What a beautiful song. I can't imagine how many songs have been written about San Francisco.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDtXXlD98kw

When I saw your post, this was the first song that came to mind:

Scott McKenzie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKWiwfOhI6U


...a very LaRondo like post.

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Blushing, here ... I had barely dropped my diapers, back than ...

However, a lot of things happened there, Haight/Ashbury, Golden Gate Park and God knows what ...

It's dwindling to me ... CMAC Carl might have more to tell.

I have been finding myself drawn more into the Laurel Canyon myth, which is, as far as the musical part goes, a historical breeding ground, San Fransisco was more like the world stage ... even The Beatles came over to see what's going on ... and how they changed from there on no more mushroom heads after that!

That being said, I have a great respect for that city, nevermind the yada yada about liberals so on so forth.
I am only being bothered, by what I choose to let me bother ...

Even further back in history, times of The Goldrush, 49er's etc. etc. San Fransisco was THE town on the West Coast, while LA had a 'staggering' 800 residents by then ...

That's a good tune. I read George Harrison's remarks about the time he ventured into the summer of love scene. People were going all groupy and he said something like he was thinking it would be pretty cool but here were all these "spotty kids" (his words) running about, all strung out on drugs.

SF is a mixed bag for me. It has its appeal but it's a crowded, expensive city with many rough pockets.

If I could afford to live in Pacific Heights I might be over there.

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Lookin' out over that Golden Gate Bridge on another gorgeous sunny Saturday
Not seein' that bumper to bumper traffic
The city by the bay, The city that rocks, the city that never stops


(3:22-3:27)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-UqB7uYiE

I was born there, and am a 2nd gen. native.

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Haha, rough pockets ... that's funny

I learned the 'rough pocket trade' in Miami ... everything else is rather cool for me

Yeah right. The last time I was there for some sight seeing, on a foggy morning, we couldn't even see the bridge while we were on it ...

Yeah...It rocks!!................
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u3xGVE20Tw&feature=related

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Fight the good fight!......

^^^^Polk Gulch, Tenderloin, Bayview/Hunter's Point, Excelsior, 3rd Street corridor, Western Addition, Lower Haight, certain parts of Outer Mission, Oceanview, Ingleside, South-of-Market and Potrero Hill, being some of them, to be specific.

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I couldn't find it on youtube but I remember the Village People had a song titled San Francisco (You Got Me).

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OMFG. What memories you awakened, Matt.


The '89 quake. 5:04pm. 10/17/89. I will NEVER forget it. I was there when it happened. Just off work, near 7th and Bryant streets.

I was walking down the street and heard a mighty roar. You could actually see the huge ripples, like waves in the ocean, coming at you.

The steady, crunching, inexorable tide, moving at seven miles a second.

The pavement buckled underneath me, and I staggered, as if drunk, trying to keep my balance, while above me, all the transformers on the telephone phone poles blew up in blue flashes, and I felt I that would die for certain.


Either swallowed up by God's earth or electrocuted by live wires.

Longest 10 seconds of my life.


I never saw that video.


Most of it is of the Marina District burning up.
It was hit the worst because of the rubble and landfill those buildings were built on.

The brick building facade, shown at 1:13 in the video, was at 7th and Townsend, near the Flower Market. It collapsed on the street killing several people unfortunate enough to have been there walking.

I was only a block away from there when that happened.

I knew an Assistant District Attorney, Murleen Johnson, from work, who lived in the hardest hit neighborhood, the Marina ("Yuppieville"). She was a young single very good looking African American lady.

She had just bought some wine and cheese on Chestnut street, at a store, to take home, and turned the corner on Divisadero, and it happened.

She actually saw her own apartment building collapse in front of her, on North Point.

Had she not stopped off to make that purchase, and gone straight home, she most likely would have been killed or badly injured.


Couple of my friends who lived up on Anza Vista Terrace at the time, near the center of the city, near Masonic, sat and drank wine in their apartment, and watched the dark city that night, and saw the Marina on fire.

Much later they told me about what they said when they talked about it that evening.

They told me this:

They said, "Just imagine if YOU yourself, were that earthquake. It was like you were sleeping, and moved a little bit in your sleep, in bed". That was what this earthquake was like!!


Then they thought some more, and said, "Imagine if you were that earthquake, and ROLLED OVER in your sleep!!!"



Then they thought about it some more, and said, "Imagine if you were that earthquake, and you GOT UP OUT OF BED!!!!

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Interesting. He wasn't a prodigious drug user I guess.

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That's a good list. I drove cab there for a while -- the biz is weird there -- when it's jumping, oh mah God, people will swarm a cab that's dismissing the previous fare, when it's slow, a lot, I mean a LOT of drivers circling about making dirty looks at each other.

This was '97, '98, it's worse now what with more cabs being on the streets and price of gas going up. Wouldn't touch it now.

But, I digress, Some of the business districts are pretty unattractive to me, like out on Geneva (not sure which neighborhood that is).

I lived in Richmond for a year, holy crap, it would take me 15 - 20 minutes to find a place to park near my house. And you had to make damn sure you remember where you parked. Off street parking is gold there.

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There are clips of that visit to SF on the sorta recently released (less than 10 years IIRC) 10 volume VHS/DVD set: "The Beatles."

He did use a bit, at least if you believe him, he spoke of their time visiting Elvis, and he said that pretty soon, they were trying to sus out from Elvis's people if anyone had any weed.

However, of the clip of him in the park, oh man, the kids did look a bit spotty and weird. I went to a couple of rock festivals in the early 70s (grad. HS '70) and there was some seriously rough trade hanging about. Not all peace, light, and beauty by a long shot.

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I love SF. It's alot of fun if you've got plenty of money. If you want the high-speed tour of the city, hook up with JimB. He does a reenactment of the chase scene in Bullitt that you shouldn't miss!

I just read Simon Winchester's book about the 1906 earthquake and eye witnesses described it much like Jim did. I'm glad to have missed THAT!

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