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    ...that I don't already know.

    It won't be hard. I don't know much (and not just about SF).

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    it will never be hard on this thread.

  1. don't call it Frisco, San Fran

    call it The City, SF, San Francisco

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    Only tourists go to Fisherman's Wharf.

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    The best Mexican food is in the Mission...

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    Not everyone is straight.  Or not in a gang.  Or drug free.

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    the weather is best in the fall and december. The summer is june gloooomy

    and
    Umesh - SO TRUE.... people who call it frisco are either stuck in 1992 or NOT from the city.

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    Umesh, you totally fail, that was the one thing I DID know!!!!!!!

    You owe me another one:)

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    It's not a clean city.  It's tiny.  The sun only shines in certain parts.

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    Don't try to befriend hipsters.

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    Coit Tower was built in the city of San Fransisco from the donations of Lillie Hitchcock Coit.  Lillie Hitchcock Coit was an eccentric, she dressed in mens clothes and smoked cigars before it was socially acceptable for women to do so.  She was also a gambler.

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    the date palms that line dolores street are from the panama pacific international exposition of 1915.

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    There are "two crookedest streets in the world" in SF, not just Lombard.

  2. Urban hiking from the Ferry Building to Twin Peaks, over to Haight Ashbury, through Golden Gate Park, up to the Presidio, over to Crissy Field, Fisherman's Wharf and back to Ferry Building........is a wonderful way to spend the day.

  3. The Marriott Courtyard in downtown SF is best avoided since they are known have have cooties infested beds.

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    People gravitate towards fads in this town.  Ignore them.

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    There are parrots in the trees!

  4. Don't be surprised if you're an extra in a youtube vid if you ride MUNI.

  5. Dennis "are you not entertained?" A. says:
    Don't try to befriend hipsters.
    ~~~~~~

    Hey, Justin is a nice guy !

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    coit tower was designed to resemble the head of a fire hose - to commemorate the fire fighters who put out the flames after the 1906 earthquake. the murals inside are by diego rivera.

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    hotaling alley in the financial district traces the original bay shoreline.

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    yelp.com/topic/san-franc…

    booyah.  that is everything about SF.

  6. CraigsList headquarters is in the Sunset,
    2 stores up the street are the best Apple Fritters in the universe, and I don't even like Apple Fritters...
    Although it may be tempting: That vintage shirt @ Wasteland is not worth $57 . Fight the urge.

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    Dennis "are you not entertained?" A. says:

    Don't try to befriend hipsters.

    * * * * * *

    +1

    Nobody except perhaps tourists will make eye contact, or crack a smile. It's not you; it's them.

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    It's cold here.  Bring sweaters and jackets.

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    Tom - the firehose thing is an urban legend.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co…

    sorry to smish smash that.

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    Dolores Park was once a Jewish Cemetery.

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    i know, fishbits. the OP didn't say it had to be true.

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    twin peaks was the scene of human sacrifice when the ohlone indians inhabited SF.

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    Ok, first Fishbits, I always appreciate the use of the word "booyah"
    Even though that thread is interesting, it requires decoding:( A lot of that stuff only makes sense if you already know what it is. Like, WTF is "Paul from The Diamond Center"?

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    some people in SF are straight but not allowed to legally marry each other.

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    SF Chinatown is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia.

  7. 1) Go to Zeitgeist and when the bartender screams at you say " Why Yes, I do frequently break out in song".
    2) Film his reaction

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    Mick A. says:

    Urban hiking from the Ferry Building to Twin Peaks, over to Haight Ashbury, through Golden Gate Park, up to the Presidio, over to Crissy Field, Fisherman's Wharf and back to Ferry Building........is a wonderful way to spend the day.

    * * * * * *

    If you don't have all day for urban hiking, Ferry Building - Telegraph Hill/Coit Tower - North Beach - Chinatown - Union Square - Market St - Ferry Building is good for a start.

