The panoramic view at the top is nice, even if Battersea Power Station isn’t high enough, and London not riddled with enough skyscrapers or scenic hills and water, to compete with panoramic views in the likes of New York and San Francisco. The Thames, as seen from the top of the Bat...
It was these “big new planning ideas” that mobilized grass-roots environment groups to push back against limitless developments, even as they do today. Developers struggle to turn the sleepy and serene City everybody loved into Manhattan II. Just in time, San Francisco discovered the whirlwind ...
Having worked full-time since age twenty at some of its most prestigious newspapers (theLos Angeles Free Press, theLos Angeles Times, and theSan Francisco Chronicle ... some tree branches through which the sun streamed. The place had the feeling of a ... ...
Their chairman was Michael de Young, co-founder of the San Francisco Chronicle, and their aim was to put the former gold-rush mining town on the world financial map. Today, the park is a bucolic haven in a city that is the world centre of bio- an...
a satisfying dose of suspense and humor." San Francisco Chronicle "…Doctorow maintains an unrelenting pace; many readers will find themselves finishing the novel, as I did, in a single sitting." Toronto Star "At its heart, Tribe is a witty, sometimes acerbic poke in the eye at modern ...
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San Francisco Chronicle — 5.21.1922 Oddly enough, Big Business actuallydidend up eradicating the Flapper — not in the way that the old men intended, of course — but by bringing on theStock Market Crash of 1929and theGreat Depressionthat followed. ...
He leaves the basement game close to dawn, but his big talk had not gone unnoticed, and he was followed. As theSan Francisco Chroniclelater put it, Virgil was picked up and “taken for a ride” out to the Potrero District. It was the gambler’s last deal. ...