discounts

Despite digging deep to find Bay seniors the discounts we deserve on our phone bills I’ve come up empty handed. However my pal Greg did uncover a trove of over 100 savings only for us. Granted that most of them are for fast food and chain clothing stores and a few don’t even do business […]

Bay seniors know that any day of the year San Jose’s Winchester House is an unsettling experience. For Halloween of course it is even more delightfully terrifying. The management has upped the horror ante by including a Cornfield Maze, a hellish Cemetery Tour and a creepy séance with the spirit of the mad women who […]

This Bay Area geezer is trawling for senior discounts. Every Tuesday we can get 10% off at Ross stores. There’s a similar saving any day at the Pasta Shops in the East Bay. We can get special rates at selected parking lots, brake reliners, Humane Society adoptions and most obviously, public transit. I suspect there […]

Bay Area gardeners have suddenly developed a renewed affection for succulents, those waxy desert plants that look like Pixar designed them. One of the country’s outstanding collections, Bancroft Gardens in suitably hot Walnut Creek with 2.5 acres of the bizarre and the beautiful, has been around for 60 years. On Saturday August 6 from 10 […]

Who says seniors are required to slow down and locate the nearest rocking chair? If  the patriarch in your family still has the need for speed, he’s going to love taking a high velocity 30 minute joy ride across the Bay this Sunday, Father’s Day. Rocketboat flies at 50 mph out of Pier 39, making […]

Theater-loving seniors in the Bay Area have access to half price tickets to major productions like “Beach Blanket Babylon”, “Tales of the City” and “Teatro Zinzanni” that you thought were sold out. You can also pick up tickets for off-off Geary bizarrness like “In Search of My Clitoris”. Just go where the tourists go, to […]