san francisco

[jochen stremmel]

Stumbling over a short passage in a polit thriller from more than 40 years
ago, I remembered a short thread here about the gentrification of SF
(mildly put as memories like to do). Here is the paragraph:

I signed the bill, adding a 20 percent tip, which made the bellhop happy or
at least less morose. After he left I mixed a drink and stood by the window
gazing out over the city with its bridge in the background. It was one of
those spectacularly fine days that San Francisco manages to come up with
sometimes in early September: a few quiet clouds, an indulgent sun, and air
so sparkling that you know somebody 's eventually going to bottle it. I
stood there in my room on the seventeenth floor and sipped the scotch and
stared out at what was once touted as America's favorite city. Maybe it
still is.
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