European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                848 View the so . Public Library is almost outnumbered the houses giving Littie clue to what san Francisco was to become. By Jack Schreibman a staff or ii san Francisco s former notorious waterfront Barbary coast Section where murder prostitution and robbery once abounded is giving Way to Modem office buildings and Homes to theater Sund other temples of the Good life. The new skyscrapers arc being de level oped literally on the spot where sailing clippers docked. They brought Commerce and the Gold Hunting forty. Liners to the Village that became a Grea City almost overnight. In 1850, a shallow indentation of san Francisco Bay poked into the City a northeastern Shore. It was called verbal Buena Cove and eventually it was filled in by the rotting ships whose Crews deserted to seek the old of the Mother lode. Today what used to be the outer line of the Cove is part of the Embarcadero the waterfront. It has changed. Hard by anybody gets Zimni Ted there any More. Would t the a i a Tih osts of the i Barbary coaster ,., in t u. Civilized i scene today would t is fetch , that polu e a  the Saul Francisco  one of the safest waterfronts in the world far cry the d  from the Board Longhouse crimps a a. Invited the Seal men to have a drink laced the grow with knockout drop Lien delivered 1 like baggage to an  ship. When he awoke like Ashe poor Seaman would be headed  , can or around the Horn. Aman a Hundred ears old or Smight remember when a fellow Cam Shanghai Chicken shot a Carman sea Man dead in South san Francisco was caught before lie sailed at the pm  Chicken , deme. Hanged for his crime. Some years my they found his  Gra a across on which tin pita ii had of scrap led ,. Chicken de inem h fuck broke because in shot   you look Erh no at the Foo. Washington Street. A be the Shade will appear to you i the onlookers on aug. 18. Is j. Univ stirred by a nun and his Little boat. ,., was Bernard ii.b.,y and he is out of Lac  then steered his is i to australia7.""" Icli boy was of to -. George Kasei n1." slammed the be Witch a Rouill the Lieto the  i no. Sir tax a Cert. Cals who Moed in in 62. Breed As c5 1 years a v dipper Sej from new record 97 i weren t All. Icing in 01 Embarcadero. But you got an eyeful whether you were a Deacon or a drunk. It was lined with a continuous Gaudy Ash of saloons almost. Whatever was t a Saloon was a House that was t a Home. Looking Down on All this to North and West was Telegraph Hill so named because a semaphore once Sig naked to citizens below when arriving ships were sighted. The ghosts of the Embarcadero might be pleased that people still enjoy them selves in the crazy guilt of houses an bohemians on the Hill. Telegraph Hill looks Down also on Fisherman s wharf at the North end of the famous waterfront near where canny businessmen have converted decaying ancient buildings into catch Allsop entertainment restaurants and Spe Fialty shops. First to be converted was an old Choc Olate factory now a Mecca for thou Sands daily Ghirardelli Square. And recently an old fruit Cannery made its Bow As the Cannery. In tourist popularity they rival the topless flesh pots of North Beach part of which appropriately used to be the heart of the Barbary coast. To the in crowd of the atomic age the Embarcadero hemmed by 2g Deepwater i piers is a rough Hen but charming i promenade where you can catch some real saggy Dixieland jazz of a sunday afternoon while you nurse a Beer. Down till Street right there where inc wooden ships nosed in a $12f million project he Embarcadero Center i being planned under the leadership of David Rockefeller. It was immediately nicknamed Rockefeller Center  the development involves a comple of office commercial cultural and entertainment structures the Rockefeller people describe As the largest privately financed renewal undertaking in the his tory of the  Laid out on 8 4 acres the Center will boast a 60-Story Tower an 800-room hotel three new Heaters More than a million dollars in sculpture 2,000 under ground parking spaces and numerous promenades and shops. Immediately to the North is the new Golden Gateway Center a Complex of in c Flats townhouses shops Auto car garage Parks fountains and the new Alcoa building. I nostalgic san Francisco the Ming �u5 of old and new is a Way of life. And to him who would move to erase a or object from the cherished sky. It does happen. After All. The orm Nitter to save the Las tank finally i " me old eyesore come Down did t it life was wild and in 1856 the hanging of an English outlaw brought out a Holiday crowd. Aerial View shows the Golden Gate City today. At lower left is Telegraph Hill and in background the famed Bridge. The stars and stripes Page 14. Sunday August 25, a August 25, 1968 today Jackson Square in the old bar body coast Aiea is the head of Interior decorating shop tent Oil of the . The stars and stripes p�9e