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San Francisco sci-fi...location help needed!!
Fyrchick:
--- Quote from: arianne on June 12, 2011, 12:28:45 PM ---Just wondering if San Fran buildings have fire escapes, or if I'm channeling NY...?
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For the purposes of this thread, YES, buildings have fire escapes. OR they have an approved second means of exit. This is true for pretty much any state or city or town that has a building code and inspection office. You will find fire escapes on older buildings, buildings that were converted to apartments and anything that only has one way into and out of a multi-story building.
Most buildings constructed after 1970 or so will have an interior escape stairwell or something that provides 2 ways to get out of every apartment. Sometimes it is to a hallway that has a fire escape at the end or a separate landing on a single fire escape. Also, most cities only allow metal escapes if it is more than 3 stories.
I can give you the whole fire code thing, but I don't think you have insomnia!
Quantus:
--- Quote from: arianne on May 21, 2011, 02:30:54 PM ---Fog on the freeway has got to be THE scariest thing in the world...how did you get out? Or did you just stop and wait for it to fade? Or something?
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Its basically like driving in torrential rain where you cant see past you hood, just without the noise and traction issues.
Fwiw my dad just said the following in an unrelated conversation: "It's like Oakland: you have the Hills and the Flats. The Flats have shootings everyday, and the Hills hear about them on the news. Well, some of them."
arianne:
I wonder if someone could tell me how far it is from the Tenderloin area to St. Francis Wood (or is it Woods?) I've bought a couple of SF guide books and tried to find St. Francis Wood on it (there's just a place called "St. Francis Hotel"...is that in the general area?) which is just next to the Tenderloin.
I was going to set my "rich people" scenes in the Bay Area, but that's really far away from the Tenderloin (which is the main stage for another bit of the story).
On a totally unrelated note, isn't it frustrating that guidebooks will tell you about the best places to go for live music, but not the best place to meet vampires....? ;D Very inconsiderate, that.
Fyrchick:
--- Quote from: arianne on August 17, 2011, 02:01:05 PM ---I wonder if someone could tell me how far it is from the Tenderloin area to St. Francis Wood (or is it Woods?) I've bought a couple of SF guide books and tried to find St. Francis Wood on it (there's just a place called "St. Francis Hotel"...is that in the general area?) which is just next to the Tenderloin.
I was going to set my "rich people" scenes in the Bay Area, but that's really far away from the Tenderloin (which is the main stage for another bit of the story).
On a totally unrelated note, isn't it frustrating that guidebooks will tell you about the best places to go for live music, but not the best place to meet vampires....? ;D Very inconsiderate, that.
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Using the handy-dandy Google maps (which is really fun to play with) it gives an average walking distance of 4.3 miles and driving about 8. That just using one route for each method. You can enter any waypoint you want if you are interested in a specific route or whatever. I love this feature because you can use street view to make accurate descriptions of the route.
meg_evonne:
Carrie Vaughn did an amazing job describing San Francisco in her last Kitty book.
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