February 2012
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Will New Zoning Laws Wipe Out Food Trucks?
A bill in the state assembly is threatening to prevent food trucks from parking within 1500 feet of any school, including elementary schools.
Obviously the food truckers and their fans are riled up over the whole thing. The bill would hamper continued development of the food truck revolution, especially at lunch hour.
Burrito Justice made this handy map to show the difference between a...
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San Francisco Butchery
Here’s a little historical background for last week’s meat map, via the Spatial History Project at Stanford University.
The researchers map the addresses of all the San Francisco butchers in the city’s early days, and find that as the city expands, the density of where people get their meat diminishes.
Looks like they had an abundance of real butchers back in the day. What...
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Birdseye View in 1876
Birdseye view of San Francisco and surrounding country. Drawn by G. H. Goddard, c.e. Lith. Britton, Rey & Co.
And a close-up of Mission Bay, when it was actually a bay.
Zoom in, or see it at the Library of Congress’s 1996-tastic website.
(ht harlequinnnight)
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Golden Gate Park's Hidden Gems
Portland’s Jennifer Reynolds takes a shining to our urban jewel in this bright rendering of the park’s hidden gems.
See more here, and go check out the Shakespeare Garden.