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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Newsome says this is all alarmist propaganda, that ALL cities are like that ...
It all started with the hippies of the 60s and never recovered.
My dentist is in Union Square. The writer is not exaggerating.
In a sane world SF would be decorating it’s lamppost’s with their local politicians.
We need a few hundred “Dirty Harry” cops to clean up the mean streets of San Fran Sicko!!
Yep. I hate hippies. Whenever I see some old fart with shoulder length greasy gray hair I wanna punch him in da mouf.
Nope, the California people got what the computerized voting machines were programed for.
>>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.<<
Right! Try as I might, I can’t muster up any sympathy for them. Tsk.
Long past time to reopen the closed down mental hospitals and reenact the Vagrancy Laws from the past.
That show had one of the coolest intro music riffs ever.
They just aren’t left enough yet.
I honestly can’t fathom staying in a city like this and if you do voting for the people that created it.
We moved to the middle of “nowhere” and are flatly rejecting even multi-family housing and won’t even discuss public transportation because development and blight will never stop unless it’s done at the planning level.
Yeah it did.
The democrats plan seems to be working.
Scene of San Francisco downtown retail and restaurant district. (Only kidding)
https://digg.com/video/tumbleweed-road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGRVwTQAB7c
the new landscape put to song....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWR6FLnPack
Michael Savage, who often took a lot of ignorant abuse here at FR, warned some 20+ years ago how his beloved SF was sewer-bound.
60 years of ejecting democrats in San Francisco has brought them to this. So…..let’s elect MORE democrats and see if anything changes!!
Glad I visited years ago. No intention of going back now.
I don’t think this is all political. It’s about who pays the politicians. The Soros gang is trying to bring America down and certainly succeeding in SF. Sooner or later, coming to a city near you.
I wonder what happens if the item or items are just over $900?
Then there were the gays of the 70s and 80s, at least until AIDS decimated them.
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