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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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

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

mmmm... summer 2002-ish.

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

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

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

haha, so much for my memory.

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

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

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

(Sunday May 14th that is)

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

But forget I said that.. back to OAKLAND!

WOOO WOOOOO!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

― Kris (aqueduct), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 17:47 (nineteen 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

British Isles Transient Communication HateradEorS ROLLCALL!

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

My brother does not seem interested in the prospect of exploring the East Bay. :(

― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Also - he wants to go and see Electrelane. TWICE. :( :(

― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link

what would you realy show him in oakland though? I like Oakland but it's not very fascinating to a visitor, I don't think. It's charms are revealed over time to people who live here. You should take him to the Ruby Room or RADIO though because it is all indie and shit there and that's all he cares about.

make him take BART to fremont and leave him there if you're feeling antagonistic.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link

What is your favorite restaurant in the O that isn't Le Cheval???

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 27 August 2004 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Citron

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 27 August 2004 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link

who has eaten here?

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 27 August 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.oaklandmilehigh.com/
http://www.baywolf.com/

― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link

uzen (college ave, rockridge)
autumn moon (grand ave)... is this named something else now?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 14:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I fell out of a hot tub at Piedmont Springs. My back hurts.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link

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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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago) link

never ever go into a medmen

― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 5 April 2024 02:04 (two weeks ago) link

Not great, Bob?

― sarahell, Friday, 5 April 2024 15:40 (two weeks ago) link

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