My folks and I sailed into SF in 1961 after being stationed overseas for several years. California looked damned good to me back then.
“My folks and I sailed into SF in 1961 after being stationed overseas for several years. California looked damned good to me back then.”
Eric, I was born in San Francisco just about 75 years ago. My father left a year later when he enlisted in the Navy and was gone to Australia for four years. And you’re right as far back as 1961, it was still a choice place to settle. Unfortunately, for those of us who were natives, a lot of what ended up being undesirable elements thought so too. Particularly those who came here to work in shipbuilding and at the Ford plant in Richmond, which also turned out war materiel. When the war ended, all those facilities closed, and Ford, GM and Chrysler decided to discontinue building cars and trucks here, leaving these “immigrants” to depend on welfare. And they continue on it today. San Francisco is outwardly, still a beautiful city, and with the mega businesses like FaceBook, Google, Apple, etc. booming (our youngest daughter’s boyfriend just landed a job at Apple, he was asking for $95 to $105k and they offered him $125k, plus stock and a signing bonus), and they are driving housing prices off the charts, making all the harder for the welfare recipients to stick around. But SF is rotten inside, as you can readily see from it’s direct complicity in this murder.