LEAVING SAN FRANCISCO: EVERYBODY, GET TOGETHER!

The Grandma preparing TV in her private jet

The Beans are ready to leave San Francisco. The family has spent some unforgettable days in this wonderful city. 

The Grandma has closed some new business in Silicon Valley before leaving the city. They're going to flight to San Diego in a private flight of almost two hours. She has bought some films to watch in the plane like Erin Brockovich, the film which explains the case alleged contamination of drinking water with hexavalent chromium, in the southern California town of Hinkley because of the construction in 1952 of a natural-gas pipeline to be connected with the San Francisco Bay Area. 

She have also bought the five seasons of The Streets of San Francisco the 70's TV Series performanced by Karl Maden and Michael Douglas; The Presidio an interesting film from 1988 with Sean Connery, Mark Hamon and Meg Ryan as the main characters and What's up doctor, from 1972, a masterclass of comedy with Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal.  

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Estefanía, Eli & Paqui Bean in the tram

In a few days, they're going to travel to visit the Navajo community and return to Europe to participate in the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon, Portugal. Because of the long duration of the transatlantic flights, The Grandma has decided to obtain all these films.

Before leaving the city, the family has walked across its streets and have taken the tram, the most famous transport of the city, and something that it has in common qith Lisbon, a future destination.

The Beans has visited the Coit Tower to take the last photographs and to say goodbye to the city and its inhabitants.

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Money lives in New York. Power sits in Washington. 

Freedom sips cappuccino in a sidewalk cafe in San Francisco.

Joe Flower

Coit Tower, also known as the Lillian Coit Memorial Tower, is 64 m tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The tower, in the city's Pioneer Park, was built in 1933 using Lillie Hitchcock Coit's bequest to beautify the city of San Francisco; at her death in 1929 Coit left one-third of her estate to the city for civic beautification. 

Edgar Bean seeing the views from Coit Tower

The tower was proposed in 1931 as an appropriate use of Coit's gift. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 29, 2008.

The art deco tower, built of unpainted reinforced concrete, was designed by architects Arthur Brown, Jr. and Henry Howard, with fresco murals by 27 different on-site artists and their numerous assistants, plus two additional paintings installed after creation off-site. Although an apocryphal story claims that the tower was designed to resemble a fire hose nozzle due to Coit's affinity with the San Francisco firefighters of the day, the resemblance is coincidental.

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Coit Tower was paid for with money left by Lillie Hitchcock Coit, a wealthy socialite who loved to chase fires in the early days of the city's history. Before December 1866, there was no city fire department, and fires in the city, which broke out regularly in the wooden buildings, were extinguished by several volunteer fire companies.  

The Beans inside the Coit Tower

Lillie Coit was one of the more eccentric characters in the history of North Beach and Telegraph Hill, smoking cigars and wearing trousers long before it was socially acceptable for women to do so. She was an avid gambler and often dressed like a man in order to gamble in the males-only establishments that dotted North Beach.

Lillie's fortune funded the monument four years following her death in 1929. She had a special relationship with the city's firefighters. At the age of fifteen she witnessed the Knickerbocker Engine Co. No. 5 in response to a fire call up on Telegraph Hill when they were shorthanded, and threw her school books to the ground and pitched in to help, calling out to other bystanders to help get the engine up the hill to the fire, to get the first water onto the blaze. After that Lillie became the Engine Co. mascot and could barely be constrained by her parents from jumping into action at the sound of every fire bell. 

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After this she was frequently riding with the Knickerbocker Engine Co. 5, especially so in street parades and celebrations in which the Engine Co. participated. Through her youth and adulthood Lillie was recognized as an honorary firefighter.

Some may come and some may go.
He will surely pass
when the one that left us here
returns for us at last.
 

The Youngbloods