No Particular Place To Go

Wow, where was Chuck Berry when he made this recording ?  I don't know but I'm guessing "Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans, Way back up in the woods among the evergreens". 

Historic 'castle' building in Visitation Valley

So we wound up at Breakfast At Tiffany's on San Bruno Avenue this morning, it's over the hill from us, on the other side of McLaren Park.  In The Portola (POUR-duh-luh) District, San Bruno Avenue is right alongside the Bayshore Freeway, and if you start at Silver Avenue it goes South past Mansell Street and Paul Avenue and merges with Bayshore Blvd. at Viz Valley, across from where Schlage Lock used to be and that place that looked like a castle.

Silvestri's 'log cabin' showroom

Keep going on Bayshore and you get to Geneva Avenue and The 7 Mile House and across the street at the City/County line is a rough wood structure that was called George's Log Cabin and is now Silvestri's . Keep going on Bayshore, when you get to the light at the top of the hill, behind the low shoulder of San Bruno Mountain on the left or East, is where the Brisbane Rod and Gun Club shooting range usta be.

Bullitt chase scene, Mustang and Charger

To the right Guadalupe Canyon Parkway peels off over San Bruno Mountain to Daly City, my friend used to call it NBC Mountain because of all the antennas.  Just uphill from the intersection is where the chase in Bullitt ends in a fiery crash when the Charger hits a gas station.  Go straight and at the bottom of the hill on the right is Brisbane, City Of The Stars.

You following me ?  Been down there lately ?  Didn't think so.  Not your hood 'eh ?  Kind of a place for old timers that is in the middle of a transformation.  If you walk those couple blocks around Bacon and Burrows you'd think you were in Chinatown, then there's a couple of taquerias and the surprisingly large (once you go inside) La Loma Produce at Bacon, right under the freeway.  It's worth checking out if you've got no particular place to go, there's even a Four Barrel Coffee and a Brewery Pub there, FDR, and you don't need to pack a bag.