And Sneakers 4K Is Coming Out In April!

A sometimes strange, but mostly good visit to San Francisco. Although I probably shouldn’t drink again until the second half of March at the very least.

Once again, I felt broadly safe in the downtown and Mission areas (and anywhere else I went, really). One altercation early on Monday morning, but that was about it. However, you can’t deny that the city centre has taken a big hit from Covid and shows no real sign of bouncing back. Even more vacant shopfronts than my previous visit, with even It’s Sugar having bailed out of the old Forever 21 location…and it seems that the Macy’s that has been there since 1929, and has roots going back to 1866 (!) might be shutting down. The San Francisco Centre, stripped of the Westfield branding, is now a downtown mall with less than 25% occupancy and the haunted air of a place that feels like The Caretaker should be piped over the PA system. Not the healthiest, let’s just say.

Of course, we’ll always truly remember San Francisco this way:

(Of course, when I got home, I was greeted with smiles. And then directed to sit in the reading corner, because I had fallen behind in the daily task of reading all the books)