It really is sad-MrT5 was stationed in SanFran in the mid 80’s-it was still a great place to be a tourist-fantastic restaurants, historical places to visit, etc. There was the in-your-face homowacko crowd-but if a tourist wanted to see that insanity, they could go to the Castro district.
In the early 90’s while stationed here in Texas, MrT5 had a TDY to SanFran-and was appalled and disgusted every time he left the base by the roaming homeless, the homosexual hookers everywhere and the generally trashy rundown look of the place. I can’t imagine what he would have to say about the place now, if he were still among the living-but it wouldn’t be good...
Really, really sad. It was gorgeous in the 70s.