Halloween in my neighborhood

While some of the local bloggers decided to get together and do a Halloween photoshoot in the City, I elected to stay home instead and go to bed early so I could be in shape for my annual garage sale.



But when I woke up very early the following day, although the neighborhood was still completely fogged in, still asleep, I noticed that the spiders had been having a Halloween party of their own...



Can you see the little drops of water on the spider web below the no parking sign? (click to enlarge pictures)

Meanwhile, in the Castro ...

What did you all do for Halloween? Did you dress up and go out? Stay home and wait for the neighborhood kids? Or ... How many of you turned the lights off and pretended not to be home? ;)

No More Halloween in the Castro /Halloween à Castro, c'est fini

Remember this party?
Vous vous souvenez de cette party?

Photograph © Fancydee

Well, as you can see in this article Halloween in the Castro is now a thing of the past.

Eh bien, d'après le Chronicle, il n'y aura plus d'Halloween à Castro, c'est fini.






Last year, the party ended badly with 9 shootings and a few injured people. Fortunately nobody died, but maybe that was the wake-up call the City needed to end the festivities, I don't know.

L'an dernier, la party avait mal tourné et s'était terminée avec 9 coups de feus. Fort heureusement, personne n'est mort, mais peut-être que l'incident a servi de "réveil" à la ville qui a décidé depuis de mettre une fin aux festivités, je ne sais pas.







I personally view it as the "end of an era," but not everybody feels that way. If you are curious to see how other people in Bay Area reacted, be sure to also check the comments section under the article. I warn you, there are many comments.

Pour moi, cette décision représente la "fin d'une époque" mais apparemment, tout le monde ne le voit pas comme ça. Si vous êtes curieux de savoir ce qu'en pensent les gens du coin, allez jetter un coup d'oeil les commentaires sur l'article en question. Je vous avertis, il y en a beaucoup, et bien sûr, ils sont tous en Anglais.

The End

UPDATE: I don't know if this link will continue to work in the next few days, but Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, just made a surprise appearance on Sarah and NoName and explained a little bit his position about terminating the Castro party. His position, in a nutshell, is that the party has just grown much too large for the Castro neighborhood, and the City just does not have the resources to oversee 2 major events in one night because in the Mayor's opinion, even if you take the partysome place else, the crowd will still continue to flock to the Castro. Anyway, if you click on this link you might be able to see a short video of it, at least it's online right now. TF

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I did a search for additional photographs of the Halloween party in the Castro. Here is a few I really liked from flickr account holder Dave Golden.