My friend Rob is sponsoring a photo treasure hunt for a t-shirt he found being sold in San Francisco. Here’s what he sent me, leave your answers in the comments.
There is something wrong with this picture…very very wrong.
Can you tell me what it is?
And
I will buy a steak and drinks at John’s Grill for the first person who can tell me the name and address of the store I took the photo in.
One rule…John Law can’t play
UPDATE 1: Rob just sent me another photo he shot of a t-shirt sold around the city that uses an image Hong Kong’s Tsing Ma Bridge in place of the Golden Gate Bridge.
UPDATE 2: At long last, have a winner! Rob has confirmed that John Jeremi found the store where the t-shirt is sold.
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{ 29 comments… read them below or add one }
Is that the Brooklyn Bridge being blatantly (and repeatedly) referred to as “San Francisco”?
thats not one of our bridges, thats fo sho.
is it in that souvenir shop accross from H&M, next to Gold Dust, about 245 powell or so?
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other than that not being a SF bridge (or a very bad sketch of the east span of the bay bridge)?
It is the Diesel store on Market street.
My guess would be that its not the golden gate or bay bridge. Possibly a bridge in NY … like the Brooklyn bridge or Manhattan bridge.
That’s not the Bay Bridge, and obviously not the Golden Gate Bridge, so I’m assuming the picture isn’t even from San Francisco.
The Brooklyn Bridge has intersecting support wires, as opposed to the vertical ones found on our bridges in the bay, so perhaps it’s from there?
That’s the Queensboro Bridge in NYC & the store is Diesel SF on Market.
nice, that’s what i was going to say – not our bridge. have no clue where it was taken though. gagging at how tacky it is, ftr.
It’s not the Diesel store, but it is the Queensboro.
I should have thought of a runner up prize for Identification.
i change my answer. you can buy that tee in chinatown on grant near clay.
they sell other wack shit in there, too.
its def not diesel, they dont use yellow pricing stickers, they use hang-tags.
its some sort of souvenir shop, and you can find them on mid-market, powell, grant and pier 39.
ok, so you said to say what was wrong with the foto (i said its not one of our bridges)
so is it 520, 676 or 778, or 816 grant ave?
Here’s what’s wrong with the shirt: it’s ugly as shit. Also, I’m pretty sure the wires running along the wall aren’t up to code for San Francisco retail.
Name and address of the store is the rules….Steak dinner and drinks don’t come cheap.
Oh, I get it. The photo on the t-shirt is actually John Law’s moustache.
Yeah, a prize for ID would be sweet :P just kidding of course!
the new transbay terminal will be complete before someone guesses the exact import/export shop this shirt was fotographed in.
bleh.
This is a bridge in New York, but I see a bunch of people already got that part…
This is annoying, but it’s technically not even a tee shirt. It would be a spaghetti strap tank top. So, i guess that’s wrong too.
Is it from Urban Connection on Embarcadero near Fisherman’s Wharf?
is it the store next to the steakhouse? is it the zoo? is it…..
eh, whatevs. i give up. i feel like we are beating a dead horse.
good luck folks, time for ye olde Plug 1 to move onward…..
I live in England, and even I know that bridge is in New York!
The first picture is from the store Only in San Francisco
sooooooooo…what ever happened with this? no one won. ok, cool. so where is the location of the store?
Hey guys…I decided to throw this contest on a whim originally over at the Cacophony list and it ended up over here. I first noticed that these shirts were on sale when my niece wanted to buy one in 2004. Only one tourist shop is selling the black Queensboro bridge. I checked all the stores I could find over the past years because I thought it was a hoot that the Tsing Ma bridge was being passed of as the gate and had a tag that said made in the USA.
Ok …I could end this contest at the end of the month and Just buy drinks for the people that identified what bridge it was and the person that gave the closest answer. This could cost as much as dinner if they are drinkers.
Or I could run this contest out till 2019 when the Transbay Terminal will be done. with hope that someone will see the shirt and remember the contest.
But I’m just as impatient as Plug1, so one more clue in case the second picture of a shirt did not give you any ideas. I’m ending the contest on February 7, 2008.
Remember Name of store and Address, this is a prize with a 100 buck value. And a little walk will do you good.
I found it! This hunt has been bugging me for a while.
My friend from Minnesota is visiting for the weekend and I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to look for these shirts. Obviously the store is either at Fisherman’s Warf or Chinatown. It has to be some tourist location because of that cheap white SF sweatshirt hanging in the background.
Walking through Chinatown I made it a point to look at the floor at every shirt shop we passed. (notice the wood tile floor in the picture of the black shirt).
Viva San Francisco / USA Leathers
The corner of Grant and Clay (Chinatown)
San Francisco, CA
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http://i28.tinypic.com/ev41si.jpg
We have a winner….Ok you did not get the address, but had photographic evidence that you were there.
So, I’ll set you up for dinner at John”s Or you can bring me, either way its dinner for two.
As a runner up thing….I’d like to invite Plug sooooo close 1 and Udayan for Drinks and maybe a little urban exploring, before or after.
Give me a day to figure out how to contact you guys.
Thanks
Rob
Ok winners, contact me by sending an email with that contact button above. They will be forwarded to me.
Thanks Again
Rob
hey rob-
a trailed off on this post for a bit thinking it was a dead end. then today i was in chinatown and went in every single t-shirt shop on grant until i found it. anyhow, im a week late so whatevs.
but on the urb ex thing, hit me up plug1@whatimseeing.com
lets go bowling on TI.