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Paul is proprietor of Suede Shirt Travel, a history and heritage tour company in San Francisco.
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Places I have been to
I have been to Forestiere Underground Gardens, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Museum of Neon Art, The Witch's House, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Angelus Temple, Galco's Soda Pop Stop, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Noah Purifoy's Outdoor Desert Art Museum, Ruins of the Sutro Baths, The Wave Organ, Musee Mecanique , San Luis Obispo's Bubblegum Alley, Marin Headlands, Angels Flight, Battery Chamberlin, Mono Lake, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Crystal Cathedral, Wayfarers Chapel, The Integratron, Camera Obscura & Holograph Collection, The Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Madonna Inn, Cadillac Ranch, Martini Junction, Eartha, Fort Worth Water Gardens, Rainbow Swash, Hood Milk Bottle, Arcosanti, The Natural Bridge, The Bridge of Flowers, Silky O'Sullivans , Museum of Bad Art, Portals of the Past, The Cemetery of the Danvers Hospital for the Criminally Insane , The Witch House of Salem, Boston's Old Burying Grounds, Concrete Parthenon, Eastern State Penitentiary, Glass Flowers at Harvard Museum of Natural History, Paper House, Loved To Death, Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, Lotta's Fountain, San Francisco's Pet Cemetery, International Surfing Museum, Mechanics' Institute Library and Chess Room, Golden Gate Park Bison, Dutch Windmills, San Francisco Columbarium, Urban Ore, Maltese Falcon Alleyway, Alameda Point Antique and Collectibles Fair, San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, Paxton Gate, Big Island Lava Flow, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Singing Beach at Manchester-By-The-Sea, Hammond Castle Museum, Great Boston Molasses Flood Plaque, Yucca Mountain Repository, Mammoth Cave, Madison Boulder, Gillette Castle, Rustic Canyon's Murphy Ranch and 1908 Cistern Circles
Places I like
I like Big Island Lava Flow, Arcosanti, Noah Purifoy's Outdoor Desert Art Museum, Center for Land Use Interpretation, San Francisco Columbarium, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Museum of Bad Art, Fort Worth Water Gardens, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mono Lake, Angels Flight, Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, Forestiere Underground Gardens, Crystal Cathedral and The Integratron
Recent Activity
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December 8, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to 1908 Cistern Circles
Ancient technology adopted after hard lessons in worst-case-scenario fire control
In the spring of 1906, San Francisco all but burned to the ground. In the three days that followed the great earthquake on April 18, fires raged through the city, started mainly by ruptured gas... »
Long Now Locations, Subterranean Sites | Edited by Annetta, wythe and 2 others
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December 8, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to Rustic Canyon's Murphy Ranch
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December 8, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to Gillette Castle
Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage
High above the Connecticut River, Gillette Castle, only a shell of what it once was, still commands your attention. The magnificent castle, once the private residence of William Gillette, the... »
Architectural Oddities, Incredible Ruins, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Nicholas Jackson
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December 8, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to Madison Boulder
A Very Big Rock in New Hampshire
Madison Boulder is thought to be the largest glacial erratic - an erratic being a boulder of a certain type of rock that was transported by glacial ice and deposited on bedrock of different type... »
Natural Wonders, Geological Oddities | Edited by Dylan and AllisonEng
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December 8, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to Mammoth Cave
World's longest known cave
Known as the world's longest cave system, Mammoth Cave earned its name due to its vast size. To date, over 392 miles of the cave's interconnected passages have been explored, beginning with Native... »
Curious Caves | Edited by urk1971, amberjol and others
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December 8, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to Yucca Mountain Repository
Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond
Yucca Mountain in southern Nevada is more a ridge than a mountain. Created as deep volcanic tuff deposited by an extinct supervolcano (or caldera), it gradually rises from a height of 4,000 feet... »
Instruments of Science, Long Now Locations, Subterranean Sites | Edited by LongNow, Dylan and others
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December 8, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to Great Boston Molasses Flood Plaque
Site of one of the strangest disasters in history: a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph
At the intersection of Foster and Commercial Street in Boston’s industrial North End, is a curious historical site. Marked by a small, easily missed plaque is the location of a moment in Boston... »
Disaster Areas | Edited by michelle
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December 8, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to Hammond Castle Museum
An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system
John Hayes Hammond Jr. was resourceful man. As a little boy he visited Edison's laboratory with his wealthy father, and South African mining magnate, John Hays Hammond Sr. The young Hammond Jr.... »
Inspired Inventions, Architectural Oddities, Eccentric Homes | Edited by Taoist, Annetta and 2 others
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December 8, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to Singing Beach at Manchester-By-The-Sea
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December 8, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman with an addiction
The low-key, three-floor Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum embodies a woman who, for over three decades, assembled a collection of more than two thousand artifacts (paintings, sculptures, objects,... »
Museums and Collections, Unique Collections | Edited by Nicholas Jackson
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November 2, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to Big Island Lava Flow
Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes
Usually, when speaking of geological phenomena, one speaks of time in "aeons” or references events as "prehistoric." But on the Big Island of Hawai'i, the vocabulary's a little different.
