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Shalaco
Why visit shalaco.com when you could go for a nice walk in the park?
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Places I have been to
I have been to Bourbon & Branch, Marjorie McNeely Conservatory (Como Park), The Very Large Array, The Lightning Field, Wabasha Street Caves, Aristides Demetrios Wind Harp, Battery Chamberlin, Dutch Windmills, Exploratorium, Cabazon Dinosaurs, Mono Lake, Ruins of the Sutro Baths, Emperor Norton's Grave, San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, Portals of the Past, Mountain View Cemetery, Albany Bulb, Defenestration, Alameda Point Antique and Collectibles Fair and Balmy Alley Murals
Places I like
I like Kolmanskop Ghost Town
Recent Activity
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January 17, 2011
Shalaco
has been to Balmy Alley Murals
Stunning street art as political theater for the masses
In the heart of the Mission District lies the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco. Renowned for their political import and reverential maintenance, Balmy Alley has become a... »
Outsider Art | Edited by littlebrumble and Annetta
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January 17, 2011
Shalaco
commented on Hotel Majestic
Sponsored by the Hotel Majestic.
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January 17, 2011
Shalaco
updated the Pulgas Water Temple
The Pulgas Water Temple was built in 1934 to celebrate the completion of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and aqueduct across the California central valley to Crystal Springs Reservoir. It's a small... »
Follies and Grottoes | Edited by tyrsalvia, hankchapot and others
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May 3, 2010
Shalaco
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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May 3, 2010
Shalaco
has been to Defenestration
Furniture tries to escape an abandonded building in San Francisco
Standing on Howard Street in front of a wall of graffiti, look up and try not to flinch. A Grandfather clock appears to be falling out of the window of the abandoned tenement building. Upon a... »
Outsider Art, Architectural Oddities | Edited by Tre, michelle and others
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May 3, 2010
Shalaco
has been to Albany Bulb
An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library"
Certain places exist in a kind of urban vacuum. They decay, change and grow without the approval of authorities, and without blueprints. These places are often the domain of societies... »
Outsider Art | Edited by garfieldgurl, michelle and others
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May 3, 2010
Shalaco
has been to Mountain View Cemetery
Miller Pyramid on Millionaire's Row, Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland CA
Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, this historic cemetery holds crypts of many famous founders of California. Among those buried here are Elizabeth Short, the unsolved Hollywood murder victim... »
Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by hankchapot, Shalaco and 2 others
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May 3, 2010
Shalaco
has been to Portals of the Past
The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake
The 1906 earthquake rocked San Francisco and the all-consuming fire that followed destroyed an estimated 25,000 buildings, including many of the gilded era mansions of San Francisco's wealthy.... »
Incredible Ruins | Edited by Annetta
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May 3, 2010
Shalaco
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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May 3, 2010
Shalaco
has been to Emperor Norton's Grave
The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico
Once a wealthy San Francisco businessman and land owner, Joshua Norton lost his fortune speculating on rice prices in the 1850s and descended into a gloomy and destitute self-exile for several... »
Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by Sam E and Annetta
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May 3, 2010
Shalaco
has been to Ruins of the Sutro Baths
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966
Low stone and concrete walls and twisted, rusty steel supports are all that remain of the enormous glass-enclosed public baths at Point Lobos. The baths were the labor of love by gold-rush... »
Incredible Ruins | Edited by Annetta, sirpogo and others
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May 3, 2010
Shalaco
has been to Mono Lake
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May 3, 2010
Shalaco
has been to Cabazon Dinosaurs
"World's biggest dinosaur" featured in Pee Wee's Big Adventure, now houses a creationist museum in its abdomen
For the past 35 years, travelers driving west on Interstate 10 in Southern California have been greeted by Dinny the Dinosaur, a 150-foot-long recreation of an apatosaurus, whose owners have given... »
Natural History, Strange Statues, Commercial Curiosities | Edited by anhie
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May 3, 2010
Shalaco
has been to Exploratorium
Hands-On Science built on the rubble of the 1906 Earthquake, and hiding a few choice exhibits
In 1906, a massive earthquake hit San Francisco, and the “ham and egg” fires - named such because they were started by a family cooking breakfast with an earthquake damaged chimney - that followed... »
Strange Science | Edited by Tre and Nicholas Jackson
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May 3, 2010
Shalaco
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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May 3, 2010
Shalaco
has been to Battery Chamberlin
Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904
The Lowell Battery Chamberlin was named after Civil War hero Lowell A. Chamberlin, who served with distinction as an artillery officer until his death in 1899. The Lowell Battery was designed and... »
Inspired Inventions | Edited by re_nakaba
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May 3, 2010
Shalaco
has been to Aristides Demetrios Wind Harp
A large instrument played by the wind
Perched on a hilltop in a South San Francisco industrial park, this striking 92-foot-tall sculpture by Aristides Demetrios is one of the world's largest aeolian harps. Named for Aeolus, the Greek... »
Inspired Inventions, Musical Wonders | Edited by Josh, Lignamorren and others
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May 3, 2010
Shalaco
has been to Wabasha Street Caves
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May 3, 2010
Shalaco
has been to The Lightning Field
In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above
Comprised of 400 polished stainless steel poles installed in a grid array of one mile by one kilometer, "The Lightning Field" by sculptor Walter De Maria, is recognized as one of the... »
Natural Wonders, Outsider Art, Intriguing Environs | Edited by jamesb and AllisonEng
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May 3, 2010
Shalaco
has been to The Very Large Array
Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets
Western New Mexico is high, dry land, with scrub brush in the brown dirt and hills in the distance. There are no trees and few towns... and then there is the Very Large Array, 27 huge, white... »
Instruments of Science | Edited by Henry
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May 3, 2010
Shalaco
has been to Marjorie McNeely Conservatory (Como Park)
Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.
Though the architecture of the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory is worth the trip alone, the conservatory (located in sprawling Como Park) is home to a wide variety of beautiful, fragrant and rare... »
Extraordinary Flora | Edited by littlebrumble and A Facebook user
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May 3, 2010
Shalaco
liked Kolmanskop Ghost Town
The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert
People flocked to what became known as Kolmanskop, Namibia, after the discovery of diamonds in the area in 1908. As people arrived with high hopes, houses and other key buildings were built. The... »
Ghost Towns | Edited by michelle, Dylan and 2 others
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April 30, 2010
Shalaco
has been to Bourbon & Branch
A nondescript building that's been funtioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half
A nondescript building in an unglamorous neighborhood hides a secret, swanky, and historic bar. Visitors must have reservations or know the secret password to enter the unmarked door. Once inside... »
Bizarre Restaurants and Bars | Edited by Clinton and Annetta
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April 30, 2010
Shalaco
updated the Elektotechnikai Múzeum
Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station
A fascinating– if popularly neglected museum–the Elektotechnikai Múzeum features Wimshurst Electrostatic Generators, a Van De Graff generator, Tesla Coils, a model of a nineteenth-century electric... »
Museums and Collections, Unique Collections, Electrical Oddities | Edited by Dylan, Josh and 3 others
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April 30, 2010
Shalaco
added San Francisco's Cable Car Museum
Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.
Straying radically from the ideal of the quiet museum – one filled with the archaic artifacts of yesteryear, each lighted softly and placed behind Plexiglas – the San Francisco Cable Car Museum is... »
Museums and Collections | Edited by Shalaco, Dylan and 2 others
Sponsored by the Hotel Majestic.