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First off, do anything that Anne says. She knows what's good and what's not, although the part about going to AT&T Park is probably not possible as there is about a 5% chance the Giants are even playing that far into the post-season, much less if you're able (and willing) to pay for the tickets. Although it is a very nice stadium. I'd recommend going to Piazza Pellegrini or Vicoletto for food, but I'm partial to Italian food in general.

I love the Marina. Eating there, walking around, the clubs and bars, looking at the expensive houses, its all good. But yeah, the crowd probably isn't your type. You'd probably be better served in the Castro, North Beach, or Haight-Ashbury. (Oh, and btw, I have a friend who goes to UCSF, PT, who invites me to go bar hopping some weekends with her, so I park my car as close as I can, which is about six blocks, to her apartment in the Bayview on some weekend nights).

The Full House "houses" are actually called the Painted Ladies. I don't know how one can go to Alamo Square and not see them, since they're right on the side of the park. They're almost exactly the same as they were in the opening credits of the show. The actual house that was used for the façade during the interstitials in the show (the one where the family lived), is actually a few streets down, but it looks nothing like it did on the show now -- the door's painted black, there's bright red trim on it, and the two houses on either side of it looked condemned.

If you're coming in mid-October, you'll have missed all the festivals. SF fairs unofficially end the first weekend of October with Love Fest and Castro Street Fair. However, if you're going the second weekend, you'll be coming right in the middle of Fleet Week, so there's that.

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SF seems like a wasteland -- lots of bums, garbage and car break-ins. Aside from a few buildings and cable cars, does it really have any attractions (like Seattle's music experience, Rock N Roll museum, aquarium)?

It is a wasteland -- if you live anywhere else in the Bay Area but the city. Bums? Check. Garbage? Check. Car break-ins? Twice, once while I was actually in the car (guy stopped after he saw I was seated in the driver's seat). Aside from the touristy stuff like the cable cars, wharf, restaurants, and club/bar scene, locals generally avoid the area. For tourists, though, I imagine that it can easily take up two to three days of things to do. Beyond that, it's much better to rent a car and drive outside the city to Marin county or down south along the peninsula to Silicon Valley and Santa Cruz or, heck, even Berkeley.