Mysterious tunnels sketched by Leonardo da Vinci in the late 1400s may have been found

AccuWeather ^ | March 3, 2025 | Taylor Nicioli, CNN

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San Fran and the Peninsula were great places in the 70s. I moved there in ‘73, but was on the road 95% of my time for five years before settling down. The towns on the Peninsula were great middle class areas after WW II until the 70s, then the great wealth machines of HP, Apple, Cisco, 3Com, AMD, Intel, Applied Materials got going. But the wealth they created was nothing compared to what was to come — the mature Apple, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and now, of course, nVidia.

It’s common to see a young couple barely 30 with a couple of babies and toddlers buying 1950 vintage ranch houses for $4 million, tearing them down, and spending another $5 million on a gorgeous new home.

It really is other-worldly.

But the natural beauty has not changed.

[SunkenCiv]

:^) Back then when I would travel I’d always buy a city map (those big white covered ones that would cover the whole table, by The City Map Company; no one would want that any longer), visit a grocery store at least once, and for fun look at the real estate listings. Even in 1988 I was shocked at the listings for SF, both the for sales and the rentals.

A woman who used to live in the GR area, former neighbor of one of my besties, was like her a divorcee and I met her but once. She was getting ready to move home to the Bay area. She’d come into an inheritance (her father was some big hotellier in SF) and bought a kinda plain looking building and had it remodeled within an inch of its life. The rich? They really are different. :^)