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    Bwahaha.  This is much better.  Good show.

    for the true side of things:

    My favorite is Carville.  Old cable cars dumped on sunset sand dunes.  Artsy farts like pre-cacophony society types and burners, etc.... they put all the cars together, and created a little village of arts, music, food, and fun.  Pretty cool.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca…
    outsidelands.org/sw19.php
    (by the way the outsidelands site is awesome)

  8. We at more dutch crunch that sourdough, and most of us don't take a cable car to work.

  9. Jane "Why yes, I do frequently break out in song" S. says:

    Ok, first Fishbits, I always appreciate the use of the word "booyah"
    Even though that thread is interesting, it requires decoding:( A lot of that stuff only makes sense if you already know what it is. Like, WTF is "Paul from The Diamond Center"?
    -----------------------------------------
    " I'm a credit man ( music ) He's a credit maaaaan"

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    The Mission is on bedrock. Solid!

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    Sorry.. I don't know what came over me.  I do *not* like the use of booyah.  So sad I did that.

    Paul from the Diamond Center was famous for HILARIOUSLY AWFUL ads where he would change a 50's pop song into a jingle for his commercial.

    And the "Glue.. I need glue" was a KTVU channel 2 bumper between cartoons that went along the lines of "I broke your window with my ball" type of moral lessons for the tykes.

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    Umesh "the Japanese even named a wine after me" T. says:

    The Marriott Courtyard in downtown SF is best avoided since they are known have have cooties infested beds.
    __________
    Hahahaha, shut up:)

    @Todd - I've always wanted to be an extra in a Youtube video!! Can I steal someone's bag at the end?

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    Wait, Dennis....so you're NOT a hipster?

  10. Stealing is the norm in SF- you'll fit right in ; )

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    I can't wait to go visit Alacatraz and spout these facts to other tourists who don't know anything either!

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    Well then Fishbits, I shall revel in the power that I have to make you yell booyah seemingly against your will.

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    lots of SF hotels have bed bugs.

    ok that's actually kind of true.

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    Hard drugs are in fact the San Francisco treat. Not Rice-a-Roni.

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    Ok now I AM scared.  Plus Umesh outed my hotel.

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    Jane "Why yes, I do frequently break out in song" S. says:

    Wait, Dennis....so you're NOT a hipster?
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    I'd rather be called a ni**er than a hipster.
    Is it the fixie?

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    there is an abandoned prison on an island that you can see clearly from the Golden Gate Bridge!

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    in german it means a whale's vagina...

  11. Carry like 5lbs of quarters for the parking meters..it will cost you about 1/2 lb per hour, lol!

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    SF once belonged to the russians.

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    and cliff... everything west of montgomery is landfill made from the hulls of old merchant ships.

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    hence the problem with liquefaction during an earthquake.

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    and tsunamis. but not since 1878.

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    Is it true there is a colony of gremlins that live there, and that is why BART closes at midnight? They sleep on the trains and really need a clear bedtime.

  12. Poke the BART seat before you sit on it. Enjoy the fragrance . If you are bored, there are at least 2 copies of San Francisco Chronicle, in each BART car. Note, the new glossy paper.

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  13. Wrong ! The gremlins sleeps on the electrified third-track. They are on the WWF endangered species list.

  14. lol. SF peeps are not THAT bad. GO to seattle and you'll get Sideways description 100%

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    Much of the Richmond used to be a graveyard.

  15. The Mission is on bedrock. Solid!

    ~*~*~*~*~

    Nope, actually much of the Mission used to be wetlands and had rivers running through it. Quite a few buildings were destroyed in the Lome Prieta because of old underground rivers.

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    The average San Franciscan consumes 7 lbs of Rice a Roni (uncooked weight) per year.

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    MUNI sucks.. esp when its raining, thats when the hobos are wet and excruciatingly smelly.

    Chinatown will give you the best deal on food--very cheap and huge portions!

    Hog Island for happy hour -- $1 oysters,  to DIE for!

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    everyone is smug, drives a Prius and smells their own farts.

