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Park Life
ART, GIFTS
The Swiss Army knife of hip SF stores: design store, indie publisher and art gallery all in
one. Park Life is exceptionally gifted - Sutro Sam otter tees, Park Life's catalog of utopian
visions by Shaun O'Dell, and Ian Johnson's portrait of John Coltrane radiating prismatic
thought waves make thoughtful SF presents.
(
415-386-7275;
www.parklifestore.com
; 220 Clement St;
noon-8pm Mon-Thu, 11am-9pm Fri & Sat, 11am-7pm Sun;
1, 2, 33, 38, 44)
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Mollusk
Back home no one can bite your SF style, with boards by celebrity shapers and signature
big-wave Mollusk hoodies to warm up in style after a gnarly session. Surf books, locally
designed skate decks and ocean collages by surfer-artist Thomas Campbell provide SF
surf-subculture thrills without the damp wetsuit.
(
SURFBOARDS, CLOTHING
415-564-6300;
www.mollusksurfshop.com
; 4500
Irving St;
10am-6:30pm Mon-Sat, to 6pm Sun;
Judah St)
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General Store
GIFTS, ACCESSORIES
Anyone born in the wrong place or time to be a California hippie beach-house-builder can
still look the part, thanks to a) beards and b) General Store. Pine-lined walls showcase
handcrafted indigo scarves, slingshots, wicker bangles, organic hair powder and SF topo-
graphical maps. On weekends, smokers flirt dangerously on driftwood sidewalk benches
and folkies strum in the backyard garden.
(
415-682-0600;
http://shop-generalstore.com
; 4035 Judah St;
11am-7pm Mon-Fri, 10am-7pm Sat & Sun;
18,
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