San Francisco, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)
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Travels
by Michael Crichton, Baber, E. C. Baber"Kathy Bowman of World Wide Travel in Los Angeles, and Joyce Small of Adventures Unlimited in San Francisco."
Travels
by Michael Crichton, Baber, E. C. Baber"The oldest person was a seventy‐three‐year‐old retired actress from San Francisco."
Congo
by Michael Crichton"DAY 2: SAN FRANCISCO June 14, 1979"
Year of the Monkey
by Patti Smith"I got a one-way ticket to San Francisco."
Year of the Monkey
by Patti Smith"The traffic was light reentering San Francisco."
Year of the Monkey
by Patti Smith"In San Francisco I boarded a shuttle to Santa Ana."
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians
by James Patterson"an annual event by and for mystery fans begun in San Francisco in 1991."
Valley of Genius
by Adam Fisher"Silicon Valley is a sheltered place, but the intense vibrations emanating from Berkeley and San Francisco did penetrate."
Valley of Genius
by Adam Fisher"Megan left Magic and went to San Francisco and founded PlanetOut, the first online community for lesbians."
Valley of Genius
by Adam Fisher"flowed to its most exciting outpost—San Francisco, the unofficial headquarters of the dawning web."
Valley of Genius
by Adam Fisher"Mark Pincus: We got acquired just as we were moving to San Francisco. We felt like San Francisco was the Motor City of the internet."
Congo
by Michael Crichton"Eleanor Vries announced that the PPA had hired the noted San Francisco attorney Melvin Bell “to free Amy from subjugation.”"
Congo
by Michael Crichton"Elliot recorded thirty additional skeletal measurements for later analysis by the computer back in San Francisco."
Prey
by Michael Crichton"She was drinking a cup of tea from teabags that she had brought with her. Special organic oolong tea from a special shop in San Francisco."
Rising Sun
by Michael Crichton"“The bald guy she's talking to is John McKenna, with Regis McKenna in San Francisco. The company that does the publicity for most high‐tech firms,”"
Rising Sun
by Michael Crichton"I picked up a brochure from the coffee table. It was the annual report of Darley-Higgins Management Group, with offices in Atlanta, Dallas, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. I found a picture of Arthur Greiman. He looked happy and self-satisfied. The report included an essay signed by him entitled, "A Commitment to Excellence."
A Case Of Need
by Michael Crichton, Jeffrey Hudson"San Francisco cannot quite shake off its booming, crude, gold‑rush spirit to become a genteel Eastern town."
A Case Of Need
by Michael Crichton, Jeffrey Hudson"Hammond comes from San Francisco, from what he calls 'a long line of shipping.' He looks like a walking advertisement for the California life—tall, blond, tanned, and handsome."
Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton"Even at the end, when International Genetic Technologies filed for Chapter 11 protection in San Francisco Superior Court on October 5, 1989, the proceedings drew little press attention."
Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton"“Bob Morris, EPA,” he said, extending his hand. “I'm with the San Francisco office.”"
Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton"Midday sun streamed into the San Francisco law offices of Cowan, Swain and Ross, giving the room a cheerfulness that Donald Gennaro did not feel."
Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton"In 1986, he had done some work for a San Francisco company that was building a private wildlife park on an island in North America."
Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton"Just to coordinate with the PR firms in San Francisco and London, and the agencies in New York and Tokyo, was a full-time job — especially since the agencies couldn't yet be told what the resort's real attraction was."
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton"Since the suit would ultimately be heard by the sympathetic Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, the litigation was awaited with some anticipation."
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton"A banquet in his honor was scheduled for later that fall, in San Francisco."
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton"Sarah was the youngest child of a wealthy San Francisco family; her father was a powerful attorney who had held political office; her mother was a former high fashion model."
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton"And yesterday he told me to buy a new Ferrari from a guy in Monterey, and have it shipped to San Francisco."
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton"In time to fly everybody up to San Francisco for the banquet."
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton"“Do you know how much pollution we’re creating right this minute? We’ll burn four hundred fifty gallons of aviation fuel to take twelve people to San Francisco. Just by making this trip, they’re generating more pollution per capita than most people on the planet will generate in a year.”"
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton"SAN FRANCISCO MONDAY, OCTOBER 49:02 P.M."
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton"Evans got into the limousine. They drove back toward the lights of San Francisco."
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton"…disjointed speech (termed “rambling and illogical” by the San Francisco Chronicle)…"
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton"“I armed it myself, before I went to San Francisco yesterday.”"
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton"“Well, you’re going to San Francisco.”"
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton"The pilot clicked on the intercom, telling them to take their seats because they were on their final approach to San Francisco."
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton"SAN FRANCISCO TUESDAY, OCTOBER 126:31 P.M. The anteroom was gray, cold, and smelled of disinfectant."
