SFist: Twin Peaks Properties

zig

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:56:24 -0800

I shocked that so many of our streets are named after straight white men with mustaches. Clearly something must be done

Sal

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:48:18 -0800

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!

mariconsoy

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:10:55 -0800

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

RegularGuyMike

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:42:01 -0800

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.

rockets

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:18:26 -0800

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

jnice

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:13:52 -0800

viva army chavez!

DC1974

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:51:53 -0800

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?

zig

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:54:56 -0800

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_the_Fog

zig

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:52:28 -0800

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