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Article: Autumn in San Francisco.(Current and coming)(de Young Museum)(San Francisco Fall Antiques Show)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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As Mark Twain observed in a letter to the Virginia City, Nevada, newspaper Territorial Enterprise in December 1865: "San Francisco is a city of startling events." This autumn, when the spectacular weather alone draws visitors, two events in dramatic settings will make a visit even more worthwhile. After being closed for the better part of five years, the de Young Museum of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, located in Golden Gate Park overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the Golden Gate Bridge, inaugurates its new building on October 15. And on October 27 the San Francisco Fall Antiques Show opens at what is arguably the most beautiful setting of any fair in this ...