USA Archives • Folksy Travel by Bill Smale

Near Phoenix airport there is this Arizona style pizza place with a South of The Border flavor selection. It was delicious. Try out Mama’s.

My favorite kind of breakfast, a quesadilla with guacamole and crema. A good way to start out the day.

A meeting place near the Embarcadero

Old style archtecture

Some old buildings remain

Not an announcement but some very interesting information about he past came to light. I got this cookie at my favorite chinese restaurant. Did you know this fortune cookie tradition was started by a Japanese restaurant owner in San Francisco for kids many decades ago

Mispelled but an interesting way to present ONIGIRI

Chinese style noodles near my hotel

US style TARDIS

They have new owners but a pretty nice diner in the city, retro style

In the diner my favorite car

This is THE famous Marylin photo

Our doctor’s office, Dr. Cook who became the county coroner

The former Corner Market where I worked as a delivery and bag boy for the Manteganis

The house my parents built in Tiburon in 1967

Part of the view from out house bay windows. We could see the fog rolling in over the Golden Gate bridge and over Sausalito

The bakery was Mr. Taylor’s barber shop where I had one of my first jobs at 9 years old sweeping the floor an shining customers’ shoes.

Belvedere where we used to go clamming

St. Steven’s where I was an acolyte and was confirmed so I could drink the wine on Sundays

Behind the tree is the rest room for he Belvedere park where I almost fell from the roof to a disastrous fate. I grabbed the gutter on the way down

Our former house on Bayview Avenue. I talked to the new owners who didn’t even know they had an extended garden area in the back. The plum tree in front has been replaced.