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My wife and I drove to San Francisco for a week-long vacation, and this is one of the tourist attrac
You know, it's right in that area. If I remember, and like I said, it's been a long time, the 480 started the bend back towards the city right about Howard St. and then went along Folsom, around Rincon Hill and then you either swung back around to take the Bay Bridge or continued on west. This park is at Folsom and Embarcadero, on the bay side. On the south side, are a couple of restaurants and to the north is the park. I think where it is would have been a little ways from the freeway. Where the park is, Embarcadero takes a little jog away from the water to go around it. I remember the road following the curve of the land and going right past the piers.I remember back in the '90's, the land was empty. My memory is a little vague, but as I remember it, CalTrans owned the land between Howard and Folsom to possibly be used as an extension off of the 480. Obviously, after the Loma Prieta quake, the project was scrapped, and CalTrans legally obligated to put the land up for for sale. Here's where it gets a little vague, or maybe convoluted. SFO was going to by the land, but the founder of the GAP wanted it too, because they wanted to build their corporate hq. The Gap ended up with it and the city gave them something like $20 million in various "breaks" to build their new hq there. The founder of the Gap was the one who got to choose the sculpture for the park. There was a whole series of articles, in the SF Chronicle I believe, about the whole deal and there was a whole lot more involved. If i can find the article later, I'll post a link. It will sound very familiar to anyone living in SD.— August 13, 2012 4:59 p.m.
New Gas Power Plants May Be Built at Huntington Beach Site
On line in only 5-8 years.— August 13, 2012 2:31 p.m.
O'Malley Family Buys Padres, Announces Team Move to Los Angeles
SanDiegian Perhaps you missed the name of this blog, right above the title of this week's entry. Here, let me help you: Almost Factual News— August 13, 2012 2:31 p.m.
My wife and I drove to San Francisco for a week-long vacation, and this is one of the tourist attrac
I don't think it is, surfpuppy619. It's been a long, long time, but I think you must mean the Embarcadero Y on Steuart St., the tall brick building. I think it's still there. but this sculpture is in a little park right on the water. The person who took this had to have been on the walkway right at the water's edge, looking to the northwest, if I have my directions right. The bay bridge would be behind them, over their left shoulder. We saw this probably about 5 years ago, I think, but it's been there for a while. maybe 10 years or so.— August 13, 2012 1:37 p.m.
O'Malley Family Buys Padres, Announces Team Move to Los Angeles
At the time, it was a record for any US sports franchise. What I have always though ironic is that a large part of the reason O'Malley decided to sell is because that he was pissed off that the city basically slammed the door in his face when he wanted to build an NFL stadium adjacent to Dodger Stadium, using private financing by the way. The powers that be still thought they could get a team in the Coliseum. Fifteen years later and STILL no football in LA. As they say, OOOPS.— August 10, 2012 11:07 a.m.
O'Malley Family Buys Padres, Announces Team Move to Los Angeles
The reason they paid that extra $600 million was to retire about $640 million of debt. They could have just assumed the debt, but I'm sure in the long run it was cheaper to pay it off. There have been some convoluted explanations of mccourt and the parking lots, but to me it seems that the only way to get the Dodgers was to work that in some how. Again, I guess they thought it was worth it in the long run. As for prices, I think your wrong. I absolutely do not think price are going to go way up, enough to price out the average fan. They are on track to draw over 3 million again which will put a lot more in the coffers than a team lika say oh, San Diego, which will struggle to draw 2 million. But the big dog is the new tv contract. Much of the value in the Dodgers is in the team's TV rights, which have the potential to be worth as much as $4 billion. So when you consider a team that will draw 3 million AND probably get at least $4 billion for their tv contract, at least to me, it looks like a pretty good deal. And as a bonus, they are in the pennant race with my othe favorite NL team. The Padres can barely get 20k to come to a game, might be able to stay ahead of the Rockies and out of the NL West cellar, and half of San Diego apparently can't even get the home team on cable. I would think the group buying the Padres would be happy if they were in the same position as the group that bought the Dodgers. Just my opinion. Opinions vary.— August 10, 2012 10:56 a.m.
O'Malley Family Buys Padres, Announces Team Move to Los Angeles
Yes, the Dodger's let some players get away instead of giving them a big paycheck. But during Peter O'Malley's 27 years as president, the Dodgers finished first or second 19 times and had more than 3 million in attendance a major league-record 11 times and won 2 World Series.. (Ironically, the Dodgers finished 2nd to the Padres in O'Malley's last full season, 1996.) They didn't fair too badly under Walter O'Malley either, with 8 NL pennants and 4 World Series. I could be wrong, so correct me if I am, but I believe since the Padres graduated to the big leagues, the Dodgers have been to the World Series and lost more times the the Padres have been? And as for attendance, well I guess we should probably skip right over that one, huh?— August 9, 2012 7:40 p.m.
O'Malley Family Buys Padres, Announces Team Move to Los Angeles
Peter O'Malley sold the team to Fox for $311 million in 1998; Fox sold the Dodgers to McCourt for $421 million in 2004. If you were a life long Dodgers fan such as I, then you would understand that: A) So what it's someone else's money and B( the mccourts are gone, so it's worth the price.— August 9, 2012 7:31 p.m.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Halts All Licensing Decisions
This morning the California ISO declared a flex alert through Sunday. As of about 2:30 pm, electricity demand had reached about 95% of the estimated peak demand, with temps not expected to reach their peak until tomorrow or Saturday. AND another large power plant in Southern California suffered an equipment failure that took a generating unit out of service last night. So I guess we'll see what happens. Thank God for solar!!!!!!— August 9, 2012 2:41 p.m.
San Diego's successful Thrift Trader
The Dead always listed it as CC Rider on their set lists. I think they were doing it as far back as '68 or '69 when I first saw them. One of my Bob Weir sung favorites.— August 8, 2012 5:54 p.m.