Know nothing about the Land Company, but the building itself is smashingly beautiful. It was designed by the architect, Albert Farr, in the early 1900s in the Craftsman brown shingle style. Looks like something out of an idyllic English village. My Great Aunt lived across the street in one of the Farr cottages directly on San Francisco Bay, and looking out to the Golden Gate Bridge. At one time, her neighbour was the actress, Vivian Vance, who played "Ethel" on the " I Love Lucy " T.V. series. The yacht harbour is right next door. read more

I didn't know that this company owns, and apparently polices, the parking lot in front of the Woodland Market. I sympathize with parking lot owners, as it must be very frustrating, in the words of the woman who answered the phone when I called this morning, that people "get away with" parking violations in clearly posted areas. I mean I can read, and yet I chose to violate their posted regulations, because I'm really self-entitled, right? On the 'subject to towing' notice it said I should call the number if I had questions, but what question could I have? The thing that she didn't seem to get, however, was that the problem is not a nearly every day customer who sneaks in a quick visit to the post office or the bank nearby after grocery shopping when the parking lot is 3/4 empty - it's the person who parks their car there and then carpools away for the rest of the day, taking up needed space during prime times. But as is typical of this type of person, frustrated by a larger problem and not knowing how to deal with it, goes for the low-lying fruit and targets people who assume that a sign that says "parking for customers only" couldn't possibly mean that 1) the store owner wants you to park on the street and haul your groceries back there when the parking lot is empty but you might want to drop a letter at the post office about 30 meters away, or 2) it's reasonable to expect someone to repark one's car about 30 meters away to mail a letter after shopping. This type of person also doesn't seem to get why you would be annoyed that she would make these suggestions, or that you only get one hour (posted nowhere), when after all, you "got away with it" and your car wasn't towed. I told her I was unlikely to shop there again if they put that notice on my car in a grocery store parking lot after 60 minutes, that's not being proactive, thats turning off customers. She said she didn't see the point of our conversation. Exactly. read more