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Old 06-15-2020, 01:05 PM   #4
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First, I quite enjoyed this book, and enjoyed it even more on a re-read. gmw has several excellent points, which I might get around to addressing later, but for the moment I want to focus on what to some is a bit of a sidetrack -- Treasure Island.

Treasure Island, to anyone who has lived in the SFBay area, is a toxic, radioactive, U.S. Navy dump site. So seeing what it was back in 1939, just before it got closed down and completely taken over by the Navy, was a revelation. And The Gayway? Too funny a name, given both the context of the story, and the changes to San Francisco since. The Wikipedia article on the Golden Gate International Exposition is worth a quick read, as are some of the cited references. I'm indebted to Ms. Klages for opening my eyes to something that I lived next to for 20 years and never knew much about.
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