“Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildin...” — Herb Caen Quote

“Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.”

“Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.”

“A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city.”

“Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.”

“Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.”

“Ultimately, the naming of buildings is not a mechanism by which history is kept alive. It is a mechanism by which the rich and the powerful are honoured.”