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Fog, Ship Logs, and Stocks: San Fran
Published on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 by Myer Thompson Forget the hackneyed "leaving your heart" business. There was a time when San Francisco was tough as nails and replete with sails. It was the Paris of the West, the new metropolis of Manifest Destiny. If you wanted or needed the sweet thrills of a proper city, you went to San Francisco. It was a modern, imperial city, and was the largest, most hip, port on the Unite...