Midway (CVA 41) - Naval Cruise Book

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The steep hills and abundance of water around San Francisco provide a striking natural setting. But as if this wasn ' t enough for a great city, man has added character to that beauty. First they set aside 4,043 acres of the best of the natural beauty as public parks, then they started building. Where many cities have tried to standardize architecture and create their own impression, San Francisco ' s creators have been a breed of indivi- duals, building whatever their imagi- nations conjured. The result is a city with a character distinct from any other.

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. lying in quiet beauty by day m mj ma B ..-, B BBBRi p % EB| ' ■M|a . IHfeBk:; H - M l H fai KKSt td ' 1 H mKk 1 San Francisco is bounded on all sides. To the Nortli, East and West by water and to the South by the many towns of San Mateo County. When a vigorous young city runs out of room the tendency is to overcrowd and to become a center of concrete and steel and dirt. But, in keeping with the nature of the city, San Francisco has done just the opposite, as we have seen for ourselves.

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