Serpents of wisdom in the frieze and an open book as escutcheon. Am a major fan of the big flamboyant bookmark. This building used to house the San Francisco headquarters of the University of California Extension, and now there are signs here and there proclaiming that it belongs to UCSF, but the place truly appears to be totally vacant and neglected.
The address is 229 Buchanan Street, an address long ago memorialized emphatically in welding by some unknown hand.
I photographed the small collage/mural above and posted it here several months ago. It was mounted against the parking lot fence of this vacant facility. But today I looked and the small mural had vanished.
This is enough, the daily fix of light and color in San Francisco.