Virtual Journey to San Francisco - Boat Ride on the Red and White Fleet. Under the Golden Gate Bridge and Around Alcatraz Island... and MORE!

https://redandwhite.com/

San Francisco from the Water - new Skyscraper

Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay

USS Pampanito submarine

Going Under the Golden Gate Bridge on a Boat

Decades Ago there was Sour Dough French Bread for sale at this Corner of Fisherman's Wharf

Satellite View of the Hyatt Centric Hotel
at Fisherman's Wharf San Francisco CA USA

Hyatt Centric Hotel Street View... 

https://www.bigbustours.com/en/san-francisco/san-francisco-bus-tours-v2

Big Bus Tour San Francisco

99 Jefferson St, San Francisco, CA 94133 (corner of Jefferson and Mason Streets)

Municipal Fishing Pier San Francisco

Seagull at Fisherman's Wharf

420 Celebration 

on Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park 

Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park

The Sculpture in Front of 

the Conservatory of Flowers.

Japanese Tea Garden Bridge in Golden Gate Park

Buddha in the Japanese Tea Garden

Polo Field Golden Gate Park 2022

Polo Field at The Moratorium 

Anti-War Protest March in 1969

Photo by Dave Glass

Also at the Polo Fields... 

The Human Be-In

Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park

Dutch Windmill is Right on the Beach

View from the Top of Twin Peaks

Cable Cars in San Francisco

Saint Mary's Cathedral

It always reminds me of the 

inside of a Washing Machine... 

Inside Saint Mary's
Those Golden Rods Move in the Breeze 

and Look Like Rain Coming Down... 

Jefferson Airplane House 

Back when it was Black and Gold

Directly Across Fulton Street from

Golden Gate Park.

The Corner of Haight and Ashbury Streets

Same Street in 1968... 

710 Ashbury Street

Grateful Dead House

MANY Local Bands Posing.

Dragon Gate - Chinatown

Bay Bridge as seen from Rincon Park

Another View of the Bay Bridge

Japantown Peace Plaza

Fort Point Historic Civil War Park

Golden Gate Bridge as seen from the Rest Stop 

in Marin County CA. 

We Always Stop Here on Our Way Home to Eureka.

Officially, It's a Mariners Memorial.

I Just Stop There because FINALLY We Have

Escaped the City and There is Nothing

of Interest for a Hundred Miles.

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I find that I Have One Day Where I'm NOT Required to Participate in My Brothers Wedding...

Unitarian Universalist Church

Stained Glass Window as Seen From Inside

Yesterday I Took a Journey to WALMART to get a Covid-19 Booster Shot. It was an Uneventful Journey and I Got to Spent 15 Minutes after Getting Shot, relaxing and waiting to see if there was a Bad Reaction to the Shot. No Troubles. I did get an Opportunity to Look at the WALMART Shoppers... Yes, It's True! FREAKS! 

So I'm Thinking That While I'm In San Francisco I could Take a LYFT over to the Place I Get the Double Decker Bus... for a Tour! 

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This part written last week...

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I Haven't Left the House in Years... Except to Go to One Blood Test and One Doctor's Appointment... and I've been Invited to my Brother's Wedding that they Plan to Hold in Downtown San Francisco... Near the Tenderloin District... SO... as if I was Going on a Trip to Rio de Janeiro or Baghdad or any other Third World Hellhole... I'll have to Practice stepping over the Dead Bodies on the Street and the Tent Cities... Just like the Cardboard Structures of Johannesburg...