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton"The car was transported from Monterey to a private garage in Sonoma, where it remained for two weeks, before being taken to San Francisco."
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton"In most respects 1989 seemed like a normal year: a Soviet sub sank in Norway; Tiananmen Square in China; the Exxon Valdez; Salmon Rushdie sentenced to death; Jane Fonda, Mike Tyson, and Bruce Springsteen all got divorced; the Episcopal Church hired a female bishop; Poland allowed striking unions; Voyager went to Neptune; a San Francisco earthquake flattened highways; and Russia, the US, France, and England all conducted nuclear tests."
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton"“Or, barring that, you can call the medical examiner’s office in San Francisco and confirm that they have, in fact, made a positive identification.”"
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton"‘He told me to buy a new Ferrari from a guy in Monterey and have it shipped to San Francisco.’"
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan"And we did move up, across the bay to San Francisco and up a hill in North Beach, to an Italian neighborhood, where the sidewalk was so steep I had to lean into the slant to get home from school each day."
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan"…we are only a forty‐minute drive to my mother’s apartment in San Francisco."
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan"‘It’s hardly ever cold enough in San Francisco to wear mink.’"
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan"…where the boat departed for San Francisco."
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan"I decided to go first to a San Francisco address given to me by this girl in Peking."
Ask The Dust
by John Fante"This was the worst quake since San Francisco. This was much worse than the San Francisco quake."
Ask The Dust
by John Fante"The next morning I got the first of her collect telegrams. It was a request for money to be wired to Rita Gomez, care of Western Union, San Francisco."
Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion"she thought about calling Les Goodwin—it would be all right to call him, she knew that Felicia was in San Francisco—but she did not."
Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion"“I’ve got a meeting at the beach with this guy from San Francisco I told you about,” Carter had said."
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner"Jackson J. Benson was born and raised in San Francisco, graduated from Stanford, and received his M.A. from San Francisco State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California."
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner"And from there, in 1856, to San Francisco, where she danced the spider dance for miners and fortune hunters (No, Lola, no!) and from there to Grass Valley to live for two years with a tame bear who couldn’t have been much of an improvement on Ludwig."
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner"Then he was on the loose in San Francisco, refusing to take just anything, turning down the jobs with no future, looking for just the right place that would lead somewhere."
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner"The day she spent resting with Oliver’s sister Mary Prager in San Francisco she understood to be the last day of the East, not the first of the West."
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner"You cannot think what a bond it was between me and the ladies I met in San Francisco–our loving remembrance of our old homes."
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner"Mr. Hamilton Smith, one of Conrad Prager’s associates, and the consulting engineer for the mine, stopped off for dinner, sending her scurrying in panic up to Mexican Camp for a steak, for Mr. Smith was one of those formidable dining out San Franciscans."
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner"all the day she had rested in San Francisco"
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner"Your last letter came to us on our way from the mine to San Francisco for our Thanksgiving excursion."
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner"Where will we go?' she asked. 'San Francisco?"
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner"“But you’re the engineer’s wife. No San Francisco banker is going to cave in that easy.”"
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner"From the weather‐alert man I learn that the day (again) will be fair, with patches of morning fog near the coast, winds from the northwest 5 to 15 miles per hour, temperatures 65 to 70 in San Francisco, 80 to 85 in Santa Rosa, 85 to 90 in San Jose. That means 90 to 95 up here."
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner"But Oliver had been unable to persuade anybody in San Francisco to put money behind his demonstrated formula for hydraulic cement."
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner"More than once she thought how wrong those women in San Francisco had been, convinced that their old homes did not welcome them on their return."
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"Did Father write you anything about his trip? He’s gone clean out to San Francisco in California for an encampment of the Grand Army. The Secty. of War is going to be there, and Father is to introduce him."
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"In a shed, covered with tarpaulins, lay the crated heavy furniture sent from San Francisco and carted out from King City."
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"Just north of the big sycamore tree where the Hester road turns off to the left, Horace met Julius Euskadi. Julius said, “If you’d come along with me, I’d go into Salinas. They tell me that right next door to Jenny’s, two doors from the Long Green, there’s a new place called Faye’s. I heard it was pretty nice, run like San Francisco. They’ve got a piano player.”"
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"Mollie was married and living, believe it or not, in an apartment in San Francisco."
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"He did have some little worry about Tom, who had gone directly from the funeral to San Francisco."
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"In San Francisco the flood of muscle and bone flowed into cattle cars and the engines puffed up the mountains."
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"Before the letter got as far as San Francisco he was asking aloud in Lee’s hearing, “I wonder why he doesn’t answer. Maybe he’s mad at me for not writing. But he didn’t write either. No—he didn’t know where to write. Maybe he’s moved away.”"
