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bob hope

4/13/2022

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A friend sent this clip of Bob Hope.
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SAN FRANCISCO HISTORY CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY
https://sfpl.org/locations/main-library/historical-photographs


​Outside his father’s store in San Francisco’s North Beach, Figoni Hardware, my friend met Bob Hope. They had a nice conversation … about Bob’s eye problem. Figoni sold live worms, too. The store was near Fisherman's Wharf.

My dentist's office was a few blocks from Figoni Hardware. A novel by Frank Norris, McTeague, (1899) is about a dentist on Polk Street, an easy walk from North Beach over Russian Hill. I read the novel in high school.

Many of us were not politically aware or experienced. School, church, neighborhood, and playground filled up the days. I worked with a Chinese guy who never left Chinatown until he was 19. San Francisco neighborhoods are backed up against each other very tightly. If you said your school, I knew almost everything about you.
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Josef Ketzer
4/16/2022 03:49:37 pm

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Mentioning Bob Hope, I remember an old joke from Albania: What's the difference between this country and the US? Well, America has got Faith Popcorn, BOB HOPE, Courtney Love and Johnny Cash, Albania has no faith, no hope, no love - and no cash! :-)

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Robert E. Dunn link
4/16/2022 05:09:15 pm

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