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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Biked around 3rd St & Bayview in SF (a neighborhood I was advised to keep out of as a kid). Saw some neat stuff.

The front part of this house looks like a 1906 earthquake shack.

Nicely painted little truck. Back door has a chill lion smoking something. Seems to say Dzyer.

The last of Muni's Breda LRVs, on the dead line in the 3rd St yard.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Saw the SSW diesel again. Actually on the move, doing some switching in South City.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

SFBA residents have all probably heard of the HMB pumpkin festival. It's just a thing to get tourists to spend money. The HMB pumpkin weigh-off is separate. It's a fun thing almost only locals go to. It's happening today. About to head over the hill to have a look at this year's megapumpkins […]

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

In Williams, CA, there's a "bus graveyard". The owner was around and I chatted a bit. If you have a really old bus, this is the place to find parts for it.

A row of really old busses in various states of dilapidation and disassembly.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Yay, back in the #darkroom after a long while... how did it get to be 2 in the morning? (I was up this late last night too, working. This is a much better reason)

prints hanging from the shower curtain bar

they don't all come out right on the first try!

dried enough to take down, putting them on a bed to dry the rest of the way

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Developed and scanned my latest roll of film from the #KodakBrownie. I get 8 shots per roll. It's 7 trains and 1 cat. I visited the Western (Electric) Railway Museum (near Rio Vista, CA) last weekend. They have some of the original BART fleet trains on display now. #SFBART

BART "Old Boi" train with a shovel nose and window on one side only.

Inside the train. Low angle. I needed to take a long exposure and there really wasn't anywhere to put the camera down except on the floor.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

This locomotive has not been repainted since at least 1996 (when the SP, of which the SSW was a subsidiary, was merged into the UP). #southernpacific #ssw en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Sou…

A paint-peeling and graffitied diesel up on a viaduct in San Carlos, CA.

It's lettered (in peeling letters) "Cotton Belt" which was an SP subsidiary (officially St Louis Southwestern, or SSW). It follow the late SP ¨bloody nose" pattern of being dark gray/dusty black except for a bright red splotch on the front. This one has a yellow stripe under the cab window for it's official post-merger UP numbering (but even that is peeling).

Heading northward with a cut of hoppers.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

From @sfcriticalmass tonight. Yeah, that's an #sfmuni trolley... and #SpiderMan. I actually saw Spidey riding around on a non-CM ride a few days ago, and chatted him up before we started tonight. Turns out he lives in my old neighborhood. #criticalMass

A bunch of bikers riding up Market St. A Muni PCC (painted green and yellow, memorializing LA's streetcar system) is coming the other way. And Spider-Man is riding ahead of me!

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

The San Mateo County History Museum delivered carriages to the 2nd floor of their new exhibit space by crane.

a nice old carriage (phaeton?) is on a platform suspended via cables from a crane

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

#KodakBrownie picture of a falling-down cabin somewhere in the high Sierras. #FilmIsNotDead

old log cabin, leaning in from the ends; most of the roof is bare to the rafters. pine trees are taking over

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Developed some film from the #KodakBrownie; first time in a while. Old and new in #SanFrancisco

an old painted-on-the-wall buildboard for Shasta Cola, with an astronaut, higher up there's a modern billboard advertising some AI crap

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

DId not make it to #SFMuni History Weekend proper, but got a peek at the Geneva Barn later last night.

A Muni Motorman raising the back-up trolley pole (which is on the front end) on a PCC car, so it can back into the trolley barn. It's at night.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

This weekend is #SFMuni Heritage Weekend. It's fun but bittersweet because I just learned that an old friend, a former #FLine motorman, scholar, and transit photographer, that I used to see annually at these, passed on in July. At least last year, I bought a copy of his book and he signed it […]

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Back from a short nocturnal bike ride and I'm sweaty, which is not normal in the SFBA.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

I haven't been doing so much film lately, but I didn't want to miss out on #shittyCameraChallenge. So here's a #3d picture of my cat Chompsky taken with a #3DS. #stereoscopy #stereography

he's a big black and white cat. in the picture he's walking across my (dead) lawn, looking back over his shoulder. the picture is side-by-side stereo.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