I tried to Convince my Brother to Hold the Wedding Outdoors on the Beach... For Safety's Sake... but his plan is to Hold it at The UUSF Church indoors... with everyone wearing masks... and everyone practicing social distancing... and everyone passing a COVID test before being allowed to Attend... I mentioned that at the Gridiron Dinner 70 People Got Infected... Due to GATHERING INDOORS... and I mentioned that if Everyone He Knows Gathers indoors we might ALL get Infected... But... The Concept of His Wedding being the Event That Killed "Aunt Suzi" or "Uncle Charlie" was ignored... so far... There IS an Excellent Beach at the End of Judah Street right next to The Hotel I always stay at... and the Java Beach Coffee Shop... Plenty of Parking and Not Near the DangerZone®

Last night I was Participating in the World Tapping Circle Group Meditation... and This Time, I simply decided to Do My Breathing and Chanting that I Learned from Mark Sims during The Harmonic Convergence... and the Combination of Sonya Sophia speaking Positive Healing Words backed by a Kaleidoscope while me Chanting "HU" really Opened my Mind as to What My Path Forward Should Be... THANKS!

There IS the Possibility that Acupuncture Really Works... Actual Ancient Wisdom... and Sonya Sophia's Group Webinar uses Acupressure... Basically Acupuncture without Needles... and Mark Sims Says that by Chanting "HU" it's possible to Invite Extra Terrestrials to Come Visit... and Teach Us... Well... I never Met any Aliens but... What IS Out There? God? the Wisdom of My Ancestors? The Group Mind GAIA? Whatever... I do get Great Idea when Doing That Breathing and Chanting... I find it Ironic that he uses "HU" which in ENGLISH is WHO? I also am Interested in What, Where, Why, How and SO WHAT! Both of these People are Wonderful Teachers...

Of Course, Even if I invented a Time Machine and we could travel back to the Glory Days of San Francisco... There Have Been Winos Begging on the Streets Near the Wharf... admire this Insightful Grateful Dead Song... Written by Robert Hunter... Especially the Meaningful Tone of Jerry Garcia's Voice... It appears that he Means Every Word he sings! and the Superb Electric Organ by Merl Saunders... Pigpen is also on this record...  There is Piano as well... 

The Song "Wharf Rat" from The "Skull and Roses" Album... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_pH-RWHLyo

and while I'm working on my Blog... I'm Listening to the China/Rider from the Europe '72 Album... They really cleaned up the Recording and it SPARKLES!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCgZxrf8nrU

I'm reminded that while Inner-Tubing the Butte Creek in the Springtime, Sometimes I would be Completely Submerged and then POP UP and Break Thru the Water... BaWhoosh! and this Song Has Moments when the JAM would POP UP and Break On Thru to the Other Side... Specifically: right after the Lyric "My Mind Was Wandering Like a Wild Beast In The West" 7 minutes Exactly... and at that point all the Dancers in the Audience Would put their arms above their Heads and Wave 'Em All About! I've seen this at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia where I Chose to Sit at the Very Top of the Bleachers Right in the Center of the Horseshoe... I Could See the Frantic Enthusiasm of the Dancers Gradually Flow thru the Crowd on the Football Field Because... The Speed of Sound makes the Music Arrive Later in the Back! and I Knew... That in One Second... It Would Hit ME! That was also the Time When we Did "The Wave" during Intermission... 

I'm Sure Glad I Witnessed all those Concerts... FUN!

 

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Other Journeys

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Virtual Journey: Canada Tourist Guide & Autobiography. We Went on our Honeymoon to Vancouver, BC. We Rode a Bicycle built for Two in Stanley Park... and Many More Wonderful Places to Visit.

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/05/canada-tourist-guide.html

Virtual Journey: Eureka, Arcata, Trinidad - Visit Northern California's Coast. We Have Our Own Little World Here Behind The Redwood Curtain! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/05/eureka-arcata-trinidad.html

Virtual Journey: Trinity Alps, CA, USA - Drive the Bigfoot Highway (299) From Arcata on the Coast to Redding in the Central Valley. White Water Rafting! Gold Rush Ghost Towns!

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/04/highway-299-virtual-journey.html

Virtual Journey: to the Star Wars Flying Motorcycles Redwood Forest on Hwy 36 in Remote Humboldt County, CA, USA - and the Bridgeville UFO Festival, The Town of Mad River. 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/03/virtual-journey-hwy-36-remote-humboldt.html

Virtual Journey: Lost Coast, CA, USA on Highway 211 - From Victorian Ferndale to The Beach, the Mountains of Mateel to the Avenue of the Giants. Humboldt County. 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/03/a-virtual-drive-thru-remote-humboldt.html

Virtual Journey to San Francisco - Boat Ride on the Red and White Fleet. Under the Golden Gate Bridge and Around Alcatraz Island... and MORE!

