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Pages THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday October 14 1989 You can always lean against San Francisco Vince Travel San Francisco is one of those rare cities that are genuinely uni que No other city could possibly match its spectacular site its crazy topdgraphy its ever changing climate its quirky character its thoroughly mixed up architecture It occupies the tip of a 50km long hilly peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay The hills within the city offer wonderful vistas out to sea and across the bay but boy do they make hiking and biking dif When you get tired of walking around in San Francisco some wag once said you can always lean against it When the Spanish established an outpost of New Spain Mexico in at one of the few relatively flat sites on the peninsula they surely t dream that the surrounding hills steep as they are would ever become part of a major city But the outpost did become an important port city starting with the Gold Rush of three years after California was annexed by the US and continuing with the discovery of the Comstock silver lode in Nevada in 1859 Great for tunes were made not so much from mining as from the sale of supplies to prospectors and the building of railways from the east ON NOB HILL Outward signs of that wealth are still to be seen here and there in such opulent 19thcentury palaces as the Job Hill mansion that is now occupied by the ultra exclusive men s club called the Pacific Union and the slightly less noble homes of the rich who inhabit the Pacific Heights district From those heights the old DENTURE THERAPY CLINIC AW TRENTON DT 18 CHURCH STREET GEORGETOWN ACROSS FROM LIBRARY AND CULTURAL CENTRE families can look down upon the colorful some might say seedy district known internationally as Haight Ashbury after its mam in This working class neighborhood was taken over in the 1960s by hippies and flower children whose total dedication to short term hedonism ran counter to everything that the ma jority of San Franciscans stood for Make no mistake In character and outlook San Francisco is poles apart from that other California metropolis far to the south Los Angeles The Big Orange is laid back and spread out long noted for its freaks its freeways and its cults Its northern neighbor sometimes called Fog City has always been a and apart from such enclaves as Haight and North Beach a dress up kind of place its Victonan era gabled houses jam med close together as though for mutual security and warmth MILD YEAR ROUND Warmth is not something that have to seek the southern California sun takes care of that But San Francisco s northerly sea girt situation means that hot days are as rare as the foggy cool mornings are common On the whole visitors find its climate pleasant blessedly cool in the summer compared to most big cities of North America relatively when those other cities are in the grip of winter and ideal in ing and fall That bible of baseball The Spor ting News has described 30year old Candlestick Park home of the 1989 National League West cham San Francisco Giants as the worst of all major league ballparks because of its cool win weather In the 1961 all star game there a pitcher was blown off the mound by the cross winds A proposal is afoot to build a new baseball stadium as part of a redevelopment of a more sheltered section of San Francisco km of waterfront a proposal that was possibly inspired by the enormous success of the area known general ly as Fisherman s Wharf which these days seems more concerned with reeling in shoppers and diners than fish ON THE WATERFRONT Although the name Fisherman s Wharf properly belongs to a specific pier for crabboats and trawlers it is applied broadly to a highly popular and scenic area stretching from GhirardelU Square on the north a former chocolate factory now an assemblage of up market boutiques to Pier on the south Pier 39 is a seaport village lined with entertainment facilities restaurants and shops open daily except S Thanksgiv ing and Christmas Day It s hard to believe that what was an abandon ed cargo pier only a dozen years ago is now ranked by Amusement Business magazine as the third biggest amusement attraction in the US Estimated attendance last year was exceeded only by the million who visited Walt Disney World and Epcot Centre near Orlando and the 13 Name of Group Contact Parson Address Brlel Description Float Overall Length Clem return this no later than November 10 1989 Mail to Lions Santa Parade Box 73 Georgetown L7G 4T1 Marie Rush or Tom Cotton 8778769 8776206 No Political or Protest Groups please Parade route forming at Sinclair Avenue Georgetown Marketplace and ending downtown Georgetown million visitors to Disneyland in the Los Angeles area Unlike the two Disney amuse ment sites Pier 39 charges no ad mission Its attendance is estimated on the basis of exit polls and other interviews It is home to restaurants and about 110 shops offering such unusuil fare as gifts for the left handed music boxes most of them playing a Tony Bennett song that you may have heard hand puppets and so on BLUE AND GOLD Pier 39 also features an unusual twodeck carousel made in Italy and it operates its own fleet of passenger Blue and Gold sightsee ing vessels that tour the Bay For city sightseeing Pier sends out a rubber tired fleet of replicas of San Francisco s famous cable cars As for the real cableoperated cars no visit to San Francisco would be complete without a trip on one of them What they lack in comfort they make up for in nostalgia Adult fare on the municipally owned cable cars is exact fare required but your ticket is good on any public transit vehicle for two hours from time of purchase Passports for unlimited travel cost for one day for three days and are valid on the entire San Francisco Municipal Railway system Muni including cable cars and buses But for the handicapped and those who are over 65 there is a lit tie publicized discount fare of only 15 cents one of the great public transit bargains of the decade This ticket too is valid for two hours on any form of Mum transit San Francisco s cable cars have been officially designated as na landmarks Americans love such proclamations but don t regard them solely as museum pieces they are an valuable aid to coping with the ci ty s steep hills Never risk walking downhill in leather soled shoes that haven t been broken in falls and broken bones ruin a vacation Air Canada recently announced discounts ranging from 59 to per cent off regular economy fares for travel from Canada to the two largest California cities between November and February in elusive Thats the period designated by the California Office of Tourism as Maple Leaf Days a Canadian oriented travel promotion now in its fifth year The 72percent discount applies to flights to San Francisco from Toronto and Montreal or Ot tawa 359 From Halifax or St Johns it is From each of these departure points the fare to Los Angeles is moderately higher However fares to the two 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