Posted on 06/18/2023 11:46:48 AM PDT by knighthawk
A photo plastered on the empty windows shows it as it used to be: a colorful branch of Gap surrounded by crowds of cheerful tourists and not a drug addict or scrap of litter in sight.
Today, San Francisco's once bustling Union Square and downtown area is a shadow of its former self: rows of empty stores, sparse crowds even on peak weekend shopping days and nearby hotels – including a huge Hilton - unable to cover their mortgage payments.
The historic Flood Building, a survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, stands largely empty: Gap has gone along with nearly every other business in the property with the exception of a tired branch of Dr. Martens and an Urban Outfitters store offering 70 per cent discounts.
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And the idiot will continue to vote Rat.
Vote Rat get rats
Candy being locked up as valuable theft target....
I used to like the candy bar $100,000 which changed its name to 100 Grand. I know Payday is still around, though.
> an Urban Outfitters store offering 70 per cent discounts <
That doesn’t sound very attractive when 100 per cent discounts are also available.
And like a horde of locusts, the refugees will flee over the Sierra Nevada and ravage Reno
I’m sure Bezos is loving the new urban brick and mortar retail trends.
Hard to feel sorry for a Sanctuary City whose DA says they won’t prosecute theft of less that $900. The CA voters got what they voted for.
San Francisco needs to suck it up! This is what they voted for!
My thoughts exactly!
coming soon to a demonrat utopian city near you
Photo of old happy days of the store....
Like the incessant TV ads of cheerful people of all races choosing the right insurance bundle, getting the fast food or pizza deal they’ve dreamed of and the diet plan that will help them attract their life partner.
I’ve never seen America happier than with Biden and Kamala in office.
I saw it on TV.
What money is supporting this failure of a city?
- money from the state
- revenues from the idiots who choose to remain there
- money from the fed (all of us)
This hell hole of decadence should be allowed to collapse. Then it should be covered over with a layer of sand.
Of course they will vote Democrat.
It’s all part of the “urban doom loop”.
Then FedGov is expected to pick up the slack when there’s no more money.
The voters in these cities have no idea that FedGov can itself run out of money.
And only White guys are criminals in commercials.
Most of the downfall of San Francisco was after Karl Malden left the scene.
“Even Gavin Newsom, California’s Democrat governor, has confessed the homelessness crisis in San Francisco and elsewhere in the state is a ‘disgrace’. He said California has ‘not made progress in the last two decades’ but claimed $15.3 billion has been set aside to address the problem. “
The Democrat solution: punish the taxpayers even more by throwing money at the problem. It never works. The only thing that works is what Giuliani did in New York.
;o)
And the idiot will continue to vote Rat. Vote Rat get rats.
It’s FAR WORSE. We’ve had Democrat-run cities far longer than this crap. We’re now in the process of separating into enclaves, Blue and Red, just as Bosnia did before their horrific civil war.
I briefly worked with a woman whose part-time job was to go through all the merchandise about to go on sale for a big promotion in a large chain department store (now merged into Macy’s years ago).
She would clip off the old prices, attach a new higher price and go on to the next item for hours.
Shoppers would excitedly see the $70 top that overnight used to be $45 and use a coupon deal to “save” money at $50.
Yes, the name $100,000 bar was better than 100 grand. We used to have a lot more candy companies. Curtiss produced Butterfinger and Baby Ruth before being bought out by the big boys. Peter Paul produced Mounds and Almond Joy. Hollywood produced Payday and a host of others. Now we get endless varieties of Reeces, M&Ms, and Snickers but Hershey and Nestle have the market.
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