{"id":3379,"date":"2009-09-02T01:18:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T08:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2009-09-02T23:45:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T06:45:22","slug":"san-francisco-the-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/3379","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco: The drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3fishstudios.com\" target=_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/3fish_01.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been thru San Francisco, this sign should seem familiar. <\/p>\n<p>Originally planned as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfmuseum.net\/photos2\/49mile.gif\" target=_blank\">a driving promotion<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Golden_Gate_International_Exposition\" target=_blank\">1939 Golden Gate International Exposition<\/a>, the 49 Mile Scenic Drive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfcvb.org\/meetingmarketer\/showmap.asp?m=4\" target=_blank\">[map]<\/a> passes thru all the visual highlights and lowlights of The City. Rex May is credited with designing the iconic signs &#8211; for more <em>dope<\/em> on the drive, check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/157061251X?tag=stevemehallo-20&#038;camp=213381&#038;creative=390973&#038;linkCode=as4&#038;creativeASIN=157061251X&#038;adid=0GGP1PB96RGHN2J19YQ9&#038;\" target=_blank\">handy guidebook.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And Annie Galvin of <a href=\"http:\/\/3fishstudios.com\" target=_blank\">3 Fish Studios<\/a> made <a href=\"http:\/\/rewitzer.typepad.com\/the_lonely_robot\/2008\/10\/annies-big-night.html\" target=_blank\">a big splash<\/a> last year with her <a href=\"http:\/\/3fishstudios.com\/live\/shop\/gallery\/2429\" target=_blank\">multicolored acrylic paintings<\/a>, also available as nifty <a href=\"http:\/\/3fishstudios.com\/live\/shop\/gallery\/3386\" target=_blank\">postcards<\/a> (seen above).<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"San Francisco: The drive\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/3379\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a driving promotion for the [map] passes thru all the visual highlights and lowlights of The City. Rex May is credited with designing the iconic signs &#8211; for more dope on the drive, check out this 3 Fish Studios made multicolored acrylic paintings, also available as nifty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,44,54,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-finds","category-design-history","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3379"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3474,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions\/3474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}