[HN Gopher] The San Francisco stadium that fog killed
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The San Francisco stadium that fog killed
Author : PaulHoule
Score : 40 points
Date : 2025-02-15 02:10 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.sfgate.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.sfgate.com)
| gizajob wrote:
| "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco" -
| Mark Twain
| CaliforniaKarl wrote:
| Except Mark Twain never said that
|
| https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/and-never-the-twain-shall-...
| PaulHoule wrote:
| He spent some time in Elmira, NY, back when the world was
| -1.5 degC colder, so he experienced worse winters.
| BobbyJo wrote:
| I grew up there partially. Its a terrible place now.
| JJMcJ wrote:
| According to Albert Einstein, or maybe Benjamin Franklin.
| benatkin wrote:
| Philly area :)
| kevin_thibedeau wrote:
| Definitely Churchill.
| benatkin wrote:
| Samuel Langhorne Clemens, then
| deepsun wrote:
| It's typical now for half the quotes online. So it's easier
| to make it "As Mark Twain famously never said, ...".
| bluejekyll wrote:
| I suspect that Mark Twain would even greatly appreciate the
| humor in referring to it that way.
| dgacmu wrote:
| He once said he would, in fact!
|
| ;)
| DerekL wrote:
| That wasn't from Twain. He quoted someone else making the same
| joke about some unspecified place.
|
| https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/and-never-the-twain-shall-...
| DamonHD wrote:
| My very first visit to SF (and the Bay Area generally) was from
| Edinburgh Scotland, and I wrongly assumed that SF would be
| warmer when I packed.
|
| (This was kinda before the Internet existed, so not trivial to
| check...)
| ghaff wrote:
| It's _mostly_ not true of the Bay Area (at least South Bay)
| as a whole but definitely the case for SF itself. I 've been
| there on some rather damp/chilly late spring and summer days
| even if it can also be quite nice.
| bbarnett wrote:
| I heard tell from a local that there's less fog now.
| stevage wrote:
| Nice article, with a bad title. Doesn't seem that fog was the
| major factor.
| ChuckMcM wrote:
| And to think they went on to build Candlestick park. :-)
| caycep wrote:
| Also the same weather these idiots felt it was wise to go surfing
| in: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1992/08/24/playing-
| docs-g...
| litoE wrote:
| I was in the San Francisco Bay Area on July 4th, 1976. To
| celebrate the 200th Independence Day, the City of San Francisco
| set up an elaborate fireworks display on Alcatraz Island in the
| middle of San Francisco Bay, which made it visible from all over
| the area. That afternoon a group of friends and I went up to the
| Berkeley Hills, where we had unimpeded view of the Bay, Alcatraz,
| San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge, everything. We had a
| picnic with the usual stuff graduate students eat and then waited
| for darkness and the fireworks. Just as the sun was setting
| behind the Golden Gate bridge, the fog started rolling in from
| the ocean, blanketing first the Golden Gate, then all of San
| Francisco, then Alcatraz and finally reaching the Berkeley shore.
| At the appointed time, they set off the fireworks anyway. All you
| could see was flashes of light inside the fog.
|
| One would have thought they learned a lesson that day ....
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