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North Beach Fair, 2011
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Patrick's Famous White Sweet Potato Pies
A sign on the table listed locations and hours of operation for the actual booth to appear elsewhere. This was a special, fair-only booth.
North Beach Fair And Festival 2011 • Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, California • (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011) • (Photo taken 12:54:39 Sunday 19 June 2011) • © 2011 Bryan Costales #B11_5460 Add a comment or report a mistake
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Earrings For Sale
Another booth sold earrings and bracelets. Here was one sampling of the kinds of earrings available that day.
North Beach Fair And Festival 2011 • Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, California • (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011) • (Photo taken 12:54:46 Sunday 19 June 2011) • © 2011 Bryan Costales #B11_5461 Add a comment or report a mistake
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Festival Along Grant
The booths were set up all along Grant Avenue from Broadway to Filbert Street .
North Beach Fair And Festival 2011 • Grant Avenue, San Francisco, California • (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011) • (Photo taken 12:58:39 Sunday 19 June 2011) • © 2011 Bryan Costales #B11_5463 Add a comment or report a mistake
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Hand Made Chess
A hand-made chess board was for sale in a booth that featured hand-made wooden furniture and accessories.
North Beach Fair And Festival 2011 • Grant Avenue, San Francisco, California • (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011) • (Photo taken 13:00:06 Sunday 19 June 2011) • © 2011 Bryan Costales #B11_5467 Add a comment or report a mistake
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Restaurants Were Open
The restaurants along Columbus Avenue remained open during the fair and did a brisk business that day.
North Beach Fair And Festival 2011 • Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, California • (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011) • (Photo taken 13:05:54 Sunday 19 June 2011) • © 2011 Bryan Costales #B11_5475 Add a comment or report a mistake
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Center Of Columbus Avenue
The booths ran down the center of Columbus Avenue. The fair only occupied half the street, the other half (behind the booths) remained open to traffic.
North Beach Fair And Festival 2011 • Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, California • (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011) • (Photo taken 13:05:56 Sunday 19 June 2011) • © 2011 Bryan Costales #B11_5476 Add a comment or report a mistake
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Tiny Medal Sculptures
Another booth sold small metal sculptures and other items wrought from metal.
North Beach Fair And Festival 2011 • Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, California • (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011) • (Photo taken 13:06:02 Sunday 19 June 2011) • © 2011 Bryan Costales #B11_5478 Add a comment or report a mistake
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Two Cooks Behind The Scenes
Behind some booths, cooks hung out both preparing food and, in some cases, selling the food too. Here they manned large open gas-fed barbecue grills loaded with turkey legs and corn.
North Beach Fair And Festival 2011 • Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, California • (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011) • (Photo taken 13:08:05 Sunday 19 June 2011) • © 2011 Bryan Costales #B11_5480 Add a comment or report a mistake
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Turkey Legs
One of the foods available at the fair were barbecued turkey legs. Here was a pile of completed legs being kept hot on a barbecue grill.
North Beach Fair And Festival 2011 • Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, California • (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011) • (Photo taken 13:09:27 Sunday 19 June 2011) • © 2011 Bryan Costales #B11_5481 Add a comment or report a mistake
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Verizon Experience
Although most booths sold food or clothing or art, a few sold technology. One booth sold blade-less fans, while this booth sold a technology experience.
North Beach Fair And Festival 2011 • Grant Avenue, San Francisco, California • (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011) • (Photo taken 13:24:30 Sunday 19 June 2011) • © 2011 Bryan Costales #B11_5490 Add a comment or report a mistake
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Green Street
The view looking along upper Green Street toward Grant Avenue At the far end was a band. To the left were stores and restaurants that remained open. Down the center of the street were booths.
North Beach Fair And Festival 2011 • Green Street, San Francisco, California • (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011) • (Photo taken 13:27:55 Sunday 19 June 2011) • © 2011 Bryan Costales #B11_5491 Add a comment or report a mistake
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Mirrored Art
Another booth sold mirrored objects of art. At the right, two passers by happened to peer in just as this shot was taken.
North Beach Fair And Festival 2011 • Green Street, San Francisco, California • (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011) • (Photo taken 13:34:15 Sunday 19 June 2011) • © 2011 Bryan Costales #B11_5498 Add a comment or report a mistake
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Leather Hats
A booth that sold hats featured a rack of leather top hats for sale.
North Beach Fair And Festival 2011 • Grant Avenue, San Francisco, California • (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011) • (Photo taken 13:40:15 Sunday 19 June 2011) • © 2011 Bryan Costales #B11_5504 Add a comment or report a mistake
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Paper Mache Cat
In one of the store windows along upper Grant Avenue was this paper mache cat.
North Beach Fair And Festival 2011 • Grant Avenue, San Francisco, California • (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011) • (Photo taken 13:43:51 Sunday 19 June 2011) • © 2011 Bryan Costales #B11_5507 Add a comment or report a mistake
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Street Art
Along Vallejo Street, just off of Grant, chalk art was being drawn on the street surface. The words read, One day if I do go to Heaven... I'll look around and say, "It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco." -- Herb Caen.
North Beach Fair And Festival 2011 • Vallejo Street, San Francisco, California • (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011) • (Photo taken 14:01:52 Sunday 19 June 2011) • © 2011 Bryan Costales #B11_5515 Add a comment or report a mistake
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John And Yoko
Another artist was drawing in chalk an image of Yoko Ono and John Lennon on the street.
North Beach Fair And Festival 2011 • Vallejo Street, San Francisco, California • (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011) • (Photo taken 14:02:02 Sunday 19 June 2011) • © 2011 Bryan Costales #B11_5517 Add a comment or report a mistake
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Tie-Dyed
What kind of San Francisco festival would it be if there were no tie-dyed clothing for sale. Modern tie-die fabric was printed that way rather than hand tied and dyed.
North Beach Fair And Festival 2011 • Vallejo Street, San Francisco, California • (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011) • (Photo taken 14:03:33 Sunday 19 June 2011) • © 2011 Bryan Costales #B11_5520 Add a comment or report a mistake
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