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Blasphemous Texanus
As all San Franciscans do, we paid our annual visit to the City of
Paris to visit the tree. Well! The Texans running the place chose to not use the wonderful Paul Verdier ornaments we've all known and loved since before we were born. The only ornaments were many-sized silver balls made not even of glass. BLASPHEMY!!! How DARE those Texans mess with OUR Tradition!?! We also visited O'Connor and Moffatt via Nathan Dorman and enjoyed its amimal'd windows, swingin' sounds, and fanciful depictions of my home. Then, via the Flood Building lobby to the Emporium to enjoy its loveliness, a tasty middle-Eastern meal in the basement, and a cuppla movies. Except for the City of Paris, 'twas all quite pleasant. In the Flood Building lobby are many pictures. I have often said that there were no lines to ride cable cars before they were turned into a toy for tourists and the pictures in the Flood Building lobby clearly show that. As early as 18:00, there was ample space to board a cable car at Geary Street. On Powell Street there's a new sparkly jewellery store, apparently the same merchandise found on Haight Street around Belvedere. I found a ring I recently acquired for a price $50% greater than on Haight Street. -- __________________________________________________ _________________ A San Franciscan in 47.452 mile² San Francisco. http://geocities.com/touringsfo/ - http://geocities.com/iconoc/ |
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Blasphemous Texanus
"Hatunen" schrieb
You might want to explain what the "City of Paris" is for the San Francisco impaired. I must admit, after reading the first sentence I was impressed: All San Franciscans fly to Europe to see a Christmas tree in Paris! Amazing! But I quickly found out that the OP obviously was talking about some other place ;-) Jochen |
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Blasphemous Texanus
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:00:16 +0100, "Jochen Kriegerowski"
wrote: "Hatunen" schrieb You might want to explain what the "City of Paris" is for the San Francisco impaired. I must admit, after reading the first sentence I was impressed: All San Franciscans fly to Europe to see a Christmas tree in Paris! Amazing! But I quickly found out that the OP obviously was talking about some other place ;-) Since IC hasn't replied I'll elaborate. There used to be a department store in SF called City of Paris. Eventually the building was taken over by the Texas-based upscale department store, Nieman Marcus. The building is still called the "City of Paris building" -- ************* DAVE HATUNEN ) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * |
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