Art Deco Signage in San Francisco

One of the century’s most innovative and popular designs, Art Deco was a style that spread across the globe in the 1920s and 30s and contained the same forward-looking architectural aspirations of the earlier Art Nouveau period (1890s to 1910s).

As time progressed less became more so that the ornamentation that lined the perimeters of signs disappeared from signs in the 50s and 60s.

Today in San Francisco, many of the Art Deco signs remain. I believe the city has the best collection of these signs in the world.

Every Day is Halloween in San Francisco

I lived in San Francisco for 18 years and, take my word, every day was Halloween.

Many People with multi-colored hair and a ring for just about every part of their body.

And, down in the Tenderloin neighborhood everybody's got a bottle or can with a paper bag over it.

In the Castro, wealthy gay people shop at Pottery Barn.

In the Haight, you can be a hippie all over again (that is if you're old enough to have done it the first time).

In the marina, you can go shopping for a date at the Safeway.

And in Pacific Heights, every Victorian is haunted (or should be, at least on Halloween!).

DISSENT IS NOT UN AMERICAN

Around the time the Iraq war was initiated by George W. Bush's coalition of the 'willing,' offered those who disagreed with him a place in purgatory.

The photo above was taken in 2003 in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. City Lights is an alternative bookstore that played with the message of being 'un American.'

Everyone seems to be asking where George W. Bush will stand in history, say when we are in our 70s and 80s.

How do you think you'll feel about George W. Bush thirty years from now? Please comment artfully as this is an artful site. Write a poem if you wish : )