Gloomy Day in the Bay Area

It was not only the skies that have been cloudy all day, but our hopeless and hapless football teams both lost again. As for the 49ers, send them to Santa Clara or wherever Dr. York wants as they are not doing this city any good. As for Al Davis, send the Raiders back to L.A. and at the same time send Mr. Davis to the LaBrea Tar Pits for permanent disposal. It is his monstrous mess at the Coliseum that will probably mean that Oakland loses the A's, the only winning time the area has at the moment.

This seems to be an area of losers these days. Due to the virulent anti-war group, not only will the Navy not commission a new ship here but the Missouri will not be be brought here as a museum piece.

Then we no longer stand a chance of getting the Summer Olympics due to the less than dynamic duo of York and Newsom and their many fumbles all over the field.

Then of course we have the on-going problem of bums and vagrants wandering our streets all over town, littering and trashing the sidewalks and cars parked in the areas. The smell of feces and urine permeates many doorways. Even the obnoxious odor of hot tar and its foul smelling creosote is starting to smell good these days when compared to the human waste here. The open sewers above ground are getting to be too much. Why do tourists even bother to come here anymore anyway? It really is discouraging as San Francisco has the dirtiest streets of any city in the U.S. or other countries that I have visited. Oh, sure, I know there are worse places although I have not been in them, but for a major American city to be so shabby in appearance is inexcusable. Even the condition of street and highway paving is the pits. Oh enough, this could drive a man to drinking and in fact, it already has. (burp)