Midway (CV 41) - Naval Cruise Book

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f t cmd activity, yet of taste . l 'pw 5 o lite ot excitemen . . if Q sophistication. Indeed the community introduced taste and the grand manner to the West. il overnight by the 1848 Gold Rush from Q glee F' i town into a thriving metropolis, San Francisco into an era ot expansion and wild living, 59' after the gold was gone from the Sierra Q,-Q money flowed in from the transcontinental fy' r giant wheat and cattle farms, and the Opium in ii.. I From riches came luxury and dazzling elegu :is E then deeper values ot culture and sell-agsum if , y To many it became a cultural and social oqsisin f 1 Q M M desert ot incivility, the cultural capital of the Wei iffy i- San Francisco did not become a Cify of Sn ., iq? i. however. To the contrary, as people arrived from CC l'tornla was as tar as they had mo E 7 'I- Far East Ol to gol, from Europe lto the most European Qi from the United States Itself lthe last citiesl and 1 to remake your litel, the city developed gn 'i-J-'M international character. ta 1 Xi iff' fa V 'R '-?.lIun--- :::.::: cuss! ' um KRW v Market Street, hubc the city's activity Above, it is SG' Francisco's Time. Square for a NC' Year's Eve celebmfi s

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wind is the great regulator of San .,:.. r . Q .,x, .. A, '- siiq, x f - 2-'T sf' 1 H3 wry? P 'S' . 4,5 ,pg 3. 42 3 r v'-.---- Francisco's climate with a temperature that rarely rises above 65 in the summer or below 30 in the winter. While the outlanders oi smoggy Oal-:land tester in 85 degree heat and the poor souls in Sacramento broil under a l0O degree afternoon sun, the San Francisco native will don his overcoat as protection against the summer log, the city's great meterological spectacle. Formed by the interaction ol cool sea breezes and hot winds from Calilornias interior, the log moves in in the late alternoon like a great gleaming white tidal wave, silently inundating hills, buildings, until the whole city has disappeared into a sea of whiteness. San Francisco's physical attributes are an adiunct or more probably a conducement to the lite oi the city-. iiTHE'ARMY trawl Washington, DC, -,A

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aa ,MM AN M The bevotnilrs, those- who havent fled the sceno, continue lo cry out against tlw fuults of tho word Son Francisco's Chino- town, the most populous Chinese colony outside of Chino and good for a night's entertainment if you know where to go. The controversial statue of St Francis of Assisi, the city's patron saint, sculptured by Benny Butono. Disfinctly un-San Franciscan, the Jack Tor is o haven for ostentatious moterialisls from the Southland