FINDING SAN FRANCISCO: PART I
At first glance San Francisco appears an odd and somewhat mismatched marriage between east coast structural design and Pacific coast appreciations. It’s a peculiar creation, an on descript ambiance that leaves uncertainty in response. It is easy to say that San Francisco is simply a city like no other, which is perfectly true, but that does little to define its essence. Of course, a lot of this I knew going in and was precisely what drew me to the city. I have visited southern California several times since 2013 and the furthest north I’ve been is Yosemite Valley. But I’ve long known San Francisco as the oldest city in a state that in part due to its need to adapt to extreme natural elements and in part due to its history and culture is in a constant move for the modern. San Francisco was modeled very much then like Boston and New York; tall Edwardian era buildings, narrow streets, immigrant quarters and designed around public transportation unlike, say, Los Angeles in which an...