Tour de SSF #1 – Hands In The Air!
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While not a “showplace” downtown, SSF (South San Francisco) does have its attractions and interesting little places. This series of caches is meant to highlight a few spots that fit this profile.*
*While you can jump around on this series (and will certainly do so if you don’t read each page), I strongly urge you to do the series in the order they are laid out (start at #1, etc.). It’s because some of placements aren’t at very interesting spots, but the tour leads you past a noteworthy location. But play the game anyway that makes you happy!
If you are doing this series in order, you can park at N 37° 39.285 W 122° 24.529. Due to the heavy muggle traffic, most of the caches will be micros or smalls & stealth will be required during daylight hours. Doing the tour in the dark will also be a problem…shining lights on downtown streets at night will definitely attract the cops! Stealth…stealth…stealth!
Difficulty levels will be kept low. The idea is to get you to observe the unique(?) spots and the passing parade, while not being too obvious when searching. Keep your stealth wits about you.
Any 1 star terrain ratings will get you there, but you may need help if the final placement is too high from a seated position. All difficulty ratings, of course, are without hint. Don’t worry, none will be very difficult.
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Tour de SSF #1 – Hands In The Air!
As a fan of Point Break, Sugar and Spice, and Killing Zoe, we've wondered about the innate practicality of robbing a bank in a mask. "Your peripheral vision must suffer" we'd muse "and it's gotta get hot in there! What a stupid idea."
Apparently, it's less stupid than we thought, as clown-masked gunmen successfully robbed a South San Francisco bank this morning. Thieves entered the 211 Airport Blvd branch of the First National Bank of Northern California at 11:44 a.m. today, claiming to have weapons (Flower that shoots water? Annoyingly squeaky balloon animal?), though none were seen. Two of the robbers rifled the tellers' drawers while the third remained in the lobby, just like pretty much every movie we've ever seen about a bank robbery.
One of the thieves wore a ski mask instead of the clown one, which makes us wonder if he was a late addition to the team, someone with a head too large for the clown disguise, or just unwilling to look uncool. The incident is being investigated jointly by the FBI and South San Francisco police. March 10, 2006
Supposedly, this is the most robbed bank in the Bay Area!
A few trinkets. FTF gets hand made, ceramic, peace symbol.
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South San Francisco is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 60,552 at the 2000 census.
The city lies north of San Francisco International Airport in a small valley between San Bruno Mountain and the Coast Range. The city is served by two major highways, U.S. Route 101 (the Bayshore Freeway) and Interstate 280. A BART station, located directly adjacent to El Camino High School and Solaire Transit Village, opened in 2003, supplementing Caltrain service to San Francisco and San Jose. The city's small downtown and several aging residential subdivisions, such as Mayfair Village, Sunshine Gardens, Avalon Park, Winston Manor, and Rancho Buri Buri, are located west of Highway 101, while the area east of Highway 101 is dominated by bland industrial complexes interspersed with futuristic office parks, particularly the Oyster Point Marina. The extreme western portions of the city near Interstate 280 sit along a hillside and offer views of San Francisco Bay. This area is known to local residents as Westborough. The southern part of the city, closest to the airport, is home to a large number of car repair shops, airport parking lots, and airport hotels.
Locals refer to the town as "South City," in much the same way that San Francisco is called "The City." People unfamiliar with the area often mistake South San Francisco as the southern part of the city of San Francisco.
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