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SF has also been normal. Normal/weird is not mutually exclusive. SF has also been and is still is quite gentrified. For every Emperor Norton or Little Dick you

SF has also been normal. Normal/weird is not mutually exclusive. SF has also been and is still is quite gentrified. For every Emperor Norton or Little Dick you have the Pacific Union club, industrialists and bankers. Those who had/have chic apartments and townhouses then head off to their mansions in Hillsborough. Hippies and beats did not build all those tall buildings around market street. If you watch all those Noir films, just like walking around the city today, look beyond the main characters and see all the normal people going about their business. As Manhattan is still the center of fine art, theater, opera and classical music in this country, I don't know that I mind the comparison...

astrocyte 12y ago
Fine art ? By whose measure? Wealth? Theater/Opera/Classic music : And how does that resonate with society in 2015? What's the average age of attendees? I've had some of my best experiences with art/music venues/performing arts far from what wealth has defined as 'quality'. Constructed buildings? Yes, blue collar people built them as they did most things. Wealth/Money is an amplifier.. Too much of it and it drowns out the actual signal and turns it to noise. SF has gone full retard and the result is a hollowed vessel of noise .. Much like Manhattan. 'Fine art' as it were