By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Editor & Publisher You can no longer push shopping carts with kegs or roll big floats – we miss the tiki bar! – down the streets. But Bay to Breakers is still the biggest, most fun, lively and top singles party event in San Francisco. Held the third Sunday in May (that would put it on May 17 in 2026) it's a rolling block party, San … [Read more...]
San Francisco & Bay Area Top Summertime Events Dates & Information Guide
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Contrary to popular legend, San Francisco is not as cold in the summertime as some places are in the winter. Oh sure, stand at Fisherman's Wharf a late afternoon when the fog rolls in over the bay and a sunny day suddenly turns chilly. Thus all the souvenir stores selling San Fransisco sweatshirts to unsuspecting … [Read more...]
San Francisco Blog: Bay To Breakers 5 Important Things To Know
Costumes But No Floats And A 'Zero Tolerance' Alcohol Policy The 2024 Bay To Breakers is Sunday, May 19, from 8 a.m., until, well, you make it back to town. Some could call this a "fun run" in that it's not a serious foot race, but it's really much more than that, it's a rolling street party of sorts that goes 12K from the bay (under the Bay Bridge) to the Breakers (the … [Read more...]
Is The Bay To Breakers 2017 Zero-Tolerance Policy A Party Pooper?
San Francisco Event Is Better With Beer By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger The 2017 Alaska Airlines Bay to Breakers is under a "zero tolerance" policy for alcohol, as stated prominently on the event's website. A little further down, I happened to notice, one of its sponsors is Angel City Brewery. It's good to see beer is, in some way, still a part … [Read more...]
Bay To Breakers 2017 Begins San Francisco’s Summer Of Fun Events & Festivals
Union Street Festival, North Beach Festival Fillmore Jazz Festival & Sausalito Art Festival Give Locals & Visitors Plenty Of Things To Do In SF San Francisco is celebrating the Summer of Love in 2017, but at the same time it's having another summer of fun, as in events and festivals. And it begins ever before summer begins, with the Bay to Breakers, a crazy foot … [Read more...]
Bay to Breakers 2019 Top Party Tips For San Francisco’s Wild Street Event
Here's How to Have Fun – at B2B Without Any Worries It used to be one of America's great events, a full-filled walk through the streets of San Francisco, full of floats, stops for keg stands and sudden outbreaks of block parties. It was the Mardi Gras of the West Coast. Except that you were in the parade, not watching it from the sidelines. Naturally, there was … [Read more...]
Bay To Breakers 2017 San Francisco Street Party Calendar Date
WHAT: A wild and fun run/walk in San Francisco from the Bay Bridge to the breakers past Golden Gate Park. People in costumes and house parties make this a giant moving block party with 85,000 people. Floats, one a huge party of B2B, are no longer allowed. You can register in advance or jump in for free. PARTY SCENE: Outstanding. Just be sure and conceal those … [Read more...]
Where I Want To Be This Weekend: Bay To Breakers
Memories Of The Tiki Bar & Discovery Channel Song By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger I miss the tiki bar. The kegs in shopping carts were fun, the handstands out of the kegs in the shopping carts, the rolling beer pong table and other creative creations that were a part of the wild and crazy Bay to Breakers were great. But nothing beat the tiki … [Read more...]
Alcohol Crackdown Diminishes Enthusiasm For Bay to Breakers 2013
Without Floats And Especially The Tiki Bar, The Mardi Gras Of The West Coast Not The Same Party I long for the good 'ol days, a time when Elvis sang, when the Village People performed on a platform, where there were keg stands, house parties and themed floats rolling down the streets. It was all part of the Bay to Breakers, a kind of race but really a moving parade … [Read more...]
Don’t Mess With Our Bay to Breakers; We Still Want to Party!
Alcohol Crackdown Is Unnecessary for San Francisco's Annual Fun Event, So Let B2B Be A Party By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Blogger Why do city officials and politicians always want to shut down the fun, harmless events? We are living in an angry society – protests at state capitol buildings, rants on social media sites about anything political or even a bad … [Read more...]