Bicycle from Bernalwood to the Western Addition in Three Minutes

/ Todd_Lappin

This time-lapse video compresses a bicycle ride from Bernal Heights to the Western Addition into a very fast-paced three minutes:

I taped a cam to my handle bars and rolled from Bernal Heights to Western Addition. The trip took about 28 minutes, it was super windy. The track is a Deep Cuts classic called Beats for the Beast, a song for my cat.

Okay then!  Yay cat! The video is cool, but you may want to avoid it if you are prone to visually induced  epileptic seizures.

4 thoughts on “Bicycle from Bernalwood to the Western Addition in Three Minutes”

  1. The rider went through the Western Addition but he or she ended the ride in the neighborhood know as North of the Panhandle. (I am enough of a curmudgeon that I do not abbreviate the name in the manner of a New Yorker.) West of Scott, one is no longer in the Western Addition. Sometime in the early 1850s the city added the land that was west of Polk, the former western boundary, and extended the city to Scott. That area was called the Western Addition. I suppose that one could say that any land that was added to the west of the original city is a Western Addition, but that would make most of the city a part of the Western Addition, and it would no longer be a useful name. I advocate that it be limited to its original meaning.

    Another curmudgeonly note: When I was boy back in the ‘sixties, “Inner Mission” meant the area around 16th Street and Outer Mission referred to the area around 24th Street. The Mission is named the Mission not because Mission Street is its main street, but because it is built on the old Mission lands, the land that belonged to the Mission at what is now Dolores and 16th. Now we have the absurdity that the old Mission itself is not thought to be in the Mission, but land south of Cesar Chavez Street is thought to be in the Mission. Harrumph!

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