This is an interesting bridge. It's a concrete arch, but the arch is higher than the roadbed and there are vertical elements to suspend it. I think this technically makes it a truss. Or a suspension bridge? This is in Samuel P Taylor State Park, in Marin County […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Imagine a concrete Arch bridge, like the famous Bixby Creek Bridge. But instead of putting the arches under the roadway, this bridge has them along each side, and way higher than the roadway, and it is suspended by vertical members.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

The US DOT is borrowing the "kill woke urban bikers to make redneck assholes happy" playbook from Ontario, Utah, etc. action.bikeleague.org/page/101946

action.bikeleague.org

Urgent: Save Safe Streets and Roads for All Funding

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Less than 12 hours til @sfcriticalmass . I can't wait! One of the fun things about being on M, since I'm in the westernmost significantly populated time zone, is watching #criticalmass roll around the globe to us. (Is there CM anywhere in HI or AK?)

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

I went by a local Chick-Fil-A, and saw they were flying the flag half-mast. I assume that's in honor of Dolly Parton. But I'm amused that they are now also unintentionally honoring Tim Curry.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Want/need cheap #vinyl? The record man in #RedwoodCity is having a parking lot sale.

Signs on the door. Aug 22-23. $1 records.

Lots of ppl buying records in the parking lot

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Going on right now in #RedwoodCity. The San Mateo County History Museum has completed construction of an extension to house a collection of carriages. And today they are lifting carriages to the second floor by crane. Took some Brownie pics, then went home for my Super-8 camera.

a carriage being rolled onto a platform held by a crane, and getting tied down

docked with a temporarily opened large window on the 2nd floor, getting untied

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

The Pacific Bus Museum had an open house yesterday. I was busy (going to a memorial service) but I dropped off my kid with a bike and told him to meet me. He sent some bus pics. #sfmuni #bus pacbus.org

An old SF Muni bus, seen through the window of another bus, signed for 14 Mission :)

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Green and cream #SFmuni bus! I chased it down on my bike for a picture. The driver waved so I yelled NICE BUS!!! I think it's just a wrap to advertise Muni heritage weekend in September. Hate to nitpick but the yellow is too yellow....

A modern Muni bus painted (or wrapped) like the old green and cream PCC streetcars. Except the front is still gray. Probably to avoid messing with the bike rack.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Seen in a local coffee shop. A little ironic that I want to post about it online, but anyway, a completely offline project is very nice. The content is only visible out in the world but there is a page about it: www.tumblr.com/petezivkov/823594748…

Offline Magazine. Cover shows someone celebrating the 4th July; lots of flags and everything red/white/blue.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

At the start of summer vacation my son and I set a goal of biking over the hill to #HalfMoonBay. Well, school starts on Wednesday and Tuesday's busy. Cheated a little and took a bus up the first hill. There's plenty more.

Getting on a SamTrans bus in Redwood City.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

This trail map has a Washoe names for a lot of geographical features. "Tahoe" itself comes from Washoe dáʔaw which means "lake". You can see it as names of smaller lakes on this map. Tahoe was so big and important that they just called it "the lake". ʔ is a […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Map of the SW corner of Lake Tahoe.
Some other names here: Cascade Lake (the little one by Emerald Bay that you can't get to) is hóga dáʔaw. Fallen Leaf Lake is dawgašásiw dáʔaw.

Meeks Bay, Rubicon Bay Area. There's some names of creeks here. wát'a seems to mean creek.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

This is Echo Lake. Or properly Lower Echo Lake (there's two lakes connected by a channel). Right at the top of the ridge as you leave or enter the Tahoe basin. I've seen it on maps but never been here before. Need to come back.

A lovely mountain lake. Quite long and skinny. Surrounded by pines and granite.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

I was in Lake Tahoe last week and checked out a few things on the way back (via US 50). Years ago, there was a local fellow in South Lake Tahoe who collected PCC streetcars, with a dream of starting a local transit system. Looks like it's down to just this one […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Red and orange PCC car. Looks like PE livery? Partly hidden so hard to tell.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

When fossilized tracks of sloths were first discovered, scientists thought they were from giant humans wearing sandals.

