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Friday Link Round Up: Celebrate the World’s Fair Centennial and an Awesome Date Idea

Friday February 20, 2015

How was your week? We had a great week, thanks to a 3-day weekend and glorious hiking weather (sorry East Coasters; my mom called just to say that she saw the latest photo of Bean and, “the sky…it’s SO BLUE.” It is, sorry mom. Winter will be over some day! I promise!) And, hellloooo Oscar weekend! Or, junk food weekend as it’s known around here.

There are some especially awesome things to do in SF this weekend, so I’ll list those first.

 

If you do not have a small child at home, you just have to stroll past the Palace of Fine Arts tonight. It will be lit up in a replica of how it would have looked during the 1915 World’s Fair in San Francisco, or the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. THIS IS ALL MY FAVORITE THINGS. Send me photos!!

There’s also a bunch of other stuff going on this weekend to celebrate the centennial. The SF Examiner has the details.

More centennial news: Historians and the executive director of the CA Historical Society were on Forum with Michael Krasny to discuss the centennial and it was basically a SF history nerd fest, and it was awesome.

OOH OOH OOH, Curbed tracked down remnants of the World’s Fair throughout San Francisco! It’s truly fascinating.

Remember that Fall in Love in 36 Questions article? Well, The New York Times brings follow up stories from people who tested it. The stories are so touching and beautiful.

Related, you can now test out the questions yourself on top of Bernal Hill (?!) Someone has engraved all the questions on a treasure box atop the hill. Go have a seat, take in the view, and fall in love. Only runs through this weekend.

You will need to download this 3D tour guide app of San Francisco. History, awesome visuals, and maps. Yes, please. I might need to get an iPhone just so I can download it.

Art history has never been more hilarious and true. I never realized how much shade renaissance women were throwing in portraits. Renaissance women, they’re just like us!

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