So, San Francisco only gained it's soul in the fifties? What about the previous 100 years? You know, the years that all the beautiful architecture was built? Th

So, San Francisco only gained it's soul in the fifties? What about the previous 100 years? You know, the years that all the beautiful architecture was built? The Haight was once great but now it's a hollow shell of it's brief glory and the shell emptied long before the tech millionaires showed up. Do we really need to save it as a museum piece? Has anyone seen a real beatnik in a generation? I don't think a city should freeze it's self in time so the aging can relive their youth. A truly thriving city is in a consent state of change. So the city goes through a gentrification cycle. After the next crash or long decline, neighborhoods will open up for a future wave of bohemians. In the mean time, a lot of buildings in decline will get fixed and modernized...