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Title: Vignettes of San Francisco

Author: Almira Bailey

Posting Date: August 18, 2009 [EBook #4643]
Release Date: November, 2003
First Posted: February 20, 2002

Language: English

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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