Midway (CV 41) - Naval Cruise Book

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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

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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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i JESUS Fl nr cw' I-l, .'.l ,- - fy ' fn.'Af.l I JD D U, lr Q 1 Saou! r.1.l2Y. r? SMNO ' ,A if f3152ffwa4'f-Lfc' ' 1'f'I l iff -' rt-r' 'nf During noon hour in Union Square amongst fheri debafes sfarf af fhe drop of a union card. h VI E W ALCATRAZ TH E FEDERAL PRISON TH R u L.. The barren hulk of rock W Alcafraz, lasf home for UI Sam's foughesf cons.