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North Beach Fair, 2011

Patrick's Famous White Sweet Potato Pies
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A sign on the table listed locations and hours of operation for the actual booth to appear elsewhere. This was a special, fair-only booth.


North Beach Fair And Festival 2011   •  Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011)   •  (Photo taken 12:54:39 Sunday 19 June 2011)   •  © 2011 Bryan Costales Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License #B11_5460
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Earrings For Sale
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Another booth sold earrings and bracelets. Here was one sampling of the kinds of earrings available that day.


North Beach Fair And Festival 2011   •  Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011)   •  (Photo taken 12:54:46 Sunday 19 June 2011)   •  © 2011 Bryan Costales Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License #B11_5461
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Festival Along Grant
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The booths were set up all along Grant Avenue from Broadway to Filbert Street internal link.


North Beach Fair And Festival 2011   •  Grant Avenue, San Francisco, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011)   •  (Photo taken 12:58:39 Sunday 19 June 2011)   •  © 2011 Bryan Costales Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License #B11_5463
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Hand Made Chess
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A hand-made chess board was for sale in a booth that featured hand-made wooden furniture and accessories.


North Beach Fair And Festival 2011   •  Grant Avenue, San Francisco, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011)   •  (Photo taken 13:00:06 Sunday 19 June 2011)   •  © 2011 Bryan Costales Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License #B11_5467
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Restaurants Were Open
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The restaurants along Columbus Avenue remained open during the fair and did a brisk business that day.


North Beach Fair And Festival 2011   •  Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011)   •  (Photo taken 13:05:54 Sunday 19 June 2011)   •  © 2011 Bryan Costales Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License #B11_5475
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Center Of Columbus Avenue
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The booths ran down the center of Columbus Avenue. The fair only occupied half the street, the other half (behind the booths) remained open to traffic.


North Beach Fair And Festival 2011   •  Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011)   •  (Photo taken 13:05:56 Sunday 19 June 2011)   •  © 2011 Bryan Costales Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License #B11_5476
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Tiny Medal Sculptures
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Another booth sold small metal sculptures and other items wrought from metal.


North Beach Fair And Festival 2011   •  Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011)   •  (Photo taken 13:06:02 Sunday 19 June 2011)   •  © 2011 Bryan Costales Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License #B11_5478
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Two Cooks Behind The Scenes
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Behind some booths, cooks hung out both preparing food and, in some cases, selling the food too. Here they manned large open gas-fed barbecue grills loaded with turkey legs and corn.


North Beach Fair And Festival 2011   •  Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011)   •  (Photo taken 13:08:05 Sunday 19 June 2011)   •  © 2011 Bryan Costales Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License #B11_5480
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Turkey Legs
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One of the foods available at the fair were barbecued turkey legs. Here was a pile of completed legs being kept hot on a barbecue grill.


North Beach Fair And Festival 2011   •  Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011)   •  (Photo taken 13:09:27 Sunday 19 June 2011)   •  © 2011 Bryan Costales Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License #B11_5481
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Verizon Experience
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Although most booths sold food or clothing or art, a few sold technology. One booth sold blade-less fans, while this booth sold a technology experience.


North Beach Fair And Festival 2011   •  Grant Avenue, San Francisco, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011)   •  (Photo taken 13:24:30 Sunday 19 June 2011)   •  © 2011 Bryan Costales Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License #B11_5490
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Green Street
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The view looking along upper Green Street toward Grant Avenue At the far end was a band. To the left were stores and restaurants that remained open. Down the center of the street were booths.


North Beach Fair And Festival 2011   •  Green Street, San Francisco, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011)   •  (Photo taken 13:27:55 Sunday 19 June 2011)   •  © 2011 Bryan Costales Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License #B11_5491
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Mirrored Art
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Another booth sold mirrored objects of art. At the right, two passers by happened to peer in just as this shot was taken.


North Beach Fair And Festival 2011   •  Green Street, San Francisco, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011)   •  (Photo taken 13:34:15 Sunday 19 June 2011)   •  © 2011 Bryan Costales Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License #B11_5498
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Leather Hats
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A booth that sold hats featured a rack of leather top hats for sale.


North Beach Fair And Festival 2011   •  Grant Avenue, San Francisco, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011)   •  (Photo taken 13:40:15 Sunday 19 June 2011)   •  © 2011 Bryan Costales Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License #B11_5504
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Paper Mache Cat
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In one of the store windows along upper Grant Avenue was this paper mache cat.


North Beach Fair And Festival 2011   •  Grant Avenue, San Francisco, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011)   •  (Photo taken 13:43:51 Sunday 19 June 2011)   •  © 2011 Bryan Costales Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License #B11_5507
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Street Art
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Along Vallejo Street, just off of Grant, chalk art was being drawn on the street surface. The words read,

One day if I do go to Heaven... I'll look around and say, "It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco." -- Herb Caen.


North Beach Fair And Festival 2011   •  Vallejo Street, San Francisco, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011)   •  (Photo taken 14:01:52 Sunday 19 June 2011)   •  © 2011 Bryan Costales Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License #B11_5515
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John And Yoko
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Another artist was drawing in chalk an image of Yoko Ono and John Lennon on the street.


North Beach Fair And Festival 2011   •  Vallejo Street, San Francisco, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011)   •  (Photo taken 14:02:02 Sunday 19 June 2011)   •  © 2011 Bryan Costales Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License #B11_5517
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Tie-Dyed
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What kind of San Francisco festival would it be if there were no tie-dyed clothing for sale. Modern tie-die fabric was printed that way rather than hand tied and dyed.


North Beach Fair And Festival 2011   •  Vallejo Street, San Francisco, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 20 June 2011)   •  (Photo taken 14:03:33 Sunday 19 June 2011)   •  © 2011 Bryan Costales Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License #B11_5520
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