Midway (CV 41) - Naval Cruise Book

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SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco, lim tow other cities in the world, is in love with itself. Certainly. sustainea an almost unlimited foundation ot legends and tables, fond eulogies and glamc-cus by-ricism, the city has gained an international reputation of exquisite uniqueness. A--.srfy it is the attitude of the San Franciscan-his Fervid, blind devotion to his CNY is fne essence ot this uniqueness. For San Francisco's 800,000 people, despite QVEOT emit: and social heterogeneity, are not the shapeless, tormle-SS moss of most large Coiffilmes but Olmosl G i0mllY, with strong paternal ties and G kindred sense of responsot tty. The city's newspaper writers, especially the Chronicle's doughty poet laureate, Herb Coen, and such media OS radio station KABL continually muse U on Sqn FrQnCi5co's Qf0C'0U5 l'V'nQf Pl Y5'f0l beGUlY, Gnd all the other unanimously aglcnowledged virtueS- X Market Street at night: dirty, Cheap, gaudy yet glorio l l Th t SGD . . . . us. e rue Franciscan, hopelessly enamored, imbib lh F t imagined loveliness of his sweetheart, es suc are as a lover entranced by The lt must be admittid feven the 'outsider that his love is no mere allusion, it doeS have a solid base o ac. e visitors First impression is San Frgnqiggog Striking physical presence' Not Rody Gnd IOZHY crowding the banks ot some muddy Eastern 4

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