— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
I know anything about Dolores Park and grass growing is a little too boring and newsy but I spend far too much time at this park so fuck it.
Peep this: just ahead of prime picking-up-chicks-while-drinking-Olde-English season, Dolores Park Works takes shit to task, making numerous of long-overdue improvements to the park. More trash cans, signage, and trash compactors—a whole mess of new crap to spray-paint:
1. More trash receptacles. RPD recently installed a number of 4-can pods of concrete trash receptacles along the Dolores Street, including blue ones for recyclables (plastic, cans, glass). Be sure to note that a 4-foot red strip has been painted on the adjoining curb and two white lines have been painted on the street to signal to car owners that a change had been made. This ensures that Sunset Scavenger has access. Woo Hoo! No more trash piled on the ground next to an overflowing trash can!
2. Landscaping at 18th & Dolores. Our gateway should sparkle and welcome everyone to Dolores Park, don’t you think? It’s gone from a dirt patch to beautifully landscaped with irrigation.
Within a year, the plants will fill in and grace this corner with colorful plants. RPD will also soon re-seed the bare spots around 18th and 19th and Dolores.
3. New signage. Have you noticed the hand-painted Litter-Me-Not signs on the main steps at 19th & Dolores? Eight grade students in Paula Ginsburg’s Special Ed class at Everett MIddle School made these signs for us. You can also see them all around Everett Middle School, Mission High School, the tennis courts, and now at the main entrance to Dolores Park. Just a friendly reminder to well, not litter.
Really though, looks solid. Looking forward to spring so I can ride my bike 4 blocks, get fortied, become irritated at the line for the single bathroom and subsequently water a palm tree. Just kidding, I only soil the homes of park neighbors while scratching records on my “amplified devices.”
Comments (6)
So what if she still looks like a cheap hooker? She’s my cheap hooker.
Sweet! I especially like the garden on the corner.
Is there more to come?
I noticed the little garden plot the other day and thought it looked so much better than the eroding patch of mud that used to be in that spot.
i love living across from the park, but some of the people who visit make me ashamed to be a human being. just one request, please stop pissing on the bridge! when you have to walk across that bridge everyday you cant help but hate everyone who comes to the park to leave their trash, tag, and piss on everything every fucking weekend in the summer.
in the summer, i watch this sad old maintenance worker paint the bridge every monday morning to cover all the tagging from the weekend. whatever, its his job, but it must seem so futile. and he has to smell all that piss while hes doing it.
The license plate of the car in the first picture is SMF PAPI.
I’d like to imagine it’s Papa Smurf’s car.
say what????