It was just after 7 o'clock on a foggy May morning in 1941 when I arrived in San Francisco. I walked up Market Street, determined to prove this small-town boy was ready for his first newspaper job at the Daily News, and it struck me that a remarkable number of smartly dressed pedestrians smiled as I passed.
In the half-century since, the Daily News, the smartly dressed pedestrians and the smiles have all vanished from San Francisco.
Measure it where you will, nothing in California is as it was. There is a simple reason for the cosmic changes: 30 or 40...
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