Valencia St. just received a nice new crop of “public posts” for the community to use for flyer posting and artwork.  From post designer Michael Arcega's site:

Valencia Street Post consists of four poles with Victorian-inspired crowns that punctuate the various bulb-outs on Valencia Street. Each 12 ft. post includes a highly ornamented crown constructed of steel with an automotive finish and UV clear-coat. The unadorned midsection is designed for community interaction. The public is invited to use the four sites as informal community bulletin boards for notices, events, ads, and the like. “Valencia Street Post” will be engraved atop each individualized ornamental crown. The word post can mean a variety of things from pole, news, postering, “post” identity, and/or “post” modern— all of which are correct. The (Stick-Style) Victorian signifier is meant to evoke the site’s history. Since most of the older buildings up to 20th Street were destroyed during fires in 1906, the area has transformed its appearance numerous times. The juxtaposition of a bulletin-street-pole with classic San Franciscan architecture embraces the past and present- leaving room for the future collaborations by the community.

Within a day or going up, the posts were getting well used: