Sure do. I'm pre-cable and 24hr television; test patterns were an inevitable part of my youth and early adulthood. And in those days, Bullitt was one of the small set of movies that were frequently shown.
As far as riding one's bike in gross defiance of traffic laws, I did that once -- took it southbound through the MacArthur Tunnel (Hwy 1 under the Presidio). And nobody cared! Reason? All the approaches to the Golden Gate Bridge were closed down for the 1987 celebration of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the bridge, so it could be opened to pedestrians. I was one of the estimated 3/4 of a million there. I lived in San Francisco at the time, so I rode my bike to the bridge. Didn't get any further than the south tower before I needed to go home and get to another event that day. But when I saw there was no traffic leaving the area at all, I decided to take the shortest route home.
This stretch of highway is marked "Motor Vehicles Only" -- understandable because the only time it doesn't have three lanes of traffic zooming along at 45mph/75kph is when it has three lanes full of traffic at a dead stop because they don't have any place to go at the other end. But that day, it was blessedly empty.
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Re: Cycling the wrong way down a one-way street
Date: 2020-10-16 12:57 am (UTC)As far as riding one's bike in gross defiance of traffic laws, I did that once -- took it southbound through the MacArthur Tunnel (Hwy 1 under the Presidio). And nobody cared! Reason? All the approaches to the Golden Gate Bridge were closed down for the 1987 celebration of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the bridge, so it could be opened to pedestrians. I was one of the estimated 3/4 of a million there. I lived in San Francisco at the time, so I rode my bike to the bridge. Didn't get any further than the south tower before I needed to go home and get to another event that day. But when I saw there was no traffic leaving the area at all, I decided to take the shortest route home.
This stretch of highway is marked "Motor Vehicles Only" -- understandable because the only time it doesn't have three lanes of traffic zooming along at 45mph/75kph is when it has three lanes full of traffic at a dead stop because they don't have any place to go at the other end. But that day, it was blessedly empty.