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Marcin Wichary
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Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens  · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him

San Francisco, Calif.
Joined October 2009

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    1. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Dec 2018
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      My favourite San Francisco subway station – Forest Hill (née Laguna Honda) – celebrated its 100th birthday earlier this year.pic.twitter.com/P0efkcSFNn

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    2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Dec 2018
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      It’s a bit of a miracle to even *have* a favourite subway station here. San Francisco has eight subway stations (plus a ghost one), and most of them are pretty awful (incl. the ghost one).pic.twitter.com/YCPSC6buHX

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    3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Dec 2018
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      They are bland, unlovable, mostly character-less…pic.twitter.com/e2CNnxlbiD

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    4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Dec 2018
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      …all built in the 1970s and 1980s, brutalist just enough to hate, but without the one thing that usually (I think) salvages brutalism: an ambition of scale.pic.twitter.com/pFVAo2m5Ki

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    5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Dec 2018
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      Sure, there are some nice moments, like the (recent) rainbow escalators in the Castro district, bold colours, or incidental art.pic.twitter.com/U7tfeJrl0J

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    6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Dec 2018
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      And outside of the boring and predictable Helvetica/Frutiger combination, there is some wonderful (if rare!) type, if you really look for it.pic.twitter.com/dbOlRFZcIx

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    7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Dec 2018
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      But otherwise it’s like utilidors under Disney World – often feeling like you’re not actually meant to be there, with the stations, the trains, and the signage being almost… repulsive.pic.twitter.com/dPaRP0lQ2r

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    8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Dec 2018
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      …except, that is, for Forest Hill Station. It was built in 1918, and for many decades served regular streetcars that travelled underground. (Eventually, the rest of the metro was built up, and streetcars replaced by light rail.)pic.twitter.com/VoA8uecAY8

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    9. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Dec 2018
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      It’s the deepest station in the system. Its elevators remind me of London…pic.twitter.com/xRD53WDpA9

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    10. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Dec 2018
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      …and its stairs of New York.pic.twitter.com/0VL5RRfsSP

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      Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Dec 2018
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      (Not to mention the tiles!)pic.twitter.com/JxzYDuWOxJ

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        2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Dec 2018
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          It doesn’t feel nearly as rich in history as subways in those cities, alas – but once in a while you can find an old element, a bit of grime, or a long-gone detail that betrays its age and hints at stories.pic.twitter.com/DQ4lGVkJl6

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        3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Dec 2018
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          It’s also has a rare building on the surface – and it’s pretty nice, too.pic.twitter.com/7oDBNRzpGL

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        4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Dec 2018
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          But most important for me, at least, is the fact that it’s tiny. It’s “the oldest subway station in North America west of Chicago,” but it’s really just a straightforward, small subway station with two platforms.pic.twitter.com/HeKBVg1Rdd

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        5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Dec 2018
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          That’s what I like about it. It’s an unremarkable station, far away from the splashy/touristy SF celebrations of transit history – cable cars and vintage streetcars – which also (oddly) don’t connect to it.pic.twitter.com/Qsjvgrt1N7

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        6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Dec 2018
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          In a perfect world, there would be tons of tiny subway stations under San Francisco, serving us all. In that world, Forest Hill would not be distinctive enough to become a Designated Landmark.pic.twitter.com/ypGx5CC7Iv

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        7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Dec 2018
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          In the actual world, we only have eight sad Muni Metro stations that are unremarkable in all the wrong ways. And so, sometimes, I travel to Forest Hill, and imagine what could’ve been.pic.twitter.com/kjRzanxGwC

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        8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Dec 2018
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          More photos of Forest Hill/Muni Metro: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/sets/72157698370494280 … More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Hill_station_(Muni_Metro) …

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        9. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Dec 2018
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          (And note that San Francisco also has a parallel subway called BART with a few more stations that are actually *almost* brutalist-impressive – but BART covers the entire region, all started in the 1970s as well, and is kind of a whole different story.)

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        10. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Dec 2018
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          (Also, I got shouted at via the P.A. system for taking photos of Montgomery Station today… but the disembodied angry voice referred to me as “a young man,” so it actually made me feel better.)

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        2. Darrell Owens‏ @IDoTheThinking 2 Dec 2018
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          Should note that Forest Hill's platform facade were all built along with the rest of the system during that same "bland" era. SF has 12 subway stations, you're leaving out the BART ones. BART built the Muni stations around the same time and have the same 2-pattern styles

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          No doubt Powell and Montgomery are bland, but imo Embarcadero, Glen Park and West Portal are the cities' jewels of 70's era stations. Forest Hill has a nice outward facade but interior wide the platform used to be really bland until BART remastered it in the 60's.pic.twitter.com/B0DUa1ogMg

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