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ROUGH GUIDES CREDITSAuthor: Charles Hodgkins Editor: Rebecca Hallett Layout: Anita Singh Cartography: MacDonald, Edward Wright Picture Editor: Aude Vauconsant Photographer: Martin Richardson Proofreader: Jan McCann Managing Editor: Mani Ramaswamy Production: Jimmy Lao Cover Design: Dan May, Anita Singh
DIGITAL PRODUCTION TEAMHead of Digital Media, Delhi: Manjari Hooda Senior Editorial Manager: Lakshmi Rao Producer: Rahul Kumar Assistant Editor: Etika Kapil Senior Software Engineer: Ravi Yadav Digital Graphic Design Manager: Nain Rawat Graphic Designer: Roshan Singh Operations Assistant: Tauhid Nasir
The Author
Charles Hodgkins earliest adventures in San Francisco centred around zooming up and down the glass elevators inside the Hyatt Regency as a young boy; he was not a hotel guest at the time. Since then, the lifelong Bay Area resident has poured wine (for visitors) at Napa Valley wineries as a teen employee, stumbled through university graduation at Berkeleys Greek Theatre, looked on from section 305 as the Giants won the National League championship, gotten married at Stern Grove, hiked 20 miles from Stinson Beach to San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge, and devoured burritos at most every taqueria in San Francisco. He enjoys a juicy Fuji apple on a walk around his hilly Glen Park neighbourhood.
Photo credits
All images Rough Guides except the following :
Alamy/Ambient Images Inc.
Alamy/Bob Kreisel
Alamy/Cephas Picture Library
Alamy/Craig Lovell/Eagle Visions Photography
Alamy/Daniel Duenser
Alamy/Della Huff
Alamy/Frank Vetere
Alamy/Garden Photo World
Alamy/Gary Crabbe/Enlightened Images
Alamy/Ian Shaw
Alamy/Image Source
Alamy/Jim Goldstein
Alamy/Lee Foster
Alamy/Nikreates
Alamy/Parkerphotography
Alamy/Renaud Visage
Alamy/Stefano Politi Markovina
Alamy/ZUMA Press, Inc
Corbis/Jouko van der Kruijssen
Corbis/Kevin Fleming
Corbis/Liz Hafalia
Corbis/Richard Cummins
Corbis/Wendy Connett
courtesy of American Conservatory Theater/Kevin Berne
courtesy of Modernism/Lauren Thomas
courtesy of Real Food Company
courtesy of Recchiuti Confections/Tom Seawell
courtesy of Roam Artisan Burgers/Ed Anderson
courtesy of SFJAZZ
courtesy of Smitten Ice Cream
courtesy of Upper Playground
courtesy of Uptown Theatre
courtesy of Zacharys Chicago Pizza
Dreamstime.com/Chee-onn Leong
Dreamstime.com/Daniel Schreiber
Dreamstime.com/Lyudmila Suvorova
Dreamstime.com/Maura Reap
Dreamstime.com/Rramirez125
Dreamstime.com/Svetlana Day
Dreamstime.com/Vacclav
Elisa Pelayo
Getty Images/Mitchell Funk
Getty Images/Rick Gerharter
Getty Images/Shmuel Thaler
Getty Images/Steve Jennings/Stringer
Getty Images/Thomas Winz
Robert Harding Picture Library/Ei Katsumata
Robert Harding Picture Library/George H.H. Huey
Robert Harding Picture Library/Ron Koeberer
The Eureka Valley Foundation/Alan Beach-Nelson
Front cover Sunset view over Golden Gate Bridge AWL Images/Stefano Politi Markovina
Acknowledgements
Charles Hodgkins thanks Becca Hallett for her sharp editorial acumen and delightful bonhomie from eight hours ahead; James Macdonald and Ed Wright for their continually stellar cartographic work; Aude Vauconsant and her sharp photographers for saying 40,000 or so words with pictures; and Mani Ramaswamy for the opportunity to continue a project so close to my bones. Thanks also to friends who chimed in with suggestions and accompanied me on adventures to such exotic realms as Sausalito,Oakland and the Marina (or just to a taqueria); Andrew, Gregory, and Jeff for getting me into this mess in the first place; and Chenery Street for being a real nice place to update a guidebook
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