The San Francisco I knew growing up died years ago when former Mayor Ed Lee sold the City to Silicon Valley. The end of Beach Blanket Babylon is just the wake.

For many years, San Franciscans worried about the “Manhattanization” of their beloved town (it isn’t really big enough to be a city).

San Francisco today isn’t at all like Manhattan. It is just as bland and homogeneous as San Jose but with better views, cable cars, an Art Deco Bridge, fog, and 8,000 homeless living on the streets.

It is a city only for the rich. When I retired at 69, I was priced out and had no option but to leave.

Sad. I hope they bring in a TV crew and make a video of the final performance. It would be a great souvenir of an era that is now gone along with the decade.