Setting Visionary Precedent

Golden Gate Bridge. Coit Tower. The Presidio. Cable Cars. A few simple words set images in motion that can invoke the beauty of San Francisco. Throughout the history of our city, individuals have acted on their visions that have come to define the place we live and our day to day lives. Visionaries have taken ideas, implemented them and set them lose to be absorbed and accepted into the mainstream. Joe D'Alessandro, the CEO of the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau, writes in a December 17th opinion piece to the SF Examiner that by looking to the examples set in our past, we can set visionary precedent for the future. Friedel Klussmann, the visionary who saved San Francisco's cable cars and founded SF Beautiful, remains a contemporary example of the type of vision needed in San Francisco. We applaud Mr. D'Alessandro's desire for forward thinking today, just as people readily embraced Friedel's forward-thinking vision over 60 years ago.