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11 June 2012 / SF News / Andrew Dalton

Day Around The Bay: Eddie Rickenbacker's Sells Off Motorcycle Collection


  • Landmark SoMa fern bar Eddie Rickenbacker's has closed. It will re-open in a couple weeks under new management and without most of the bar's iconic motorcycles, which are going to auction along with their collection of Tiffany lamps. [LiveSOMA] [InsideScoop]

  • Brasserie S&P, which just opened in the Mandarin Hotel, boasts 34 kinds of gin. Because gin is this summer's trendy liquor, apparently. [Food & Wine]

  • The America's Cup, which currently has only four squads lined up for it's big race, is still trying to entice more teams to enter. [SFEx]

  • This guy is building a $5 million, 130-foot Tall Ship like the ones that used to be built in San Francisco in the late 1800s, but with some added 21st-century flair like a hybrid, carbon neutral backup generator. It will, of course, be built with lumber from sustainable logging practices. [Chron]

  • Turf wars: ports spies floating cash cows in South Beach. [CurbedSF]

  • The paralympian whose custom hand-cranked bike was stolen from a Hayes Valley apartment last week got a new set of wheels from a Berkeley non-profit. [Chron]

  • The Berkeley Library loves yarnbombing, just not when it steals the thunder from their library renovations. [Berkeleyside]
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