Adidas advertises its skateboarding shoes only in skate magazines, and in August it introduced the Summer Skate Series in San Francisco, a one-day event staging contests for amateur street skaters.

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It claimed to have largely finished the work in New York this summer, but said work in San Francisco was being held up by equipment shortages and zoning issues.

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In early summer 2008, while still living and working in San Francisco, I heard through a mutual friend that Mondo Taitu was for sale.

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Lavingia offered him the opportunity to work as a business development intern in San Francisco this summer.

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By chance, they both were hunting for apartments in San Francisco this summer.

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Officials at last summer's U.S. Open at Olympic in San Francisco used the second hole on a prototype version of the new Stimpmeter on two back-nine greens that weren't measurable with the old model.

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Dorsey launched Square from his one-bedroom apartment overlooking the old U.S. Mint in San Francisco with Jim McKelvey, who had hired him as a programming summer intern when Dorsey was 15.

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Still, the death of British Olympic champion Andrew "Bart" Simpson during a training session on San Francisco Bay gives fresh urgency as they chase the oldest trophy in international sports this summer.

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Other big cities with similar programs include New York ( Summer Streets, which since 2008 has closed about seven miles of Park Avenue for three Sundays in August), San Francisco ( Sunday Streets, in different locations monthly this March through October) and St.

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