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Article: The Unspoiled Soul off San Francisco; Despite Carping and Changes, The City's Essence Endures
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 20, 1987
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All furriners, as San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen
likes to call "anybody who lives elsewhere," carry away from this
city their own mental baggage. Mine consisted of ever-changing light
and windy fogs playing along tight rows of bay-fronted houses with
ground-floor laundromats and bars. And always the views, out to the
water, the islands, the hills or, coming in across the Oakland Bay
Bridge, of the fabulous place as a whole, more like a town than a
city, climbing hill after hill.
San Francisco stood in memory as an image of the way things
ought to be. When you build a city, you don't obliterate nature-you
build with it.
Whether or not this remains one of the most beautiful ...