Three days after the 1906 earthquake and fire, Will Irwin wrote a newspaper elegy for San Francisco from New York, and this is its recast form. He recalls the gaiety of the old city: its hills and fogs, Chinatown, the Barbary Coast, the restaurants and the Bohemians, and a people he believed had grown into a type of their own.
A short, vivid piece of journalism that became the classic farewell to pre-quake San Francisco. Download the free EPUB.