I loved this essay on San Francisco and boomtowns. Nicely done.
Rebecca Solnit · Diary: Google Invades · LRB 7 February 2013
Tag: sanfrancisco
Locals and Tourists, detail of San Francisco. See also. (via via)
Watching The Maltese Falcon last month inspired me to read the original. It’s cool to see the names of streets and places I recognize. When I visited SF last year, my hotel was right in the thick of it.
Scott Weaver creates a San Francisco toothpick city:
The lesson in this is, ‘What do we do with our time?’. And I love to create. I love to show people what can be done in life if you spend time to create. Use your imagination.
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San Francisco, 1906. High resolution panorama taken after the earthquake. Incredible. (via Wehr in the World)
Mark Larson 
