Golden Gate Bridge Northern On-Ramp
The northern on-ramp to the Golden Gate Bridge.
Archive for February 2009
Airplane Deicing at Detroit Metropolitan Airport
Aircraft de-icing for a McDonnel Douglas DC-9 at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport.
Originally opened in 1929 as the Wayne County Airport, the airport was later renamed to Detroit-Wayne Major Airport in 1947 and finally to its present day name, Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in 1958. The airport was also certified in that year as an international jet craft airport by the Civil Aeronautics Authority (which later became the Federal Aviation Administration).
San Francisco Pillow Fight!
The 2009 Great San Francisco Pillow Fight took place on Valentine’s Day at the Justin Herman Plaza. This annual event was first organized in San Francisco for the 2006 Valentine’s Day.
Valentine’s Day
According to Wikipedia:
In South Korea, women give chocolate to men on February 14, and men give non-chocolate candy to women on March 14. On April 14 (Black Day), those who did not receive anything on the 14th of Feb or March go to a Chinese restaurant to eat black noodles and “mourn” their single life.
Sunset on Mt. Diablo
One winter evening on Mount Diablo, 3800 feet from sea level.
Specular reflection courtesy of Toyota’s 2007 Camry Hybrid.
San Francisco Muni, Kirkland Division
The San Francisco Municipal Railway (aka Muni) first started service on December 28th, 1912. Today, it services around 200 million riders per year over a 46.7 square mile area with approximately 1000 buses, 200 streetcars, and 40 cable cars.
Muni’s Kirkland Division (ca. 1948) facility provides wash, repair, and storage service to approximately fifty vehicles.
the other Pittsburgh
One out of five people in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania lives below the poverty line. [Census 2000]
Sun Yat-sen
This portrait of Sun Yat-sen (孫中山 / Sūn Zhōngshān) was taken from the obverse side of a circulated 50 NT coin minted in 2005. The 28 mm wide coin was first minted in 2002 by the Central Mint of China (中央造幣廠) in Taiwan and features both the Chinese and Arabic numeral 50 (五十) on the reverse side.
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