We were in Mitch's car, heading back from the Bison or perhaps a party in the East Bay. Mitch lived in Pacifica at the time and passed by my place in San Francisco's Mission District so I often caught a ride with him on the way home from wherever we were. Mitch was playing Me and Bobbie McGee which I had never heard before. He said it was a classic and turned it up. It starts off folksy and quiet and builds into this crazy frenzy of la da das and you cannot help but sing along with it, at the top of your lungs. And that is just what we did, cruising along Highway 80/101 through San Francisco, la da daing away. It was about at this point that we decided we were not ready for the evening to end so we headed into the city for a Mitch adventure.
One of the stops we made was at the Westin St Francis on Union Square. We walked through the main lobby and over to the elevators. They are glass elevators that give you an amazing view of the city as you ride up, up, up into the sky. There is a nightclub at the top, but that is not what Mitch wanted to show me. The fun part is riding the elevator down. You are supposed to lean your head against the glass (a la Ferris Bueller in the Sears Tower) and as you approach the ground floor, there is this fence with kind of spiky things on top. It feels like those spiky things are going to drive right into your skull! It is awesome! I loved this so much I started incorporating it on my own tours of San Francisco with visitors to the city. Oddly, most people did not find this as exciting as Mitch and I did. Well la da da da da da da! Hey Hey Hey!
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