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A brave soul uses a hang-glider to rise above the "comformity" of Daly City.
At just one minute and three seconds long, the shortest song to ever chart nationally was "Little Boxes" written by folk legend Malvina Reynolds while in a car passing through Daly City. "There's a green one and a pink one/And a blue one and a yellow one/And they're all made out of ticky tacky/And they all look just the same." Ouch. You can listen to her sing it here if you want. But history has been kind to these Doelger houses if you believe the New York Times. These places even have their own book. How about that? We'll take a Doelger. Make ours green, or pink, or blue - it's all good.
SFist Photo: Daly City's "Little Boxes on the Hillside"
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It's the opening theme song for the show Weeds.
Funny, but it does get on your nerves after awhile....
very catchy. also the theme song in the opening credits for "Weeds".
Funny, I have heard that song a zillion times as a companion to footage of Levittown and PBS-style droning about the conformity of the 1950s. Always hated the song, as it fast became a cliche of documentaries.
Saw a musical at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival called "Tracy's Tiger." It is set in San Francisco and one of the songs is about Daly City.
We used to sing that song in junior high Music Appreciation (in Wyoming) and it always runs through my head when I go through Daly City. I had no idea it was inspired by the same scene. (We sang lots of depressing folksy songs, including Me and Bobbie McGee and Mrs. Robinson.)
Oh GOD! That's Ed Jew in the hang glider!
BTW a buncha those houses were built DIRECTLY on the San Andreas fault line, at the point it shoots out into the pacific. It returns under land at Pt Reyes. Some of the cliffs in the same general area are falling into the ocean and houses are getting red tagged. Not the wisest place to have built.
I always hated that song. What's wrong with affordable housing, oh mighty folksinger lady? We all can't live in geodesic domes in Bolinias.
I grew up in one of those "tacky" houses, one that is actually on top of the San Andreas fault. The house has been there coming up on 50 years,Loma Prieta quake and all. Mom still lives there.
Is this my cousin Marty ? If so how are ya ?
Nothing is wrong with housing that's affordable. Indeed, it's an essential concept that shoud be explored much more. But why does housing of ANY kind need to be so uninspired, aesthetically dead. Why is it considered "elitist" to yearn for beauty, and not just function ?
(The song is insipid, I'll grant you that. As insipid as the architecture it mocks)
Insipid is in the eyes of the beholder. I suggest you walk around Daly City's Westlake district, the architecture is pretty cool.