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/04/journey-to-san-francisco.html

Virtual Journey: The Smithsonian and Washington DC. Instead of Buying Gasoline and Driving There, Take this Magic Trip Instead! A Guided Tour to the Places My Family Wanted to See... 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/05/virtual-journey-smithsonian.html

A Hand Drawn picture I drew in class... It was an art history class and I took detailed notes of who painted which painting by DRAWING THE PAINTING and then writing down their name...

I had a lot of free time because the teacher was showing maybe six pictures an hour... so I drew many portraits of the student sitting next to me... never did it end up looking like that student... so I didn't show them to her... BUT, ONE LOOKED LIKE GRACE SLICK!

I emailed this portrait of Grace Slick to the
Jefferson Airplane Website
and they posted it on the Fan Art Page.

Another Pen Drawing I did at School... during a break between classes... I've been drawing obsessively for decades at Meetings... This is a 9/11 sketch... NEEDS TO BE COLORED WITH FELT PENS... Well, print it and color at will... I guess i drew this sketch in 2003... no other idea why I have the number 2003 in this drawing... 9/11/2001 is the accurate date...

Trees of Mystery Parking Lot View
Behind a Colorful Cross
Classic Zazzle Webstore Postcard

Leaders from Generations X, Y and Z are asking Young People to Register and Vote... If MTG and AOC Can Agree... Then It's a Great Idea! - Here are Some Free MEMES to Like and Share!

The Real Reason I Created these Memes is... 

Young People Overwhelmingly Vote for Democrats... and One way we Can Beat Trump and Exterminate the Republicriminal Party is to Get the Members of Generations X, Y and Z Motivated... They are NOT Easily Fooled! They NOTICE Brainwashing and Propaganda and REJECT IT! and They Have Proven That they Register When Taylor Swift Tells Them To!

Click Here to Buy this REGISTER & VOTE Button

Click Here for ALL My Buttons!

Please Share this Meme... The only way we will be able to have SANE GUN LAWS is if we Throw Out The Bribed Politicians... The NRA Owns so many of those Senators and Congressmen... TOTAL CORRUPTION! Remember... YOU HAVE A SAY... SAY IT!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SqAacCXy9E

New Voters STRIKE FEAR in Heart of GOP | Burn The Boats... 

Kaivan Shroff is a Gen-Z activist and political commentator who served on Hillary’s 2016 presidential campaign and with Everytown for Gun Safety. He’s now the Press Secretary for Dream for America, a Gen-Z led non-profit aimed at mobilizing America’s youth to create lasting change. He explains why today’s GOP is terrified of his generation.

a Meme that fits the FaceBorg "My Story"

1080 wide 1920 tall

at first I Had Difficulty Remembering the Names of the Leaders of Generations X,Y & Z but then I realized that People I Thought were My Contemporaries were actually 20 Years Younger than I Am... AOC, MTG, Ken Jennings, Amy Schneider, Mattea Roach, Mark Zuckerburg, Elon Musk... Their Parents Were Baby Boomers...  

Here's a Cartoon about the OVERBREEDING in Mexico. Due to The Catholic Church's Insane Policy forbidding Abortion and Birth Control... Mexico has So Many Children that they Can't Feed Them... So they are Crossing the Border Into the USA... Where we Have SANE Laws and Culture about Creating Endless Children... "Be Fruitful and Multiply" is an Astonishingly STUPID SLOGAN.

Heavily armed Fascists are attempting to intimidate voters. This is only going to get worse. I want everyone to know their rights, and I'm borrowing this from a redditor to boost the signal:

Voting is your right as a citizen

If an alleged “poll watcher” tries to impede you at the voting booth:
1 - Tell him/her to kindly step out of the way
2 - Take his/her picture with a cell phone
3 - Call the FBI

FBI Civil Rights Division staff will be available by phone to receive complaints related to ballot access at (202) 307-2767 or toll free at (800) 253-3931.

US Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Voting Section can be reached at at (202) 307-2767 or toll free at (800) 253-3931

She's the Queen of #FAFO

and on FaceBorg I Read:

I was with a group of people the other day, and someone said: "Atheists hate god."

I was reading a book the other day and it said: "Atheists are nihilists."

I was listening to some people a little while ago that said: "Atheists worship satan."

I am here to tell you, from my perspective anyway, none of the above listed accusations are true.

An atheist simply is not a theist. Meaning that there is no belief in theology, no belief in god or gods, or deities, or myths, or superstitions, or religion, or religions.

Where some anger, or bitterness might come into play, is over the atrocities committed by religions and the religious that attempt to force their archaic and barbaric laws upon society.

Nihilism is a belief in absolutely nothing. No morals, no standards, no value in anything whatsoever...And that is not me.

Satanism is a belief in innate wickedness...And that is not me.

I know a lot of Atheists, and for the most part, they are secular humanists, they are highly intelligent and use rational thought, deductive reasoning, and critical thinking.

But it is also true, that those upon newly making their final decision to do away with imaginary friends, churches, religion, etc., well, let's just say they can be rather obnoxious and bratty. I know this because I was once them.

What I have come to know with a little time and maturity, is that whatever someone's belief system they might subscribe to happens to be, it all comes down to the content of their character for me. That is my dream too

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on FaceBORG SE Said:

Public restrooms should have a place near the sinks for people to put their stuff while they wash their hands. In winter, I'm almost always lugging around a big, bulky jacket. When I'm in the stall, there is usually a hook for my jacket and purse. But when I come out to wash my hands, I have to get creative. Usually, I hold the jacket between my knees while I wash my hands. But this doesn't always work so well, and sometimes the jacket ends up dragging on the gross floor. It would really help if they would put hooks near the sinks for people's jackets, or maybe a long countertop separate from the sinks where people could put their stuff. In the future, I really hope we start to see something like this because I'm certainly not the only one lugging around a bulky jacket in the winter. My purse isn't as big of a problem as my jacket since I only use purses with shoulder straps, so I can keep my purse over my shoulder while I wash my hands. But hooks or a countertop would be useful for purses and shopping bags, too.

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and now for Something completely different!

“I was working for Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress folk song archive, and starting to realize what a wealth of different kinds of music there was in this country that you never heard on the radio.” – Pete Seeger

Alan Lomax was one of the great American field collectors of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a folklorist, ethnomusicologist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian and filmmaker.

In the fall of 1939, Alan hired his sister Bess and the nineteen-year-old Pete Seeger to help him listen to the rural recordings made in the “pre-war era” (roughly 1922 to 1938). Pete listened to a wide variety of musical artists - white country performers like Wilmer Watts and the Lonely Eagles, the Fruit Jar Guzzlers, the Blue Ridge Highballers, Cajun singers Soileau and Robin, and black songsters and bluesmen James “Boodle It” Wiggins, Bumble Bee Slim, Sweet Papa Stovepipe, and Scrapper Blackwell. Little did he know that these recordings’ scarcity and antique sonority would one day make them the most prized discs among collectors.

One of the people Pete surely listened to was one-man band blues musician, Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller.

Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller was born 128 years ago today.

Jesse was best known for his song "San Francisco Bay Blues”.

Born in Georgia, Jesse was sent by his mother to live with foster parents when he was a young child in a rural setting where he was badly mistreated. Growing up, he worked a multitude of jobs including grazing cows for ten cents a day, working in a barrel factory, a broom factory, a rock quarry, on a railroad and a streetcar company, shining shoes and even peddling hand-carved wooden snakes.

