The fog burns off at noon and under the sunny skies of the East Bay are some pretty hot sights. We’re talking about the hot babes you see on the streets and working retail. If you got some sightings, let us know!
Here are this weeks hot babes!
Oakland:
Usually we steer clear of annoying signature gatherers out on the street but wow, then we saw the blonde in tight jeans gathering signatures for Oxfam – sign me up! BTW, Oxfam is a worthy charity so check out their website and donate! Spotted in front of Pendragon books on College Ave. in the Rockridge district of Oakland - 8/4/10.
Pendragon Books
5560 College Ave. [map]
Oakland – 8/4/10
Berkeley:
Counter girl at Flight 001. She was most helpful and wow, what a bod! She should consider becoming a jeans model! The 4th St. shopping district of Berkeley is probably the best people watching spot in Berkeley.
Flight 001,
1774 4th St. [map]
Berkeley – 8/1/1020.
Adam Curry offered Howard Stern 100 Million dollars a year to start podcasting at Mevio.com. Howard Stern’s contract with satellite radio titan, Sirius XM ends at the end of this year. Howard Stern has a big decision to make of whether to retire, renew with Sirius XM or go somewhere else. His current contract with Sirius was worth $500 million over five years, plus bonuses for reaching performance milestones.
Stuck between the nail salons and check cashing stores along Oakland’s Telegraph Ave., are a myriad of cell phone shops. Most of them are for Boost and MetroPCS. We were wondering, where did this Boost company come from? How come we usually see their shops in run down areas like Telegraph Ave. or San Francisco’s Mission district?
About Boost Mobile
Based in Irvine, California, Boost Mobile, LLC, a division of Sprint Nextel Corporation, (NYSE: S), is a lifestyle-based telecommunications brand focused on offering premium Pay-As-You-Go wireless phones and services to the youth market. Boost is among the fastest growing wireless services in the U.S. and now has 4.5 million customers – the majority of which are under the age of 25. Boost-branded wireless phones with its exclusive BoostTM Walkie-Talkie service and Re-Boost® Cards are available nationwide at locations where youth prefer to shop, including national retailers and convenience stores, and merchants that focus on fashion, music, and action sports-related activities. Experience Boost on the Web at www.boostmobile.com
The take away from this is that Sprint created Boost with popular features tailored for today’s “urban youth”. These include a loud walkie-talkie function, equally loud miniature speakers, and pay-as-you-go plans so you don’t need a credit card. The last feature is very popular among drug dealers and privacy advocates, as the phone can’t be traced to a name or credit card. The reason why there are so many of these stores in West Oakland is so customers can pull-in and “Re-Boost” their phone’s account with untraceable cash.
Re-Boost your phone with some cash!
So if you want to keep it on the down-low, get one of these cheap ‘burner’ phones as a second phone and pay cash for minute cards!
We’ve become big fans of NBC Bay Area’s updated website. Not only do you get up to the minute news and weather but you also get intriguing slideshows chalk full of edgy photojournalism. We killed a good 30 minutes looking through the 90 slide presentation on the NFL’s cheerleading squads. We can feel comforted to know that while summer training camp gets underway that the cheerleaders are hard at work perfecting new routines and getting into good shape for the long season ahead!
Seems like you can’t go out for a bite to eat in Oakland these days with out gun being waved in your face! The tolerance for thugs and their crime dropped to a new low with the re-election of City Council softee’s, Nancy Nadel and Janet Brunner.
They should have listened to us and elected McCullough at least. He would be demanding some serious action by now, actually he always has. Time to wake up City of Oakland – you have squandered your treasure on useless social programs, subsidies for generations of the terminally lazy and on corrupt and wasteful public officials (the Edgerly clan). Now you have no money to hire police and the public won’t give you anymore because you are not to be trusted and are not accountable. Look at the pussyfoot way Dellums dealt with the Edgerly situation!
Want to Keep it Real? As in Real Dumb? Keep Nancy Nadel in office by all means! The trash, the shopping carts, the blight and closed businesses in her district are a testament to her inability to get things done. It’s obvious her ideas aren’t going to solve any of the real problems in this shabby district. Have you seen the piles of garbage on her own street?
