san francisco

[jochen stremmel]

Nearly everything.


2013/7/23 Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com>

> Nostalgia was better then.
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> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 5:22 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> 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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