San Francisco Day 1: Lori's Diner

Greetings from San Francisco! I just flew in today and will be shooting videos for my online stop-motion animation course all this week. The past few days have been a whirlwind of building puppets and getting ready; thank God my lovely wife helped me pack or I never would have made it. Ariel was very sad to see me go...it broke my heart. She's become rather attached to my Kermit puppet, and unfortunately I ended packing it (in case I have time for an additional live-puppetry lecture), so we had to find the baby Kermit to tide her over.


So far I've only been here long enough to grab dinner. I'm staying in the same hotel from a couple months ago, but for some reason I didn't know this place was right around the corner: Lori's Diner. (I had been to a different Lori's on my last visit, which was much smaller.)

I have a small obsession with 50's diners, and this one at Powell Street is totally swell...









"Bub, don't you know about..."


I'm not sure how 80s arcade games (is there any other kind?) fit in to the whole 50s theme, but I was quite amazed to see this Popeye game I haven't seen in ages.





But this was the real shocker...


Gotta love America...