Painted ladies, artwork, police and buses.

There are many gorgeous Victorian houses in the Haight area.  Here are some.

 

The most famous is a group of 7 houses along Steiner Street, opposite Alamo Square.  They are so famous that tourist buses overwhelmed the street, so now they (the buses) are banned from the area.  Also, I noticed that there are no overhead wires outside these houses.  It is hard to get good shots of other houses because of this.

And if you have a message you want to get out, these residents have an advantage!

And this person has made very artistic use of her sewing cotton stash!

And for those of us who grew up with Karl Malden and his "buddy boy",  a very young Michael Douglas in the "Streets of San Francisco", here is one of the police cars.

We have done well with transport.  Senior tickets can be had for a bit over a dollar.  They have a generous time limit on them, which I can never correctly calculate, but the driver will tell you whether it is still valid or not.  The only catch is the machines don't give change, so we have to make sure we have three one dollar notes, and then we are "good to go".  Tomorrow we get to try the BART to the airport.