Photo by @SFRecParkGM
Warren Hellman isn’t the only local celebrity to get a piece of Golden Gate Park named after themselves.
This afternoon, Middle Drive East in Golden Gate Park got a new name: Nancy Pelosi Drive. Its a stretch of road that connects Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy Drives in the park, near the Academy of Sciences and tennis complex.
According to Huffington Post SF, today’s 2pm ceremony – which included Mayor Ed Lee – was designed to highlight “Pelosi’s efforts to combat HIV/AIDS over the past three decades… Pelosi will also be honored for helping to preserve the Presidio, rehabilitating Crissy Field Air Field, securing billions in earthquake relief and helping to expand public transportation around the city.”
More photos from the naming ceremony
Sarah B.
Stupid.
Notice that every other street named after an actual person is named after a deceased person.
I’m disappointed in Pelosi. Naming public places after living politicians is a form of corruption.
Nice! Love Nancy. Happy to see her get some early recognition. More to come for sure.
What a f**king discrace! They should call it “Third Term Drive” after all the innocent lives she has killed. Absoulutly sickening.
She’s done more for this city than Warren Hellman ever did. And you try living across the street from the park when Hardly Strictly is going on. Warren’s legacy isn’t a good one in my building.
Very appropriate that Nancy’s street runs by the AIDS Memorial. She has done more for others and the greater good than most people, dead or alive.
I also thought it awkward to be in attendance for your own street naming. However, if somebody offered to name a street after me I wouldn’t turn it down either.
When people drive on this street will they want to go to the far left?
What hubris. And I say this as someone who has always voted for her.
I voted for her, but this is a disgrace. Nancy Pelosi drive connecting Martin Luther King Jr. drive and John F. Kennedy drive… really?
Well, Nancy was the first female speaker of the house- effectively the most powerful woman in American history- so she did set a huge milestone. But I think it would have been more appropriate to name the street posthumously as they are typically done. On this subject, what is the update on 3rd st. becoming Willie Brown St.?
As much as she destroyed my state, she is dead.
Arrgh! I just purchased a super detailed map of San Francisco that, at the time (about two weeks ago), was so brand-spanking new and up-to-date, it was in still in the process of being printed and folded at its publishers. I waited a few days to allow for the manufacture of this particular SF map and consequently receive the latest edition of it directly from its publisher, rather than take delivery of its previous printing. For about a week, I had a completely updated map of SF. Now, in about one week’s time, and just like that, it’s not quite 100% updated. Boo! I suppose I could go and make a small note in GG Park section of the map, that Middle Drive East is now Nancy Pelosi Drive, but this locally produced map is, well, too nice to started adding notes to and writing on.
She is a horrible botox queen who should simply resign. She steals money for so many horrible things. She is a creepy lady – and she has done horrible crimes against humanity. She is NOT nice. She cannot work with others. She has given California a bad name. She does not have the brains to be in office – she got there because someone died. She is a creepy person – and she is unkind, unwise, and nasty towards countless millions of Americans. Naming a road after her – they named it wrong. It should be called Toxic Nancy Botox Road and have special danger signs on it.
Randall, did you just say you bought a 100% updated map? You do know that map data changes on a consistent basis, don’t you? I am willing to bet that your paper map was out of date well before it was printed… Just sayin…
@t-roy The SF map I bought had JUST been printed. I received the map as soon as possible after it had been printed and folded…this was a matter of not even two weeks ago. Yes, it is true, map data does contantly change and I know it is impossible to have a 100% up-to-date map, even after two weeks of its printing. I guess it’s just that after having to rely on some SF maps (circa 1985 and 1995), one that shows the pre-quake Central Skyway in existance, along with buildings, places, and railroad tracks for certain long gone, it was nice to have a SF map that was *so* up-to-date. Still is. Other than the fact about Middle Street East becoming Pelosi Drive, it’s good to finally have an updated map that depicts SF as it exists now….not as it was back in ’95…or ’85!
I am now in my very senior ,years, spent 20 years in San Francisco, retired from the Presido, served in the Army in three wars and left San Francisco because of the politics of Queen Nancy and her likes. A more appropriate street to be named after her would be Lombard street. The crookedest street in town!
Smartest thing I ever did was to leave and I thank God I had the means to do so.
Got a kick out of the guy who couldn’t find the street till he opened the map. That’s a famous Nancy
bit. She didn’t read the bill, but she got a lotta folks to vote for it. At least the street connects with two other streets and does not lead anywhere. Otherwise we could end up her husband’s island pig farm.
So now only a left turn will get you on to Pelosi Drive? And where will the City erect the life-like plastic statue of Nancy’s upper torso?