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Mayors came & went. In 1869 the transcontinental railroad arrived and the few San Franciscans who had managed to make and hold their fortunes built wooden castles on Nob Hill. The thousands who had not, organized. Subsequently the organized put Eugene E. Schmitz of the Musicians' Union into City Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: City I Love | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

After four days of strike and profane telephone calls to Lapham's listed home number, the trolleymen went back to work. This week the brakemen on the cable cars were once again clanging "shave-and-a-haircut" up & down Nob Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: City I Love | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...Dong is, and counts himself, All-American. Since April, as an Army private, he has been doing secret plainclothes work for the cloak-&-dagger Office of Strategic Services. On furloughs he returns to his apartment just off Nob Hill and his pretty Chinese-American wife. He sometimes wears a blue mandarin coat but also likes loud sports jackets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dashing Realist | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...Nob Hill (20th Century-Fox) is a document of social insignificance as foggy and expensively furnished as the austere eminence for which it is named. A sentimental saga of class war in the early IQOOS, its only sunlit moments occur when the plot and the famed habitat of San Francisco's 400 are abandoned and the film goes slumming in the gaslit environs of the Barbary Coast, a region by now as familiar to most cinemaddicts as their own backyards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 9, 1945 | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

...musical backdrops as Moonlight Bay and Shine On, Harvest Moon, tinkled on pianolas or wheezed through the gaping morning-glory horns of pristine phonographs, are powerless to give conviction or pathos to the story of loyal Sally's heartbreak or Angel Raft's dalliance with the snobbish Nob Hill hussy, Harriet Carruthers (Joan Ben-nett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 9, 1945 | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

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