OAKLAND

Spencer, did you know that Fenton's burned down? My XGF lives right by there and we heard the sirens one night and the cops were there taking the manager and 2 workers away in cuffs in the parking lot while the place erupted in flames despite several firetrucks on the scene (must have been gasoline).

The employees had a rental truck filled with the safe and the jukebox (?).

It reopened after a year but I never went back.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 3 May 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago) link

wow! I had no idea. when did this happen???

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 3 May 2004 18:38 (twenty years ago) link

mmmm... summer 2002-ish.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 3 May 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago) link

actually, just looked it up. November of '01 and reopened in '03

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 3 May 2004 18:44 (twenty years ago) link

haha, so much for my memory.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 3 May 2004 18:44 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.theprimalscream.com/images/star-cover.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 3 May 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago) link

I will be at Oakland airport Sunday morning for two hours close to 10am. Anyone wanna come over and have breakfast with me?

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 3 May 2004 21:38 (twenty years ago) link

@d@m will be bringing MARMALADE!...(in case you missed that from the LA FAP thread)

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 3 May 2004 21:38 (twenty years ago) link

(Sunday May 14th that is)

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 3 May 2004 21:38 (twenty years ago) link

It's tempting, but the traffic can be awful on Sunday mornings. That would probably be one of the most bizarre FAPs ever, though. Which appeals to my perverse side (i.e. all of me). Won't you be "airside" (see? I know) for the majority of your layover?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 3 May 2004 21:40 (twenty years ago) link

Okay I just scanned the LA FAP thread and I'm still totally mystified by the marmalade thing. But don't explain...mystery is good.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 3 May 2004 21:43 (twenty years ago) link

Haha, I have no idea. I've just been jesting. Don't get me wrong.. I would love to meet up with you, however brief, if possible. But I think I'll be too busy running around a new airport figuring out where to exit and re-enter security, new flight, etc. making sure I get a window seat, etc. (since Southwest does this first-come-first-serve thing when it comes to seat assignment) to have time for any sort of Oakland airport FAP sadly. :( In any case, I wouldn't expect anyone in the bay area to go out of their way or care about lil' ol me...

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 3 May 2004 21:45 (twenty years ago) link

I might be able to squeeze in a flight to SF sometime in the next month and a half, though.. who knows.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 3 May 2004 21:46 (twenty years ago) link

But forget I said that.. back to OAKLAND!

WOOO WOOOOO!

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 3 May 2004 21:47 (twenty years ago) link

The best train-side graffiti I've ever seen in my life was in Oakland, just north and just south of Jack London... it is spectacular.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 3 May 2004 21:48 (twenty years ago) link

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago) link

The best train-side graffiti I've ever seen in my life was in Oakland, just north and just south of Jack London... it is spectacular.

Oh, I'll second this!

― Kris (aqueduct), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 15:58 (twenty years ago) link

the oakland airport is tiny. you can run the length of the whole thing in ten minutes, probably. I love that airport! when I didn't travel very often, going to SFO was fun and exciting and exotic, but now it's just a headache.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 16:16 (twenty years ago) link

SFO is a stylish airport, but it is a bastard to find your way around.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago) link

it's not as confusing as de Gaulle or something though.

It also has shitty food in the international terminal. They could do better.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.house.gov/lee/images/photo006.jpg

― Kris (aqueduct), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago) link

http://dbacon.igc.org/PJust/PJustBig/affact19.jpg

― Kris (aqueduct), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 17:45 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.business2oakland.com/main/images/interior_images/jerry_brown.jpg

― Kris (aqueduct), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 17:47 (twenty years ago) link

http://pod-135.dolphin-server.co.uk/~gareth/photos/5113.jpg

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 15 May 2004 11:09 (nineteen years ago) link

http://pod-135.dolphin-server.co.uk/~gareth/photos/5114.jpg
http://pod-135.dolphin-server.co.uk/~gareth/photos/5115.jpg

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 15 May 2004 11:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Sadly, @d@m, even our proposed M@rm@l@de Oaktown airport breakfast FAP won't happen since I won't be leaving the gate/ticket holder area. :( I'll probably be lying on the floor in line somewhere at some gate hoping to get a good seat for my flight back to Seattle. Think of me, and M@Rm@l@dE around 10am on Sunday.... please?

