CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 13, 2013 | By Lee Romney
SAN FRANCISCO -- What's eight feet wide and 12 feet deep and sells for $82,000? As it turns out, a parking spot near San Francisco's AT&T Park. The enclosed parking spot in a condo building in the South Park neighborhood is creating buzz in a town where the housing market is so hot most things fail to startle. But San Francisco Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius reports Thursday the parking deal might be part of a new trend. The spot was sold last week by Sean Sullivan, an agent with Climb Real Estate who had some experience: He sold another one in the same building for $95,000 during San Francisco's last boom.
TRAVEL
November 18, 2007 | Hugo Martin, Times Staff Writer
The views were mesmerizing: A shroud of fog enveloped the Golden Gate Bridge. Waves washed onto the Berkeley shores. A sailboat tacked its way under the Bay Bridge. But I had little time to sit and absorb the scenery from Angel Island State Park. If I didn't pick up the pace, I would be stranded on this largely undeveloped island in the middle of San Francisco Bay without food or shelter until the next morning.
NEWS
October 11, 2000 | JOHN M. GLIONNA, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Ending a bitter legal dispute over how to best honor the legacy of New York Yankee legend Joe DiMaggio, city officials have reached an agreement with the late player's estate to rename in his honor a tiny North Beach park where DiMaggio and his brothers played as boys.
NEWS
June 16, 2000 | From Reuters
Saying the memory of baseball star Joe DiMaggio should not "be held hostage to the whim of that hero's estate," San Francisco asked a judge Thursday to allow it to go ahead and name a city park after the late, great New York Yankee. In legal papers filed with U.S. District Court in Miami, a lawyer representing San Francisco asked the court to reject legal efforts by attorney Morris Engelberg, who controls the right to commercial uses of DiMaggio's name, to block the naming of the park.
SPORTS
April 9, 2000 | ROB GLOSTER, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Crippled by arthritis so bad he has trouble standing, Willie McCovey grinned as he surveyed the Giants' quirky new bayside ballpark--with a mere 309 feet from home plate to the foul pole in right. "When I saw the right-field wall, I thought about making a comeback," the 62-year-old Hall of Famer said. McCovey spent his Giants career at wind-swept Candlestick Park. The most feared left-handed slugger of his generation, he could have caused a big splash at new Pacific Bell Park.
NEWS
February 27, 2000 | VERONIQUE de TURENNE, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Amid the lupine, lilacs and California live oak of Golden Gate Park, a glorious swath of green in this densely populated city, the official state bird is vanishing. The California quail, a slightly comic bird with a plump profile and an elegant topknot, once roamed the park's 1,013 acres. More than 1,500 quail lived here at the turn of the century.