Full House (San Francisco: live, nice areas, pictures)

[Tallysmom]

Originally Posted by gizmo980

LOL... my mom's from Philadelphia, and people ALWAYS ask if she's from New York. Isn't the caaawfee (coffee) a dead giveaway? For cryin' out loud, they even had a Saturday Night Live sketch about that!

One of my favorite shows, Qu@@r as Folk (sorry, they censor that word!) was set in Pittsburgh, but really filmed up in Toronto - is Pittsburgh that bad??

Heck, no -- if we were ready to do it, I'd move back there in a heartbeat. There are aspects of Pittsburgh, PA that are downright beautiful. (not to mention the housing prices!!)

I don't know about Philly's accent, but Pittsburghese has it's own web pages. We joke about -- oh -- that would abaht -- it, but it has deep roots in the area, with historical significance like most accents.

PITTSBURGHESE .com

My parents are from the mountains of Pennsylvania, and our ancestry is "Pennsylvania Dutch" -- which is German ancestry usually of Amish or Mennonite backgrounds. (Mennonite ancestry here!) I actually don't have a Pittsburgh accent, but I do have the syntax (no one uses the words "to be" there!), but when my husband met my father for the first time, he asked me where in Central PA was he from. Daddy had a small twang. And we used words for things that other people didn't use -- or we used words "wrong". But they were colloquial to where my parents grew up. (And why I feel so strongly about banjos and fiddles!)

I "close" lights and computers. Although sometimes I outen them. I've gotten away from opening lights. When my mom was downstairs in the laundry and she needed something from upstairs she'd yell "Throw me down the" whatever. The one I got laughed at as a kid the most over was grinny. A grinny is a chipmunk.

My grandmother told stories about when she had gone to housekeeping with Pappy. That was when she got married.

[mj88]

Those beautiful Victorian houses in SF - (the ones where the Tanners "lived" on Full House)...I have always wondered...is there just one street of those houses in SF? Or are they all over the city? I always see them in SF articles. So I was wondering if it was just one single street with those stately homes?

[rah]

There are lots of Victorians and a lot of houses in SF have backyards too. (though there are more Mediterranean style homes I would say, such as the ones in the Sunset, Excelsior, and other outlying neighborhoods.)

As for Bob Sagat living with 4 kids and two slacker dudes, maybe they actually lived a couple blocks down the hill from Alamo Square, in the projects

[Tony from Europe]

Actually,only one episode of 'Full house' was record in S.F
rest is record in studio in L.A.

[sonarrat]

Originally Posted by mj88

Those beautiful Victorian houses in SF - (the ones where the Tanners "lived" on Full House)...I have always wondered...is there just one street of those houses in SF? Or are they all over the city? I always see them in SF articles. So I was wondering if it was just one single street with those stately homes?

The "painted ladies" are exceptional, but that's the style all around the city. It's quite a trip to drive on 19th Avenue and see all these pretty old houses and all the cars parked halfway up on the sidewalk so they don't get sideswiped by one of the thousands of commuters..

[mj88]

For those who remember the theme song to Full House - remember the last part of the song they are shown on a hill having a picnic...this hill was located right in front of those houses...where is that??

[bellalunatic]

yep it's TV but don't forget that 80 SF pre 89 loma prieta quake and dot com era is WAAAAAY less expensive than SF now...My friends have a house that resembles the Full House house that they paid 800K for back in 2003 and then put in remodeling to make it habitable at a cost of roughly 275K...but with both working parents and 3 kids under age 6...they'll be moving back east ASAP for better public schools, but their realtor said they'd easily get 1.7 mill for it...oh yeah and they have a yard too in the inner Sunset.
Another friend of mine is a single gal with a GREAT job that lives up the block from those painted ladies at Alamo Square...she lives in a 60's style condo building and her 2 bedroom condo cost her 580K back in 2004....no yard though so go figure.

[gizmo980]

Originally Posted by mj88

For those who remember the theme song to Full House - remember the last part of the song they are shown on a hill having a picnic...this hill was located right in front of those houses...where is that??

That's Alamo Square Park... where you can see the "5 Ladies" (aka the Painted Ladies) we've been discussing, which is also known as "Postcard Row." One of the most beautiful spots in San Francisco!
Alamo Square Park Pictures

[libbykt]

It's beautiful, but man, that park smells like dog poop.

[mj88]

Yes Gizmo, that's exactly what I picture when i think of SF! Thanks for the pic. I wish I lived in SF!