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Herb Caen, famed and late San Francisco columnist, owns the concept of pigeons being "feathered rats" ...

Interesting... I didn't know that. I grew up in NJ and CT, but my husband is from the SF Bay Area. We spent a lot of time out there during the early to mid-90s... we practically lived there. I became a semi-regular reader of Herb Caen's columns in the Chronicle back then. He was definitely a legendary figure in the Bay Area. Didn't he have a street in SF named after him?

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Didn't he have a street in SF named after him?

Herb Caen Way

From 1996

...the San Francisco Port Commission is expected to add yet another feather to Herb's battered fedora when it christens the historic 3.2-mile waterfront promenade alongside The Embarcadero from China Basin to Fisherman's Wharf in his honor.

(SNIP)

We respectfully urge unanimous approval when the port commissioners vote on naming the lovely bayfront esplanade ``Herb Caen Way at Baghdad by the Bay,''