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 15 May 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link

(once again, the g-man with the great pics... :) )

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 15 May 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 15 May 2004 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link

going to see rod dibble tonight!

― ron (ron), Saturday, 15 May 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link

hey adam et al, I'm sending a radio station contest winner to lollapalooza at shoreline, can I pick your brain?

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Teeny, I missed this last post - do you still need help with anything?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I went to Yoshi's for my birthday, wanted to add it to this thread:

http://www.morimotoarch.com/images/portfolio/yoshisEntry.jpg

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Not only was it great cos we got to take off our shoes and stuff, but the California Roll was delicious and the Amtrak goes right past the window, which I LOVED.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link

eh probably not, looks like I don't get to book the trip after all, the corporate office wants to handle it. Thanks though!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link

SHORELINE IS IN MOUNTAIN VIEW!!!

(just kidding, just felt like making a scene)

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Oakland loves freight and transport.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link

http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~mortimer/blimp/

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link

oooh.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link

did you go mix it up downtown yesterday and get a taste of the real oakland lifestyle?

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

SEVEN COURSES OF BEEF

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link

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I'm not a big fan of THC myself, but I think two out of every three people I know regularly use edibles ("gummies") which seem to me the best thing to come out of legalization. Easier to control dosage and is way more appealing to the types of people who don't want to be smoking for whatever reason (health, stigma). A lot of those people use delivery services AFAIK.

― beard papa, Thursday, 4 April 2024 18:17 (one month ago) link

yeah, I know quite a few folks on the CBD gummies.. you can even buy a version in liquor stores here

A friend has been allowing his teenage kid to use them, to help with ADHD

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 4 April 2024 18:20 (one month ago) link

https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/high-times-shuts-down-pot-shops-california-19385787.php

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 4 April 2024 23:50 (one month ago) link

"California’s cannabis industry struggles to survive, with massive distributors going belly-up, tax revenues sinking and dispensaries closing across the state."

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 4 April 2024 23:51 (one month ago) link

I have to say, the MedMen dispensary on San Pablo Ave & 40th looked more like a Verizon store than a head-shop... I know they're trying to appear 'legitimate' but it was really uninviting

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 5 April 2024 00:28 (one month ago) link

i dislike most dispensaries for this reason. the ones in LA were particularly annoying. I like Berkeley Patients Group (the first in the country, I think) and try to stick with them.

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 5 April 2024 00:38 (one month ago) link

i went to one downtown when i was visiting a while back and had left my carts at home and i hated the whole experience, even moreso than the medical experience here in PA which is not great

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 5 April 2024 01:34 (one month ago) link

never ever go into a medmen

― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 5 April 2024 02:04 (one month ago) link

Not great, Bob?

― sarahell, Friday, 5 April 2024 15:40 (one month ago) link

three weeks pass...

MedMen bankrupt: https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/medmen-bankruptcy-19429105.php

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 29 April 2024 21:17 (one week ago) link

Yeah, I just walked by the... branch? on San Pablo and noticed that it's empty

What an uninviting place that was, it looked like a stripmall verizon store

― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 29 April 2024 21:25 (one week ago) link

(oh wait I just said the same thing upthread)

― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 29 April 2024 21:26 (one week ago) link

I think it used to be a verizon/ some form of cell phone store tbh

― sarahell, Monday, 29 April 2024 23:44 (one week ago) link

Perhaps too obscure, but does anyone know why the freeway underpass on MLK around 55th or so is the site of large scale radical poster wheatpasting? Like… it isn’t one poster every pillar for the length of the road until Berkeley… it’s densely concentrated postering in a two block radius.

Today was several Palestine posters (2-3 different designs) and one for worker solidarity

― sarahell, Monday, 29 April 2024 23:50 (one week ago) link

not too far from a number of radical spaces, right? Long Haul, anything left at Omni, a ton of radical houses and holdouts

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 00:37 (six days ago) link

Yeah see I am guessing there is a radical house in that 2 block radius because the block postering doesn’t show up in the immediate vicinity of Omni, and Long Haul is further north …it’s kinda near Purple House but …

― sarahell, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 05:20 (six days ago) link

It’s like it’s more “proof of concept” than a full on campaign

― sarahell, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 05:21 (six days ago) link

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