Reddit mentions of Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco

If you like this, you might also like this book:

• http://www.amazon.com/Cool-Gray-City-Love-Francisco/dp/1608199606
  
  49 short stories about San Francisco from different points in time. It helps give context to different years.. for example, in 1853, SF largely (I think 80%?) male workers who moved had here recently, and were living dozens to a room and surviving on the popular lunch special: free soup if you buy your beer there.

Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love is a history book by best-selling author David Talbot. The book captures the dark history of San Francisco from the 1960s to the early 1980s utilizing a “kaleidoscopic narrative” [1] and tells the story of how "the 1967 Summer of Love gave way to 20 or so winters of discontent." [2]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season_of_the_Witch:_Enchantment,_Terror,_and_Deliverance_in_the_City_of_Love


Cool, Gray City of Love brings together an exuberant combination of personal insight, deeply researched history, in-depth reporting, and lyrical prose to create an unparalleled portrait of San Francisco. Each of its 49 chapters explores a specific site or intersection in the city, from the mighty Golden
https://www.amazon.com/Cool-Gray-City-Love-Francisco/dp/1608199606

If you want to do some reading, I have a few recommendations:

FoundSF and their links page

Outside Lands — focuses on the western neighborhoods

Cool Gray City of Love by Gary Kamiya

The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld by Herbert Asbury

City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco by Chester Hartman — fairly dry political history, but it provides a lot of valuable context for the ongoing fights over housing and development.

Thanks for the recommendation; I've never heard of this book! Would also recommend Cool Grey City of Love for those simply looking for a diverse (and interesting/insightful account of the Bay Area in general—fascinating subjects.

Incredible shot! The book by the same name as the title, Cool Gray City of Love is an outstanding read! Highly recommended if you love San Francisco and learning about it's history and spaces, spread out of 49 chapters.

Linking for anyone like me that needed a search to see what book you meant. Though I'd recommend buying from your local store if possible of course: https://www.amazon.com/Cool-Gray-City-Love-Francisco/dp/1608199606