SF News Napa Considers Moving ‘Welcome’ Sign Because Too Many People Run Across Highway 29 to Instagram It A Napa County Instragam trap is causing worries that it could become a death trap, and the county is considering moving its picturesque “Welcome” sign because of unsafe behavior by motorists and pedestrians seeking pictures of it.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Old Vess Cola Sign Revealed On Side Of Fire Damaged Building Richmond Blog and David Gallagher bring your attention to an old Vess Cola sign revealed on the side of a building damaged in a fire at Clement and 12th Avenue. Richmond Blog reports:
Arts & Entertainment SoMa's South Park Sign Up For Auction In an effort to help fund the renovation of SoMa's jarringly adorable South Park, the actual South Park sign will be available for auction. Bidding starts at $1,000! Also, for those of
SF News New Twitter HQ Signage Pays Tribute To Old SF Mart Sign While some might argue that the modern design doesn't necessarily match the building, we are swooning over Twitter's new signage outside their headquarters. You like? Well, we do. So sleek, so fresh, so
Arts & Entertainment Yahoo To Showcase 30 Logo Thingies, Debut Another Purple Design Perhaps spurred but its far more logo-curious neighbor Google, Yahoo is launching a new logo after a 30 day countdown that will feature one iteration of its hideous purple logo per day. Why
Arts & Entertainment Map: SF Giants Logo Bike Ride The fine folks at Mission Mission bring your attention to a very important bike ride around San Francisco, completed by Chris Phipps who used the Giants logo as his guide. Well, Chris, we
SF News Microsoft Changes Its Logo After 25 Years Microsoft unveiled a fresh new logo on Thursday, their first signage makeover in 25 years. The crisper, blockier new look prefaces the company's release of Windows 8 set to go live on October
SF News International Women's Day 2012 Honored By Google Logo, Grand Hyatt Protest Today, March 8th, is International Women's Day. Google has reimagined its iconic logo into a piece celebrating the big day. To honor the holiday, as HuffPo notes, "Google created a simple, colorful doodle
SF News Ellis Brooks Chevrolet Sign Dismantled Work on dismantling the semi-iconic Ellis Brooks Chevrolet sign at 1395 Van Ness began over the weekend. Erected in 1955, the sign, according to the people SFist spoke to at Ellis-Brooks, "will have
Arts & Entertainment 1920s Sign Exposed During Third Street Demolition in S.F. During demolition to expand the Bayview library on Third Street, a 1920s sign for Boss of the Road work clothes was exposed. "The sign dates from before 1921, based on San Francisco Assessor's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Starbucks Explains New Logo If your entire world has been thrown off axis over Starbucks new logo, fear not, loyal patrons. The coffee mammoth will walk you through the change in a minute and a half long
misc Signs of San Francisco Here's another set of local signage that photogs captured in all of their clever, weathered, colorful, informative and matter-of-fact glory. Enjoy.
misc Beware of Blind, Gargantuan Cyclists Roaming City Streets SFist reader and commenter uggie sent us the above image. It's a newly installed "walk your bike or scooter to the parking area" sign on a city government building parking lot, which is
misc Muni's 2008 APTA Rail Scandal: Not Actually All That Scandalous On one hand: saying "welcome" is good manners, and the APTA thing -- a big transit conference -- is kind of prestigious. The main highlight, according to a Muni press release, is a
misc More Old Signage Uncovered Once again, someone tore down a bitch of a wall and discovered even more old-time signage. (First bacon, now bourbon? What in heaven's name went on in this city back then?) This time
