“Old San Francisco—or, in other words, San Francisco before the earthquake—was divided in half by a line. This feature was an iron crossbar that ran in the middle of Bazarnaya Street. An endless rope was attached to the crossbar, to which carts and carts could be tied and which pulled them from one end of the street to the other. Essentially speaking, there were two crossbars, but in everyday life they were considered as one and were simply called a crossbar, or a line. To the north of the line there were theaters, hotels, luxury shops, banks, offices; on the other side of the line, to the south, there were factories, dark dens, taverns, laundries, repair shops and houses where workers lived. Thus, the crossbar, or line, acquired a kind of symbolic meaning - it meant the division of society into two classes, and no one knew how to cross the line as deftly as Freddie Drummond. He adapted to live in both worlds and felt great in both worlds...”