“The old San Francisco is under attack to the point where it's disappearing”

—  Nancy Peters

Simon Davis, "'Beat city' fights dotcom gold rush", http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2000/09/06/wsan06.xml The Daily Telegraph, 2001-06-19. : After City Lights was granted landmark status to prevent its eviction by a computer company.
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