Ritz-Carlton Magazine - Fall 2012 - (Page 32)
FA L L I N G I N L O V E W I T H …
SAN FRANCISCO
ALAN DEUTSCHMAN REPORTS ON HOW SAN FRANCISCO’S HIGH-TECH BOOM HAS PRESERVED THE PLEASURES OF ITS LOW-TECH PAST
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Twenty years ago, when I left my position as a writer for a national magazine in Manhattan to become its correspondent in San Francisco, the move mystified my colleagues back at headquarters. When I arrived in my new town, I was quickly befriended by the handful of fellow reporters for other national publications, and we drank together at North Beach cafés and jokingly called ourselves The Foreign Correspondents’ Club. To our editors in Gotham, we might as well have been in some rather minor capital in the developing world, since SF seemed to them an exotic, remote locale where we enjoyed enviable lifestyles but wouldn’t come across much of global importance that we could report about. While New York had Wall Street and Los Angeles had Hollywood, San Francisco’s claim was its proximity to Silicon Valley, but computers were still boring and microchips were unspeakably geeky. Then, of course, everything changed. Al Gore was elected vice president and told us about the “information superhighway,” which became a dazzling reality as the Internet and turned the Bay Area into the perpetual Big Story, the new locus of innovation and power — and utterly astonishing wealth. Such a sudden infusion of fast money could easily threaten the unique character and fragile aesthetics of an old city, but San Francisco has handled it all with remarkable grace, preserving its cozy neighborhood enclaves with their thousands of Victorian and Edwardian houses while creating gorgeous new parks, museums and public spaces. Where San Francisco once was undeniably sweet but somewhat sleepy, now it’s spectacular.
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Ritz-Carlton Magazine - Fall 2012
Ritz-Carlton Magazine - Fall 2012
Contents
Contributors
Editor’s Letter
President’s Letter
Falling in Love With ... San Francisco
Design
Technology
On the Boulevards
Shopping
Jewelry
Watches
Art
Gourmet Travel
Wellness
Golf
Okinawa
Culinary
Let Us Stay With You
Heritage
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