Herb Caen Tribute #5

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths. 

Herb Caen

Herb Caen Tribute #4

San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.

Herb Caen

Herb Caen Tribute #3

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

Herb Caen  About San Francisco.

Herb Caen Tribute #2

A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city.

Herb Caen

Herb Caen Tribute #1

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

Herb Caen