The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-16
COZY RESTAURANTS
HAVE DISAPPEARED
IN SAN FRANCISCO
Little German, French, Italian
Places Have Become VOL
stead Act Victims
BY GEORGE d. MANN

quake gave San Francisco new sky
lire. Soon the picturesque ferries
will be reduced in number and g
bridge will be flung across Colder
Gate. There are many other changes
in this interesting city which the
tourist of 10 to Is years ago senses
It once had the most delightful res.
taurants in America. Now the chair
pie counter has changed all that
Those cozy little German, French anG
Italian eating houses have departed
victims of the Volstead act. In theil
place are the greasy grills and noisy
cafeterias. The new generation finds
little amusement in quaint cafes
which once made San Francisco fam.
Gus. Their fun has moved out &c
the highways and the honky-t onk oil
the roadhouses. Emil and Antoine
deft walters are now probably scour.
ing tins in the gaudily appointed res
taurants where you eat at the beck
and call of automatic arrangements.
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There Is nothing exotic about San
Francisco Chinatown. This, too, has
been commercialized. The earthquake
made it sanitary and uninteresting
just like the Chinatowns all along
the coast. The one in Los Angeles
takes itself less seriously and now
and then in that Chinese quarter Just
off the Mexican plaza there is a tong
war to break the monotony. But in
San Francisco, Chinatown is always
on its good behayior-all shiny and
glistening for the tourist. The Grub
berneclz" wagons try to cast a spell
over it all, but the ruse won't work.
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Barbary Coast, which once rivaled
any sailors haunt in the world, is no
more. When San Francisco rose
from its ashes into a most beautiful
city, it rubbed out Barbary Coast
along with its underground China
town. The builders of this metro
politan city upon hills and peaks.
made the entertainers of the Coast
scatter at the same time they in
sisted that the Cinnamon leave their
underground haunts of dice and vice.
Last week, for instance, the Hippo
drome where Bacchus once reigned
along with painted ladies of the fro
zen smiles was condemned. For
years the Hippodrome has been but a
derelict, but it stood there as a re-
minder of those days when the last
drink was always on the house and
the Blue Danube" waltz was the
signal for the bouncers to clear the
joint.
San Francisco has lost much of its
old atmosphere. Most of the change
is for the better, but the tourist
misses some features of this delight
full city. Dreary Standardization has
put its brand on the gem of the
Golden Gate. There are a few cities
left like New Orleans which still
guard traditions and give the traveller
peek" into the past. San Fran
cisco has gone completely modern. It
took its earthquake as a divine adj
monition to clean up and the pro-
cess has been going on ever since
that catastrophe with Puritan sense
of duty.
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There is no prettier skyline in anv
coast city than San Francisco pre-
sents to the tourist as he tries to keen
warm coming across the bay from
Oakland. 1t may be cool in Duluth.
put 1T is always chilly on that bay,
especially when you strike it after
being cooked on the floor of the
Yosemite valley, where the sun shows
no favors.
upon the twin peaks where the
panorama of the city can best be
seen, an outstanding residential and
park district has been built. There
is no view exactly like this in Amer
lea and as the eye sweeps over the
scene, the spirit of the city that over
came the blight of earthquake and
lire can be appreciated. Such pluck
ana aggressiveness in the face of a
devastating blow have hardly been
duplicated any place in the world.
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One likes the compactness of San
FRANCISCO in comparison to the ex-
panse of Los Angeles. a collection of
towns. Its compactness is more rest
tul than the resounding centers and
frontiers OF Los Angeles. You can
get closer to the soul of this town
than that of Los Angeles. Since some
very attractive residential districts
nave been established more citizens
1--we here than in the past. Years ago
1t was a city of people who had their
business life along Market street and
It's radlatlng avenues, but each night
committed across the bay to other
cities. There are not so many COM
muters now as there were. The tran
sltion is gradual process and the
time is coming when more people
Will make their homes in San Fran
cisco. You can note the trend to
make Frisco city Of homes rather