Nice Urban Run, King Tut, and the Grubsteak
Went out for a run at about 7. Took my usual favorite route. Over to Grant through Chinatown to Columbus. I made my pilgrimage to Vallejo to see the site of the jazz club Keystone Corner that I loved so much back in the late 70s. Too bad it's gone. Down Columbus to Bay then up Hyde (wow is it steep) then over to Lombard so I could run down the crookedest street in the world. I then went up to Nob Hill and even went in to Grace Cathedral.
Surprised to find that it had doors that are from the molds from Ghiberti's Baptistery's doors in Florence.
As I was walking in front of the Mark Hopkins who do I run into but the couple from Ohio that sat next to us last night in Fleur de Lys. What a crack up.
I then got us Starbuck's and we rested and chilled the rest of the morning.
Then we drove out to Golden Gate Park to see if we could get into the King Tut exhibit without having to buy tickets ahead of time. I hate those Ticketmaster fees. we couldn't find parking close but we finally just drove down JFK before we found one. We figured another urban hike would do us good.
I had also never been to the new de Young museum before so it was fun. The only bad part is that the new de Young is ugly. Weird blend of wire and metal.
Looks a lot better here than it does in real life.
We were able to get into the Tut exhibit. We just had to wait until 2:30, about an hour. No problem we could look through the museum. The tickets cost $32.50 each and $7 each for the audio for a grand total of $79.
The strange thing about the exhibit was that many of the biggest pieces were not in the show as they were int he 70s. And later I found this on the website:
Many individuals have fond memories of King Tut’s Gold Mask (also known as the “Funerary Mask” or “Death Mask”), which traveled in the 1970s, and have looked forward to seeing it again in the current exhibition. There has, therefore, been some confusion around the absence of the Gold Mask in Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs.
During the 1980s, the Egyptian government declared that the Gold Mask of Tutankhamun was a national treasure and too fragile to travel. As such, it will never leave Egypt again. Today, the Gold Mask resides at its permanent home, the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. It and the other 5,000 artifacts from Tut’s tomb, including his solid-gold inner coffin, will soon be housed in a new museum, the Grand Egyptian Museum, being built by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities alongside the pyramids in Giza.
After we left the exhibit we went up in the tower and the view was spectacular. A 360 degree view around the park and toward the bay and down town. Stunning. From there we took a look at the Japanese Tea Garden and then walked back to the car.
View from the tower.
Grubsteak
For dinner we decided to try another Diner, Drive-ins and Dives place, the Grubsteak on Pine near Van Ness. It didn't open until 5 so we had to hang around outside for about ten minutes. The main part of the diner is an old Key System trolley car that came across the bay from Oakland. My dad was a conductor in the Key System back in the 30's
I had the Grubsteak a burger with bacon, cheese and a fried. Christine had the Claim jumper which had fried mushrooms and onions. I had fries and she had the onion rings. I had a Portuguese beer and Christine had a Coke. All for a mere $40.
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