Mason Street View of Transamerica Building - "Sunday Strip" - San Francisco, CA - Zippy the Pinhead Locations on Waymarking.com

Zippy author, Bill Griffith, left a clue for the third pane of this Sunday strip. It says: Mason Street (Transamerica "Pyramid" building in the background). Finding this viewpoint was a challenge. First of all Mason Street is a one way street and it's not very close to the Transamerica building. At the intersection of Clay and Mason, I thought I'd located the viewpoint. The Transamerica building appears to be on the left side of the street as in the picture, but there's no cable car or trolley tracks on Clay Street. So I went over one block to Washington Street, which put me at the intersection of the Cable Car Museum. There are tracks running down this street towards the Transamerica building, but the building appears more on the right side of the street. Though neither of the two intersections was a perfect match, I went with the second intersection because of the cable car tracks in the street.

I found this strip in the Zippy Annual collection and the image in the book is bigger than the image on the Zippy website. I scanned the larger image from the book and placed it on my website for comparison. This Sunday Strip features three different sights in San Francisco, California. In this Sunday Strip, Zippy imagines what San Francisco would look like if it snowed.

In all panes there are snow drifts piled up on cars and roofs. In the first two panes, there is snow falling.
The first pane features Zippy walking by some victorian homes and cars on California Street.
The second pane features Zippy at an arched gate, which marks the entrance to Chinatown.
The third pane features Zippy walking along some cable car tracks along Mason Street, with the Transamerica Building in the background.

Date the strip ran: 03/01/1998 Strip Name: Sunday Strip - Snow in San Francisco Location of item featured in the strip: Mason Street View of the Transamerica Building Link to the Strip: [Web Link]

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