Posted on 06/12/2022 3:30:21 PM PDT by Rummyfan
an francisco was conquered by the United States in 1846, and two years later, the Americans discovered gold. That’s about when my ancestors came—my German great-great-great-grandfather worked at a butcher shop on Jackson Street. The gold dried up but too many young men with outlandish dreams remained. The little city, prone to earthquakes and fires, kept growing. The Beats came, then the hippies; the moxie and hubris of the place remained.
My grandmother’s favorite insult was to call someone dull. I learned young that it was impolite to point when a naked man passed by, groceries in hand. If someone wanted to travel by unicycle or be a white person with dreadlocks or raise a child communally among a group of gays or live on a boat or start a ridiculous-sounding company, that was just fine. Between the bead curtains of my aunt’s house, I learned you had to let your strangeness breathe.
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If you’re going to die on the street, San Francisco is not a bad place to do it. The fog keeps things temperate. There’s nowhere in the world with more beautiful views. City workers and volunteers bring you food and blankets, needles and tents. Doctors come to see how the fentanyl is progressing, and to make sure the rest of you is all right as you go.
In February 2021, at a corner in the lovely Japantown neighborhood, just a few feet from a house that would soon sell for $4.8 million, a 37-year-old homeless man named Dustin Walker died by the side of the road. His body lay there for at least 11 hours. He wore blue shorts and even in death clutched his backpack.
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And BTW, San Francisco’s last Republican mayor left office at the beginning of 1964.
Liberalism turned into progressivism like deadly flue turning into an even deadlier pneumonia.
for this quiz question of what caused it, I’m going to put all my winnings on the answer: the Dems did it.
Winner!
(Cheering)
Let us review the first sentence for accuracy: It was on January 30, 1847 that a military proclamation changed the name Yerba Buena to San Francisco. The city and the rest of Alta California became a United States military territory in 1848 by the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican-American War. Then the Gold Rush.
Just be sure to wear a flower in your hair.
It is sad, in that the beautiful city will not remain.
I remember taking the stupid tour of Alcatraz (which is nothing like the movie) and seeing what the beautiful little Civil War fort-island looked like. It should have been a museum, with all of the little houses and meticulous hedges. Instead, the hippies came and filled all of the houses with their own crap before they burned them.
It will be the same with San Francisco, beautiful architecture lost forever.
Please stay in SF and don’t contaminate the rest of the country. ‘Gorgeous men in chap’s was all I needed to decide where you should stay..
“HOW SAN FRANCISCO BECAME A FAILED CITY”
Once upon a time, the voters of San Francisco elected Democrats.
The End.
First paragraph tells me author is an idiot.
(Writing for Atlantic is also a clue).
I lived in San Francisco from 1992-2016 - It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
I left my shit in San Francisco.
High on a hill it calls to me.
All the Sheeple said Baaaaaa vote Democrat.
Just see a slideshow of Caracas from Before to After. It’s what collectivism does.
We already knew Nellie.
That’s so screwed up it’s just un-damn-believable.
A business associate of my wife’s that I know fairly well grew up in SF. He’s about to retire, and he grew up in a very different place. I’ll have to chat about where things are at when I see him this Fall.
My beautiful niece and her husband just bought a $900,000 on Portrero Hill. Haven’t moved in yet. They’re leaving Dallas for better jobs.
Anyone know crime stats for Portrero?
Good article
When you accept so much abnormality as normal, and even encourage it, it will eventually catch up with you.
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