adriatic xi A thoroughly enjoyable custom that can unearth some surprising plunder in a city with so much style.

A thoroughly enjoyable custom that can unearth some surprising plunder in a city with so much style. To find a good garage sale, keep an eye out for announcements tacked to telephone poles, or take a weekend stroll in one of the likelier neighborhoods such as the Haight, the Castro, and the Mission.

Castro District This hilly neighborhood around Castro Street is the center of San Francisco s high- profile gay community. The intersection of Castro and 18th streets is the self-proclaimed Gayest Four Corners of the World, and this openly homo sexual nexus emerged in the 1970s as the place of pilgrimage for gays and lesbians from all over the country and the world. Unlike other cities, where homo sexuals once hid themselves

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