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"I try to get to San Francisco at least once a month."
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"As long as we’re talking about ourselves, have you ever thought that our whole world is the valley and a few trips to San Francisco, and have you ever been farther south than San Luis Obispo? I never have."
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"Cal asked, “Where’s he going?” “To San Francisco to live.”"
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"… waited four hours for the Del Monte express from San Francisco to Monterey…"
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"He had gone to San Francisco for the books he needed and had written for a number of separates."
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"Both Lee and Cal tried to argue Adam out of going to meet the train, the Lark night train from San Francisco to Los Angeles."
The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac"…or the first class freight all the way to San Francisco at seven p.m."
The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac"I first saw him walking down the street in San Francisco the following week (after hitchhiking the rest of the way from Santa Barbara..."
The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac"We got in the car and drove back to San Francisco drinking and laughing and telling long stories and Morley really drove beautifully that night and wheeled us silently through the graying dawn streets of Berkeley as Japhy and I slept dead to the world in the seats."
The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac"I was all outfitted for the Apocalypse indeed, no joke about that; if an atom bomb should have hit San Francisco that night all I'd have to do is hike on out of there, if possible, and with my dried foods all packed tight and my bedroom and kitchen on my head, no trouble in the world."
The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac"I put on my new flannel shirt and new socks and underwear and my jeans and packed the rucksack tight and slung it on and went to San Francisco that night just to get the feel of walking around the city night with it on my back."
The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac"I added laughing remembering my poetic Zen Lunatic Dharma Bum friends of San Francisco whom I was beginning to miss now."
The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac"I didn't wake up then till almost San Francisco in the morning."
The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac"In nineteen-fifty-two I first went into that Skagit country, hitched from Frisco to Seattle and then in, with a beard just started and a bare shaved head—"
The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac"We went into San Francisco to deliver his bike to the freighter at the pier and then went up to Skid Row in a drizzling rain to get cheap haircuts at the barber college and pook around Salvation Army and Goodwill stores in search of long underwear and stuff."
The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac"“Tomorrow afternoon on our run to Stimson Beach,” said Japhy, “you'll see the whole white city of San Francisco miles away in the blue bay.”"
The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac"but finally we came out on a beautiful meadow and climbed it and again saw all San Francisco in the distance."
Fat City
by Leonard Gardner"im vorigen Jahr, mit vierzehn, hatte er über sein Alter gelogen und in San Francisco als bester Newcomer im Fliegengewicht den Golden Gloves-Titel geholt."
Mecca
by Susan Straight"Daddy has a big capoeira festival next week in San Francisco."
Mecca
by Susan Straight"Morris sold fur coats in LA, San Francisco, and Vegas."
Mecca
by Susan Straight"“I never been to San Francisco, never been to Santa Barbara.”"
City of Night
by John Rechy"…went on to San Francisco again, and Monterey and the shadow of James Dean because of the movie…"
City of Night
by John Rechy"I went to clean-aired San Francisco (where I would return—later—and stay much longer)—but soon I was back in Los Angeles."
City of Night
by John Rechy"culminating in violence outside of San Francisco."
City of Night
by John Rechy"For many, San Francisco is an escape, in that coffin-shaped state, from the restless neon-forest of Los Angeles. Its whitewashed, closely pressed houses cuddle each other as if from the chilly invigorating breeze that invades its streets every day around noon, washing them with rain-specked fog almost nightly."
City of Night
by John Rechy"across the bay from San Francisco."
City of Night
by John Rechy"Ive made Enormous strides here in Oakland and in San Francisco."
City of Night
by John Rechy"(I remember that other man in San Francisco: “You will eventually ... if not with me, with some one else.”)"
City of Night
by John Rechy"I fled California. San Francisco, which had lured me spuriously with its promise of renewed life, had withdraw that promise."
City of Night
by John Rechy"I remembered someone in San Francisco who had followed me and someone else to an apartment, and later I looked out the window and saw the man who had followed us still waiting, looking up forlornly to where we were, his hands in his pockets...."
The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar"I was going to call you, and then my uncle got us a job up in San Francisco for a week."
The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett"So I came to San Francisco to get her."
The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett"He went to Seattle that afternoon, and from there by boat to San Francisco."
The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett"I dare you to take us in, Dundy," he said. "We'll laugh at you in every newspaper in San Francisco. You don't think any of us is going to swear to any complaints against each other, do you?"
The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett"He checked the bird at the Parcel Room there, put the check into a stamped envelope, wrote M. F. Holland and a San Francisco Post Office box-number on the envelope, sealed it, and dropped it into a mail-box."
If He Hollers Let Him Go
by Chester Himes"I’m from San Francisco.' 'I was up there once,' I said, 'I like Frisco, it’s a good city."
