I have just read at noon on Valentine's Day the song "I Left My Heart In San Francisco", written by George Cory and Douglass Cross and of course made famous by Tony Bennett, was to be feted all over---you know which city! There has been much opposition to the song over the years and many feel The City---no "F" word from me!---is better represented by another song by the same name provided one extracts the first five words. The title song performed by Jeanette McDonald as Clark Gable "prepared" to muscle up to a very noticeable temblor. I can't say I have any argument; what also can't be said is I have a critter in the race.

Back in the 1980's a San Francisco supervisor name Kopp denounced the Cory/Cross tune and among other things said it was a fault of the hippy love movement.

The Reagan era has been denounced for many things, if that applies here, and the historical naivete' of our own age was gaining momentum as nicely as a downhill cable car shorn of its hook. I mean, hippy? 1962? It reminds me of those who pine for the late fifties when "Elvis ruled the radio."

No, that was not the case. But making one's own facts is practically the American dream as it has devolved.

By the way, did you know Colonel Tom Parker was a manipulative ultra-conservative who had a strong probability of being involved in the group inflicted death of a woman?

Don't know who Tom Parker was? That type of thing happens these days, to be redundant. Open the golden gate of knowledge and look this up.