The Americans
by Troy on Nov.03, 2009
“A True City refuses to sit still, to be one place and one people. There are so many San Franciscos, for example, so many San Franciscans. You walk and you talk, you look and listen, and the truth goes dancing brightly — just beyond reach.
What is This City? The cliches flood into mind, making their familiar patterns; the Powell Street wooden merry-go-round (and the brass ring of the cable bell); Siciliano fishing boats, colorful corks bobbing in the debris-laden waters of The Wharf and even Coit Tower.
The picture-postcard dream city of a million tourists, and, strangely and wonderfully, of close to a million people.” – The Late, Great Herb Caen – 1967
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