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Re:Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco a... by Gibbon1 on Monday May 16, 2016 @04:01PM (#11709156)
Answering a question, why the decline in rents 1950-1960? Far as I know during WWII the population of the city swelled due to war time industry. After the war people moved to newly created suburbs in Santa Clara and the Peninsula.

I'm unsure but I think my grandparents moved to SF during the 1939-1940 WWII preseason. And by the late forties had moved away.

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Re:Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco a... by refurb on Monday May 16, 2016 @06:15PM (#11710072)
People were leaving!

In 1950 the population of SF peaked (at the time) at 775,000, by 1960 it was down to 740,000, then by 1980 down to 678,000 (13% drop over 30 years!).

Hard to believe it living in SF today.

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Re:Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco a... by elliotec on Monday May 16, 2016 @09:53PM (#11710877)
It's not hard to believe at all. White flight to suburbs after the war is a pretty well known phenomenon that happened in every major city in the US.
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Re:Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco a... by Gibbon1 on Monday May 16, 2016 @09:23PM (#11710782)
Herb Caens books on San Francisco are good read. Some reference here. A lot of the issues facing the city haven't changed as much as people think.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/place/article/Problems-He...

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Re:Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco a... by seanmcdirmid on Monday May 16, 2016 @08:55PM (#11710684)
Reminds me of "Will the last person leaving SEATTLE -- Turn out the lights" in 1971, http://www.historylink.org/db_images/req094.JPG, during a Boeing bust in Seattle. How times have changed.
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Re:Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco a... by rqebmm on Monday May 16, 2016 @04:45PM (#11709467)
He mentioned he didn't have good data for housing advertisements during that time frame, so one possibility is that during the boom lots of people started advertising rooms for rent instead of entire houses or apartments.
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