By the age of ten, Jesse was playing guitar in two techniques, as he described it, "frailing" and "picking." He moved to the west. In the 1920s, he lived in Southern California, where he operated a hot-dog stand and was befriended by Douglas Fairbanks. He worked briefly as a film extra in “The Thief of Bagdad” and “East of Suez”.

In 1929, Jesse settled in Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco, where he worked for the Southern Pacific railroad. He married, and he and his wife, Gertrude, had a family.

During World War II, Jesse worked as a shipyard welder, but when the war ended he found it increasingly difficult to secure employment. Around the early 1950s, Jesse's thoughts turned toward the possibility of making a living playing music.

Up to this point, Jesse had never worked as a full-time professional musician, but he was an accomplished guitarist and he had carried his guitar with him and busked for money by passing the hat.

Jesse had a good memory for songs and had a large repertoire of crowd-pleasers in diverse styles, including country blues, work songs, ragtime and jazz standards, ballads, spirituals and instrumentals.

For a while, Jesse operated a shoe-shine stand where he sang and danced to entertain passersby. He began to seriously compose his own songs, many of them based on his personal life experiences on the railroads, and he also set about reworking older pieces into his own syncopated style.

However, when he decided to try music as a career, he had difficulty finding reliable musicians to work with. Thus his one-man band act was born, and he took on the name Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller.

Starting locally, in clubs and bars in San Francisco and across the bay in Oakland and Berkeley, Jesse became more widely known when he performed on television in both the Bay Area and Los Angeles.

In 1958, his recording career started with his first album on the Good Time Jazz record label. Jesse’s instruments included six-string guitar (an instrument which he had abandoned before the beginning of his one-man band career), 12-string guitar, harmonica, kazoo, cymbal (high-hat) and fotdella. He could play several instruments simultaneously, particularly with the use of a head-piece to hold the harmonica, kazoo and a microphone.

In addition, Jesse would also include at least one tap dance, soft-shoe or "buck and wing" in his sets, accompanying himself on the 12-string guitar as he danced.

His style was open and engaging, and in typical busker's fashion, he addressed his audiences as "Ladies and Gentlemen," and told humorous anecdotes and cracked jokes between pieces.

However, if one listened closely, the stories were anything but cheerful, often including specific recapitulations of his tragic childhood, his mother's illness and early death, his determination to escape the segregated racial system of the South, and his love of his wife and family.

The fotdella was a musical instrument of Jesse’s own creation and construction. He built at least two of them, in slightly different patterns, as evidenced in photographs and film footage of his performances.

As a one-man band, Jesse’s problem was how to supply a more substantial accompaniment than the typical high-hat (cymbal) or bass drum used by other street musicians. His solution, the fotdella, was a foot-operated percussion bass, consisting of a large upright wood box, shaped like the top of a double bass.

Attached to a short neck at the top of this box were six piano bass strings, stretched down over the body. The means to play the strings consisted of six piano or organ foot pedals, each connected to a padded piano hammer which struck the string.

By removing his shoe and placing his sock-covered foot in a rotating heel-cradle, Jesse was able to play the six pedals of the fotdella like a piano. The instrument's six notes allowed him to perform varied bass lines in several keys.

The name was coined by his wife, who took to calling the instrument a "foot-diller" (as in a "killer-diller" instrument played with the foot), which was shortened to fotdella. The term "foot piano" has been used by some performers and musicologists to describe this type of devise.

Both his fotdella and his 1962 Silvertone Electric-Acoustic guitar are in the possession of the Smithsonian Institution.

Clink the link below to experience Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller’s memorable rendition of "San Francisco Bay Blues”.

https://youtu.be/uBME_J0pf3o

Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane
“Alright friends, you have seen the heavy groups. Now you will see morning maniac music. Believe me, yeah. It’s a new dawn!” Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane didn’t look like she had waited all night to perform Sunday morning at Woodstock. Her fringed white doeskin vest and bellbottoms looked like she had just pulled them out of the closet. The band took it all in stride and gave a memorable performance—at 7:00 Sunday morning,
Jefferson Airplane performed at Woodstock on Sunday morning, August 17, 1969 from 7:00–8:45 AM