The City That Was: A Requiem of Old San Francisco

· 1948

This is a recast of a newspaper article of the same title published in The Sun April 21, 1906, three days after the Visitation came upon San Francisco. It is here published by special permission of The Sun. For the title, I am indebted to Franklin Matthews. W.I. "I'd rather be a busted lamp post on Battery Street, San Francisco, than the Waldorf-Astoria."--Willie Britt.…

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