Day Off -- December 19, 2011

I took the day off so we went downtown.  We parked at Fifth and Mission and walked up to Macy's.  We looked at the cats and dogs in the windows, then went upstairs so the family could do some shopping.  We stopped at Neiman Marcus to look at the tree and the City of Paris rotunda.  We went on down Geary to the Palace and looked at the decorations in the Garden Court and a collection of gingerbread houses designed by media people.  We went to Bucca de Beppo on Howard and had a nice lunch.

I took the photo of the tree in Union Square on 19-November-2011.

Happy Bastille Day #1 -- July 14, 2010

The City of Paris Dry Goods Company, founded by the Verdier family, was a major department store in San Francisco. I was sad when the store closed in 1970 and sadder in 1980, when Neiman Marcus tore down the store, saving the rotunda but moving it to the corner.