San Francisco,
City of Bridges...

including Harry Bridges

City of Great Views
Birthplace of the United Nations

The stomping grounds of:

the Emperor Norton, Joseph Strauss, Adolph Sutro, William Leidesdorff, Jasper O'Farrell, Sam Brannan, Philo T. Farnsworth, Benny Bufano, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Ruth Asawa, Isaac Stern, Timothy Pfluger, Bernard Maybeck, Julia Morgan, Renzo Piano, Mario Botta, A. Page Brown, Arthur Brown, Willie Brown, Jerry Brown, Dolores Huerta, Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, Leonard Shlain, Robin Williams. The Doggie Diners. Sally Stanford, Herb Caen, Isadora Duncan, Carol Doda, Willy Mays, Joe Montana
and the Parrots of Telegraph Hill
and Dolores Park
. . . and Good-Bye Sea Lions

The Late, Great Herb Caen

Another great San Franciscan was the late columnist Herb Caen, with his penetrating style of news, bonhomie and wit. But he was also a union man who went out on strike. Before the 1994 newspaper strike he said:

"We like to feel that people of good will sit down, especially in this most civilized of cities, and work things out, but sometimes that most ideal situation is not to be found."

Then, once again in the spirit of those who founded the labor movement and lifted millions of Americans to new levels of the good life, it is time to form picket lines and vow we will not retreat another inch."

That much has been sacrificed over the years to win the victories of which we are proud, and to retreat would be to renounce a sacred trust."

This far and no farther."

. . .

Herb Caen
10/28/94