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Mission Police Station Launches Blog

by Admin on Jan.27, 2012, under San Francisco News

The Mission Police Station has joined the blogging world. The new police captain, Bob Moser, wrote his first blog post today to remind residents about the upcoming meeting Tuesday. Greetings, We at Mission Station look forward to hosting our monthly community meeting on Tuesday, January 31 at 6:00 p.m. at Mission Station. We value your…
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New blog devoted to coming attraction glass slides

by Admin on Jul.11, 2010, under San Francisco Cinemas/Movies

There’s a new kid on the block – there’s a new blog on the net. It’s Start’s Thursday, and its devoted to the art and history of coming attraction slides. The blog is authored by Rob Byrne, a Bay Area film preservationist and the Vice President of the Silent Film Festival board of directors.

Byrne’s blog is only ten days old, but already he’s posted a handful of fascinating entries on coming attraction slides, an early means of advertising movies. Glass slides were, in a way, the precursor to the movie trailer. They were shown in theaters, usually before a film. And interestingly enough, the two forms of promotion began about the same time and existed side by side for many years. [Like lobby cards, posters, and movie heralds, glass slides could be ordered by local theater managers from the studio and area film exchange.]
So far, posts have traced the history of glass slides, their fascinating “anatomy,” variations between the same slides, their use in various countries, and more. It’s surprising to learn, for example, that this seemingly old fashioned medium was in use in the United States as recently as 1952, and in Australia as recently as 1982. Each of the entries on Start’s Thursday are illustrated – which makes this new blog required reading. Be sure and check it out.

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A heartfelt blog post!

by Admin on Sep.30, 2009, under San Francisco News


Truthfully all my blog posts have been heartfelt so I don’t want anyone to think because I captioned this one “A heartfelt blog post” that my other blog posts have been less so!

I recall a rather untrustworthy fellow I worked with in my media business days who would sometimes preface his comment with “Ross, I’m going to be perfectly honest with you this time” (suggesting that he was not “perfectly honest” with me all the times he did not preface his comment with that). But that’s another story.

Last night I went to Beale Street Bar & Grill’s final night at their location next to the Transbay Transit Center where for nearly a quarter century they have hosted generations of San Franciscans.

Not of their own choosing, BSBG had to abandon this location to make way for the Transbay Terminal project – San Francisco’s biggest real estate development in decades if not of all time. Progress, I suppose.

The place was packed with people who had been coming there for years – and in the conversations I overhead people talking about how their parents came there before them. Beale Street Bar & Grill is authentic San Francisco – the type of place that has contributed to the unique flavor of the City.

It has been my pleasure to find BSBG a new location at 142 Minna Street – between New Montgomery and Third – just behind SFMOMA. And it has been my pleasure to come to know BSBG proprietors Gloria and her son Tony during the course of the assignment.

Progress on the opening of the new Beale Street Bar & Grill has run into a couple of hitches but I’m confident that these will be overcome and that when they do open it will be a smashing success – and I’ll keep working to help them! Especially because Tony promised me that I will have my own dedicated bar stool – bronze plaque and all!

And in closing let me leave you with another great song - this time by Sly & The Family Stone – I remember seeing Sly at a high school football rally when he was a DJ for KSOL. But that’s another story.

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