• Hi, I am the owner and main administrator of Styleforum. If you find the forum useful and fun, please help support it by buying through the posted links on the forum. Our main, very popular sales thread, where the latest and best sales are listed, are posted HERE

    Purchases made through some of our links earns a commission for the forum and allows us to do the work of maintaining and improving it. Finally, thanks for being a part of this community. We realize that there are many choices today on the internet, and we have all of you to thank for making Styleforum the foremost destination for discussions of menswear.
  • This site contains affiliate links for which Styleforum may be compensated.
  • We would like to welcome House of Huntington as an official Affiliate Vendor. Shop past season Drake's, Nigel Cabourn, Private White V.C. and other menswear luxury brands at exceptional prices below retail. Please visit the Houise of Huntington thread and welcome them to the forum.

  • STYLE. COMMUNITY. GREAT CLOTHING.

    Bored of counting likes on social networks? At Styleforum, you’ll find rousing discussions that go beyond strings of emojis.

    Click Here to join Styleforum's thousands of style enthusiasts today!

    Styleforum is supported in part by commission earning affiliate links sitewide. Please support us by using them. You may learn more here.

California Appreciation Thread

imatlas

Saucy White Boy
Joined
May 27, 2008
Messages
24,666
Reaction score
28,330
Originally Posted by Bradford
Is that the place that has the Coppola Film Studio upstairs?
You're thinking of Cafe Macaroni in North Beach.
 

Brian SD

Moderator
Joined
Feb 5, 2004
Messages
9,492
Reaction score
128
Originally Posted by impolyt_one
Looking forward to chowing down on my first Californian tacos in a couple months.
smile.gif
(the Mexican kind) (I mean the Mexican food kind)


What part of California?

Tacos (the Mexican food kind) vary a lot depending on where you are.
 

mordecai

Immoderator
Joined
Jul 9, 2008
Messages
11,274
Reaction score
780
Los Angeles looks naturally to the Sunset, which can be stunningly handsome, and named one of its great boulevards after that favourite evening view. But if the eye follows the sun, westward migration cannot. The Pacific beaches are where young men stop going West, where the great waves of agrarian migration from Europe and the Middle West broke is a surf of fulfilled and frustrated hopes. The strength and nature of this westward flow need to be understood; it underlies the differences of mind between Los Angeles and its sister-metropolis to the north. San Francisco was plugged into California from the Sea; the Gold Rush brought its first population and their culture round Cape Horn; their prefabricated Yankee houses and prefabricated New England (or European) attitudes were dumped unmodified on the Coast. Viewed from Southern California it looks like a foreign enclave...because the Southern Californians came, predominantly, overland to Los Angeles, slowly traversing the whole North American land-mass and its evolving history.
tumblr_ljm50rp9Ag1qzss4xo1_r1_500.jpg
 

Bhowie

Stylish Dinosaur
Joined
Oct 5, 2008
Messages
14,692
Reaction score
6,633
Originally Posted by mordecai
Diddy Riese did those for a dollar when I was at UCLA.

gross
 

imatlas

Saucy White Boy
Joined
May 27, 2008
Messages
24,666
Reaction score
28,330
Originally Posted by mordecai
Look at the floor and the wall. That's gotta be Westwood or somewhere equally tacky.

Well the cookies and the ice cream look right, and the cooler is in the right position, but apparently Bi-Rite has wood (or "wood") flooring:

inside_birite.jpg
 

Bradford

Current Events Moderator
Joined
Mar 19, 2002
Messages
6,626
Reaction score
227
Originally Posted by imatlas
You're thinking of Cafe Macaroni in North Beach.

Looked it up - that is what I was thinking of. Right down the street from City Lights Books.
 

itsstillmatt

The Liberator
Dubiously Honored
Joined
Mar 11, 2006
Messages
13,969
Reaction score
2,085
Coppola's offices are above Caffe Coppola. Bi-Rite Creamery has awful ice cream. Bi-Rite in general teeters between being worth it because tehy have good raw ingredients, or not being worth it because the people are so pretention, the prices are so high and the butchers seem to chew the meat rather than cut it before it goes into the display case. Never seen such poorly cut meat in my life. Any other questions?
 

itsstillmatt

The Liberator
Dubiously Honored
Joined
Mar 11, 2006
Messages
13,969
Reaction score
2,085
Just what we need are more places designed to make people fatter.
 

imatlas

Saucy White Boy
Joined
May 27, 2008
Messages
24,666
Reaction score
28,330
Originally Posted by iammatt
Just what we need are more places designed to make people fatter.

Who pissed in your Cheerios?
 

Featured Sponsor

How important is full vs half canvas to you for heavier sport jackets?

  • Definitely full canvas only

    Votes: 45 40.5%
  • Half canvas is fine

    Votes: 44 39.6%
  • Really don't care

    Votes: 5 4.5%
  • Depends on fabric

    Votes: 18 16.2%
  • Depends on price

    Votes: 25 22.5%

Forum statistics

Threads
504,424
Messages
10,573,947
Members
223,691
Latest member
MidwestMase
Top