visitors who--especially, if they've never seen a redwood tree because there is lots of redwood trees there. They're not as big as what you see up in Eureka, but they're grand and out-of-towners are impressed. So, keep that in mind next time you're in that situation, a wonderful place to go. Also, keep in mind--I'm almost positive, they don't allow picnicking. I think they have a little café that you can get a little snack, and at least they did last time I check. And so, bear that in mind. Also in this area--and
time and I I wanted to do something that one of my pet peeves in uh travel journalism and journalism in general is when Out of Towners uh when we won't name a we'll say a a a a guide book line that starts with the letter F brings in a writer they send them to okay we're going to do um a book
We are about 68% North County San Diego or, I should say, San Diego County in general and then about 10% from LA and such. So we do get some out of towners. But I primarily market in San Diego County.
Did the first production have this, the treadmill too? is great for out-of-towners.
grateful to Draper for providing them the forum to do it. I also want to thank my producers-- Townes Coates and Henry Chalfant and our story consultant, Chris Bram-- who gave me so much support and freedom to pursue all this.
and he recently passed at the age of 99. And the way that I got to Townes was I was at the Pentagon trying to learn about laser beam weapons. They're called directed energy weapons, DEW weapons.
So I showed you before that radio is pretty efficient, and just to set the stage for some of the searches we've done, so is optical. And this was something it recognized by Charlie Townes just a year after the invention of the laser when he wrote a little paper about communication. So state of the art laser is really a bright thing, and it's coherent, so if you use a large mirror to make
"Finally, I broke the logjam by holding auditions for the 54th film, watching half a dozen contenders before I made my choice. It was appropriately enough for a list compiled in Los Angeles, Roman Polanski's and Robert Townes ' Chinatown, as good a film about the city as has been made that was my final selection." OK, so that's kind of about how the book came about and why it's important to me.
You guys have a very strong voice. That's always impressive. And what about impressing out-of-towners?
they stay abreast of what is unclassified as they get older so that they can then share that information. And so that is how I approach these things, and three of the scientists that I was most happy to work with on this book-- Charles Townes invented the laser, and he recently passed at the age of 99.
They wouldn't even tell me basic technology about how it worked. I followed lead. I looked up and not down, and ultimately I found my way to Charles Townes , still giving interviews at age 98 when we spoke at the University of California, Berkeley.
who have gone up Lombard the other way. If you've never seen the interior of a Victorian, this is the Haas-Lilienthal house. They do tours. It's a mansion that was here before the earthquake and survived the earthquake and fire and a fabulous place to visit. Another great one to take out-of-towners to see, it's off of Franklin Street. And virtual bowling at the Metreon, I hope it's still there. The Metreon has so many problems, you saw it recently.
wonderful things that make San Francisco so special, and getting more expensive all the time unfortunately but still reasonable. Driving across the Golden Gate Bridge again, you know, the out-of-towners go nuts when you do something like this with them. What should try to do is take these whole lists, do everything, blow them away and send them home, and they'll go come back next year and you can do it again. Slurping noodles at Mifune, which is—-I
Muir Woods, you want to visit that at some point, it's a great place to take out-of-town visitors who--especially, if they've never seen a redwood tree because there is lots of redwood trees there. They're not as big as what you see up in Eureka, but they're grand and out-of-towners are impressed. So, keep that in mind next time you're in that situation, a wonderful place to go. Also, keep in mind--I'm almost positive, they don't allow picnicking. I think they have a little café that you can get a little snack, and
who have gone up Lombard the other way. If you've never seen the interior of a Victorian, this is the Haas-Lilienthal house. They do tours. It's a mansion that was here before the earthquake and survived the earthquake and fire and a fabulous place to visit. Another great one to take out-of-towners to see, it's off of Franklin Street. And virtual bowling at the Metreon, I hope it's still there. The Metreon has so many problems, you saw it recently.
But just walking through the garden, just one of those wonderful things that make San Francisco so special, and getting more expensive all the time unfortunately but still reasonable. Driving across the Golden Gate Bridge again, you know, the out-of-towners go nuts when you do something like this with them. What should try to do is take these whole lists, do everything, blow them away and send them home, and they'll go come back next year and you can do it again. Slurping noodles at Mifune, which is—-I like that little restaurant