Welcome to San Francisco

[Ellen Forradalom]

Went to SF for the Labor Day weekend to visit friends and family. Yesterday we took the kids to Golden Gate Park. There's a Psychic Faire going on at the San Francisco County Fair Building. We go in to have a look around and are greeted at the door by a young lady, blonde, in jeans and sweatshirt, with a stick-on name tag with the handwritten name 'Rev. Amy.' We are briefed on the various kinds of readings we can get and are turned loose.

"You know, I do believe we just spoke with the righteous Reverend Amy," I said. We looked around to see rows of chairs facing each other around the edge of the room and people being 'read' in various subjects--career, future children, and so forth. We checked out the crystals and the aura photography.

I'm a midwestern girl myself and all of this does let me know I'm not in Kansas any more, Toto.

[sfwriter]

1. Buncha freaks.....

I stay far, FAR away from that place...in Alameda!

:-)

-Sandy

[LunaSea]

4. Buncha Freaks?

Remember that when you head home for the possum festival, Sandy.

[democracyindanger]

5. And yet

you dare to identify yourself as 'sfwriter'?!?!

:)

You either live in the City, or you don't.

The miners came in '49,
The whores in '51
And when they got together
They begot the native son

[newyawker99]

8. Congrats democracyindanger!! 200 posts

:toast:

[Semi_subversive]

2. SF is one of the most

beautiful places one would want to go. I must admit, I haven't been across the Bay Bridge since the Loma Prieta quake in 1989. I've been to the north side of the Golden Gate a couple of times. My wife, my then 3 year old son and I spent a weekend there in 1986, and it was one of the best experiences I've ever had. Everyone was so friendly and helpful. Plus, they said if you went to a different restaurant every night, it would take almost 12 years to hit them all. That's my kind of place!

[XNASA]

3. Palmistry, crystals and some tea leaf reading is a must in SF.

As wonderful a place as SF is, I can never stop thinking about the song "Who Needs the Peace Corps" from "We're Only in it for the Money" whenever I'm there.

Walked past the wig store
Danced at the Fillmore
I'm completely stoned
I'm hippy & I'm trippy
I'm a gypsy on my own
I'll stay a week & get the crabs &
Take a bus back home
I'm really just a phony
But forgive me
'Cause I'm stoned

Every town must have a place
Where phony hippies meet
Psychedelic dungeons
Popping up on every street
GO TO SAN FRANCISCO . . .

[Mz Pip]

6. I've lived in the

Bay area for over 30 years and have yet to attend a psychic faire, had my aura read or have done anything with crystals. Still, its a pretty cool place to live. Even without the crystals it ain't anything like Kansas. :-)

MzPip
:dem:

[proud patriot]

7. Good I'm not the only one

I've lived in the Bay Area my whole life ...I've been to the pumpkin
festival , the garlic festival , but no psycic fair :hi: