Herb
Caen
(a.k.a. Mr. San Francisco) was a famous Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. His three-dot-column lasted for almost 60 years - which he wrote up until his death on Feb. 1, 1997 at age 80.
People loved Herb because he had such a pithy way of describing things both big & small. He was like an old friend who always had a short, sweet and often funny story about something he saw or heard around his favorite city – Ess Eff.
On Jan. 17, 1995, when Henry Schmitt opened up the paper – he found himself and BMW of San Francisco mentioned in the famous three-dot-column. |
