[Syncro]

Actually that was Herb Caen.

The nickname “Baghdad by the Bay” was coined in 1949 by writer Herb Caen about 1949.

It’s best not to take you family to the scrungy areas of SF, just like it’s not a good idea to take them to those areas in any town.

[bubbacluck]

You are right. Art Hoppe was humorous, Herb Caen was Mr. San Francisco. I think.

[CatoRenasci]

Ah, San Francisco in the good old days ... when Ira Blue was on the radio, and Captain Fortune was on CBS, Herb Caen, Art Hoppe, Charles McCabe and Stan Delaplane wrote for the Comical. (... in the '60s add Dan O'Neill's Odd Bodkins). Times have sure changed... it's really all been downhill in the City since the Summer of Love, which was indeed a great time to be living in the Haight, or the Western Addition, or the inner Richmond close to the Park. I was a little further from the action on the eastern edge of Pacific Heights, but it was still an easy bus ride.... What a time in the Park, at the Fillmore and the Avalon Ballroom.