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Herb Caen’s First Column (1938) (sfgate.com)
17 points by Caiero on Sept 29, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments



I'm always happy when someone like him gets recognition when he's still alive. Like Mark Twain or Johannes Brahms.

Another column by him: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/HERB-CAEN-Twas-the-Day-A...


Back in the day, the SFPL had several Herb Caen collections that you could borrow in book form. Makes for some lively reading. He had a great sense of humor that I really enjoyed.


I take it that Tu Lan finally took down that old, weatherbeaten copy of Herb Caen’s positive review of the restaurant from 1977 when they went through the redesign? Most young people no longer have any idea who Herb Caen was, and his relevance has been lost in the sands of time. Still, he makes for interesting reading when it comes to the history of the city, a city that really no longer exists.


The SF of the 40s and 50s was gone when I was a teenager in the 60s. By the same token the SF I knew from the 70s is long gone.

RIP Mabuhay Gardens...


The Stone and The I Beam enter the chat.


Is it just me, or did I Beam have unusually good acoustics?


Puzzling over the "inalienable right". Maybe meant "exclusive right"?

Bet a letter to the editor appeared later in the week, asking.


Sic transit gloria mundi to all mentioned therein.


The Sackamenna Kid...




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