September 19, 2008
PARK(ing) Day Map and Images
We fibbed, folks. There is, you see, a map listing all of today's temporary parks. Go here to look for the nearest PARK(ing) Day setup near you. Or you can visit National PARK(ing) Day's site here to look for locations outside San Francisco and the Bay Area. (While the title of the day looks a little History of Consciousness-ish, the day isn't; in fact, it's downright fun while being educational. Zoinks, is right! We implore you all to check it out.)
Here, however, is the place for all PARK(ing) Day images coming to SFist throughout the day.
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And they're covering a Honda in sod, why?
Why not?
Are they getting paid for that? Because if that's how they spend their days, well, sign me up.
Sometimes I think I'm the only person in this city with a job.
maybe i'm spoiled by living on the panhandle, but i'm feeling pretty good about the open space in my neighborhood. are we supposed to set up parks in the fd?
if so, let do a twelve+ year, billions over budget project to run all the streets underground and turn the surface streets into parks. boston did it, it was so fun. except they forgot about the parks part.
Maybe they have just solved the homeless problem too. Just throw a plastic tarp over them and lay down some sod. Add a wishing well, some bumpers and a windmill and the TL can become a miniature golf course!
Fun for the WHOLE family.
We can run a shuttle from Pier 39 on the hour.
Im waiting for a really radical idea... like turning a single car parking space INTO A TWO CAR PARKING SPACE. Rather than make parking EVEN MORE difficult, why not try to make it easier?
/damn hippies
Today I parked my car on the grass in the middle of the polo fields.
hudu: seriously. i don't understand where all of these kids get their money....
scopa: the easiest solution would be not to drive at all.
Man, there are so many better things to do than work your life away. Where do we get our money? Are you kidding? What a bunch of boring, small minded conformists living in my town these days...
How I got my money? I wrote a play. Today I'm laying sod on 5th Street. Tomorrow I'll do something else.
According to the google map it looks like the old San Francisco and Pittsburgh cliché, wait what, THAT Pittsburgh?
Thank you greggers, for laying down some perspective that not everyone participates in the debt bridled consumerist slave society.
Greggers: I hope your grammar was better in your play.
Tomorrow Greggers has to mow the lawn and pull weeds.
; )
greggers: hahahaha. no need to get offended, greggers. if working for a living is conformity, i guess i am a conformist. i do work at a nonprofit though -- don't your type of people like that?? ;).......what a bunch of silly people living in my town these days.
greggers: also: being a "non-conformist" is so common these days that being a traditional conformist is actually the new non-conformist!! you should try it out. always gotta be one step ahead of the conformists, you know!
sfist park day entry is much more fun to read than laist park day entry. i miss sf.
@wiyum I just moved here from LA and I had no idea this nonsense happened there too. First thing I thought was, "Taking up parking spaces with sod when parking is a pain in the ass? That would cause a riot back home."
Either way. I still don't see the point in it. Damn Hippies.
Jesus, people - it's not like these spots are being taken over sans payment. Quarters go into the meters: does that make it any better?
i guess i'm sympathetic to what they're trying to do. we definitely need more parks in downtown. i live in the TL, and we have a few extremely ghetto playgrounds, but nothing that resembles a real park. the closest thing to a park within a mile of my apartment is civic center plaza. =(
@ KatyG: In a word, no.
FYI, most of the parking spots are put together by employees of various companies, so therefore they're getting paid.
Geez, and I thought I was the angry pro-car person around here....
ARrrrrr! it's national">http://www.talklikeapirate.com/>national talk like a pirate day!
All I hear is, "Waaaaah I'm being deprived of my right to leave the office every hour to feed the meter."
bunch of hippies
I am the ultimate non-conformist. I'm getting *INTO* investment banking.
These parks remind me of Critical Mass in the following respect: from the outside looking in, they appear pointless, absurd, and ridiculous. But from the inside looking out, they are lovely.
Well, as someone who was not an organizer of one these spots, I thought it was a lot of fun. There were a ton of spectators wandering around checking out all the spots and introducing themselves to each other. I met several new people in the hour that I hung out at my friend's spot.
hey kristin go back to los angeles, you will not be missed.
Gee, when I was young, we protested against the war, for social justice and fair wages.
This is a joke, when people are getting killed in Iraq, a little anti-war rally might have been more socially redeeming.
An anti-war rally in SF -- how novel!
while billy joel might disagree, thefacts, PARK(iong) Day has to do what it does because of what your generation did in its day.
but we heard someone playing "White Rabbit" at one park, so, you know...there's that.