Posted on 04/11/2024 7:41:40 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Would a free rock concert in the park help?
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/jimi-hendrix-golden-gate-park-17279630.php
Famous Hunter S. Thompson passage (written by an armed man who lived in ‘a heavily fortified compound’) on almost being able to see the peaceful time that had passed forever....
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .
And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The article is full of lies. I live 15 miles south of SF. A few weeks ago a cousin flew into SFO, and stayed at the Hilton Union Square. Union Square is a mess today, full of closed retail stores. His hotel room looked down on homeless tents on the sidewalks. He was too afraid to venture out, except for being picked up by car. I took him down the Peninsula to the suburbs where it is safe. From his hotel to the freeway entrance more than a mile away, it is nonstop homeless drug addicts on the streets. There were none just 5 years ago, it is a disaster today. Crime is rampant everywhere in the city, and numerous stores and restaurants have closed. Main streets like Van Ness Ave, Market St, Mission St and Valencia St are full of vacant stores and restaurants with for lease signs and no takers. These streets used to be lively with shoppers and party people just 5 years ago.
This is not recovery. It is a death spiral.
New whoppers from a publication that lies regularly.
Those shiny things are fresh excrement. There is an app to tell you areas of SF to avoid with a graphical chart of piled pooh piles.
“””How much money did JON E. BORTZ AND ALEX BASTIAN get paid by the San Francisco Tourist Bureau to copy and paste this Press Release from the SF Tourist Bureau????????”””
I really messed up this time with my comment.
It should have read:
How much money did JON E. BORTZ AND ALEX BASTIAN PAY THE HILL to copy, paste, AND PUBLISH this Press Release?????
The dysfunction is pretty much everywhere but much worse in certain areas, of course.
If you have loads of $$$ there is tons of elegant stuff you may enjoy. What you can no longer enjoy is casually strolling around for hours in various totally cool niche neighborhoods filled with one-of-a-kind local businesses and restaurants priced to accommodate the throngs of ordinary people out enjoying themselves.
That was the beauty of S.F. 30 years ago. It was a real city filled with thriving people at all levels of income out and about living life and overjoyed to be here.
Now it's mostly junkies, welfare recipients, over-leveraged home owners, and young tech barons. The regular folk have largely been driven away.
No, but as they taught us in the military, you can roll it in glitter.
Two serial liars writing advertising disguised as "articles" to help them unload property onto some other sucker.
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