Lava... »
Natural Wonders, Fiery Wonders | Edited by EmilyYaMei and atimian
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April 23, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to Paxton Gate
A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice
Paxton Gate is an eclectic cross between a gardening store, taxidermy shop, entomological treasure trove, art book retailer, and natural history boutique.
Started across town in 1992 by two... »
Purveyors of Curiosities | Edited by deckard-dj, michelle and 3 others
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April 23, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers
Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere
The recently restored Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park hosts over 2000 plant varieties, including a collection of tropical carnivorous pitcher plants. The East Wing is dominated by the... »
Extraordinary Flora | Edited by Annetta
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April 23, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to Alameda Point Antique and Collectibles Fair
The Alameda Point Antiques and Collectibles Faire started in 1998 and has become the largest antique show in Northern California. The first Sunday of every month, vendors come to showcase their... »
Commercial Curiosities | Edited by M Rebekah Otto and Annetta
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April 23, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to Maltese Falcon Alleyway
Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in the Maltese Falcon, not far from the authors home
In this alley you will find a plaque that could easily be mistaken for a record of historical importance. The plaque reads "On approximately this spot, Miles Archer, partner of Sam Spade, was done... »
Unusual Monuments | Edited by
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April 23, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to Urban Ore
An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA
Urban Ore, a sprawling 3 acre warehouse in Berkeley, California, is a retail store for reusable goods and a disposal service for salvageable items. What makes it unlike any thrift store or antique... »
Unique Collections, Purveyors of Curiosities | Edited by Raphi Gottesman
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April 23, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to San Francisco Columbarium
The Restored and Active Victorian-Era Final Resting Place of San Francisco
In a quiet stillness befitting the place, behind glass panes and surrounded by keepsakes and loving messages, are the final resting places of a small group of San Franciscans lucky enough to... »
Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by Tre and A Facebook user
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April 23, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to Dutch Windmills
The largest windmill in the world and the key to turning dunes into Golden Gate Park
Two enormous windmills overlook Ocean Beach at the far West end of Golden Gate park. Once mighty water-pumping machines designed to provide water for the fledgling Golden Gate Park at the... »
Retro-Tech, Architectural Oddities | Edited by Annetta
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April 23, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to Golden Gate Park Bison
San Francisco's very own urban bison herd have persisted in the face of extinction, development and tuberculosis
The first bison, named Ben Harrison, was purchased by Park Superintendent John McClaren on February 26, 1891. His arrival in San Francisco coincided with the historical nadir in bison population,... »
Fascinating Fauna | Edited by littlebrumble
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April 23, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to Mechanics' Institute Library and Chess Room
A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight
Hidden in plain sight amidst the bustle of the San Francisco Financial District lies a quiet sanctuary. Complete with overstuffed leather chairs and rows upon rows of books, both old and new, it... »
Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by re_nakaba and A Facebook user
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April 23, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to International Surfing Museum
Museum dedicated to the preservation of surf culture
Huntington Beach, California was rated by Surfer's Almanac as the "most heavily surfed beach on the West Coast," so it should come as no surprise to find an International Surfing Museum in town.... »
Unique Collections | Edited by anhie
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April 23, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to San Francisco's Pet Cemetery
A monument to the love people have for their pets
Just south of Crissy Fields in San Francisco's Presidio district is a tiny cemetery bound by a white picket fence and dotted with miniature gravestones. The final resting place of the Presidio... »
Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by Shalaco, Dylan and 3 others
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April 23, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to Lotta's Fountain
San Francisco's oldest surviving monument donated by a Vaudeville performer
Known as Lotta's Fountain it stands at the corner of Market, Geary and Kearny streets in San Francisco, and is a twenty-four foot cast iron sculpture, painted bronze and adorned with lion's heads,... »
Peculiar Fountains | Edited by Shalaco, Dylan and others
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April 23, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home
If setting up a satellite television dish sounds like a daunting task, then consider the job of picking up signals from rovers on Mars or satellites orbiting Saturn. That's exactly the... »
Instruments of Science, Electrical Oddities | Edited by Trevor
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April 23, 2011
A Facebook user
has been to Loved To Death
