In case you were wondering what to expect.
October 12, 1962 “COMMISSIONER FORD FRICK surveyed Candlestick Park from the stands, as well as on the field, and then postponed Friday’s sixth game of the WorldSeries. After inspecting the outfield, heavy with water, the commissioner said he doubted that the Giants and Yankees would even be able to play Saturday although he added he will not cross that bridge (and he may need one) until Saturday morning.”
—SFPL History Center
One might theorize that one could put an entire bag of Campfire marshmallows (or those fishatarian Kosher ones) atop each flaggy pole and satisfy an entire troop of campers, or an entire me of fishatarians.
Aubrey Huff, have you done this yet?
Queuing to see the shiny thingie, City Hall.
Damn, someone already thought of that?
Do, click through.
Here,
in Lower Western Addition/Middle Haight/Mid-City, it’s all buzzing vuvuzelas.
Really, you didn’t throw those out after the World Cup? So conservationist, so San Francisco.
The Giants return at 2.30 AM
So, anyone have a car?
Tuesday’s voting crib sheet can wait.
Even the punk bartender at Molotov’s was wearing a Giants shirt under his studded leather. I told you it would bring this city together like nothing else. Sports, who knew?
San Francisco’s having a party.
And everyone’s invited.
Sure, even you.
The indelible beauty of toilet paper, thrown with the gusto of the newly empowered Giants fans: do not underestimate the simple poetry of these absurdities as the wind whips our shouts and chants to the other side of the city, where surely the same scene is mirrored in orange and black.
ALL OF THE ABOVE
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