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"It's hard to believe that a generation or two ago, women would wear white gloves whenever visiting the City, and the Tenderloin District was filled with lively jazz clubs". Yup it's hard to believe alright. I grew up in a small country town (which is no longer a small country town...now it's the fastest growing "city" in California) and it was such a treat to go to San Francisco. There WAS a dress code of sorts then and a good bit of class and sophistication. It's absolutely and totally sad about the jazz clubs. I'm trying to remember the name of one of them where I saw (and heard) Thelonious Monk perform once. Whatever the name of it was, it was very famous...now gone of course. Gone just like a lot of black people are gone from the City now. Driven away by those supposedly so very tolerant ones...there is no tolerance in San Francisco for anything decent...tolerance only for the perverted.