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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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