plus ça change

[rezendi]

From Dee Brown's The American West:

Bushrod Wilson, sailor and adventurer, described the town of San Francisco on July 3, 1850: "This place is a hard hole. Gambling, drunkenness, and immorality to excess, and a person that has just broke out in life is in great danger of being ruined here. Everything that will effect the senses is resorted to for

Comments

[coyotegoth]

Alas that I didn't see this terrible, terrible warning before I moved here!

[cityratbuddy]

Some things don't change.