A collection of columns about one of the world's great cities by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen.

One man's San Francisco

CAEN, Herb

Doubleday and Company

This is the rollicking tale of the adventures of Charlie, the youngest cable car. Only sixty years old, he is tired of the same old rut. One night as he's puffing himself up Nob Hill, he hears a lot of excitement down below: Chinese New year! Suddenly, Charlie takes a right turn at Jackson Street, rather than the left he has taken for sixty years, and he finds himself in the middle of the parade. There he meets a friendly dragon named Chu Chin Chow, who is bored with his job. Charlie treats Chu to a cable car ride that looks as if it will end in a disastrous plunge into the San Francisco Bay--unless a miracle occurs.

The Cable Car and the Dragon

Children's Books

Geography & Cultures

Chronicle

Dust jacket notes: "Since 1938, Herb Caen has been the columnist reporting on San Francisco. The consummate insider, he has kept his finger on the pulse of the City, and his daily column for the San Francisco Chronicle is the most widely read and talked-about part of the newspaper. The Best of Herb Caen: 1960-1975 presents his most inspired and memorable columns. Here is his incisive an revealing commentary on San Francisco's personalities, politics, and gossip during a tumultuous era that included the assassination of president Kennedy, the Giants-Yankee World Series, Governor Reagan, Don Sherwood, the Vietnam War, Joe Alioto, the Yerba Buena Center, Dirty Harry, Trader Vic's and Vanessi's, and many momentous comings and goings, as well as scores of 'Caenfetti' and 'Add Infinitems.' Herb Caen's diversity and range - from the short jibe to witty satire to scathing criticism - have made him the undisputed King of 'three-dot journalism' and an enduring San Francisco institution. This new collection and the author's moving Preface capture a writer and a city at their finest."

The Best of Herb Caen: 1960-1975

Literature & Fiction

Chronicle Books LLC.

A new collection of the writings by the popular San Francisco columnist features his trademark style, full of wit, spleen, and grace, as he considers events of the past fifteen years, including the Reagan Years and the 1989 earthquake.

Herb Caen's San Francisco: 1976-1991

This is the rollicking tale of the adventures of Charlie, the youngest cable car. Only sixty years old, he is tired of the same old rut. One night as he's puffing himself up Nob Hill, he hears a lot of excitement down below: Chinese New year! Suddenly, Charlie takes a right turn at Jackson Street, rather than the left he has taken for sixty years, and he finds himself in the middle of the parade. There he meets a friendly dragon named Chu Chin Chow, who is bored with his job. Charlie treats Chu to a cable car ride that looks as if it will end in a disastrous plunge into the San Francisco Bay--unless a miracle occurs.

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Baghdad by the Bay

History

Americas

Comstock Editions

A wealth of breathtaking photographs shot from unusual camera angles and imaginative viewpoints provide new perspectives on the beauty and magic of the City by the Bay--under moonlight, shrouded in fog or simply shining under the California sun. San Francisco Chronicle photojournalist Frederic Larson and the late Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Herb Caen shared a love of San Francisco's beauty and majesty that they captured in photographs and words over the course of decades. Now they are united: Larson's spectacular photographs--shot from unique perspectives in the light of the moon and the rising sun, shrouded in fog--and Caen's beautiful tributes excerpted from hundreds of columns. The city's glorious landmarks are seen through the camera lens, places like the Golden Gate Bridge and Golden Gate Park, Chinatown and Alcatraz, the frenzied bustle of Fisherman's Wharf, the timeless romance of cable cars. The Larson-Caen collaboration exposes the city for what it is--vibrant, innovative, and endlessly surprising.

Mystical San Francisco

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco, city on golden hills

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