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City remembers '06 earthquake and fire: "Happy 50th Anniversary: Are you reading this column peacefully seated at your breakfast table? Good — then it didn't happen again." — Herb Caen, April 18 There were red carpets, no less, in the municipal buses that made a party round last night among the city's four major hotels carrying a crowd of some 4,000 to the most ambitious social function in many a year, the "Black and White Ball," a benefit for the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. — April 20 The price of gasoline dropped again in Oakland and the war among dealers spread to Berkeley and Albany. A general reduction to 21.9 cents a gallon was noted and one chain service station firm cut its price to 19.9 cents. — June 9 Ferdinand M. Theriot, member of one of California's best known families, and his pretty wife, Frances, are missing and believed to have gone down with the Andrea Doria. The popular young circulation director of The Chronicle, a grandson of its founder, and his wife were not among those aboard the Stockholm, the last ship to arrive in New York with known survivors. — July 28 The last work horse was retired from the city's streets ending a colorful era that sentimental San Franciscans will always love. Tommy, who has pulled his junk wagon through the Mission District for eight years was to be put out to pasture on a Los Altos ranch. — Aug. 2 The Republican National Convention went into the history books last night. The four day meeting at the Cow Palace ended with a tribute to the Eisenhower-Nixon team so loud it actually hurt the ears. — Aug. 24 Last cable car runs on Washington-Jackson line in Pacific Heights: "I don't know who's responsible for taking the cable cars off this line," one Pacific Heights matron said. "But I'm going to find out. And I'm going to vote against him in the next election." — Sept. 2 The new No. 38 Geary bus line which last night replaced the "B" and "C" streetcars on Geary St., will provide patrons with faster and more convenient service, Charles D. Miller, Municipal Railway manager, said. — Dec. 30 |
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