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Old Posted Jul 12, 2011, 7:11 PM
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Originally Posted by POLA View Post
They didn't have a choice. After the quake, many of the rich sold their land and built even bigger places elsewhere.
Ah, so that was just how the area developed after the earthquake, then. Around here by contrast, we had a very fashionable Victorian neighborhood that suddenly turned into a slum when Edith Vanderbilt developed a portion of the Biltmore Estate into the new see-and-be-seen neighborhood. I was wondering if the forces behind Nob Hill's transformation had been manmade or just the new development pattern that emerged after the quake.
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