City Vehicle Yard, South Van Ness & 13th Street, San Francisco, CA 19 December 2015.A Sleighride of Santas (Weekly Photo Challenge: Gathering).
The Chronicle of a Death and Resurrection Foretold: The Sequel.Plane Travel: Kinky Sex, But With Neither Kink Nor Sex.Some of San Francisco’s great old restaurants, you might feel sorry when they close. Old-school restaurant humor.ĭon’t know who “Henry” is. Since I had an old iPhone 4, I decided to go for the pixellation, maximize it, and thereby create a sort of pointillist watercolor effect. Obegi looked a long time ago.Īnd this is how he looks today. I asked if the milk shake glasses were for sale, but the waitress said they had already sold as many as they could spare. A bit of finger in the lower right hand corner completes the luncheon. Shake, rings, fries, bacon cheddar “fresh ground beef steak” sandwich. Combine that with decades of experience and you got richly flavorful and ridiculously fresh beef sandwiches that justified the prices. Obegi had/has an all-consuming obsession with grinding his own meat. Note that none of the sandwiches are called hamburgers, but instead “fresh ground beef steak.” The reason the restaurant lasted so long is that Mr. Since real journalists have written very well about Joe’s retirement–see here for one story–I will settle for sharing some of the pictures I took inside during what will be my last visit.Įven on Monday afternoon after lunch hours, I had to wait an hour. Since he believes that no one will run the place as he did, he will shut the doors permanently, and the restaurant might well get torn down and replaced with condos (that’s kind of a standard one-liner joke in San Francisco these days). Joe Obegi has worked six or seven day weeks without a vacation during all this time, and has decided to retire.
Joe’s Cable Car Restaurant, waaaaaay out there on Mission Street in the Excelsior, will close this weekend after 49 years of business.
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