San Francisco Bay Area Norway Days Festival 2003
Saturday
& Sunday - May 3 & 4
This
year the Norway Day Festival returned to San Francisco, but to a new location,
Crissy Field, right on the Bay below the Golden Gate Bridge. Crissy Field
is part of the old military Presidio which has now become a National Recreation
Area. Usually Peg & Keith come down to these festivals together but this
year Peg stayed home busy with her last weeks of teaching before retirement.
Keith attended both days, keeping busy enjoying the Festival, visiting with
friends and promoting his "Slooper Monument
Project." He did not take
any photos of the many programs (see past years for those - 2001 &
2002) but
did get a few photos of some visiting Eureka
Sons of Norway Lodge members and a few members of the Internet
Norway List.
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| A view from the shuttle
bus of the Golden Gate across the Crissy Field pond. Parking is some
distance away at the "Main Post." |
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| The bus approaches the
"Glass Palace" - the rather un-palatial looking building on the
left here. |
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| The mounted security
patrol gets some attention in front of the Festival's entrance. |
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| Inside the Glass Palace
the warm Norwegian flavored festivities soften the harsh industrial ambience
of this building |
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| Keith early on meets up
with his fellow Sons of Norway Lodge members from Humboldt County. Here he
makes President David Iversen check out the outhouse display! |
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| Fram
Lodge #13 members Keith, Dottie Nelson, David Iversen & Sue Bialous
pose in front of the replica of a Norwegian stabbur or storage
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| After we find Norwegian
language class member Lynn Wachter, we add her to this group photo. |
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| Keith gets another shot
of his fellow Lodge members, this time with Dottie's husband Ron and the
back of her blond daughter on the right. |
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| Keith's Bay area son
Patrick joins the festival for some fine Norwegian food. Open face
sandwiches, waffles, cheeses & Solo are favorite fares here. |
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| Before the first day
ends, Keith meets fellow Norway
Lister Lynn Mendoza & her husband Mario. Keith gets them to pose in
their matching sweaters with a newly purchased Festival
poster by artist Erik Ødegaard. |
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| The second day, Sunday, finds the
main exhibit hall of the Festival busy with the friendly crowd checking out
the many exhibits & booths. |
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| David Wright, Director of
Development for the Vesterheim Museum,
helps out these Norway List members by taking their photo at the attractive
Vesterheim booth. |
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| Keith gets this shot of
the attractive food serving area at the Festival, but he catches Jerry off
guard & with a less than happy expression. Sorry, Jerry. |
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| Keith enjoyed making the
acquaintance of stone carver Ira
Kessey. They talked much of the Slooper
Monument Project & Keith hopes that they can work more together on this
project in the future. |
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| While waiting for the
shuttle to take him back up the hill to the parking lot, Keith gets this
view east toward the city ... |
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| ... and this view
across Crissy Field toward the San Francisco Bay ... |
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| ... and this telephoto
view of Alcatraz on the left, with a tour boat & wind & kite surfers
barely visible on this beautiful afternoon. |
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