Anyone expecting Eric Fischer to just go softly into that soft night is fooling themselves. Today, he gives us a May 1958 BART logo. Almost as cool as this.

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Sure looks like it to my untrained eye. Either way, nice photo.

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Josh Ellingson saw our post Friday about his new art at various BART stations, and tipped us off to more. Here’s a Flickr set that includes the images again, as well as process drawings he used to create them, and some of the signs iterated in BART stations.

Thanks, Josh!

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Via Beth W. via Laughing Squid, we were informed of this triptastically awesome Ellingson art that’s popping up at area BART stations. Laughing Squid has more.

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BART rider Nicole was understandably perplexed Monday morning at the 24th Mission BART station when she encountered the scene depicted above.

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Via Akit, we found this amazing BART video, purportedly from 1982.

The transit system wasn’t exactly new at that point, but this ad sure presents it as if it were.

Trippy, to say the least.

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BART rider and Glen Park resident Beth sends us this charming story of a 4-year-old boy who had a wish, and that wish was fulfilled.

Yes, please.

Just the other day, I was in a grocery store and remembered what a freaking joy it was each year to dream up what I wanted on my birthday cake. For me, it was things like the shark from Jaws or, more often than not, anything Star Wars-related. But this kid’s choice, well, takes the … cake?

Thx: Beth and Glen Park News

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Reader Catherine sends along this article on Barbara Shawcroft’s Sea Legs, which have been documented here on BART Diaries before.

Yet another instance of art and transit colliding in beautiful and strange ways …

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Eric Fischer finds cool things. He then shares them on his Flickr account with anyone who has access to a computer. Today, he shared this, the 1958 logo to “RT,” the “San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District.” At the time, it comprised five counties. Those were the days …

I really wish I could leave some money in Eric’s tip jar. I mean … Burlingame BART? Check it out:

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A couple of Saturdays ago, I happily boarded BART at 24th and Mission to head downtown for some serious shopping. I was flying solo, the sun was shining, Anthropologie was calling my name…I was happy.

I stepped onto BART, surveyed the seat situation, and chose a row right in front of the door between the cars. I moved to the inside seat, trying to be a considerate BART rider.

At 16th and Mission a shabbily dressed man boarded the car and plopped down right next to me with force, taking up more than his allotted seat. I edged closer to the wall. He rummaged through his bevy of plastic bags until he found what he was searching for: an ancient-looking, jumbo-size can of Vienna Sausages. With a pop that lid was off, and sausage juice began to fly–some towards me even! I moved as far away as I could from this man as he went to town on his snack. He methodically whipped out each sausage, one-by-one, shaking the excess juice around the car and licking his fingers.

I really didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. I’ve smelled worse and seen worse…but this was the first (and hopefully only) time that cold Vienna Sausage juice had been flung in my direction.

This dude was almost done with his snack when we pulled into Powell and I politely said “Excuse me” so I could get past him. He was visibly irritated to have his dinner interrupted in such a way. I was visibly irritated to have been showered with drops of processed meat juice.

Back out in the sunshine, I shook it off (no pun intended) and proceeded to enjoy my shopping trip. No point in crying over spilled sausage juice, right?

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