The The Western Neighborhoods Project sells fun neighborhood gear on their website. They’ve got an assortment of t-shirts (men’s & women’s), sweatshirts, bags and the ubiquitous coffee mug. The logo design is a vintage picture of 18th & Geary – you can see the Alexandria movie sign and the trolley car in it (click here for a closeup). The back side includes their WNP name and website address, http://www.outsidelands.org.

Prices range from $15.99 for a mug to $39.99 for the hooded sweatshirt (I sure could have used it in last weekend’s foggy weather – brrr!). And the profits go back into the Western Neighborhoods Project whose mission is to preserve the history of San Francisco’s west side.

Shop for Richmond District gear

Gear is available for several other western neighborhoods and landmarks as well: Playland, Sunset District, Sunnyside, Westwood Park, OMI (Ocean View, Merced Heights and Ingleside), and Clement Street 1907 (vintage photo of 6th & Clement). See all the items available in the Outsidelands shop.

Sarah B.

Pictures from this morning, around 7:15am.

- Sarah B.

Ok, this one isn’t specific to the Richmond but it was just too good not to share…

Back in 2008, Scott Weaver of Ronhert Park, CA debuted his 9-foot toothpick structure in tribute to San Francisco and Bay Area landmarks, entitled “Rolling through the Bay”. Aside from being amazing to look at and incredibly clever, the structure also has “roads” through it that a ping pong ball travels along. Check out the video below to see it in action (an even better video is here but it wasn’t embeddable). Be sure to listen closely – there are some fun momentos he embeds along the journey. See more pics here.

And check this out… The structure was made from toothpicks thrown at him and his wife (in lieu of rice) during their wedding. That’s a lot of toothpicks in there – how many times have you been married, Scott?

Thanks to San Francisco Schtuff for the tip.

Sarah B.

P.S. – Someone emailed asking if Scott’s sculpture can be seen somewhere today (sorry – your email didn’t make it through in the message!). I did a little research and it looks like it was on display at the “Root Division” Art Gallery, 3175 17th St. (At S. Van Ness) in San Francisco, from April 8-25, 2009. Note sure where it went after that but you might give the gallery a call to find out (415.863.7668, info@rootdivision.org). Here’s the article where I found that info.