California
Related: About this forumI Just realized, I have this Love for the TransAmerica Pyramid Building,(pic Heavy)
Auggie
(31,177 posts)Uniquely San Francisco
I've been in offices on the top floors
very odd feeling.
yuiyoshida
(41,833 posts)of Columbus Avenue going to Fisherman's Wharf!
antiquie
(4,299 posts)Thanks for the pictures.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
yuiyoshida
(41,833 posts)During the Summer, its worse than Winter. The fog monster comes in.. AND ITS A MOIST COLD THAT hits you right to the bone. I am often sitting in my little room with the space heater on, trying to keep that chill away.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)It's not ideal for those who get chilly easily, but it's still beautiful, even with the fog.
-Laelth
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)the summers in coastal Humboldt make those in SF look like nothing. I checked the temperature daily last year, and it rarely got above 65 around Eureka in the summer.
If a person wants relief from hot weather, that's the place to be.
haydukelives
(1,229 posts)Last edited Sat Mar 1, 2014, 06:31 PM - Edit history (1)
Was a summer in San Francisco.
edit to remove citation.
yuiyoshida
(41,833 posts)Actually I read some where that Mark Twain, aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens, never really said that. I don't know how it got attributed to him, but it sure sounds like something he would have said.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/twain.asp
haydukelives
(1,229 posts)I bow to your snopes greatness.
northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)That is a beautifully designed building, by the way. Unique, simple, and interesting.
kimbutgar
(21,172 posts)The views from the building were also awesome.
lucky!
Brother Buzz
(36,449 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,833 posts)Had a street named after him!
Brother Buzz
(36,449 posts)We have a postcard typed on that Royal® typewriter. Everyone who fed him cool nuggets over the years received one; Sack-A-Tomato boys were taught proper manners.
MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)bluestateboomer
(505 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,833 posts)I would have been vomiting by the top rung of that latter. It was cool to see what was inside of that top though. I have been to the top of the Statue of Liberty, the top of the St. Louis Arch, The CN Tower in Toronto, and the top of the Empire State Building...but it was nothing like that. Heights scare me, but if I am inside an enclosure, I will be okay. Just like I can go on airplanes, Jets etc, but I would not wish to be outside. Skydiving would probably kill me of fright!!
Thanks for showing that! Its something you never get to see!!
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)I would want to go as high as they did....
Stardust
(3,894 posts)The piggy-back shuttle fly-by!!!
yuiyoshida
(41,833 posts)I missed it, was inside doing something. I have seen the Blue Angels though!
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)I could see it each night out of my tiny Kitchenette window. I seemed to glow like a beacon in the night!
randr
(12,412 posts)Love it when Joan Walsh is on MSNBC with this building in view
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)proud patriot
(100,713 posts)I got to go in it when I was a little kid.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)I used to work a block away from there, and I still miss it. They relocated us to Walnut Creek
RandySF
(59,052 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,833 posts)There is a public place where you can look out, facing towards Fisherman's wharf heading up Columbus Avenue. That is the highest I have been there. I don't think I would want to go much higher, as the gentleman did in that video posted above.
CherokeeDem
(3,709 posts)First time I was in San Francisco, I fell in love the city and with this building. It's just so unique and majestic.
Thanks for the pics... like I said in another post about the rain in the city this week.... I need to get back there. Miss San Francisco.
aquart
(69,014 posts)Thank God there are no more Hindenburgs.
yuiyoshida
(41,833 posts)Not something I would want to hang on to.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)MzNov
(18,531 posts)My very first job in CA was in the Pyramid Bldg.
yuiyoshida
(41,833 posts)person in this posting to have worked there. You guys should rent a space there for a party..on that top party floor and invite all the local DUers!
ElboRuum
(4,717 posts)...really no other buildings I'm aware of that are quite like it.
bayareaboy
(793 posts)My Sister used to work for Paladini Fish Co right where the middle of the building is now. later on I lived close to the building and every day walked down Columbus St going downtown.
yuiyoshida
(41,833 posts)Little Italy on one side, and Chinatown on the other. I can spend the entire day in Chinatown, and love having Spaghetti marinara for dinner that night.
question everything
(47,510 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,833 posts)Its the Transamerica pyramid building!