Janet Hardy-Gould
"It's a good place for gold", said people in the 1840s, and they came from all over the world.
"It's a good place for a prison", said the US government in the 1920s, and they put Al Capone there on the island of Alcatraz.
"It's a good place for love", said the hippies in the 1960s, and they put flowers in their hair and came to Haight Ashbury.
And San Francisco is still a good place - to take a hundred photographs, or see the Chinatown parade, or just to sit in a coffee shop and be in this interesting, different city...