How San Francisco broke America’s heart
Washington Post,
by
Karen Heller
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
5/21/2019 3:21:21 PM
SAN FRANCISCO — A Tuesday afternoon in the Mission District of America’s tech wonderland.
Michael Feno stands outside Lucca Ravioli, his beloved pasta emporium on Valencia, a vestige of old San Francisco, puffing on a cigar while posing for pictures, his customers in tears.
Living in this city’s radically shifting landscape, veterinarian Gina Henriksen found comfort by telling herself, “Thank God, Lucca is still here. If Lucca goes, I’m going to have to leave San Francisco. What do we have left?”
Lucca is no longer here. After 94 years, doors shuttered on the last day of April. The parking lot sold for $3.5 million. A three-building parcel, including the store,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
PostAway 5/21/2019 3:57:26 PM (No. 68331)
In the 1980’s my husband and I moved to the Bay Area when he left the Navy as an Annapolis grad with 8 years service on submarines as a nuke. We had saved for a down payment on a house but even back then we couldn’t afford to do so but had to rent. We rented a home in the Amador Valley area that was owned by Pakistani nationals who owned three other properties in California. We left after 6 years and then moved back to the area in the late ‘90’s. We looked at homes to buy near Walnut Creek. House after house was owned by people who lived in the Far East and had bought the homes sight unseen. We bought a home from an Iranian family and sold three years later to other Iranians. Americans who are looking for homes to live in are competing with speculators and other rich foreigners from all over the world. I have yet to see stories about that.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 5/21/2019 4:00:22 PM (No. 68333)
FTA:
"But what happens when you get everything you want?"
Eve thought she could be like God.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Vesicant 5/21/2019 4:26:24 PM (No. 68351)
Gag me with a pasta fork. They did it to themselves. Isn't it great when libterds find out that there are consequences after all?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 5/21/2019 4:27:43 PM (No. 68352)
I have been visiting San Fran for business and vacations since the late 70s. I have never
liked the city very much. The heavy leftist, porn and homosexual overtones of the city are just
oppressive and unfriendly. I have been avoiding it when possible for decades, still had to go a few
times. The most enjoyable times that I remember were on the Liberty ship SS Jeremiah O'Brien
and the WW2 sub USS Pampanito, moored right next to it. Both amazing museum pieces, very
well presented.
This was before the homeless literal sh*tstorm took over the city, fortunately.
Not a chance I will be going back.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bpl40 5/21/2019 4:42:11 PM (No. 68359)
Just don't look back when you are leaving!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46 5/21/2019 5:35:11 PM (No. 68379)
Same thing happened to Rome. Mostly for the same reasons.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
seesfarwoman 5/21/2019 5:53:00 PM (No. 68385)
#1 is absolutely correct -- no one talking about that aspect of skyrocketing real estate prices. It's true in affluent areas of SoCal, too.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
SALady 5/21/2019 6:12:55 PM (No. 68395)
San Fornication used to be a beautiful city!!! It was a wonderful place to visit!!! You sure couldn't beat those nice cool days in the summer!!! We went there on our honeymoon many years ago, and felt totally safe walking around, even at night.
Then Lie-Berals slowly took over, and did what they do best -- they destroyed it!!! Lie-berals destroy everything they touch. They prove that over and over and over again!!!
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As a Bay Area resident for over 50 years, I have to say that I think the article is a fair one, even though it came from the WaPo. The comments about the "unintended consequences" of liberal policies are all true. Any Bible knowledge at all, or even just native wisdom, should have been enough to show people that actions have consequences. Just because a consequence is "unintended" does not make it any less of a consequence!
San Francisco has weathered other disasters in the past. The City's Seal features a phoenix rising out of a fire. Probably the best thing that could happen would be a major tech crash. Flush most of the excess wealth out of the place, many problems would disappear, and we could begin again.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
velirotta 5/21/2019 8:30:48 PM (No. 68463)
I was in a Navy electronics school at Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay in 1962-63. I spent a lot of time in the city. One of my favorite activities was renting a motorbike and exploring the whole peninsula. It was fabulous. In those days the city was clean. Haight-Ashbury hadn't yet erupted, and the sit-ins at Berkeley were still a couple of years away. The only serious problem I had was when three homosexual men cornered me in the men's room at the BART terminal, blocking the door and making no secret of their intentions. Fortunately, I always carried a big knife, and when I flicked it open they ran. When I left and went to cross Mission Street, they sailed by in a car with one-finger salutes and nasty words that puzzled the other pedestrians--funny! Good memories, those; but I haven't been back since then and never will.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
watashiyo 5/21/2019 9:38:45 PM (No. 68483)
The author implies CAPITALISM was at fault. Not true. It's the liberal politicians and their corrupt taxations and their criminal policy of subsidizing Illegal Aliens. Capitalism is pure and ethical. It does not discriminate and sides with the consequences of choice.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
beancounter 5/21/2019 9:56:40 PM (No. 68486)
For many decades SF and the Bay Area opposed construction (called Manhattanization and suburban sprawl). That’s why real estate is overpriced.
P.S. #10, it must have been Muni instead of BART. BART didn’t open until the mid 70’s. I remember riding it after school the first week it opened in 1972.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
texaspast 5/22/2019 12:12:18 AM (No. 68525)
#6, if you haven't already read it, I recommend to you - and ALL Lucianne readers - the book "The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic" by Mike Duncan. This book is a great read for history buffs, not at all intended as a commentary on current political issues, but It is absolutely astounding to note the similarities of what is going on now as an echo of what happened to the Roman Republic. I recommend it to all. You will NOT be disappointed! Everything from bringing in 'foreign' voters to change the makeup of the electorate to a populist 'outsider' candidate (Tiberius Gracchus) elected over the objections of (and to the horror of) the 'patrician' class who ruled the Senate. The Roman Senate (the 'deep state' equivalent) did its own form of 'impeachment', when they, with their 'clients' attacked Gracchus while he was addressing the Roman equivalent of the House of Representatives (the populist side of government) with table legs, stools, clubs, etc., killing him and re-asserting the deep state's dominance. Of course, no one was prosecuted. Really, read the book. You will be fascinated at the similarities between late-Republic Rome and the current U.S.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/22/2019 1:20:11 AM (No. 68545)
San Francisco going down the tubes is a precursor for what will happen to much of America in the decades ahead.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
swarfer 5/22/2019 1:23:24 AM (No. 68547)
I first visited San Francisco in the early '80s while spending 6 months working in San Jose. It was an enjoyable place to go every other weekend. I never felt like a tourist. Over the years I noticed things changing. Sad to see it all disappear under the onslaught of tech wealth and liberalism.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/22/2019 2:28:03 AM (No. 68567)
No, they just fulfilled our predictions. Libs ruin everything they touch and nothing is sacred, San Francisco is nothing but one sad example. If you don't like it don't go there.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Trigger2 5/22/2019 4:15:08 AM (No. 68586)
Oh, so it was Lucca and not the used needles, feces, and urine running down the streets?
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