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    There are two US Mints here, of which neither one produces currency any longer.

  16. It's impossible to get weekend boat-tours to Alcatraz unless you buy the tickets about a week in advance

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    Don't go to Chinatown for good Chinese... go to the Richmond.

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    Lauren "isn't bad, she's just drawn that way" Q. says:

    Don't go to Chinatown for good Chinese... go to the Richmond.
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    Not true.  There are good Chinese people everywhere.

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    Ken "Super Cool Beas" F. says:

    There are two US Mints here, of which neither one produces currency any longer.
    ________
    That one was actually so interesting to me that I googled it.  Thanks dude:)

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    There is a house at 69 Beaver Street in SF.  

    Just so you know...

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    John.. it isn't elitism when you are right.  It's hard being right... everyone gets so frustrated with you.

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    the Mint's never produced currency

    that's the Federal Reserve Bank of S.F.

    the Mints produced COINS - the 'S' mintmark on a coin means San Francisco, 'D' is Denver, none or 'P' is Philadelphia, 'O' is New Orleans, 'CC' is Carson City, 'N' is Novato

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    San Francisco was originally called Yerba Buena

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    the official city bird is the vulture

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    Geary is named after the 1st mayor of San Francisco.

  17. There's a mint in Novato ??? :-O

    Ray-pre-zent !! Yay !!!

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    Fan Francisco use to be a mecca for right wing politics. From 1912 to 1964 there was a Republican in charge.

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    The Bay Bridge's name is officially named after A Republican mayor named James Rolfe who also had the longest stint as mayor of San Francisco.

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    Mark "Urban Zen Master" B. says:

    Dennis "are you not entertained?" A. says:

    Don't try to befriend hipsters.
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    I am amazed at how dark & dreadfully unhappy many people appear to be in this town.  
    No eye contact; all dark colors, never a smile.
    Therapists will make a LOT of money in this town because everyone is so isolated.

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    the whole city is 7 x 7 miles... we have the largest and the oldest china town in the north america.

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    the official instrument is the accordian, and the official tree is the one at stanyan and fell.

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    the Farallon Islands are technically part of San Francisco

    they tried to secede in the 1850s, but SF forces invaded and killed the natives, including over 3 million birds

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    Fortune Cookies were invented in Frisco....By a Japanese dude!

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    maiden lane used to be called St. Mark's Place
    and
    Morton Street
    and
    Union Square Avenue
    and
    Manila Street

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    Ooooh, really?  She may have ghost written? I LOVE rumors like that.

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    Gough street is named for the German slang term for syphilis

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    What is great about this thread is that every time someone posts something, I have to google it to see if it is true:)

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    "Alcatraz" comes from the original name "Isla de las Alcatraces"

    or Island of the Pelicans

    as it was originally used by the Spanish as a prison for rebel pelicans

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    Not everyone knows about medical marijuana that lives here. So, I wish my friends would stop asking me.

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    the 415 area code originally spanned all of central California, clear to the Nevada border

    the first split was to make 408, from Sunnyvale and Milpitas on south

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    26 minutes ago euge "fanfuckingtastic" l. says:

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    the original name of the city, Yerba Buena, means good herb... very fitting

    kellys cove was named after a bum who use to swim around seal rock but never came back one day.

    there use to be a muni line on geary blvd

    towards the north end of ob near all the lots, those concrete steps to the beach go down about 20+ feet. they kinda look like the bleachers at the polo fields.

    most of the "godfather" movies were written in a coffee shop in the city

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    NOPA looks clean, but it's really a very gritty area with a lot of minorities and crime.
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    'NOPA' is the Realtor relabeling of the Western Addition. Essentially, an area that's always had moderate to high crime rates.

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  1. Jason "Meatatarian!" B. says:
    Beware, Umesh streaks around naked at the Marriott Courtyard quite frequently, in nothing but a luchador mask.
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    What were *you* doing lurking around watching me run nekkid ?

