Maupin used Macondray Lane in Russian Hill as his setting. You might enjoy Armistead Maupin’s “Tales of the City.” These premiered as a serial of daily features in San Francisco’s morning newspaper: The Chronicle in the mid-1970’s. When I walk up those steps from Stockton I expect to confront Sidney Greenstreet. Sometimes I like a drink at the Tunnel Top lounge over the east end of the Stockton Street tunnel on Bush Street – especially if fog is rolling in near twilight. It’s still open on Ellis Street near Powell and not much changed from my first days in SF. If you read the story and like it go to John’s Grill for lunch or dinner. Hammett wrote it while a resident in the City purportedly while living on Bush Street. Number One – not as good literature - is Dashiell Hammett’s 1930 “The Maltese Falcon” featuring Sam Spade his San Francisco detective. ?A finely woven human story of tragedy, death, heroism and blunder?This book is an eye-opener in many ways, and a good read, to boot.I’ll bias towards fiction that captures some moods of the City hopefully to entertain and enhance your visit – with a serious noir tilt to boot. ?So riveting it is enraging? Smith?s] message is the one that matters most.?
"San Francisco Is Burning" is a thrilling disaster tale that brings a lost chapter of history back to riveting life. Smith draws on hundreds of individual accounts and official documents to unearth the true story of the fires?from the corrupt officials who left the city woefully unprepared for disaster, to the militia officers who enforced martial law with deadly force, to the individual heroes who battled the blaze and saved untold lives. Until now.Įmploying the same vivid prose and storytelling skill that made his "Report from Ground Zero" a national bestseller, Dennis Smith reconstructs those harrowing days from the perspective of the people who lived through them. But the aftermath of the quake?the fires that raged across the city for days and claimed the lives of thousands more?was an all too human disaster whose story has remained largely untold. Killing hundreds and leaving a city in ruins, the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 stands as one of the greatest natural disasters in American history.
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