Word: nobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Timothy Ludwig Pflueger, 54, famed San Francisco architect, outspoken proponent of "Pacific Architecture," who designed such well-known San Francisco landmarks as the underground Union Square Garage and Nob Hill's Top of the Mark; of a heart attack; in San Francisco...
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...
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...
...Like its pre-1906 buildings, most of its pre-1906 families have disappeared, although there are still Crockers and a sprinkling of Sutros and Spreckels around. The exclusive and monstrous Pacific Union Club, once the home of Bonanza King James Flood, is still a rendezvous of the wealthy, but Nob Hill is no longer the center of the social whirl. The center now is the Burlingame Country Club, outside of town...
...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...