Additionally, the conservancy plans to replace the park's more than 300 plastic trash cans with slatted aluminum containers.

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Of those teams, five stadiums have undergone major renovations and the San Francisco 49ers are already tentatively slatted for a new building.

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Once inside, patrons have their choice of sitting in vintage, slatted-wood booths, which were resurrected from a New Orleans trolley graveyard, or standing at the bar to watch the skilled mixologists at work.

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Atop a bluff and offering nose-bleed views of the major highway for gray whales -- aka the Pacific Ocean -- is this Cape Cod-style seaside estate from 1901, with slatted ceilings, vintage photographs, and piles of firewood near the basement.

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