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24 Hours in the Life of a City

San Francisco (Season 2, Episode 2)
TV Episode | Reality-TV
San Francisco, the United States' most European city: 800 000 inhabitants and 16 million tourists a year, who come to gaze at Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island and the city's Victorian houses; they ride cable cars all over San ...See moreSan Francisco, the United States' most European city: 800 000 inhabitants and 16 million tourists a year, who come to gaze at Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island and the city's Victorian houses; they ride cable cars all over San Francisco's famous hills, have some crab on sourdough bread, enjoy Golden Gate Park, the world's largest city park and they roam its many famous neighbourhoods: Chinatown, Haight-Ashbury, Castro, North Beach - Birthplace of the American Gold Rush, San Francisco has always stood for tolerance and open minds; its population is multiethnic, multicultural, colourful and diverse. San Francisco also stands for new social and cultural movements: in the middle of the 19th century, there was a massive wave of Chinese immigration to San Francisco (Chinese Americans now account for close to 15% of the city's total population, and San Francisco's Chinatown is home to one of the world's largest Chinese diasporas); the city is also where Levis jeans were created during the gold rush; in the 50s, Beat Generation poets met here (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti); the hippie movement was born in Haight-Ashbury in 1967, during the Summer of Love (anti-Vietnam demonstrations and the famous «Peace Now, Peace Now. ; Make Love Not War» slogans); in the 70s and 80s, gay and lesbian communities were freely accepted and grew, particularly in the Castro area (25% of the San Franciscan population is gay); the proliferation of new technologies and the Internet (innumerable startup and dotcom businesses); to put it simply, in San Francisco all are free to be whoever they are and free to make their dreams come true. This show paints a portrait of the city, its splendours and the people living in it, be it in their day to day lives, their work, their dreams, their exuberance or their madness; San Francisco is all of that. Written by Productions Espace Vert See less
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Editors
Stéphane Boudreau | Jean-François Lord
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Updated Dec 31, 2002
Release date
2002 (Canada)

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