117 sats \ 13 replies \ @TNStacker 18 May \ on: Review of Lonesome Traveller by Jack Kerouac BooksAndArticles
I spent some formative time in the 90s living in San Fran, hanging out in North Beach, going to coffee and readings at City Lights Books.
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75 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango OP 18 May
Amazing…
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72 sats \ 11 replies \ @siggy47 18 May
I have visited a few times over the years. I know the city is supposedly a disaster now, but it was a special place in the mid to late 20th century. I drove north through Washington to Vancouver, Canada in the 1980s. The cascades are beautiful.
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97 sats \ 1 reply \ @TNStacker 18 May
Cascades are fantastic! Spiritual in every sense. I have slept on Lassen and Shasta.
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54 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 18 May
That is incredible.
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87 sats \ 8 replies \ @TNStacker 18 May
And the City currently breaks my heart, but she'll be back. She was pretty horrid in the late 80s, early 90s before dotcom and biomedical times.
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21 sats \ 6 replies \ @carlosfandango OP 18 May
I don’t hear much positive news coming out yet. Have to hope.
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20 sats \ 5 replies \ @TNStacker 18 May
City transformations take 12 years or so, although tech is speeding everything up.
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @carlosfandango OP 18 May
And take a change of political direction to last that long I guess. I really hope things improve.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 18 May
You got it
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 18 Jul
change of political direction in SF is a pipedream
keep smoking that pipe
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 18 Jul
not if the homeless population continues to grow
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 18 Jul
🤣 Show me a city where homelessness is not growing.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 18 Jul
San Fran is third world and isn't coming back
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