Location, location

Yikes. There’s been a Pottery Barn at Market and Castro for the past few years, and I’m just now finding out about it? Where have I been? Oh yeah, on the other side of the country. As much as I love Pottery Barn, having it right there reminds me of the Gap (another store I’ll admit to patronizing) located at the very corner of Haight-Ashbury: there’s just something not right about it. Or maybe I’m nostalgic for a Tales of the City-like San Francisco that I was born too late for? Armistead Maupin himself says to go with the flow. From an interview given in Oct. 2001: “A lot of folks are upset that the Pottery Barn has come to the Castro… I have to explain to them patiently that in most American cities, the Pottery Barn is the gayest place in town.”