RON HENGGELER

December 25, 2011
Holiday lights and a neighborhood fire at Christmas

SAN FRANCISCO in the years before the 1906 fire provided a sort of Big Rock Candy Mountain for the entire American people. . .
Good Americans when they died might, in the terms of the epigram, go to Paris. While they where alive they wanted to go to California.
Oceans of champagne, silk hats and frock coats, blooded horses, and houses on Nob Hill, these were the rewards that came to the industrious, the far sighted, or the merely fortunate. What better scheme of things, at least on this side of the river, could any man ask? Lucius Beebe

the attic

The Fulton Street tower

San Francisco's Embarcadero Center

San Francisco's Embarcadero Center

The Ferry Building in San Francisco

a restaurant table set for dinner at San Francisco's Embarcadero Center

Hyatt Regency at San Francisco's Embarcadero Center

Apartment fire at Pierce and Golden Gate seen from my bedroom window

Apartment fire at Pierce and Golden Gate in the Western Addition

Apartment fire at Pierce and Golden Gate in the Western Addition

Apartment fire at Pierce and Golden Gate in the Western Addition

Apartment fire at Pierce and Golden Gate in the Western Addition

Apartment fire at Pierce and Golden Gate in the Western Addition

Residents of the burning building

Residents of the burning building

Apartment fire at Pierce and Golden Gate in the Western Addition

Apartment fire at Pierce and Golden Gate in the Western Addition

Apartment fire at Pierce and Golden Gate in the Western Addition

Apartment fire at Pierce and Golden Gate in the Western Addition

Apartment fire at Pierce and Golden Gate in the Western Addition

 

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