San Francisco

Janet Hardy-Gould

Oxford Bookworms LibraryLevel 1

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Janet Hardy-Gould.

It's a good place for gold,' said people in the 1840s, and they came from all over the world. 'It's a good place for a prison,' said the US government in the 1920s, and they put Al Capone there on the island of Alcatraz. 'It's a good place for love,' said the hippies in the 1960s, and they put flowers in their hair and came to Haight Ashbury. And San Francisco is still a good place – to take a hundred photographs, or see the Chinatown parade, or just to sit in a coffee shop and be in this interesting, different city…

JANET HARDY-GOULD

San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO

A good place for a city? Perhaps not. The weather changes quickly, and often cold white fog comes in over the bridge. There are about seventy hills (forty-three of them with names), and some of them are very steep. There is water on three sides of the city; the views are good, but getting in and out of the city is not always easy. And earthquakes bring fire, and sometimes death …

But millions of people come to San Francisco every year. They come to walk around the city and ride on the cable cars. They visit the neighbourhood of the hippies, and eat wonderful food from the sea. San Francisco is not the same as other cities – and that is why they love it.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Maps: pp.3, 17 Peter Bull

The publishers would like to thank the following for their permission to reproduce photographs: Alamy Images pp.4 (Colorful mural/Nitish Naharas), 5 (Fog over San Francisco/Brad Perks Lightscapes), 6 (Bullitt film poster/Moviestore Collection Ltd.), 6 (Vertigo film poster/AF archive), 9 (Gold nuggets/Sergey Goruppa), 11 (Wells Fargo stagecoach/Martin Thomas Photography), 15 (San Francisco, 1967/Pictorial Press Ltd), 22 (Cable car/Richard Wareham Fotografie), 23 (Golden Gate Bridge at dusk/JLImages), 25 (Golden Gate Bridge/Bob Kreisel), 30 (Rollerblading/Lonely Planet Images), 31 (San Francisco Cable Car Museum/Mark Morgan), 34 (Chinese New Year celebrations/Judy Bellah), 35 (San Francisco Giants game/Ron Niebrugge), 38 (Clam chowder in sourdough bread bowl/Karin Lau), 39 (Recycling bins/Green Stock Media); Corbis pp.1 (Chinese railroad workers/Bettmann), 10 (Panning for gold/Bettmann), 10 (California and the Gold Region Dir