Detail of diagram of fossilized prints: #4 looks kind of like human footprints.

Legend:... 2 mammoth, 3 horse, 4 giant man, 5 bird, 6 large panther....

Fossilized footprint. You can see some claws. Don't know what they were thinking.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

I'm a sucker for cowboy poetry. Whatever you think of that genre, this book has great illustrations. Anyone follow #cowboypoetry? Let's see!

A red hardcover book with a gold title, Powder River Let'er Buck.

Title page. A cowbow with a stampeding herd

The Desert Rat: A scraggly Westerner, cacti, bandits

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Seen at D. L. Bliss state (CA) park, along Lake Tahoe. (It gets crowded here in the summer but everyone seems to go to the same places; this trail was deserted).

A rock with a face. It has two (drilled) holes and a point like a nose.

A leaping lizard! It jumped onto this bush, and then from one branch to another.

A dead tree, broken in a spiral. Struck by lightning?

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

I had some time to fill in #Oakland last night, and my trusty #KodakBrownie with me. Shot a whole roll! (Which is just 8 pictures). This is the Salam Grocery & Restaurant in West Oakland. They have all sorts of middle-eastern tasty things I've never seen for sale anywhere else. Also It's-Its.

It's a nice brick storefront with lots of windows, and some arched windows in the 2nd floor over the front door.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Hanging with my nephew Daturaboss in the KSJS studio. ksjs.org

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

I did some record shopping. They were all cheap! Some were from a thrift store and literally $1.95. I like 10" jazz records

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

This old #sfbart car deserves better! In the second picture the building in the background is the former Oakland main Depot. You can see a truncated bit of an elevated platform. This was for the #SouthernPacific red electric commuter trains, which ran over the Bay Bridge.

A legacy BART fleet cab car, in a gravel lot, covered with graffiti

Another view of sam, with the 16th Street Depot in the background.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

This is interesting: www.404media.co/scientists-uncover-… Original paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science… The theory is that linguistic diversity peaked between 3000-1000 years ago. Hunter-gatherers were […]

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

Making friends with Nople, the cat at #TheCrucibleOakland. That's the hashtag they want people to use, let's see if anybody's talking about them here!

Playing with a little white cat using a feather on a string on a stick

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

There's always neat/weird art at this spot SE of the SF ferry building. Years ago there was the "gothic rocketship", which I hear is now at a mall in Colorado. For a while there was a big spider. Now there's a big giant clam on legs, or tentacles maybe. I'm going to call it H. P. Loveclam.

Ferry bldg tower in bg, brick bldg closet, and big metal clam on many legs in fg.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Been a while since I've been in the #Darkroom. I've been taking pictures and developing film, but not making any prints. Going to try to get back into it. #KodakBrownie

a bunch of medium format contact prints hung up to dry on a shower curtain rod

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

An old truck parked behind @Essanay 's theater in Niles, CA. I understand it belongs to the man who built the little free library out front. #KodakBrownie

an old Chevy truck by the side of a wooden building. the paint (which is blue, but you can't tell that because it's a b&w picture) is peeling off of the sides.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Some more #KodakBrownie pictures from the latest roll of film. I visited Empire Mine State Park. Lots of picturesque mining equipment and s large cottage / small mansion. You can go down a little ways into the (diagonal) mine shaft. I wanted to take a picture but […] [Original post on sfba.social]

an air compressor for the mine. looks like a giant electric motor connected to an air pump

a small building intentionally half buried. for storing explosives perhaps?

gateway to the gardens of the mine owner's house

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Had some time to fill while my kid was taking a class at the Crucible, in West #Oakland. #ACTransit

AC Transit line 62, West Oakland to Fruitvale, though I got off at Jack London Square.
This picture is cheating! Not the bus I actually rode, took a picture of another one when I got back.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

Another #KodakBrownie shot; this is a diner build from old railway cars in Oceano, CA.

it's twilight and you can see the brightly lit dining car interior. outside there's shrubbery.

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