Walla Walla 1902

California waters

newspaper report
The San Francisco Call
The San Francisco Call was a newspaper serving San Francisco. After several mergers, in 1965 the News-Call Bulletin ceased publication when it was purchased by the San Francisco Examiner, which is still publishing today at 465 California St.

Newspaper Row photo, 1902, Library of Congress
-----not smoke, smog, climate change-----that's cooling, wet fog

Newspaper Row in San Francisco referred to the five-point intersection of Market St., Kearny St., Third St., and Geary St., where three of San Francisco's largest daily newspapers were headquartered, across the street from each other. In 1902, The San Francisco Call, San Francisco Examiner, and San Francisco Chronicle were in corner buildings, with the Chronicle in the Chronicle Building, the Call in the Spreckels Building and the Examiner in the Examiner building. The intersection became known as the "Times Square of the West".

Third Street bars were the hangout for reporters and writers, giving the city the dubious distinction of being one of three sanctuaries for novelists, short story weavers, and poets, the other two being New York City and New Orleans, and at that five-point corner I investigated two accidents.
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My brother delivered the morning Examiner every day including Sunday to 70 or 90 homes, I can't remember which, for about seven years. He was up at 5am, and, even though my bed occupied 'his' room, I never heard a squeak, except when snow fell in 1962 and he came running home. The temperature of the water where the Titanic sank was approximately 28°F.

My good friend Bill from St. Stephen Sacramento found this story.