Peter Quigley
671 posts


@RGRyan777 Nice typewriter—do you use it? Ribbons difficult to find now; Mission St used to have lots of “Office stores” with supplies.
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@RetroBayArea @bwwebber Went every new year for the free calendar.
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@bwwebber True! I have a Mountain View Tower Records post going up tomorrow. Keep an eye out.
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Anyone who lived on The Peninsula late 80s/early 90s spent time at the Tower Records just on the border of Palo Alto and Mountain View on San Antonio Road. Bought my first Smiths cassettes there.
RetroBayArea@RetroBayArea
Mountain View before Google. Before Google moved in and transformed it, Mountain View was a quiet and working class suburb, the kind of place that in the 1980s felt like the setting of Stranger Things. 🧵1/4
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@likeanangeldoes I have, in my books. And the controversial public housing that fell apart after Chavez Ravine communities were displaced.
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Go on, talk about the working class, brown neighborhood Los Angeles destroyed to make room for this
L.A. Dork@la_dorkout
Dodger Stadium, May 25, 1960, less than 2 years before its opening as tractors finish excavating a massive earth amphitheatre to start layering in tiers of stands.
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@OracleSeagull S 1 was so good, I thought do they need a S2 but with the Brett Goldstein twist it was good. Now with MJ Fox, another interesting twist.
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New pod: Should regulators and the antitrust crusaders just let Warner Bros. go bankrupt? With Sen. Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren. Plus: Will more or less people watch the Oscas on YouTube?? Listen! open.spotify.com/episode/1dhMlS…
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You no longer have to stop at a liquor store to grab a good quality wine. Take a look at grocery stores where you can discover your next favorite vino.
chowhound.com/1965750/grocer…
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The watch I designed for @swatch is out today! “One California” is part of a series of Destination Watches meant to evoke places around the world. The drawing travels from North (SF) to South (LA) with a California Poppy rising over the Bixby Bridge in the middle.




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@sfchronicle Was on “San Francisco Beat” aka “The Lineup”. Sorry don’t know the episode name.
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Fleishhacker Pool was a generous gift to the city. But the massive outdoor swim center never made much sense, and is remembered for its poor location and sad decay. sfchronicle.com/totalsf/articl…
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Authorities identified the victim as 47-year-old Ryan Christie of San Leonardo. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…
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