If He Hollers Let Him Go
by Chester Himes"I was getting the hell out of L.A. Away from Alice too. Going to 'Frisco, maybe. Las Vegas. Somewhere."
Parable of the Sower
by Octavia Butler"We had intended to follow U.S.101 up through San Francisco and across the Golden Gate Bridge."
Golden Days
by Carolyn See"“Only in San Francisco!” somebody said, and walked out."
Golden Days
by Carolyn See"Skip and I kissed in the cab, snaking back through a new world, magic San Francisco."
Golden Days
by Carolyn See"We were flying to San Francisco for the same amount of time."
Golden Days
by Carolyn See"Meeting at midnight in a sleeping San Francisco suburb, making the plan with people you knew so well."
There There
by Tommy Orange"which she bought a long time ago when she worked as a nurse in San Francisco."
There There
by Tommy Orange"Another good year that came out of bad times for Bill was 1989, when the A’s swept the San Francisco Giants."
There There
by Tommy Orange"… like it’s cold when you’re near the ocean, like it’s cold in San Francisco, that moist cold that gets to the bone."
The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle"“Kit Menaker. I’m visiting from San Francisco.”"
Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu"1890 In the City of San Francisco, the Bingham Ordinance prohibits Chinese people (whether or not U.S. citizens) from either working or living in San Francisco, except in “a portion set apart for the location of all the Chinese,” thereby creating a literal, legally defined ghetto."
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"My sisters went to San Francisco with my aunt and her children."
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"He was blond and good-looking and was going to go to Stanford in the fall and he came from a good family from San Francisco."
The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner"“Dang,” the person across from me said. “I’m from San Francisco and a trans to me is nothing new, but this person truly looked like a man. Shoulders as broad as the aisle, and a jawline beard…”"
The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner"The trouble with San Francisco was that I could never have a future in that city, only a past."
The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner"His first placement had been with juveniles in San Francisco. He did that for six months, but it was too depressing. Kids in cages telling him stories about their foster homes, about sexual abuse, all kinds of abuse."
The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner"San Francisco was like that, a city where the layers of my history all compressed together onto a single plane."
The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner"“Frisco, huh,” he said, “where they were doing that extended‐axle thing back in the nineties. Pokers. Man, you guys have something to answer to.” To say “Frisco” is as goofy and wrong as an extended axle…"
The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner"We liked to travel. We went to Vegas. San Francisco."
The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner"I told him I hated San Francisco, that there was evil coming out of the ground there, but that I liked Pick-Up because it reminded me of things about the city that I missed."
The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner"I began to relax, to feel free of the suffocating familiarity of San Francisco."
The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner"Gordon went over the bridge to San Francisco alone, ate at a Vietnamese restaurant downtown that his student Romy Hall had told him about."
The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner"I had written to a few friends from San Francisco. None of them wrote back."
The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner"He was going to bring his own beverages on the airplane for the long flight from Cancún to San Francisco."
The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner"Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson."
2666
by Roberto Bolaño"I was born in Guadalajara and I studied in Mexico City and then in San Francisco, at Berkeley."
Valley of Genius
by Adam Fisher"Ron Johnson: There’s the Bay on the east and the foothills on the west, and they’re about five miles apart, and the entire Valley kind of runs from Stanford to the south toward Cupertino, and to the north toward San Francisco."
Valley of Genius
by Adam Fisher"In San Francisco, I’ve never seen skyscrapers go up so fast."
Congo
by Michael Crichton"Peter Elliot remembered June 14, 1979, as a day of sudden reverses. He began at 8 A.M. in the San Francisco law firm of Sutherland, Morton & O’Connell."
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan"My mother started the San Francisco version of the Joy Luck Club in 1949, two years before I was born."
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan"I was a sophomore at Galileo High in San Francisco, and all my Caucasian friends agreed: I was about as Chinese as they were."
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner"This is the way I feel when Oliver is in S.F. When he comes down, it is like high tide along the shore–all the wet muddy places sparkle with life and motion."
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner"“Didn’t they put up a lot of refugees from the San Francisco fire and earthquake up here? I’ve just glanced through them, I thought I saw something about that.”"
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"in the lobby of the King City hotel he talked to the men who gathered around the stove and read the papers sent down from San Francisco."
The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett"…I was afraid he'd have learned that we had left Hongkong for San Francisco."
Golden Days
by Carolyn See"saving her money for round-trip PSA fare up the coast to San Francisco for Lion’s weekend trainings."
The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle"she’d been over most of the Pacific Coast Trail from the Mexican border to San Francisco."
The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner"Romy L Hall. Hall prison Stanville. San Francisco life sentence Hall. Jimmy San Francisco teach Art Institute."