Our weekly installment, Reduction Roundup, will be available for your viewing pleasure each Wednesday. This little gem will bring you some of our favorite price reductions of the week. If you have questions, know of a solid reduction that should be featured or want to know about a specific property, just ask…
Reduction: 98
Address: 33 Dashiell Hammet St Why: As the listing says “rare gem with all the charm of a home in Paris, London or New Orleans.” Plus, period detail and a fun street name. Original $: $1,795,000 Current $: $1,595,000
Our weekly installment, Reduction Roundup, will be available for your viewing pleasure each Wednesday. This little gem will bring you some of our favorite price reductions of the week. If you have questions, know of a solid reduction that should be featured or want to know about a specific property, just ask…
Reduction 88:
Address: 198 Castro Street Why: Its real old bones got a very new look. Original $: $2,695,000 Current $: $2,359,000
I’ve been to Cafe Claude three times and have always been impressed. I love walking down the tiny alley in the evening and seeing the lights at the outdoor tables. It’s got this really romantic, European type of feeling, and the service is excellent (our recent server was also adorable–always a nice touch). The endive salad and the trout were all excellent. There was delicious flavor in each, but not overbearing. Hence, not feeling heavy or too full afterward. My sister ordered the chicken, the flavor was richer with a dark red wine sauce, and so tender that the meat fell off the bone. Love you Claude!
John’s Grill, one of the city’s oldest and most famous restaurants, boasting patrons such as Hilary Clinton, Alfred Hitchcock, Andy Warhol, Ronald Regan and many more is celebrating its 100 year anniversary. What does this mean for you? Well, stop by on Friday between 11:30-3:30 and get yourself some cheap-ass cocktails with prices from 100 years ago. 8 cents buys you some social lubricant and appetizers. While you’re there, try to spring for one of their famous steaks or fish dishes so that they can celebrate another 100.
Schtuff:
What: John’s Grill 100 year anniversary celebration
Where: John’s Grill 63 Ellis Street in Downtown San Francisco
Perks: Get two cocktails for 8 cents each, a free appetizer and a complimentary martini glass
Unless your head is happily buried in the ground, you’re certain to be aware of the controversy surrounding the Olympics and the “torch.” Today’s events in Paris highlight the concern and raise questions about Wednesday’s arrival in San Francisco. While I firmly believe, as I suspect we all do, in the right to express and protest, I’m forced to ask if this is the right “event” to protest.
Macy’s San Francisco is making shopping easier and healthier with Apple’s. In the basement level (just past the food court before you enter the housewares department) they have an Apple iPod vending machine! This machine is futuristic (or something you’d see in Japan) as hell! You’ll notice from the picture above, people trust it and use it! The screen is amazingly simple to use, the products are packaged in all the finest materials that will never break down in a landfill but look sweet as [eye] candy and without a nagging salesperson by your side, you can be in and out, iPod in hand in moments. Simply fascinating.
Over the year, Apple Inc. has revamped its stores, changed the layout, added services and increased its staffing. The “concierge” service that Apple launched last week is the latest initiative designed to draw more visitors and bolster already record-breaking sales.
According to SFGate, the new Apple stores boast “clipboard-carrying concierges [that] greet customers at the door to direct them to the right section of the store or to the personal shopper or trainer with whom they had made an appointment.” The registers have been removed from the stores and the employees carry a portable scanner in a super hip, hip holster. Receipts are e-mailed on the spot or, if the customer prefers, a paper version emerges from printers hidden underneath display tables. So, where is the shopper with enough gull to use cold hard cash supposed to pay? Though there may be delay for cash and check payers, you’ll be escorted to a cold, dirty dungeon where you can fork up your bucks believe it or not, Apple still knows that Cash Rules Everything Around Me.
This is like a Visa commercial where the repetitive music creates machine like buying precision, consumers consume quickly, remain organized, buy, buy buy, but one annoying sucker decides to pay with a check or god forbid, cash! This dirty payment method throws everybody off and the clockwork of the shoppers comes to a screeching halt until the ol’ plastic comes out.
This video blows me (and the sirens) away! It takes place on January 1, 1951 on Market at 5th and the interviewer talks to folks passing by about what is to come in good ol’ 1951. Today, we are all familiar with the Tuesday at noon sirens that still blow (I thought that meant lunch time). According to this video, we should duck! 1/1/51 was the first day the sirens were sounded. The exercise took place at 11am and the “all clear” was sounded at 11:15am. If you heard these sirens at any time other than Friday at 11, you were supposed to stop, drop and roll.
Things to note:
Men on Market and 5th are wearing suits, ties and hats (even the guy out of work that doesn’t want a job!)
People had no personality in 1951
Peoples’ jobs were different, “rail road man” and “clothing business”
The Tunnel Top: Don’t go here stone cold sober. Go after a few beers and wander upstairs to snag one of the coveted sofa seats. After you’ve made yourself cozy, make your friends battle the bar downstairs and buy you drinks while you get down to some old skool hip hop. They pour them strong and the next thing you know, you may be grinding between Old Man River and a SF State student. This is a true dive bar because anyone and everyone can be found here, including me.
Reduction: 98
Alfred Hitchcock, Andy Warhol, Ronald Regan and many more is celebrating its 100 year anniversary. What does this mean for you? Well, stop by on Friday between 11:30-3:30 and get yourself some cheap-ass cocktails with prices from 100 years ago. 8 cents buys you some social lubricant and appetizers. While you’re there, try to spring for one of their famous steaks or fish dishes so that they can celebrate another 100.
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