I love it (http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/tags/beachchalet/) too, and I also like copper buildings. :) As spring rolls around and gets springier, I might bring my bicycle over to the park on one of my days off, and hit the new museum, some of the birding spots between there and the beach, and the Beach Chalet for lunch. It's a little overpriced, but the beer's good, the garlic fries are great, and it's the Beach Chalet, which is worth it just because.
we usually eat downstairs at the park chalet since it opened, because you can sit outside there. i prefer the winter to the more touristy times of year. yesterday was great, and warm enough to sit outside too. :)
we're even old enough to rmember when the beach chalet was being used as a biker bar and was in horrible disrepair for many years. the restoration that finally came about some years ago was long overdue!
ps - on sundays in the (sometimes) warmer months, they also have a barbeque out back on the lawn and lots of families use it as their backyard. i love seeing so many locals with small kids out there using it a a place to spend the afternoon with their kids and pets - they usually have some kind of live music outside on sundays then too for the kids.
there are a lot more mural pics in my flickr sf set as well. i must have hundreds, but of course only a sampling are in my flickr set. i just liked how the colors came out yesterday especially well with my trusty canon p&s. :)
that's just a small detail from one wall - the murals cover the inside of a pretty large room, maybe 40 feet by 20 feet in size. they were painted by the wpa back in the depression years.
They really are beautiful! How I love buildings with lots of art! I don't think I've seen anything quite like that outside of museums or what I found in Italy!
there are a few other places in SF that still have some WPA murals and they are so wonderful - coit tower, etc. i will have to make a set on flickr of just WPA mural pics, they are so fantastic.
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we're even old enough to rmember when the beach chalet was being used as a biker bar and was in horrible disrepair for many years. the restoration that finally came about some years ago was long overdue!
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimbar/281272403/
The entire downstairs of a large building is covered with murals, wood carvings, and mosaics.
Even the sign for the bathrooms (http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/112784250/) is fancy, and wall-sized.
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