San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful. —Frank Lloyd Wright
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Leaving San Francisco is like saying good-bye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible. —Walter Cronkite
Isn’t it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?
—Herb Caen
December 4, 1978 — Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco’s first female mayor.
Blast From the Past — 1971
Snipped from one of Herb Caen’s long-running newspaper columns.
October 17, 1989 — The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Sixty-three people were killed.
October 16, 1965 — The world’s first acid rock dance was held at Longshoreman’s Hall in San Francisco. Top band on the bill was the Charlatan’s with Dan Hicks, a house band from
Photo(s) of the Day 9/26/18
While I was in The City last week I stopped and took some photos at the Presidio Pet Cemetery. Located under the elevated roadway of the Presidio Parkway (formerly known as Doyle Drive), it is the final resting place for over 400 pets
Blast From the Past 9/7/18
Dying to Work — Part 1
The triangles proved to be the tipping point. I’m a sucker for the three-sided shapes because I made a good living for a number of years by incorporating their trigonometric properties into calculations for bending conduit and laying out work on slabs and racks of pipe.