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June 22, 2006
The Georgia Straight in Vancouver reviews San Francisco: The Unknown City
Thanks to Google Alerts, we found out that the Georgia Strait, Canada's largest urban weekly as they describe themselves, published a review of San Francisco: The Unknown City today.
Carolyn Ali writes "Helene Goupil and Josh Krist's San Francisco: The Unknown City was released in 2005. It’s fun to browse through, even if you have no immediate plans to visit. Entries include a page on William Randolph Hearst, who sensationalized the San Francisco Examiner. According to the book, Hearst is “believed by many to have initiated the Spanish-American War of 1898 in order to boost newspaper sales”. Learn about Rice-A-Roni, the “San Francisco treat” that was started by an Italian immigrant inspired by an Armenian neighbour’s rice pilaf recipe. (It’s now mass-produced in Illinois.) Read about the fate of the freewheeling California couple who launched Esprit. The clothing company may now be a global empire, but they’re divorced and their San Francisco flagship outlet is defunct.
The sure sign that this isn’t a regular guidebook has to be the section on San Francisco’s infamous serial killers. Several pages trace the grisly mid-’80s crimes of the “Night Stalker”, Richard Ramirez. Then there’s the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, a former University of California Berkeley math instructor, and Charles Manson, who once lived in the Haight area of the city by the bay. After reading all this, you may never want to venture out onto the streets of San Francisco."
Here's a link to the entire story. Thanks for the great review Carolyn Ali!
Posted by insideoutmag at June 22, 2006 08:14 PM
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