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legion of honor is pretty cool. i also like the Amoeba record store on Haight St. it is like the size of a costco and has cassette tapes which i like a lot. there is one on market st. too thats really big but i forget what its called, its not as good either in my opinion.
yeah, that's Rasputin Music. Definitely not as awesome as Amoeba. Not even close.
another place you should maybe check out is a bar in the Mission District called Delirium. It's sorta seen as a "skater" bar in the same vein Max Fish is in new york. I danced with Dave Bachinsky with "poison" by Bell Biv Davoe playing in the background. It was weird. Really weird.
Come to think of it, almost every bar in the Mission is populated by skaters on Friday and Saturday nights
Pops on 24th and york is kinda like that too. Its the unofficial bar of potrero del sol park.
El Farolito's food isn't the best in the mission, but I would pay so much for a jar of their salsa. SO good. And the fact that its open until 4 a.m. makes it really popular. Pancho Villa is pretty fucking dope too.
City lights, and vesuvio next door in north beach are an amazing piece of beatnik history. Pretty much all of the old beatniks used to hang out at both of the places. Vesuvio is filled with douchebags now for the most part, but I had a friend who was a cocktail waitress there and she used to get me wasted for free.
Tommy's joynt on van ness is pretty dope.
Also, don't even fucking bother with anything on fisherman's wharf. Its nothing more than a shit tourist trap. Its got all the shit you see in other tourist traps like Times square in new york like "bubba gump shrimp" and maddam tusaud's wax museum, and they also got overpriced seafood. Overall though, you aren't really experiencing the city at all.
Go to Jones st. at California street (I think its California, basically, go to the top from downtown). Look down it, decide Sean Young is your new favorite skater ever for doing this:
You don't know until you go. And don't worry that your girl doesn't skate, you couldn't skate it anyway (nobody can really) and telling any person a dude rode down that in a skateboard would blow their mind.