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Jan 27, 2020 4:34 AM |
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Originally Posted by Murphy de la Sucre
(Post 8751329)
Awesome content. But I have to say, for a city with its size and fame and all, SF is relatively rare on this forum for a while (years), I don't know why.
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There are probably less than 10 of us (SF residents) here and all but 2 or 3 avoid all but the building threads. There continue to be a lot of conventions and the city remains the financial center of the west coast with plenty of business meetings and such (in spite of Larry Ellison abandoning us for Oracle World)--the latest expansion of the convention center just opened--so I don't know if there are people who participate here coming to town for any of those and, if so, why they don't post more pics. If you go back through the years, just about everything that can be photographed, though, has been at one time or another and maybe that's why people don't do them again.
That said, this particular thread won my heart by starting off with the Palace Hotel Garden Court. When my Mom was alive and visited, that's where I liked to take her for lunch. I may as well mention a bit of history: The Palace was where the great Italian opera tenor Enrico Caruso was staying while performing in SF at the time of the great earthquale of 1906 and supposedly it so frightened him he ran screaming into the street. The hotel did catch fire and was repaired with the new facade it has today:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...18%2C_1906.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:P...l_18,_1906.jpg
PS: In one pic, the thread even contains a shot of my condo so I have to like it. |
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