It’s obvious she doesn’t have the fortitude to get more cops. Her pacifist leanings have created an incubator for more blight and crime. She is also way past her prime. Time to retire Nancy.
Some facts are very telling. A friend of ours complained about the Chevron that we have mentioned in this blog. The response from Nadel’s office were very telling. First, she didn’t respond, she had an assistant send an email reply. Instead of grabbing the issue and solving it – they asked what we wanted them to do about it! So now it’s my job to get more police and to direct the police to actually arrest the bums that are aggressively panhandling the neighborhood in her district. Nadel’s office thinks we can’t solve the crime and poverty in her district so why bother. Needless to say, Nadel is very weak on crime.
Don’t vote for Brunner either. She is another over the hill, status-quo, make you feel good candidate that is weak on crime.
Elect Sean Sullivan and Patrick McCullough to City Council!!
I was walking home tonight in the dark when one of the many hobos I pass by on downtown Telegraph St. asked me for money again.
“I’m stranded can you help me out…”
Well, who’s poor planning caused you to be stranded? Time to take responsibility for your actions and stop begging for my hard earned cash!
I decided to at least offer him my copy of The Onion as it was a very funny issue and because, hey – in times of no money it’s always great to have a good chuckle…
AC Transit kicked off their shiny new Transit Center on 20th St. Downtown. The bus pick up area features expensive new bus shelters with plexiglass. It wasn’t until a few hours after the workers finished installation and the VIPs, politicos and press went home that punk thugs struck the area and vandalized the station with graffiti.
Why does Oakland even bother with such fancy public facilities when they will be ruined instantly. Notice the new fancy parking meters installed around town. They are now totem poles for taggers!
Well, after sending a letter to the corporate parent of the over-priced and beggar infested Chevron station on Telegraph and Grand and getting no satisfaction (and this after seeing two guys tag team the customers just this evening), it’s time to boycott!
Let the owner(s) of this station that charges between 25 and 30 cents MORE than the station across the street and lets its customers be harrassed by aggressive beggars know that this is unacceptable!!
Mr. George Kim
CHV CHONG & MYUNG, INC.
2200 TELEGRAPH AVE. OAKLAND CA 94612-2316
(510) 268-1893
Here’s the reply I received from Chevron’s Consumer Affairs dept.
Dear Mr. Curtains,
We would like to follow-up with you regarding to the complaint that you filed with the Consumer Connection Center on August 8, 2006. As you recall we mentioned at that time that we would contact the retailer, CHONG & MYUNG, INC., and ask for a response from the station within 14 business days. As of September 6, 2006 we have not received a response from the station.
As of today’s date we have not received a response from the station.
The role of the Consumer Connection Center is to resolve customer problems with company owned stations when we are able, to act as a mediator between the customer and a Chevron retailer or marketer, and to facilitate a reimbursement when warranted. Many times a dispute can be resolved to the satisfaction of both the customer and the dealer. Unfortunately, other times like this one we have not been able to gather any information from the station owner to assist us in resolving this dispute.
For further questions please contact the statio owner:
Mr. George Kim
CHV CHONG & MYUNG, INC.
2200 TELEGRAPH AVE. OAKLAND CA 94612-2316
(510) 268-1893
Wow, what a Center of Pestilence this place has become! We’re talking about the “1/4 lb. Giant Burgers” joint on Telegraph and 22nd St. in downtown Oakland.
Much of this blighted neighborhood’s garbage can be traced back to this shit pit. If you walk down Telegraph near Grand, be careful not to step on the trail of Ketchup packets that form smeary red land mines throughout the neighborhood. Strewn trash from all around the neighborhood emenates from here as late night zombies get their grease fix then spew their trash on the ground, the bus stop and anywhere but the many garbage containers that the City of Oakland has set up in vain hope of giving the nimrods a place to toss thier trash.
