#tenderloin san francisco

[juancarlosvasquez]

Tenderloin (San Francisco)

Walking dead,

crawling naked in a love parade,

the return of ambulances

on roadless paths,

when I'm on the verge of blissful highs

I yearn for

caresses,

to lull me to sleep

in the night,

six months have slipped away

among incense over graves,

and a celestial restlessness,

visions of Jupiter compacted into pipes.

This face cannot be mine,

the face of Sunday

at noon.

If it weren't noon

and had I something to do,

these damn ambulance sirens

wouldn't torment me

with their regrets.

How do I reclaim, with punches,

the street's tranquility?

How do I demolish, with an axe,

the memories in my veins

without submerging in a tub

to masturbate?

There's a putrid smell of beer,

so romantic yet so pathetic,

Ideas of escape linger,

along with enduring words.

If I had a dog, its barking

would convince me, but I have no dog,

only nights that bring me joy in contempt,

and instead of protesting,

everything pushes me

towards terrible and sorrowful laughter.

© Juan Carlos Vásquez

© Photo by Mitchell Funk

[a-burning-room]

Old Hibernia Building, Woman, SF/ 2020

[themonsterthing]

Tenderloin in the rain.

[jacquelynstuber]

The Tenderloin

The Phoenix Hotel

San Francisco

October, 2023

[fulldenimjackett]

finally met someone who like goes into into the city just for fun! like just walking around and looking at stuff

[morffyne]

Dont do drugs

[flommischen]

[lonetravelertheory]

My local philz coffee shop

[whatevergreen]

High Tide, San Francisco, March 24, 2013 - Robby Virus "A divey cocktail bar in the Tenderloin neighborhood."

Closed 2019. The neon sign which has been there since before the 1970s, has been removed.

[kyriolex]

So I used to live in the Bay Area. The Twitter building is actually right on the border of the Tenderloin, a neighborhood infamous for the high number of car break-ins. People will steal not just the valuables inside, but also strip the car of valuable parts and metals to sell on the black market.

And I think it would be some sweet poetic justice if one of these mechanically minded people from the Tenderloin just…climbed up there and stripped the X of its parts. The strobing X isn’t legally supposed to be there, so really it would be community service.

Alternatively, someone could move the X to the BDSM dungeon that is also on this street. That would be hilarious.

never in all of my years would i have expected to characterize a company’s rebrand as “actively hostile” and “potentially endangering lives” yet here we are

for context, that X sign is dangerously bright, directly faces an entire apartment complex, and to top it all off it fucking strobes

[thtblkgrl]

[a-burning-room]

Pirate and Pup

[bighominiglo]

As someone who lived in SF for a minute years ago, and it's only gone downhill since then, it is the culture that makes the city so unsafe. California and SF in particular has the worst wealth disparity in the country. Ironic, considering what they virtue signal about in politics.

The homelessness problem is much worse than almost anywhere else in America, and the cops refuse to even police certain areas. Yes, they refuse to police. Meaning victims and children in that area are SOL. Yes, this is frequently a very racist and classist policy as the white affluent neighborhoods will have cops respond to their calls. i lived in the Tenderloin, one of the least policed areas smack dab in the middle of the city where homeless and addicted people line up on the streets outside and you have to step over heroin needles and literal shit (this was before fentanyl). i got harassed daily just for daring to be a woman outside.

Now instead of giving everyone a right to housing, building more shelters, high density affordable housing to combat the homelessness problem, SF just does nothing! In fact they incentivize homelessness and crime by refusing to police entire areas! And the citizens block every attempt at housing and shelter projects left and right. They're all NIMBYs who cry "muh low skyline" and don't want their property values "driven down by poor people".

Instead of programs to help addicts get clean they hand out free needles and give them tents to get high in! Outright helping people kill themselves through drugs. Helping homeless people kill themselves through drugs.

They decriminalized stealing so businesses have left the city in droves. Making it straight up a scene from a dystopian novel where the billionaires are sequestered away in giant but not tall buildings and complain to the cops when the homeless problem they refuse to solve lands itself on their property. The cops then take the homeless person back to the tenderloin and hand them a needle to help them kill themselves.

Of course people don't want to live there anymore. This is what their politics and self determination radical individualist capitalist culture has done for them, despite being one of the most progressive cities. No one hates the homeless more than San Francisco.

[simonh]

Accurate Auto Body by Thomas Hawk

[craigleephoto]

Homeless encampment sweep in the San Francisco Tenderloin on Ellis Street between Taylor and Jones Streets by San Francisco Public Works on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. (Craig Lee/The San Francisco Examiner)

1. Christopher Jones (left), 51, and Jeff Fultz, 52, living homeless on Ellis Street between Taylor and Jones Streets. Christopher Jones has been living homeless since 1995 and Jeff Fultz came to San Francisco from Michigan 9 months ago.

2. Homeless encampment on Ellis Street between Taylor and Jones Streets just before a sweep.

3. Christopher Jones (left), 51, and Eddie Thomas, 57, both seated as San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members talk with Jamel Davis, 39, during a homeless encampment sweep on Ellis Street between Taylor and Jones Streets by San Francisco Public Works on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.

4. Sean DeLise, Incident Commander San Francisco Fire Department Paramedic, speaking to Amber Miller, 38, during a homeless encampment sweep on Ellis Street between Taylor and Jones Streets by San Francisco Public Works on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.

5. Christopher Jones, 51, moving his belongings during a homeless encampment sweep on Ellis Street between Taylor and Jones Streets by San Francisco Public Works on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. Christopher Jones has been living homeless since 1995.

6. Jeff Fultz (jacket with “I Have Issues”), 52, moving his belongings during a homeless encampment sweep on Ellis Street between Taylor and Jones Streets by San Francisco Public Works on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.

7. Eddie Thomas, 57, during a homeless encampment sweep on Ellis Street between Taylor and Jones Streets by San Francisco Public Works on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.

8. Homeless encampment sweep on Taylor Street between Ellis and Eddy Streets by San Francisco Public Works on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.

[urbandrivingskills-blog]

Goat karahi, okra, daal, rice, naan. Shalimar. San Francisco. May 2022.