7 edition of Baghdad-by-the-Bay found in the catalog.
Baghdad-by-the-Bay
Herb Caen
Published
1989
by Comstock Editions in Sausalito, CA
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Written in English
Edition Notes
Statement | Herb Caen. |
The Physical Object | |
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Pagination | 276 p. ; |
Number of Pages | 276 |
ID Numbers | |
Open Library | OL22922853M |
ISBN 10 | 0891740473 |
OCLC/WorldCa | 31060237 |
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I read this book and several others written by Herb Caen and found all of them delightful and insightful The last purchase of a Caen book, The Cable Car and the Dragon, was made by me a scant 25 years ago.
No one it seems had a better talent for relating fact and fiction about Baghdad By The Bay than Herb Caen/5(13).
Baghdad-By-The-Bay is a delightful portrait of one of the most fascinating cities in the United States, San Francisco.
In the sharp, pungent prose so familiar to the hundreds of thousands of readers of his daily column in the San Francisco Examiner, Herb Caen writes of the many things for which this city is famous: Chinatown, the unusual climate, the cable cars, Alcatraz, and the /5(13).
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Jump to. Sections of this page. And many of the books that my Hollywood book club sent me when I was a teenager. Baghdad By The Bay, San Francisco, CA. likes. The blog about the life, history and culture of San ers: Herb Caen (/ k æ n /; –) was a San Francisco humorist and journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, painful puns, and offbeat 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 Born: Herbert Eugene Caen, April 3.
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I attended and graduated from George Washington High School, class of Every day when I walked down the halls I saw WPA on the walls that I knew about not from school teaching so much as because my Uncle Al’s first wife, Shirley Staschen Triest was a WPA artist that helped paint the murals in San Francisco’s Coit Tower.
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