Few of these deeds made anybody a fortune. Yet we do them implausibly well. They set a pattern for researchers and scholars in America's massive westward tilt of minds. Ann Ferebee's outburst in New York came before my turn to explain San Diego. The reason it's here is because people want to live here.
Cities can be coincidental, too.
Traffic then was by sea. San Diego is greener now, a far more pleasant place to live. Its glory now is not so much the weather as those who have found it. Those who think and work find it a better place to think and work than, say, Newark. Money, as all of us who live here know, is not what brought us to San Diego.