbay Terminal, amazingly I breathe a sigh of relief that its demolition has not yet occurred. This week, it was still there, as I glanced in the late winter light of the day, the belching buses pulling in front of its once-sleek entrance dominated by massive industrial style windows.… Continue reading Is the Transbay Terminal worth saving?
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