Talk of the Point

The Plunge video will show on Channel 9

The Plunge video, “The Plunge: Time Laps Through History,” long used in fundraising for restoration, will be shown on KQED TV sometime this spring. First it must be edited down from about 29 minutes from the “director’s cut” length of 42 minutes. Originally it was to be shown […]

Little Louie’s owner goes east

Tony Beckerley, who owned or co-owned Little Louie’s for 22 years, has sold out to a silent partner so that he can rejoin his wife and kids in Ohio. Besides being a nice guy, he was one of the Point’s master espresso makers.

He is also the third well-known Point character to […]

DSL reaches farther into the Point

News to me: A Pacbell/SBC technician tells me that a year or two ago his company installed fiber-optics into the Point to enable DSL–the high-speed Internet connection, Internet cable’s main competitor–to reach more customers. If you tried to get it once and couldn’t, you might want to try again. I’ve […]