  2. Al "there's a voice in my head that drives my heel" D. says:
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    Miles "Farmer Ted" F. says:

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    Hahahahaah, so true!!!

    I love this thread.

    One more sleep until I'm there!!!

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    Poe T. says:

    Nine out of ten San Franciscans wish John Sideways B. would stay in his shite hole suburban hell condo complex,  shut the fark up and stop embarrassing his poor wife.

    =================
    Completely confirms my first post about people in San Francisco telling you how to live and Not being from here originally.
    ----------
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  3. Golden Gate Park was man-made on sand dunes in order to "build" an urban oasis for the Pacific Expo.  The Marina District was also made for that.  Originally intended to be a temporary thing, but ended up being used long after the expo left.  Since it was never packed right to begin with, it shook like jello during the loma prieta earthquake.

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    Wine used to be made in San Francisco with grapes shipped here from Napa Valley, etc.  The great fire after the 1906 Earthquake prompted the move outside.

    Tourists are easy to spot, especially in the summer.  They wear shorts and "I love SF" sweatshirts ... thinking they are heading to sunny California.

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    Actually Poe that's none of your business. I don't talk about my business other than I'm in the limousine Business and do work for the " Entertainment industry" I keep the details to myself.
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    The place where the ballpark now stands used to be underwater.

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    Rob "Sucka Free" M. says:

    I am poor poe give me money.
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    One of my employees is on vacation till the 29th and I am doing an install so I do need an extra hand.

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    if she tells you that payday is the 29th of this month, beware

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    Hazel "Thistle lander" T. says:

    Anyone not know that the windmills pumped the water up into Golden Gate Park?  The first one - Dutch Windmill was ordered and built in 1902, the second one in 1905.

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    the inspiration for having revolving windmills on mini-golf courses began after a windstorm blew one of these windmills onto the Golden Gate Park golf course

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    the "America's Cup" on display at the Golden Gate Yacht Club is a replica, not the real America's Cup

  4. The baddest gang in town used to be called the Sydney Ducks, and it was an Australian gang.  They burned down most of the city five times or so.

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    The Bay Bridge was built as a double decker because the bottom deck used to carry freight on railroad cars.  Of course, this was when SF was the major port and before people started shipping their cargo to the much more convenient Oakland.

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    Bank of America was founded in S.F., originally called the Bank of Italy

  5. There's some dispute over mai tais, irish coffee, fortune cookies, chop suey, hangtown fry, and even cioppino.  But two foods definitely invented in San Francisco are chicken Tetrazzini, and the It's It ice cream sandwich (though there were unbranded ice cream sandwiches in New York decades before).  Also celery Victor.  Some consider SF the birthplace of California-style pizza.  Although we're proud of all that, it's not really an impressive list compared to the foods invented in say New York or New Orleans.

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    It's the resurrection of the Lost City of Atlantis. Bet you didn't know that one, huh?

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    Marijuana is legal here.

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    Gil "whoo hoo" S. says:

    There's some dispute over mai tais, irish coffee, fortune cookies, chop suey, hangtown fry, and even cioppino.  But two foods definitely invented in San Francisco are chicken Tetrazzini, and the It's It ice cream sandwich (though there were unbranded ice cream sandwiches in New York decades before).  

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    the branding of ice cream sandwiches in San Francisco was necessary a century ago because there was a big problem with ice-cream-sandwich rustling here then.  The brands helped verify legitimate ownership.

  6. stay out of Bayview/Hunter's Point

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    If you're in china town get a egg tart from Golden Gate Bakery.

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    2/18/2010 Umesh "the Japanese even named a wine after me" T. says:

    don't call it Frisco, San Fran

    call it The City, SF, San Francisco
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    thats all u need to know

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    Townsend St is named for the first man to unionize San Francisco longshoremen

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    Go to 20th at Vermont in Potrero and drive downhill towards 22nd. That's the unappreciated crooked(er) street in SF...Perhaps because it is more in the "hood"

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