Description:

San Francisco enthusiast Mike Humbert uses words, photographs and even antique postcards to present this loving (if not always flattering) look at Market Street, a boulevard of glittering skyscrapers, discount camera shops, boarded-up movie palaces, public plazas, rainbow flags, residential hotels, world-class shopping, gays, straights, BART stations, live theater, strip clubs, classic architecture, palm trees, farm-fresh produce, flower vendors, sidewalk cafés, churches, banks that look like churches, streetwalkers, streetcars, shoeshine stands, condominiums and people sleeping on the sidewalk. You’ll see why Market is simultaneously the best and worst street in San Francisco.