Historic week as VP Kamala Harris heads to #Chicago - the Bay Area native and former #SanFrancisco DA and CA Atty General soon to formally become the Democratic presidential nominee - big moment arrives! abc7news.com/post/what-expec…
Kerouac’s “Jazz of the Beat Generation,” travels back in time to 1949 in #Chicago & #SanFrancisco “Out we jumped in the warm mad night hearing a wild tenorman’s bawling horn…”
Amusement Parks that lasted 50 years - #SanFrancisco had Playland at the Beach and #Chicago had Riverview - both disappeared in the late 60’s early 70’s
Two trailblazing women who were female “firsts” to lead a major city sat in the mayor’s seat in the same era -
#Chicago Mayor Jayne Byrne and #SanFrancisco Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein - The women were born one month apart in 1933 - both natives of their respective cities.
Well revered #Chicago born & bred actor Karl Malden has an awesome statue in Belgrade where he’s boarding a #SanFrancisco cable car celebrating his Serbian heritage and his memorable role in “The Streets of San Francisco” srbija.gov.rs/vest/en/133979…
Born in #Chicago Louis Lurie became a famous real estate mogul beloved in #SanFrancisco - building up the Financial District. Famed columnist Herb Caen pointed out that Lurie’s 333 Montgomery St. skyscraper was the architectural twin to the deco masterpiece at 333 Michigan Ave.
From Herb Caen’s 1949 classic Baghdad-by-the Bay, “…it remained for a visiting Chicagoan named Keith Wheeler to contribute a line that, in the two years since he first uttered it, has already become classic: “East is East, but West is—#SanFrancisco “#SF#Chicago
According to “The Wilder Shore” by Stephen Longstreet, the man who really put #SanFrancisco on the literary map was Frank Norris, born in #Chicago notable works include McTeague