San Francisco: City on Golden Hills

by Herb Caen, Dong Kingman (Illustrator)

Large-format (12 1/2" high x 9" wide) collection of brief essays & anecdotes about San Francisco by Herb Caen. Accompanied by 41 full-color reproductions of original watercolor paintings of the city and 29 two-color illustrations, plus numerous black & white sketches, all produced for this volume by Dong Kingman.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 67-12838.

Genres: History

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1967

About the author

Herbert Eugene Caen was a San Francisco humorist and journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, and offbeat puns and anecdotes—"A continuous love letter to San Francisco" —appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty years (excepting a relatively brief defection to The San Francisco Examiner) and made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

A special Pulitzer Prize called him the "voice and conscience" of San Francisco.

Reviews

[Jean · Rating 3 out of 5]

a few good essays but most of them were very dated and it was hard to get a feel of what the author was trying to convey because the restaurants and stores he mentions to evoke a time, place, culture have no meaning anymore. however the watercolor drawings are wonderful and still very evocative the beauty of sf today.