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Originally Posted by OhioGuy
I love that San Fran is an old enough city to have a plethora of these grand old buildings. Fabulous city!!!  |
San Francisco may be unique in this respect. If you look at the northeast quadrant of the nation, going south to about DC and west to around St. Louis, you will see the great American cities that boomed in the late 19th century and into the early 20th, starting around the time of the end of the civil war.
this was the era of great industrial and transportation growth and the time that immigrants were pouring into our shores.
no city outside the northeast quadrant is so linked to this era as San Francisco. The south was still in its long decline after the civil war and San Francisco was the "The City" out west. Indeed, SF was called "The City"; LA's rise was yet to happen.
If you look at density and the sense of urban feel, nothing west of the Mississippi or south of the Mason Dixon line compares with San Francisco.