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If you enter the Mark Hopkins Hotel on California Mason Street, you will be able to go onto the elevator to the top floor (floor T, where everyone's going) and, you will be able to enjoy a nice view of San Francisco. Although only around 20 floors up, because the Mark Hopkins is on a steep hill, it is higher than most of the tall skyscrapers in the downtown financial District. As a person point of reference, see the Transamerica Pyramid Bldg., to me, that ugly gray building is the Holiday Inn, the ugliest piece of architecture in the world, in my opinion. In front of the Holiday Inn is Chinatown. As a historical point of reference, that ugly building was once the spot of a court house where City Lights bookstore was being tried for Obscenit Charges for selling Allen Ginsberg's "The Howl" in 1956. This absurd McCartheyism-ish act marked the beginning of San Francisco's more Liberal Politics which lead with the Beatnik Generation and then the Hippie and Punk Generations to follow. As Allen Ginsberg came out of the closet as a gay man, one could point at that spot as being the seed to the birth of not only SF Bohemia, but the birth of SF's Gay Community.
Watching Joe Montana beat the Cowboys 28-27 in the 1982 NFC Championship game. I ran on the football field with the rest of the fans and was in the end zone with as the game clock expired. Leave a Comment
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