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I guess you’d call them vegetarians, by the look of what’s on offer at the University of Washington vending machines.

    • #vending machine
    • #UW
    • #library
    • #Seattle
  • 5 months ago
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I can forgive the slavish devotion to cricket, to rugby, to drinking Heineken at every opportunity: for this shows that they are a civilized people.

    • #NZ
    • #library
  • 11 months ago
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Those were the days.

    • #ephemera
    • #gigantes
    • #library
    • #reading phone books
  • 1 year ago
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In other bowling news.

    • #ephemera
    • #library
  • 1 year ago
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In a duel, it’ll get the drop on you every time.

    • #he was staring at it when I came in and also when I left
    • #library
    • #urban surveillance
  • 1 year ago
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They’re the doors that look like the ones in the picture, but they’re open instead of closed. 

    • #signage
    • #library
  • 1 year ago
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Minimum wage may be going up, but this is still priceless.  Or, $5 at the Library’s bookstore.

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    • #mayoral
  • 1 year ago
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You can’t tell the library what to do, they’re know-it-alls.  Wasting your breath.  Try across the street, the big domey building. 

    • #library
    • #relijun
  • 2 years ago
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What San Francisco does, it does to the fullest of our expectations.

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    • #National Bookmobile Day
  • 2 years ago
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Initially conceived as alternatives to bars and gambling houses for working men, the various libraries created by philanthropists were initially engineered toward industrial and mechanical arts.  In San Francisco, out of work miners might discover an aptitude for extracting riches of another sort from the land.
The chess club is the oldest continuously running one in the country.
They’ve a very nice staircase.
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Initially conceived as alternatives to bars and gambling houses for working men, the various libraries created by philanthropists were initially engineered toward industrial and mechanical arts.  In San Francisco, out of work miners might discover an aptitude for extracting riches of another sort from the land.

The chess club is the oldest continuously running one in the country.

They’ve a very nice staircase.

    • #Mechanics' Institute
    • #library
    • #history lesson
    • #sf
  • 3 years ago
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