October 18, 2007
Twin Peaks Properties
The good folks over the Curbed SF have -- at last! -- posted on the conservative genius (an oxymoron, we know) that is Twin Peaks Properties in Noe Valley on 24th Street. (Apparently, a reader had never witnessed the monument to Noe Valley conservatism. The poor lamb.)
Many of you have seen this storefront for years, and chuckled. But who is he, exactly? It's all too easy to chalk up his flair for window dressing as conservative performance art. Also, who knew it was a real estate business? We've always been too awe-struck by the window's OC tinge to notice how the place makes money.
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He doesn't need to make money. He is a mutli millionare
He reminds me of the old school Noe Valley/Mission guys like my Dad
Socially conservative Democrats. Not sure if he is the same way and changed affiliation as the Dems moved left int he 1970's like many other or not. Lots of old timers I know refuse to call Army Chavez. You get the drift.
He owned Lost in the Fog recently and turned down huge offers for the horse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_the_Fog
zig -- you are probably exactly right. I lived above Noe Valley music for a spell a few years ago. And walked by this shop many times. I believe he has an Army street sign in the window. And perhaps even an article about it. A lot of these guys left the Democratic Party when Carter pardoned the draft dodgers. That's how Virginia's new (now Democratic) Senator Jim Webb left the party the first time back in the late 1970s. Out here, where the right-wing has fallen off the end of the earth -- some of those guys have gone full circle. I imagine in SF where the left of left is so prominent that they don't feel the need.
I thought there was an article about this dude in the SFWeekly like a few months ago. I thought maybe Matt Smith interviewed him. Am I just making that up?
viva army chavez!
The Chronicle wrote a great article about the guy in September.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2006/09/06/charstud.DTL
He was one of the people who bankrolled the "change Chavez back to Army" ballot initiative. He claimed it was about "tradition" but -- come on! -- he's a right-winger and Cesar Chavez is a left-wing icon, do the math. No one has ever called him on this point. I doubt that the "tradition" of Army Street would've mattered to him if they had re-named it Ronald Reagan Blvd.
Change the name of Bush Street!
Actually, it turns out that many of our streets have a military tinge to their naming.
Why don't we sell naming rights? Cisco Blvd? Exxon Ave?
Here's a very interesting link as to how many of our streets were named. Good SF trivia:
http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hbbegb.htm
Why don't we sell naming rights? Cisco Blvd? Exxon Ave?
In Buenos Aires, the street signs shows street names AND ALSO carry ads above the street names. I'm assuming, f'rex, that Galerias Pacifico (a mall) paid to have their directional signage placed on this street sign.
Here's another sign add-on, this one touting Clarin -- el gran diario [great newspaper] de argentina
Say, maybe I'll send this nifty fund raiser idea in to City Hall. Maybe they'll cut me in for a piece of the take!
I shocked that so many of our streets are named after straight white men with mustaches. Clearly something must be done