Vignettes Of San Francisco

Vignettes Of San Francisco
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Almira Bailey

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Title: Vignettes Of San Francisco
Author: Almira Bailey
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Vignettes Of San Francisco

By Almira Bailey

Vignettes

Title
As Pilgrims Go to Rome At the Ferry The Union-Street Car The Latin
Meets the Oriental The Pepper and Salt Man The Bay on Sunday
Morning Safe on the Sidewalk Port O'Missing Men Market-street
Scintillations Cafeterias The Open Board of Trade The San Francisco
Police A Marine View Hilly-cum-go I'll Get It Changed, Lady Fillmore
Street In the Lobby of the St. Francis The Garbage-man's Little Girl
The Palace Zoe's Garden Children on the Sidewalk Feet that Pass on
Market Street Where the Centuries Meet Bags or Sacks Portsmouth
Square Miracles Impulses and Prohibitions Stopping at the Fairmont
San Francisco Sings Van Ness Avenue The Blind Men and the
Elephant You're Getting Queer The Ferry and Real Boats A Whiff of
Acacia It Takes All Sorts The Fog in San Francisco A Block on
Ashbury Heights The Greek Grocer Billboards or Art Golden Gate
Park Extra Fresh On the California-street Car Western Yarns Mr.
Mazzini and Dante On the Nob of Nob Hill

Vignettes of San Francisco

As Pilgrims go to Rome

In the same way that the poets have loved Rome and made their
pilgrimages there - as good Moslems travel toward Mecca, so there are
some of us who have come to San Francisco. Then when we arrive and
find it all that we have dreamed, our love for it becomes its highest
tribute. And I don't know why it is sacrilege to mention Rome and San

Francisco in the same breath. As for me I greatly prefer San Francisco,
although I have never been to Rome.
I love San Francisco for its youth. Other cities have become set and
hard and have succumbed to the cruel symmetry of the machine age,
but not San Francisco. It is still youth untamed. They may try, but they
cannot manicure it, nor groom it, nor dress it up in a stiff white collar,
nor fetter it by not allowing a body to stretch out on the grass in Union
Square or prohibiting street-fakers and light wines served in coffee pots
and doing away with wild dashing jitneys.
Then there is something about San Francisco's being away out here
from everyone else, a city all alone. New York is five hours from
Boston; Philadelphia is close between New York and Washington;
Baltimore is a trolley ride away; Chicago is only overnight from all the
other cities, while Atlanta is only two sleeping car nights from her
sister cities. But San Francisco, out here as far as