| The City that was a Requiem of Old San Francisco Contributor(s): Irwin, Will (Author) |
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ISBN: 0766197565 ISBN-13: 9780766197565 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: January 2005 Annotation: 1906. The author describes San Francisco as it was before the 1906 Earthquake. He begins: The old San Francisco is dead. The gayest, lightest hearted, most pleasure loving city of the western continent, and in many ways the most interesting and romantic, is a horde of refugees living among ruins. It may rebuild; it probably will; but those who have known that peculiar city by the Golden Gate, have caught its flavor of the Arabian Nights, feel that it can never be the same. It is as though a pretty, frivolous woman had passed through a great tragedy. She survives, but she is sobered and different. If it rises out of the ashes it must be a modern city, much like other cities and without its old atmosphere. |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) |
| Dewey: 978 |
| Physical Information: 0.12" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.18 lbs) 48 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Northern California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Geographic Orientation - California - Locality - San Francisco, California |
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