If you walk by (remember – don’t step on a ketcup packet), be in store for a treat as the cook’s smoke inside while they make burgers!
Last week I had to make an emergency call to the Oakland Police Department to report a break-in in progress to my dwelling. Unfortunately this call took 15 minutes to get an operator! This operator also happened to be the nearby CHP office which had to then transfer me to the Oakland PD (a few more minutes). This kind of response is absolutely unacceptable! Will it take doubling the 911 budget? If so, it must be done NOW! Another sad fact is that this isn’t the first time I’ve had an over ten minute delay in reaching 911.
All extra city services as parking, parks, libraries should take a back seat to the 911 operations. If it takes the city government having the National Guard come in to fill the slack it should be done immediately.
In Oakland, a terrorist, hoodlum or maniac could go on a shooting spree and kill hundreds of people until the police are notified. A person can die in a medical emergency well before the ambulance arrived.
Mayor Brown, Oakland City council, you must DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENCY NOW! Fifteen minutes to get a 911 operator at several different times is a symptom of a total break down of emergency city services. Do the right thing and call in reinforcements!
Recent construction at the Uptown Oakland location 25th and Telegraph has created a Tunnel of Terror! Pedestrians have to walk under the scaffolding with a giant black sheath on the outside.
What lurks inside? One of the many drugged out crackheads that dwell nearby? A whacked out panhandler looking for some cash for the liquor store next door? A gangsta hood looking for your wallet? If some loser doesn’t accost you,the stench of human waste, garbage or construction debris can harsh your mellow real fast!
Apparently Handicapped parking (signified by the blue sign with an icon of a wheelchair) isn’t for people that are mobily challenged by wheelchairs anymore. Apparently you can talk your doctor into giving you a Handicap permit just for being fat, or walking without pep. By these standards over 50% of the population is now eligible for such privileges.
Why does one get the perk of parking close to a huge store like Costco when you are going to walk several hunded yards inside? As you can see in this video, everyone can walk fine and several subjects are seen easily loading the giant containers or heavy flats of cans they bought at Costco.
It’s the opinion of Chauvi’s that this program be scrapped and new permits be issued to only those that need wheelchairs or some kind of mobilty assistance. At this rate there are going to be no parking spaces for those truly in need with wheelchairs, or let’s just rename this parking area as “Lame Parking”, because being fat, slow or old isn’t Handicapped!
Sometimes the spring cleaning bug hits certain households in Oakland. This can result in some spontaneous, large piles of refuse on the sidewalk. Why bother taking care of your old throw-aways when you can just dump it outside and let someone else deal with it?
This ‘yard-sale’ was seen in a neighborhood in West Oakland. Hope your neighbors don’t do this…
Ah, the remember the ‘good old days’ when you could pull into a gas station and receive prompt, courteous service right at your car? Well, there’s a new version of Service Attendant at the Chevron Station at 2200 Telegraph and Grand in downtown Oakland!
Within moments of pulling into this station and getting out of your car, a service representative will come out to greet you! Is he going to ask if you want your tire pressure checked or your windows washed? Nope! He’s going to tell you a story and shake you down for your cash! Do these guys work for the station? The gas station doesn’t seem to do anything to discourage them, they must be in some kind of affiliate or proxy service arrangement!
Chauvi’s has noticed that women get special treatment and will be escorted wherever they walk around the station by these Service Attendants.
Sorry the photos are of poor quality. We will update with one of our newer cameras soon!
It is time we focus our scrutinizing eye on the many, shabby, sub-standared dwellings that dot the cityscape of Oakland. These multi-user dwellings are hives of crime and filth. The residents don’t seem to show any pride in their residence and the owners poorly maintain them. Some have turned into hives of crime and neglect. Many of them need to be leveled and replaced by market rate lofts or condos.
This months Hive Hall of Shame winner is next to the newer Telegraph Lofts on 24th and Telegraph. Walk around the block to 25th st. and you can see that this is quite a different place. The first thing you notice is the stench, then the garbage that’s strewn about. What a disgusting place. There’s usually matresses and discarded appliances in the back too.
