"It's a good place for gold," said people in the 1840s, and they came from all over the world. "It's a good place for a prison," said the US government in the 1920s, and they put Al Capone there on the island of Alcatraz. "It's a good place for love," said the hippies in the 1960s, and they put flowers in their hair and came to Haight Ashbury. And San Francisco is still a good place to take a hundred photographs, or see the Chinatown parade, or just to sit in a coffee shop and be in this interesting, different city...

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1. The city of hills
2. Early days
3. Form 1906 to the Summer of Love
4. The fog and the fault
5. Travel
6. The bridge and Alcatraz
7. Golden Gate Park
8. Going out
9. Shopping and eating
10. A little differently

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