SFist: SFist Photo: Daly City's "Little Boxes on the Hillside"

Rob Keil

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:43:22 -0800

Insipid is in the eyes of the beholder. I suggest you walk around Daly City's Westlake district, the architecture is pretty cool.

will

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:51:31 -0800

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)

Will Schultz

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:45:41 -0800

Is this my cousin Marty ? If so how are ya ?

Martin

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:48:35 -0800

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.

Greg

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:24:05 -0800

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.

mariconsoy

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:04:45 -0800

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.

Spacecat

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:18:10 -0800

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.)

Mike

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:08:47 -0800

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.

rroseselavy

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:06:24 -0800

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.

t

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:47:28 -0800

very catchy. also the theme song in the opening credits for "Weeds".

Murmur

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:39:55 -0800

It's the opening theme song for the show Weeds. Funny, but it does get on your nerves after awhile....